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Remuneration to railway companies for conveyance of mails.
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6. Every company of proprietors of any railway along which such mails or post letter bags, mail coaches, carts, or carriages, shall be so required by the postmaster general to be conveyed shall be entitled to such reasonable remuneration to be paid by the postmaster general to any such company of proprietors for the conveyance of such mails, post letter bags, mail guards, and other officers of the Post Office, mail coaches, carts, and carriages, in manner required by such postmaster general, or by such officer of the Post Office as he shall in that behalf nominate as aforesaid, as shall (either prior to or after the commencement of such service) be fixed and agreed on between the postmaster general and such company of proprietors, or, in case of difference of opinion between them, then as shall be determined by arbitration as herein-after provided; but so that the services which may be required by the postmaster general, or by such officer of the Post Office as he in that behalf shall nominate as aforesaid to be performed by any such company of proprietors, be not suspended, postponed, or deferred by reason of such remuneration not having been then fixed or agreed on between the said postmaster general and such company of proprietors, or by reason of the award on any reference to arbitration to determine the remuneration not having been then made.
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