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for ene sol in silver, the tariffs shall be lowered accordingly. In either of these contract. free from custom duties. two cases, the average of thirty seven pence for the silver sol shall be. the basis on which the tariffs are to bo fixed. With regard to Government service, supplementary pieces, tubes and acces- panies representing them oblige themrespecting passenger fare, transportation |sories, rails with plates, spikes, screws selves to carry for one third of the of troops and war material, extra trains and nails, sleepers, eoal and machinery | tariff prices, materials for the construcand telegraphic service, the following for mines. The Bondholders or the Com- tion of railways for public traffie for tariff shall be observedl. 1. Free passage shall be accorded to the President of the Republic and the introduced are to be used, and not to suite accompaning him; the Ministers import them in larger quantity than of State and their aidescamps, the chief | the works in construction or being terials are meant all those mentioned clerks of the Ministries of State; the worked require. Prefects and Sub-Prefeets of the Departments. the urban and rural agents of panics representing them, oblige them- elinery for mines. police, provided these last are uniformed. selves to maintain the railways in good 2. Military officers in uniform will order, and the rolling stock, and to build pay half fare for passage. 3. Publie officers and military officers, the service and the public. when traveling on service will deliver to Art. 4. The legal document emboding | representing them; which cannot be arthe station master where they start, an , this contract with its additions and order signed by the respective Minister moilifications shall be exempted from of State, or by the Prefeet of the Depart- . stamp duty. ment in which the journey is begun. The amount of this order, which shall of the Company or Companies formed |blie. To this end the Company and the only be good for one trip, shall be held by the Committee in virtue of this Con- Conunitter will be considered as domieiat the half of the tariff and charged to tract, shall be exempt from military fled at Lima, where they shall have a duly the Government in account. 1. The transportation of troops and of and in the ease of foreign war. war material shall be charged to the Government at twenty five per cent of sious which may be committed on the the tariff price, and the Government lines, to the injury of persons or things, will be obliged to pay it not only for the 'the bondholders or the Companies retroops, but also for the material carried for ; presenting them shall be responsible, its account, it being necessary in these ; if it is proved that in that directly cases to produce the written order of the affecting them, compliance has not the foregoing Contract signed on this dasaid authorities and the certificate of the | been given to the stipulations of the te by the Minister of Finance and Comcommander of the troops as to the | General regulations for Railways, In merce, and the representative of the Bondnumber travelling and the luggage reference to traffic, and that compliance accompanying them. 5. For the extra trains which the ry. In other cases every employee will Government of Peru may require for the | be responsible for his actions, and for said debt, and the construction and exploitransportation of its troops and material the faults he conimits, eivil or eriminal, of war, shall be paid; for one locomotive two soles per kilometer; if it carries one or two ears two soles per kilo; when it | anies representing them may work for earries three or four cars four soles per their own account, the telegraph lines |tions, is accepted and it is resolved-to subkilo and one sol per kilometer will be ad- existing or those which they may esta- mit it to the deliberation and approbation ded for each car exceeding four. These prices will be reduced one quarter for mifications. The same privilego is apall kilometers in excess of sixty, and plieable to the telephone, should it be one half when in excess of one linndred. established, in all cases obeying the 6. If the Government employs a small the stipulations of the General Regulocomotive with or without its car, it shall lations of National Telegraphs, and pay one sol for every kilometer traversed. said Committee or the Companies shall In this instance although the distance have the right to elarge the public for |by the Supreme Government of Peru and may be under thirty kilometers, thirty , their services on the same tariff establishsoles shall be paid, but between Lima and ed by these Regulations. Callao only twenty soles shall be paid. 7. For every locomotive fired up by order of the Government and not used, subject to such contributions and taxes as twenty five soles will be charged. 8. The train shall leave at the hour designated, and for every hour of delay the Government shall pay ten soles. 9. Telegraphic service for Govern- enting them all the disposable national |the following: ment shall be gratuitious. Mail bags and land which may be necessary for the carriers will be transported gratis in the railways, stations, factories, deposits, of the Oroya railway, on the section from railways. Art 2. All of the articles required of any kind, and will assist in the ex- to complete the said section. for the construction and preservation of propiation of private property in aceorthe railways, as well as machines and dance with the laws of the country. tramways for the working of the Guano, shall be introduced into Peru free of service or publie necessity, or from any customs duties during the time granted other cause independent of the bond- of the Railway from Pacasmayo to Gnafor construction in the present contraet, holders or the Companies who represent | dalupe and La Vina, and the value of and the following articles shall be im- 'them, the work on the railways or the the reconstruction of the section from