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
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Mail steamers -- Great Britain
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RECEIPTS.
(Six Months, from 1st October, 1847, to 31st March, 1848)
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| £ _s._ _d._| £ _s._ _d._
By Passage Money received during the half-year | 151,757 4 8 |
Loss, Transit through Egypt £14,767 6 6 | |
Victualling Passengers 26,481 13 8 | |
------------- | 41,249 0 2 |
+-----------------+ 110,508 4 6
Freights and Parcels received during the half-year | 77,764 3 3 |
Less, Cattle, head money £ 16 1 0 | |
Proportion of Carriage on Constantinople | |
Cargoes 2,057 14 3 | |
Cartage and Lighterage 399 2 2 | |
Carriage of Goods, Southampton | |
(Railway Expenses) 2,396 16 1 | |
------------ | 4,869 13 6 |
+-----------------+ 72,894 9 9
Mail Contracts during the half-year | | 112,262 10 0
Stewards’ Fees, ditto ditto | | 1,677 16 8
Interest | 1,059 15 11 |
Ditto (Dividend on Company’s Shares invested) | 2,229 3 4 |
+-----------------+ 3,288 19 3
| |
Profit on Exchequer Bills, for gain on sale of £20,000 invested | 402 10 0
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|£301,034 10 2
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By Balance brought down £62,629 11 2
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31st March, 1848.
By balance brought down £5,714 11 2
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