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may at the option of the Postmaster-General be
deducted and retained out of any money payable to
the contractors under this contract, or judgment for
the amount as upon a debt due by or from the con-
tractors to Her Majesty, together with full costs of
suit, may thereupon be entered up in the Supreme
Court of New Zealand.

15. For the faithful performance of all the
    covenants, stipulations, and agreements hereinbefore
    contained, the contractors bind themselves respec-
    tively in the sum of one thousand pounds sterling,
    to be paid to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs
    and successors, by way of liquidated or ascertained
    damages, in manner following, that is to say, the sum
    of five hundred pounds in case of wilful failure or
    default on the part of the contractors in the due
    performance of this contract, or any part thereof, in
    respect of each or either of the said Mail and
    subsidiary Services hereby contracted for, that is to
    say, the service from Manakau to the Bluff and from
    the Bluff to Manakau, and the service from Auckland
    to Port Chalmers and from Port Chalmers to Auck-
    land.

16. And in consideration of the due and faithful
    performance by the said contractors of all the services
    hereby contracted to be performed by them, the said
    Postmaster-General, on behalf of the Colony of New
    Zealand, hereby covenants with the said contractors,
    their executors and administrators, to pay to them,
    or to their agent in New Zealand, for the said
    services, at the rate of four thousand eight hundred
    pounds per annum for each service, by equal monthly
    instalments, or payments of four hundred pounds for
    each service, at the Treasury in Wellington, on the
    first day of each month; and, also, such further sum
    for detention of either of the steamships employed
    under this contract at any port by the said Post-
    master-General or his agent, as provided in the ninth
    clause hereof.

17. All notices or directions which the Post-
    master-General, his officers, agents, or others, are
    hereby authorized to give to the contractors, their
    officers, servants, or agents (other than any notice of
    termination of this contract), may, at the option of
    the Postmaster-General, his officers, agents, or others,
    either be delivered to the master of any of the said
    vessels or other officer or agent of the contractors in
    the charge or management of any vessel employed in
    the performance of this agreement, or left for the
    contractors at their usual or last known office or
    house of business in Wellington; and any notices or
    directions so given or left shall be binding on the
    contractors: Provided always that any notice of
    termination of this contract shall be served on the
    contractors, their officers, servants, or agents, at
    their office in Wellington.

18. It is lastly agreed by and between the said
    parties hereto, that the service hereby contracted for
    shall be carried on, and shall continue in force until
    determined by notice under the provisions of the
    thirteenth clause hereof, or until one of the said
    parties hereto shall have given to the other of them
    three months' notice of an intention to determine the
    same, and until the said three months shall have
    expired; provided always that the said service and
    contract shall not be determined by such notice as
    last aforesaid, before the sixteenth day of February,
    one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, except
    in the case of habitual negligence, or wilful default,
    as hereinbefore provided.

In witness whereof, the said Postmaster-
General hath hereunto set his hand and
seal, and the said contractors have caused

their Common Seal to be hereunto aflixed,
the day month and year first hereinbefore
written.

(L.S.)
JOHN HALL.

Signed sealed and delivered by the said
Postmaster-General, in the presence of

G. ELIOTT ELIOTT,
Secretary, General Post Office,
New Zealand.

The common seal of the New Zealand Steam
Navigation Company (Limited), affixed
in the presence of

(L.S.)
WILLIAM BISHOP,
WILLIAM ALLEN,
Directors,
New Zealand Steam Navigation Company
(Limited.)

SCHEDULE OF FARES OF NEW ZEALAND STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY (LIMITED).

Wellington, 17th July, 1867.

Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.