PRICES OF PASSAGE. 



331 



In laving in a sea-stock for India, either of clothes, furni- 

 ture, &c., or eatables, passengers are strongly recommended 

 to employ persons accustomed to supply the India market ; 

 and although many articles may be got cheaper from other 

 houses, still the risk of their not being adapted to the pe- 

 culiarity of an Indian climate, or the casualties of the voy- 

 a<Te, make it highly advisable, as far as means go, to employ 

 persons experienced in these matters. 



The East India Company have established the following 

 scale of prices, for persons in their sernce proceeding to 

 India, as passage-money in company's ships, and captains 

 are restricted from asking more for accomtnodation at their 

 table : — 



f Including 



Writers MIO ! charter party 



Subalterns 110] allowance to 



I. owners. 

 Assistant-surgeons . . .95 \ exclusive of 



Cadets 95 I ditto. 



N.B. — In the third mate's mess of an 

 Indiaman a cadet's and assistant-sur- 

 geon's passage-money is 55/. 



The regulation of prices for ofiBcers in the hinges service 

 proceeding to India is as follows :— 



General officer r.25n 



Member of council 200 



Lieutenant-colonel 1 



Major I 



Senior merchant ) 150 



Junior ditto ! 



Factors J 



Captains 125 



p.«f"^| ^-j?^] These sums include the whole 



colonel -..•• ••..• i passage-money which can be de- 



Lieutenant-colonel }35 l^lnandld from kings officers on. 



Major. . . .... •■;■••••• i^^ < duty; and particular cabins are al- 



geons 95 J 



ships. 



As no cabins are allotted by the company for passengers 

 (except to officers in the king's sen'ice, or to their own 

 officers when in charge of troops), the captain is at liberty 

 to let his cabins, and those who require them pay a sum in 

 addition to the above prices. There is no allowance for 

 officers' vrives and children. An officer with his wife will 

 require a separate cabin, in which case he will be charged 



is a transaction between the <»ptain or owner and the broker, with 

 which the passenger has no pecuniary concern. 

 Agents for passengers, &c.— Captain Gnndlay, Captain Thacker. 



