THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST SEPTEMBER, 1889.
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20. The Company shall at their own cost provide on each of the vessels to be Place of deposit for employed in the service under this Agreement a separate and suitable room or rooms for the convenient and secure deposit of the mails under lock and key.
21. The master or commander of every vessel employed in the performance of this Master to take Agreement shall without any remuneration other than the subsidy herein provided to charge of mails. be paid to the Company take charge of the mails conveyed or tendered for conveyance by every such vessel and adopt all necessary measures and precautions for the safety of the said mail to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General his officers and agents.
22. Each such masters or commanders shall make the usual declaration or Declaration. declarations hired or which may hereafter be required by the Postmaster-General in such and similes and furnish such journals. returns and information and perform such services in connection therewith as the Postmaster-General or his agents may require and every such master commander or officer duly authorised by him having the charge of mails shall himself inmediately on the arrival of any such vessel at any port or place deliver all mails addressed to or intended for delivery at such port or place into the hands the Postmaster or of such other person at such port or place as the Postmaster shall authorise and receive in like manner all the return or other mails to be forwarded in due course.
mails at Shanghai.
23. The Company shall at all times be at liberty to land and embark the mails at Landing and Shanghai by means of a small steam vessel plying between the landing place at the embarkation of said port of Shanghai and the place of anchorage at or near the lightship at the mouth of the Woosung River and accordingly the Company shall in addition to the vessels bereinbefore motioned provide at the port of Shanghai aforesaid a small steam vessel which said ve shall be so constructed as to be able at all states of the tide to land and embark emails at Shanghai aforesaid and shall at all times keep such last-men- tioned vessel in complete repair and ready for landing and embarking the mails thereat accordingly.
vessels.
24. Should it be deemed by the Postmaster-General his officers or agents requisite Power to delay for the public ervice that any vessel to be employed under this Agreement should at any time delay her departure from any port from which the mails are to be conveyed under this Agreement beyond the time appointed for her departure therefrom the Post- master-General or any of his officers or agents shall have power to order such delay (not however seeding 24 hours) by letter addressed by him or them to the master of any such vessel or any person acting as such and any such letter shall be deemed a sufficient authenty for such detention.
25. The Company shall undertake and make all necessary and proper arrangements Quarantine. relative to quarantine in respect of the vessels employed in the performance of the services under this Agreement and no deduction shall be made from the subsidy herein- after mentionea nor shall the Company be otherwise liable for or by reason of any delay in the landing embarkation delivery or conveyance of any mails arising from the imposi- tion of quaran.me.
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26. The Compamy shall not nor shall any master or commander of any vessel Other letters not to belonging to chartered or hired by the Company receive or permit to be received on board any sue vessel any letter for conveyance other than those contained in Her Majesty's maile and such letters as are not required by law to pass through the Post Office nor shall the Company nor any such master or commander receive or permit to be received on board any vessel any mails for conveyance on behalf of any British Possession (nept the Dominion of Canada) or any foreign country without the consent of the Postmaster-General and the entire postage of all mails conveyed by any vessel under this Agreement, shall in all cases (except in the case of such mails originating in the said Dominion of Canada as may be thereby conveyed under any Contract between the Company and the Government of the said Dominion) belong to the Postmaster General and be absolutely free from all claims or demands whatsoever of or by the Company under or by virtue of this Agreement or otherwise,
* 27. Thet ompany shall not convey in any vessel employed by them in pursuance Dangerous articles. of this Agreement any nitro-glycerine or any other article which shall have been legally declared specially dangerous.
MODIFICATION OF SERVICES.
28. at any time or times the Postmaster-General shall either on account of any As to time. alteration a the ports of call or for any other reason whatever desire to alter the par- ticular days or hours appointed for the conveyance of the mails under this Agreement
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