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crew shall be declared ineligible, the officers, engineers, or crew so declared ineligible shall not be em-
ployed in the said services, or if, on any such survey, any such ship or any part thereof, or any
machinery, engines, apparel, furniture, stores, tackle, boats, or equipments, shall be declared to have
any defect or deficiency, or to be unseaworthy, or not adapted for the said services, the defect or
deficiency shall be forthwith repaired or supplied by the Contractors, and the ship, machinery, engines,
apparel, furniture, stores, tackle, boats, or equipments shall not be employed in carrying out this con-
tract until such defect, deficiency, unseaworthiness, or want of adaptation for the said services has
been repaired, supplied, or corrected to the satisfaction of the Government, or such officers or agents
as aforesaid.

6. The Contractors will convey the passengers, emigrants, mails, and cargo hereinafter mentioned
   by such steamships as are hereinbefore described, one of such steamships leaving London for New Zea-
   land and another New Zealand for London (each calling at Plymouth) once in every calendar month
   for a period of three years, to be computed from the day on which the first of such ships shall leave
   London for New Zealand. The first ship from London for New Zealand is to leave London on the
   day of , but the first ship from New Zealand for London may however
   leave New Zealand on the day of . Each outward voyage shall be made
   round the Cape of Good Hope, and each homeward voyage through the Straits of Magellan or round
   Cape Horn. The ships on each homeward voyage shall call at St. Vincent. [Each voyage shall be
   performed and completed within one thousand two hundred hours.] [Each outward voyage shall be
   performed and completed in one thousand three hundred hours, and each homeward voyage shall be
   performed and completed in one thousand two hundred hours]; and such number of hours shall be
   reckoned according to the time which shall be occupied in performing and completing each voyage out-
   wards between the Port of Plymouth and the port in New Zealand which may be selected as herein-
   after mentioned as the port of arrival there, and homewards between the port.in New Zealand which
   may be selected as hereinafter mentioned as the port of departure there and the Port of Plymouth.

7. The Contractors shall have the option on each voyage of selecting as the port of arrival in, or
   the port of departure from, New Zealand any of the ports of Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, or
   Port Chalmers, and the ships will be at liberty before departure on the homeward service, or after
   arrival on the outward service, to call at all or any other of such ports. The Contractors shall from
   time to time give thirty days' notice, previous to the departure of the ship, both to the Agent-
   General in London and the Postmaster-General at Wellington, of the port selected as the port of
   arrival or of departure, as the case may be, and of the other ports at, and the days on, which it is
   intended the ship shall call.

The dates in each month for the departure of the ships from London, Plymouth, and New Zealand
respectively shall be from time to time fixed by arrangement between the Contractors and the Agent-
General, and shall be publicly announced by the Contractors at least one calendar month before the
days respectively fixed; and the ships will not be allowed, while performing the service, to touch at
any port other than those aforesaid unless from unavoidable circumstances.

8. If from any cause whatsoever, at any time or times, one of the said ships, or any other vessel
   which the Government shall think fit to sanction being employed for the service, shall not be at the
   Port of London or at the port in New Zealand which shall be selected as the port of departure there,
   in due time to be ready to leave, or shall not leave, by noon on the day which may be announced for
   the departure of the ship, the Contractors shall pay to the Government as and by way of liquidated
   damages in respect of each such default the sum of one hundred pounds, and the further sum of one
   hundred pounds for every noon which shall intervene between the noon of the day announced for the
   departure of the ship and the time at which the ship shall leave the port; but such damages shall not
   be payable in respect of any delay which shall be occasioned by order of the Postmasters-General or
   either of them. If, from any cause whatsoever, at any time or times, three noons shall pass after the
   noon of the day announced for the departure of any ship without the ship being at the port of
   departure and ready to leave, the Government may forward passengers, emigrants, mails, and cargo,
   or some or one of them, by any other ship or ships, as the Government may think fit; and the Con-
   tractors shall forthwith upon demand pay or recoup to the Government or to the intending passengers
   all costs, charges, and expenses respectively incurred by them in consequence thereof beyond the
   sums which would have been payable by the Government or such passengers respectively under or
   according to this contract.

9. If, from any cause whatsoever, at any time or times hereafter, any voyage shall not be per-
   formed and completed within the period of time contracted for, the Contractors shall pay to the
   Government as and by way of liquidated damages in respect of each such default the sum of one
   hundred pounds, and if the time which shall be occupied in performing and completing the voyage
   shall be twenty-four hours in excess of the number of hours contracted for, a further sum at the rate
   of four pounds per hour in respect of such excess.

Provided always that the Government shall have power to remit or reduce any of the sums
payable as aforesaid if they shall be satisfied that any such default as aforesaid shall have arisen from
causes over which the Contractors had no control.

10. In consideration of the services hereinbefore and hereinafter contracted to be performed by
    or on behalf of the Contractors, the Government will pay to the Contractors a sum or subsidy of
    pounds in respect of every outward voyage, and of pounds in
    respect of every homeward voyage; and if the Contractor shall complete any voyage or voyages in less
    than the number of hours contracted for the additional sum of five pounds for every entire hour less
    than such number.

11. The subsidy (including such additional sum as aforesaid, if any) payable in respect of each
    outward voyage shall be payable by the Postmaster-General of New Zealand, on behalf of the
    Government at Wellington, to the Contractors, or to an agent appointed by the Contractors to

• Omit one of these paragraphs according to what tender may be accepted.