On the On the Narrow Gauge. Broad Gauge. Per Mile. Per Mile. “For the exclusive use of one compartment of a carriage, second or any inferior class, at the option of the Post Office 2d. 2d. “For ditto of two compartments 4d. 4d. “For ditto of three compartments 6d. 6d. “For ditto of four compartments — 8d. “For whole carriage 8d. 10d. “And for any additional carriage or portion of a carriage, at the same rates. “Second. When the Post Office does not require a prescribed amount of space and the mails are exchanged by the train guard. “For every 112 lbs. ordinary maximum aggregate weight of mails½d. per mile; any portion of 112 lbs. being considered as 112 lbs. “In the event of the Post Office requiring a carriage or carriages exceeding the ordinary dimensions (by which term “ordinary dimensions” is meant carriages whose interior horizontal sectional area does not exceed, in the case of the narrow gauge, 150 square feet, and in the ease of the broad gauge 225 square feet), the Company shall have a right to call upon the Board of Trade to increase the charge for such carriage or carriages by an addition to the tariff rates proportionate to the increased size of the carriage or carriages; and on the other hand, should the Company, for its own purpose, run one or more carriages exceeding the ordinary dimensions, as above, in any mail train, not devoted exclusively to the Post Office, then the Post Office shall have a right to call upon the Board of Trade to determine in like manner the increased amount of deduction in respect to such larger carriages. “The compensation for insufficient notice of the abandonment by the Post Office of a mail train under notice, shall be one-fourth part of the full payment for the difference between the actual notice and the required notice of six months. “The other difficulties pointed out in Mr. E. J. Page’s evidence, seem to indicate that the law with respect to the mail service on railways also requires alteration or extension in the following particulars, viz.:— “First. The Post Office should have the power of _requiring_ railway companies, _by legal notice_, when necessary, to run mails to be employed exclusively in the conveyance of mails and officers of the Post Office. “Second. The right of a mail guard or other Post Office servant, when travelling and paying his fare as a passenger, to exchange bags at intermediate stations without additional charge, provided the aggregate weight of mail does not at any time exceed that allowed to a passenger of the same class, should be made clear.