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result, and no agreement for a permanent alteration of the routes by which the times within which and the rates of payment at which the said mails should, according to the terms of the said articles of agreement, be conveyed shall be arrived at, the said bond or obligation shall, notwithstanding, remain in full force and effect, and the said condition thereunder written shall, after the said mails shall have ceased to be conveyed by routes other than those in the said articies of agreement mentioned, cease to be read as if certain words were not contained therein, and as if certain other words were inserted in lieu thereof as hereinbefore provided for. In witness whereof the said Pacific Mail Steamship Company have hereunto caused their common seal to be affixed, and the said John Francis Ure, John Lennox Kincaid Jamieson, William Pearce, and Donald liobert Macgregor have hereunto set their hands and seals the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven. Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-named (1.5.) John F. TJre. John Francis TJre, in the presence of —■ Ebenezer Erskine Walker, Cashier to John Elder and Co., Fairfield Works, Goran, near Glasgow. Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-named (1.5.) John L. K. Jamieson. John Lennox Kincaid Jamieson, in the presence of — Ebenezer Erskine Walker, Cashier to John Elder and Co., Fairfield Works, Goran, near Glasgow. Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-named (1.5.) Wm. Peaece. William Pearce, in the presence of— Ebenezer Erskine Walker, Cashier to John Elder and Co., Fairfield Works, Goran, near Glasgow. Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-named (1.5.) Donald E. Macgregob. Donald liobert Macgregor, in the presence of — Jas. Smith, Of 5, Vanburgh Place, Leith. Signed, sealed, and delivered by Wm. P. Clyde, (1.5.) Wm. P. Clyde, President, in the presence of —■ President. Charles S. Hill, Notary Public, New York City.

State of New York, 1 City of New York. ) On this 26th day of January, 1878, before me personally came William P. Clyde, President of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, of New York City, to me personally known to be the said officer of said Company, who, being duly sworn, declared that he had signed the within instrument, and affixed the corporate seal of said Company thereunto by authority vested in him by the Board of Directors of the Company aforesaid. (1.5.) Charles S. Him, Notary Public.

No. 46. Mr. Gray to Messrs. J. Mackkell and Co. Gentlemen, — General Post Office, Wellington, 28th March, 1878. I have the honor, by direction of the Postmaster-General, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th January last, forwarded through Messrs. Foster and Thomson, of New York, together with the deed of declaration sanctioning the adoption, in respect of the current year, of the modified San Francisco Mail Service, —the final signature to the deed, namely, that of the President of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, having been obtained by Messrs. Foster and Thomson. I have, &c, W. Gray, Messrs. John Mackrell and Co., 21, Cannon Street, London, E.C. Secretary.

No. 47. Mr. Gray to Messrs. Foster and Thomson. Gentlemen, — General Post Office, Wellington, 28th March, 1878. I am directed by the Hon. the Postmaster-General to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 29th January last, enclosing, duly completed, the deed forwarded to you by Messrs. J. Mackrell and Co., of London, for execution by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, together with a letter from Messrs. Mackrell and Co. on the subject. I have, &c, Messrs. Foster and Thomson, W. Gray, 69, Wall Street, P.O. bos 1354, New York. Secretary.