252 Mail Service

• Author: Ralph Hone
• Pages: #5

CHAPTER 252.

MAIL SERVICE.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF THE MAIL SERVICE BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE PORT OF NASSAU, IN THE ISLAND OF NEW PROVIDENCE, AND ELSEWHERE.

16 of 1873.

19 of 1914.

18 of 1930.

G.N. 7 (25) of 1964.

43 of 1964.

Short title.

[19th April 1873.] 1. This Act may be cited as The Mail Service Act.

2. It shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time as it may be necessary, to cause a contract or contracts to be entered into with such good and substantial person or persons, and for and upon such terms and conditions as shall be approved of by the Governor, for a mail service between the United Kingdom and Nassau, by the way of the port of New York, in the United States of America, if a suitable contract can be made; or, failing that, by the way of some other and nearer port in the United States, and either with or without communication with or conveyance of mails between any port out of the said United States, in and by such good, substantial and sufficient steam vessel or vessels as may be approved of for the purpose.

3. In any contract entered into under this Act the conveyance of passengers to and from Nassau and from and to all other ports from which the contract vessels shall take their departure, or to which they shall proceed shall be provided for:

   Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor if he shall think fit so to do(a) to make provision in any contracts entered into under this Act for regulating the rates of freight, and generally controlling the same;

   (b) to make any separate contracts for the...