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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 ServicePeninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

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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

Name: An Abstract of the Proceedings of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, Appointed Session, 1849, to Inquire Into the Contract Packet Service
Author: Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

Mail steamers -- Great Britain

26 | Bombay      |     ....      |      ....                   |     Ditto.
   27 | Ganges      |     ....      |      ....                   |     Ditto.
   28 | Vestis      |     ....      |      ....                   |


  The vessels marked * are built of iron.


_No. 3.--Statement of the Debts, Assets, and Effects of the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, 31st March, 1848._

  +---------------------------------------------------+--------------------+---------------------+
  |                                                   |      £.   _s._ _d._|      £.    _s._ _d._|
  | General coal account                              |                    |     44,345  2    5  |
  |   Ditto purser’s ditto, stores afloat             |    22,923   2   0  |                     |
  |   Ditto ditto    ditto  ditto  ashore             |    28,451  19   4  |                     |
  |   Ditto material ditto  ship’s stores             |    28,474  12   3  |                     |
  |                                                   +--------------------+     74,849  13   7  |
  |                                                   |                    |                     |
  | Ships, &c., at work                               |   754,670  16   0  |                     |
  |   Ditto     stock                                 |   304,600   0   0  |                     |
  |   Ditto     building            £152,841   11   7 |                    |                     |
  | Advanced on account of repairs    19,273   15   7 |                    |                     |
  |                                 ------------------|   172,115   7   2  |                     |
  |                                                   +--------------------+                     |
  |                                                   | 1,231,385   3   2  |                     |
  | Less received from the Portuguese government,     |                    |                     |
  |   on account of the “Royal Tar”                   |     4,799   0   1  |                     |
  |                                                   +--------------------+  1,225,587   3   1  |
  | Debts due by agents            £25,388   18   2   |                    |                     |
  | Less due to agents               4,396   16   3   |                    |                     |
  |                                                   |    20,992   1  11  |                     |
  | Cash, Bills, &c.                                  |    94,728  19   3  |                     |
  | Insurance fund invested in Government securities  |    34,168   8   0  |                     |
  | Freehold property, King’s Arms                    |    16,958  15  11  |                     |
  | Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company’s|                    |                     |
  |   shares                                          |    18,004   2   6  |                     |

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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

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