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 3 — No. II. Contract for an accelerated Conveyance of the India and other Mails between England and Malta, and Alexandria. COMMENCED SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1840.

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Note, the sum of £3500 was deducted subsequently by the Admiralty, in consequence of their superseding the small vessel engaged in the Ionian Mail Service by packets of their own; and this sum became thereby reduced to £28,500.

Return to No. II. Contract for an accelerated Conveyance of the India and other Mails between England and Malta, and Alexandria. COMMENCED SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1840.