Monthly English Mail Act 1854 (SA)

No* 7.

An Act to pronote the establishment qf direct Jfonthly Communication

with England. &&,&.L - - ,c~fr-'I

[Assented to, November 18, 1854.1 9- C-- h4 ---.--F- 23 - --

HEREAS it is expedient to encourage the establishment of- ~ ~ t n n b l.

a more frequent and rapid postal communication between this Province and England, and it is believed that thc Peninsular and Oriental Stcam Na.vif;,ztion (Yompany will, if due encouragement

be afforded to thcm, providc for the Monthly Uelivery of &fails in

this Provincc from England, within the period hereinafter specified-

Be it therefore Rnacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Yrovincc

of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative

Council of the same, as follows:

1. I t shall be lawful for the Colonial Treasurer, and he is hereby s6,ooo yearly, to IN set apart from

required, in each and every ycar, cluring six ycar~, fi'om and after Revenue.

the first day of January next, to appropriate and set apart, from and

out of the General C'olonial ISevcnue, the sum of Six Thousand

Pounds, and to pay and apply thc same, or such part thereof, as

may become payable under the pravihions hcrcinaf'ter contained, in

the manner and on the conditions hercinafier set forth.

2. After it shall have been notified to the Colonial Treasurer, by ~ N K J to be paid to

each steam-vessel de-

the Postmaster-Gencml, that arrangements have been made by and livering d,,,t nails

with the Penillsular and Oriental Stcam Eavigation Company for a withinfifty-ekht	d~ys.
direct Monthly Postal Communication fiom and to England, by the way of the Red Sea, the said Clolonial Treasurer shall pay a sum not exceeding Five Hnndrcd Pounds. for every steam-vessel of the said Company, emplovcd in conformity with such arrangement, bring
ing Mails from '~n&nd by the route aforesaid, without having

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touched at any Australian port to the eastward of Port Adelaide:

S100 to ba deduc%d	Provided that the full sum of Five IIundrecl Pounds shall be paid in
6fty-eight days.	respect of every such vessel bringing English Mails, whicli shall de- liver her Mails within the period of fifty-eight days from the day of their being dispatched from England, and that a sum of One Hun- dred Pounds shall be deducted from the said sum of Five Hundred Pounds in respect of every day beyond such time of fifty-eight days which shall elapse before the delivery of such Mails: Provided also, that no such sum shall bc pdd unless the arrangement for such Monthly Postal Comlnuilication shall be subsisting and carried out.
Bume to b p i d to	3. Such sum as aforesaid shall be paid to the Agent of the said General that such an arrangement for Monthly Postal Communica- tion is subsisting and carried out, and of the time of the dispatch and delivery of the said Mails; and such certificate, and the receipt of the said Agent, shall be a full discharge to the said Troasurer for all moneys paid b y him in conformity with the provisions hereinbefore contained.
Agent of Colnptlny
on certificate af	Company, upon production of a certificate from the Postmaster-
Postmaster-General.
No payment in re-

for every day beyond

spect of maila tran- 4. No such sum as aforesaid shall be paid in respect of any

shipped.	steam-vessel delivering any such mails, unless the said mails shall be so delivered by the same vessel by which they shall have been dis-
patched from the last port of departure beyond the limits of the
Continent; of Australia.

C. Cox, Government Printer, Victoria-sqaam