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An Abstract of the Proceedings of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, Appointed Session, 1849, to Inquire Into the Contract Packet Service

Note 6 — ABSTRACT OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE COMMITTEE.

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Five weeks, and not months, being all the time necessary for a communication between Ceylon and Southampton, the word “months” might be taken to be a typographical error, were it not that the evident drift of the following question is to make out a case against the Company of tardiness in sending out another vessel to replace the alleged defective “Lady Mary Wood.”

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