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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST SEPTEMBER, 1889.
Guards to take charge of mails.
Power to delay trains.
Vessels to be provided for sea
service.
Equipment.
Unfit vessels to be taken off.
Equipment to be
subject to approval of Postmaster- General.
14. The guards or other servants from time to time employed in the railway business of the Company shall at all times without any remuneration other than the subidy herein provided to be paid to the Company take charge of all mails conveyed or intended to be conveyed under this Agreement by any train over the railways of the Company and shall at all times take due care of and protect the mails to the utmost of their power.
15. The Postmaster-General or any of his deputies officers or agents may in the event of delay in the arrival at Halifax or Quebec respectively of any of the steamers carrying from the United Kingdom mails intended to be conveyed under this Agree- ment or in any other event in which in his or their opinion it may be requisite for the public service so to do delay the departure from Halifax or Quebec respectively of any special mail train intended to convey mails under this Agreement beyond the time appointed for the departure of such train from such place respectively and may for such purpose order such delay by letter addressed to the station master of the Company or person acting as such station master at Halifax or Quebec (as the case may be) and any such letter shall be deemed a sufficient authority for any such detention.
SEA SERVICE.
16.-1.) For the purpose of conveying the mails by sea as in this Agreement provided the Company shall and will at all times during the continuance of this Agree- ment or so long as the whole or any part of the services hereby agreed to be performed by means of steam vessels ought to be performed in pursuance hereof provide keep sea-· worthy and in complete repair and readiness to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General a sufficient number of good substantial and efficient steam vessels of adequate power and speed and supplied with first rate appropriate steam engines and in all respects suited to the performance of the services herein agreed to be performed within the respective times herein stipulated.
(2.) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provis- ion the Company shall and will for the purpose aforesaid construct and provide at least. three new steam vessels to be approved in all respects as well by the Postmaster-General as by the Admiralty and will so far as possible perform the services by this Agree- ment agreed to be performed by means of such vessels from the day of the commence- ment of such services throughout the continuance of this Agreement.
17. The vessels to be provided under this Agreement shall be always furnished with all necessary and proper tackle stores boats fuel lamps oil tallow provisions machinery engines anchors cables fire-pumps and all other proper and requisite means of extinguishing fire lightning-conductors charts chronometers proper nautical instru- ments and all other furniture and apparel and whatsoever else may be requisite and necessary for equipping the said vessels and rendering them constantly efficient for the said services and shall be manned with legally qualified and competent officers with appropriate certificates granted pursuant to the Act or Acts in force for the time being relative to the granting certificates to officers in the British merchant service and also with competent engineers and a sufficient crew of able seamen and other men and with a competent surgeon.
18. If the Postmaster-General shall consider any of the Company's vessels unfit for the conveyance of mails he may by writing under his hand or under the hand of one of the secretaries or assistant secretaries of the Post Office require the Company to show cause why such vessel should not be withdrawn from the service and unless within six weeks after such requisition the Company shall show cause to the contrary to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General he may at any time after the expiration of the said period of six weeks by writing under his hand or under the hand of one of the secretaries or assistant secretaries of the Post Office declare such vessel to be unfit for the conveyance of mails and after such declaration shall have been made it shall not be lawful for the Company to employ such vessel in the performance of this Agreement ́and in order to determine whether the Postmaster-General is justified in declaring any vessel unfit for the conveyance of mails or whether the Company is able to show cause to the contrary a special examination shall if required by the Postmaster-General be made of the hull and machinery of any such vessel by such person or persons as may be selected for that purpose by the Postinaster-General.
19. The equipment officers engineers and crew of each vessel when such vessel is in British
any.
shall be subject at all times to the inspection of the Postmaster- port General or of such other person or persons as he shall at any time or times authorise to make such inspection.
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