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Agreements between postmaster general and railway companies as to amount of remuneration, &c. shall be altered on any increase or diminution of the services to be rendered.
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7. Notwithstanding any agreement entered into between the postmaster general and any such company, or any award to be made on any such reference as aforesaid, fixing the amount of remuneration to be paid to such company for any services to be rendered by them as aforesaid, it shall be lawful and competent to and for the postmaster general, by notice in writing, to require, from and after the day to be named in any such notice, not being less than twenty-eight days from the delivery thereof, any addition to be made to the services in respect of which such agreement shall be entered into or award made; and in any such case, and also in case of a discontinuance of any part of such services as herein-after provided, a fresh agreement shall be entered into between the postmaster general and such company, regulating the future amount of remuneration to be paid by the postmaster general to such company for such increased or diminished services, as the case may be; or, if the parties cannot agree on such amount, the same shall be referred to arbitration in like manner as herein-before is mentioned and herein-after provided as to any original agreement; and such arbitrators shall have power to award any compensation they may consider reasonable to be paid to any railway company for any loss that may have been occasioned to them by the discontinuance or alteration of the services previously agreed to be performed by them by any train or carriage specially required by the postmaster general to be forwarded for the conveyance of the mails; but so that nevertheless such increased or diminished services shall not be suspended, postponed, or deferred by reason of the amount of such increased or diminished remuneration not having been then fixed or agreed on between the postmaster general and such company of proprietors, or by reason of the award on any reference to arbitration to determine the amount of such increased or diminished remuneration not having been then made.
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