✨ Provincial Government Steam Contract
OTAGO PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
JAMES MACANDREW, Superintendent.
Vol. IV.] THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1860. [No. 119.
STEAM COASTAL SERVICE.
THE following Contracts are published for general information :—
“ GEELONG.”
THIS INDENTURE, made the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, BETWEEN EDWARD BOWES CARGILL, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, New Zealand, merchant, of the one part, and his Honor JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent of the said Province, of the other part. Whereas the Provincial Government of Otago has resolved upon granting a subsidy for the coasting steam service of the said Province: And whereas the said Edward Bowes Cargill, sole owner of the sea-going steam vessel “ Geelong,” of one hundred and eight tons burthen and ninety horse power engines or thereabouts, has proposed and agreed to and with the said James Macandrew, Superintendent as aforesaid, that the said vessel shall make one trip each week from Dunedin to Oamaru, calling at Waikouaiti and Moeraki both going and returning, and to carry passengers as well as goods at the rates and under the regulations hereinafter mentioned, for the period of two years, for the annual subsidy hereinafter expressed: Now this Indenture witnesseth, that in pursuance of the said agreement, and in consideration of the annual sum of fifteen hundred pounds sterling, to be paid as hereinafter mentioned, he, the said Edward Bowes Cargill, for himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, doth hereby covenant, promise, and agree to and with the said James Macandrew, Superintendent as aforesaid, and his successors in office, that he, the said Edward Bowes Cargill, his executors or administrators, shall and will cause the said sea-going steam vessel “ Geelong,” or some other sea-going steam vessel of equal dimensions, tonnage, and horse power engines, to be approved by the said James Macandrew or his successors in office, to run and ply weekly and every week without intermission, between the ports of Dunedin and Oamaru, calling at Waikouaiti and Moeraki both going and returning, for the period of two years, commencing from the first day of April now last past; and shall and will during all that time uphold and maintain the said vessel so to be employed in good and substantial repair and condition in all respects : and in consideration of the premises, and of the
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1860, No 119
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🚂 Steam Coastal Service Contract for the vessel Geelong
🚂 Transport & Communications1 May 1860
Steamship, Coastal Service, Otago, Dunedin, Oamaru, Contract, Subsidy
- Edward Bowes Cargill (Merchant), Contractor for steam coastal service
- James Macandrew (Esquire, Superintendent), Contracting party for the Provincial Government
- James Macandrew, Superintendent