a be named by the senior officer on audit through the usual channel, the spot, (not being the command- accompanied by a certificate signed ing officer of the train) one by the by the commanding officer present, commanding officer of the train, and the officer under whose charge and a third by the contractor; the the bullocks may be, stating the decision of which committee shall number of extra drivers who were be final. actually employed, and for what 15. It is, however, to be un- period of time. derstood, that casual sickness shall 18. That the sirdars and drivers not be considered as a sufficient be mustered, and monthly returns cause of rejection, and that a rea- made of them, with the bullocks, sonable time, not exceeding one agreeable to the form which is month for bullocks, and three now in use. The return shall be months for elephants, shall always signed by the contractor, or his be allowed for the recovery of cat- agent, and countersigned by the tle coming off a march, before a commanding officer of the train, sentence of rejection is passed on under whose charge they may be ; them. In all cases where sickness as well as by the commanding is alleged for the absence of the officer of the station or detachelephants, or bullocks, at muster, ment, and exclusive of the monthly the commanding officer shall ascer- musters of the elephants, bullocks, tain that the elephants and bullocks and drivers, they shall be mustered actually exist. No charge, how- daily in the morning and evening, ever, for maintaining the cattle is by the non-commissioned officers, ever to be admitted, except for wbo shall be appointed to execute such as shall be returned present, this duty. and in serviceable condition. 19. That when the cattle are mus16. That the contractor shall tered, the draught bullocks shall keep in cantonments, and at fixed be provided with bridles and picket stations, one driver for every four ropes, and the carriage bullocks bullocks, and one sirdar for every with pads and picket ropes, and forty bullocks, whether carriage the elephants with pads and picket or draught. ropes and chains, which shall be 17. That for bullocks, whether kept constantly in readiness, and carriage or draught, when actually in good order for service. The marching within the company's pads, both for elephants and buldominions, or those of their allies, locks, shall be well made, and an increased number of drivers properly stuffed, according, in shall be kept, in the proportion every respect, with the muster altogether of one driver to every pads that will be kept at the office two bullocks, and one sirdar for of the secretary to the military every forty additional drivers. board, and at the different stations The wages of the additional drivers of the army. to be employed on such occasions, 20. The contractor shall engage at the rate of five sonaut rupees per to keep such establishment of mensem for each driver, and six elephants and bullocks as governsonaut rupees for each sirdar, shall ment shall hereafter fix, be paid by the contractor, and plete; and to furnish, at his own charged by him, in a contingent proper cost and charge, whatever bill, which shall be presented for number may be required to supply casualties com casualties occasioned by death, or such as may be returned unserviceable from the ordinary course of service; or to replace such as may have been delivered over to the management of an agent of government, as provided for by the 40th article. 21. Any elephants or bullocks that may be rendered unserviceable by forced marches, by overloading them, or by excess of labour, the contractor shall be paid for by the honourable company, at the rate of sonaut rupees 783 12 6 for each elephant, and of thirty sonaut rupees for each bullock, upon a certificate from the commanding officer, that such casualty proceeded from one or other of the above causes. 22. A forced march is explained to be, when the distance shall exceed ten coss in fine weather, and eight coss in bad weather, in the twenty-four hours: overloading is explained to be when the weight shall exceed by two maunds, (exclusive of the pad, and other necessary gear) the regulated weight of twenty maunds for an elephant, and by ten pounds weight (exclusive also of the pad, and other necessary furniture) the regulated weight of 210 pounds for a bullock. The pads and necessary furniture to be as follows: For a bullock. 23. All casualties are to be noticed in the returns, that the contractor's accounts may be passed only for the number of elephants and bullocks, and the periods of the month for which they have been effective, and in serviceable condition. 24. The contractor shall engage to furnish each bullock, in cantonments, or at any fixed station, with two seers of gram per day, each seer being equal to eight Calcutta sicca weight, forty such seers making one maund, equal to eighty-two avoirdupoise pounds; and with a quantity of straw or other dry cut fodder, not less than ten seers weighed dry; and the contractor shall incur a penalty of fifty sicca rupees a-head upon each bullock, when it shall be proved before a committee of officers, that they have received a short allowance of gram, or fodder, through the neglect (or other cause) of the contractor, or his agents; the gram and fodder shall be served out to the cattle in the presence of one or more European non-commissioned officers, who see the provender duly weighed in its dry state, before it is served out to the cattle, reporting the same to the commanding officer, for the information of the commander in chief, or, in his absence, for that of the commanding officer of the troops under this presidency. shall 25. The contractor shall, moreover, engage to furnish at the current bazar price, to be certified by the cominanding officer, one extra seer of gram for each bullock, when actually marching, or employed with the artillery at their annual practice; such extra allowance is not to commence until the date date of actual march, but to be absence, the senior officer comgiven equally on halting days; and manding the troops, with the apis to be drawn for in a contingent probation of government, find it bill, accompanied by a certificate necessary, during the period of signed by the officer commanding the contract, to reduce the numthe detachment, and the officer ber of elephants, or of draught, under whose charge the bullocks or carriage builocks, whether the may be, of the quantity of extra same shall have been originally program which has been actually posed as the fixed establishment, furnished. or may have been afterwards aug26. All elephants which shall mented, under the provision conbe retained in the service from the tained in the 28th article of the present existing contracı, and all present advertisement, it shall be such as shall thereafter be received in their opinion to do so, the cominto the service, are, as soon as sur- pany giving to the contractor, in veyed and approved of, to be writing, one month's notice of marked in such manner as govern- such intention, and of the number ment, or the commander in chief, to be reduced. may direct; and the contractor is 30. Should any increase in the to be held responsible, to the full number of elephants or bullocks amount of his contract penalıy, be required, notice thereof shall that he does not sell, exchange, be given to the contractor, who or otherwise dispose of, any ele- shall undertake to supply them at phant, which shall have been re- the rate of ten elephants, and of ceived into the service until the two hundred bullocks, within three same shall be condemned, or re- months from the date of requisigularly discharged from the service. tion, and to feed, and find atten 27. Every bullock, tendered dants for them, at the rates, and by the contractor, and approved of on the terms specified for those of for the service, is to be marked on the the establishment, which will be baunch, in the presence of the hereafter fixed by government. officer approving, with the mark 31. No new elephants either of the united company, D. for to supply the present deficiency, draught, and C. for carriage, with if any, or to replace casualties, or two figures to denote the year when to increase the establishment, will admitted into the service, thus 06, be received into the service, except for the present year. such as from Chittagong, or the 28. No elephants or bullocks country to the southward and are to be at any time hired, or eastward of that province. employed by the contractor, for 32. The contractor shall apthe purpose of fulfilling his en- point his own agents, either licensgagements, which are either di- ed Europeans, or natives, at the rectly, or indirectly, the property different stations, and shall be held of any officer in the service, under responsible for their due execution the penalty of sopaut rupees 1,000 of every part of his engagements. for every elephant and sonaut ru- He shall notify their names to the pees fifty, for every bullock, so commander in chief, or, in his abhired or employed. sence, to the commanding officer 29. Should government, or of the troops under the presidency i the commander in chief, or, in his to the commanding officers at the respective respective stations, and to the mi- necessary) six to be kept at the litary auditor-general; and the presidency, six at Cawnpore, and the official signatures of those six at Futtyghur, unless directed agents shall be binding on the con- to be stationed elsewhere, by the tractor. commander in chief. 33. The bills and vouchers, for 37 The bullock sheds shall be one month complete, are to be delivered in good condition to the sent to the military paymaster-ge-, contractor, who shall engage to neral, who is immediately to trans- keep them in constant repair, and mit them to the military auditor- return them in the same good state general, in whose office they are at the expiration of his contract; to be inspected, checked, and re- and he shall furnish sheds for all turned in ten days after they shall bullocks additional to the establishhave been received, that they may ment hereafter to be determined be re-delivered to the contractor. on, allowing a space of ten feet by 34. The contractor's bills are four, for each bullock, and such then to be paid at the option of the additional sheds shall likewise be contractor, either in Calcutta, by delivered in good condition at the the pay-master to the artillery and expiration of his contract, in congarrisons, or by bills of exchange sideration of an annual allowance, drawn on the provincial treasuries, for that purpose, of sonaut rupees which will be obtained upon appli- 2,500. cation, for that purpose, being 39. . The cattle are to be exermade to the military pay-master- cised as the commander in chief, general. or, in his absence, the commanding 35. Escorts are to be furnished, officer of the troops under the prewhen applied for, under the direc- sidency, or the commanding offition of the commanding officer of cers of the respective stations, with the station at which the escort may his approbation, shall direct. be required. If refused, the con- 39. The proposals are to spetractor may appeal to the com- cify the rate per month, in sonaut mander in chief, whose decision rupees, at which the contractor shall be final. will engage to feed and keep the 36. The breaking in carriages, establishment of elephants, and eighteen in number, are to be de- bullocks, whether draught or carlivered over, upon survey made riage, complete ; and supplied by directions of the commanding with attendants, with the usual officers of stations, in good order, number of pads, saddles, ropes, and condition, to the new con- and all other the usual gear ; taking tractor, he engaging to deliver upon himself the risk of all them at the expiration of his con- casualties. tract, in the like rate. 40. That the contract tractor will be allowed sicca rupees shall be restricted to a time of 150 per annum, for keeping each peace, and that whenever the breaking in carriage in constant elephants and bullocks shall prorepair, and replacing it when neces- ceed on service into an enemy's sary. The number of breaking in country, the company will appoint carriages to be eighteen, as at pre- an agent, or ents, to take charge sent, (subject, however, to such of the number of elephants and increase as may hereafter be thought bullocks, which shall be so sent on service, The con new service, with their proper number 42. The terms proposed are of attendants, which the contrac- not to be considered as extending tor must engage to transfer with to the circumstance of an actual them, and the contractors engage- famine, in which event relief is to ments shall cease and determine, be afforded to the contractor; and as to these cattle, until they shall in order to define the circumstances again return into the company's under which the contractor may dominions, or those of their allies; claim such relief, it shall only be and government shall, at all times, demanded by him when the price be at liberty, on giving one month's of coarse rice, or otiah, shall so notice to the contractor, to take far exceed the rate of thirty seers such number of elephants and per rupee, and of gram the rate of bullocks as they may chuse from twenty-four seers for the rupee, at the contractor, and his engage- any station, as to produce a diffemenis, so far as relates to the num- rence to the contractor of more ber of elephants and bullocks, so than sonaut rupees 500 per month, taken from him, shail cease, un- upon the whole expence of feeding til they shall again return into the the elephants, and of 200 sonaut company's dominions, or those of rupees, upon the whole expence their allies, or until the contractor of feeding the bullocks, at that shall, by orders from government, station, the evidence of such difhave replaced according to the ference or loss, shall be ascertained condition of the 20th article, part by certificates of the average price or the whole, of the elephants or of the coarse rice, ottah, or gram, bullocks, which shall have been (which certificates the contractor thus taken into the immediate at any time may require from the management of an agent of go- commissaries of bazars, where there vernment. It is, however, to be are any) allowing each bullock to understood, that the contractor receive two seers of gram, and will be only expected to receive each elephant fifteen seers of ottah, such cattle as may have been de- or rice, a day; the certificate must livered over to the charge of an run in the following words, and agent, as shall upon previous sur- be countersigned by the commandvey be found serviceable. ing officer on the spot :-" I do 41. Should the company's ter- hereby certify, that the average ritories, or those of their allies, be- wholesale price of the under-mencome, at any time, the theatre of tioned coarse rice, ottah, or gram, war, by the invasion of a foreign for the month of has been, at enemy, or by internal commotion, this station, and in the adjacent the elephants and bullocks, with country, as follows: their proper attendants, before pro- Gram Boot per maund vided by the contractor, and then Gram Colloy per maundserving, or that Rice coa se per maund Otrah serve, in the territories so invaded, " (Signed) A. B. shall be taken from the contractor, Cuminissary of Bazars." and put under the care of an agent Where there may be no commisas before specified, so long as those sary of bazars present, the certi.. territories, or any part of them, ficates are to be granted by the shall continue to be the theatre of commanding officer only. war, or be occupied by hostile 43. The foregoing terms must armies. be per maund |