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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Holladay to him the said George K. Otis, and bearing date the twenty-second day of February, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness my hand and seal of office, at the City of New York aforesaid, the day and year last
above written.
(L.S.)
F. F. MARBURY, Jr.,
Notary Public, N.Y.

KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, that we, WILLIAM H. WEBB and BEN HOLLADAY, of the City,
County, and State of New York, in the United States of America, are held and firmly bound unto the
Honorable JULIUS VOGEL, Postmaster-General of New Zealand, acting on behalf of the Government
of New Zealand as such Postmaster-General, in the sum of twenty-five thousand pounds sterling,
lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as liquidated damages, and not by
way of penalty or otherwise, to be paid to the said the Honorable Julius Vogel, Postmaster-General,
as aforesaid, or to his successor or successors in office, for which payment well and truly to be made,
we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these
presents.

Sealed with our seals. Dated this seventh day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one.

The condition of the above obligation is such, that if William H. Webb and Ben Holladay, of the
City of New York, or either of them, their or either of their respective heirs, executors, administrators,
or authorized assigns, shall well and truly keep and perform a certain contract in writing, bearing even
date herewith, made and entered into by and between the said the Honorable Julius Vogel, Postmaster-
General, as aforesaid, of the one part, and them the said William H. Webb and Ben Holladay of the
other part, for the carrying of the Mails and for a Steam Service between San Francisco, New Zealand,
and Australia, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, as by reference to said contract in
writing may more fully appear, then the above obligation to be null and void and of no effect, and the
obligors to be fully discharged therefrom. But if the said William H. Webb or the said Ben Holladay,
or their representatives as aforesaid, or their said assigns, shall fail to keep and perform the said
contract according to the true intent and meaning thereof, then the above-bounden William H. Webb
and Ben Holladay, their heirs, executors, or administrators, shall pay or cause to be paid to the said
the Honorable Julius Vogel, Postmaster-General, as aforesaid, or to his successor or successors in office
for the time being, the above-mentioned sum of twenty-five thousand pounds sterling, as aforesaid,
liquidated damages, and this obligation to remain in full force and effect.
(L.S.)
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Sealed and delivered in the presence of
F. F. MARBURY, Jun.,
W. GRAY,
J. B. M. STEWART.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
W. H. WEBB,
BEN HOLLADAY
(by W. H. Webb, Attorney).

United States of America, }
State of New York,
City and County of New York.

On this seventh day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, before me,
Francis F. Marbury, junior, a Public Notary in and for the State of New York, duly commissioned
and sworn, dwelling in the City of New York, personally came William H. Webb, to me personally
known to be the same person described in and who executed the foregoing Bond, and acknowledged that
he executed the same. And at the same time, the said William H. Webb, as Attorney in fact of Ben
Holladay, described in the said Bond, acknowledged that he executed the same as such Attorney as
and for the act and deed of the said Ben Holladay, under and by virtue of a certain Letter of Attorney,
bearing date the tenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

Witness my hand and seal of office, the day and year last above written, at the City of New
York aforesaid.
(L.S.)
F. F. MARBURY, Junior,
Notary Public, N.Y.

Her Britannic Majesty's Consulate, New York.

I, EDWARD MORTIMER ARCHIBALD, Esq., Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul,

DO HEREBY CERTIFY that F. F. Marbury, junior, Esquire, whose true signature and seal are respectively
subscribed and affixed to the certificate hereunto annexed, was, on the day of the date thereof, a Notary
Public in and for the State of New York, duly commissioned and sworn, to whose official acts faith
and credit are due.

In witness whereof I do hereunto set my hand and seal of office, at the City of New York,
this seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one.
By the Consul.
(L.S.)
PIERREPONT EDWARDS,
Vice-Consul.