Volume 2

Materials towards a statistical account of the town and island of Bombay in three volumes.

  • Bombay Presidency
Date:
1893-1894
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Credit: Materials towards a statistical account of the town and island of Bombay in three volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AND ISLAND. 11 Honourable Company to be affixed the day and year above mentioned. Signed sealed and executed (where no stamped paper is procurable) in the presence of Mr. James Hatley and Mr. Samuel Martin.^ The following extracts relate to the treatment of passengers and the rates of passage money by the Company's ships : On the 12th January 17 O'!, the Court of Directors observe the complaints against the commanders of their ships for ill-usage of the Armenians and other merchants (passengers) by extorting large sums from them for passage money, and direct that special regard be had to prevent the like for the future; that the Council on the place determine all such differences, according to the rules of justice and equity, and protest against such commanders.^ In their letter to Bombay, the 5th April 1776, the Court write : As I the commanders of the ships freighted by the Company now pay to I their owners £15 instead of the sum of £10 for each passenger as I formerly, and in consideration that the price of every necessary is greatly increased, we have permitted the commanders to receive, but on no consideration to demand, a larger sum than as undermentioned for the passage and accommodation at their table of persons proceeding to India at their own expense in the following stations, namely : £ A General Officer ... ... ... 200 A Member of Council or a Colonel... ... 150 A Lieutenant-Colonel ... ... ... 120 Senior and Junior Merchants and Majors ... 100 Factors and Captains ... ... ... 80 Writers Lieutenants and Ensigns ... ... 70 Married ladies at the abovementioned rates according to the station of their husbands. 8 ingle ladies the same as Writers; and a Cadet ... ... ... ... 50 The like sums are to be paid for passengers homeward bound who are under the necessity of coming to England for the recovery of their health, and you are to order such ]3ersons to be received on board and properly accommodated on the abovementioned terms In their letter to Bombay, the 20th January 1779, the Court write : The commanders of our freighted ships are still permitted to receive, but upon no consideration to demand, a larger sum than the under- mentioned for the passage and accommodation at their table of gentlemen proceeding to, and returning from, India at their own expense in the following stations,^ namely : £ For a General Officer ... ... 200 For a Member of Council or a Colonel ... 150 For a Lieutenant-Colonel ... ... ... J20 For a Senior or Junior Merchant or Major ... 100 Chapter II. Trade. Ship- Commanders’ Extortion, 1704. Passage and Table Kates, 1776. 1770. ^ Bom. Grov. Diary 14th Dec. 1779, Kev. Diary 1 of 1779, 99-101. ^ Court to Bombay 12tli Jan. 1704 paras 6 and 7. Comp, of Standing Ord. Vol. 1 of 1715-1721, 4. 3 Pub, Dep. Court’s L. Vol. 9 of 1772-1777, 2G0-2G1. Comp, of Standing Ord. Vol. 2 of 1759-1788, 52-53. 1 ^ Pub. Dep. Court’s L. Vol. 10 of 1778- 1782, 129. Comp, of Standing Ord. Vol. 2 Of 1759-1788, 57.