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Temperleys' contract price that year being ^5 5^ ; and it was understood that the Capitation Tax should be paid; Messrs. Allan's rate from London via Liverpool being about £$ 12s, bd. Messrs. Temperleys' Contract Tickets in 1869 were issued to the Committee with the rate filled up £fi \gs. In 1870 there was an entirely new state of affairs ; there was prospect of a large Emigration, and all Shipowners engaged in the Canada trade were anxious for the Contract. Messrs. Allan tendered at .^5 IS, 6(i. per statute adult from London to Quebec, reducir.g their actual sea-passage rate from Liverpool to Quebec to £^ 10, . This amouTit included Capitation Tax. As will be ob«f"rved, Messrs. Temperleys came forward with an offer early '•: the year, and their Contract Tickets delivered to the Committee for the Emigrants expressly state their rate to be £s Ss. including Capitation Tax. The following Copies of Letters have, however, been furnished by Messrs. 'i'emperleys' Solicitors as the ground of their claim for the Tax. 3, Whitk Lion Court, Cornhill, E.G., ig/Zf January, 1870, J. Standish Haly, Esq. Dear Sir, We beg to inform you that our first steam.- ship for Canada this year will be the " Med way," to leave the Victoria Docks on Thursday, 2rst April. We can engage your passengers by her to the extent of four hundred adults. oau'S'rtvaatKmfHSftXm'tt raaHI»B»inimiB™™»»« or Stg. . istvoy. 1870. E.C. London, 18 June, 1870. J^I02 The British and Colonial Emigration Fund, Dr. To Owners S.S. "Tweed," ist voy. Per Temperleys, Carter, & Darke. To Capitation Tax paid at Quebec on 454 Souls (Infants ejcclusive) @$I = $454 • • -^93 5 9 E.G. London, 13 7«6'> ■^70. British and Colonial Emigration Fund, 2, Westminster Chambers, S.W., July 14, 1870. Dear Sirs, I have received your statement of account amounting to i,'4.66i 10^. \d., and having to-day handed you ;^893 8.y. 6d., am I correct in my estimate that £ly^^'^ \s. \od. + A90 17^-. 6^/., the second moiety of passage- money per " Atlas " (which I observe is not included in your statement) and which makes ^.258 IQ-^- 4^-, is the total amount due to you ? Please let me know, Believe me, Yours truly, J. S. Haly. Messrs. Temperleys, Carter, &-' Darke. yd October, 1872. J. S. Haly, Esq. Dear Sir, We have never been so surprised by any incident of business as by your statement to us of 2nd Sept. last, viz., that you think we are not entitled to receive from your Association the various amounts which we have charged for Capitation Tax in the year 1870. Without referring particularly to the number of claims for Capitation Tax which wc have lodged with you from time to time without one word of objection on your part, or to the fact which we casually notice of your having paid us Capitation Tax as long since as 1868, we find that we charged and you paid the Capitation upon Passengers by steamships " Dacia," "Cleopatra," and " Medvvay," all of which left London late in the season of 1869. On 25th February, 1 870, we wrote that our rate for the first three steamships would be five guineas— all terms same as latter part of last season. On 9th May, 1870, we wrote that "Medway" is held at your disposal to extent of 450 adults, on terms and conditions of previous shipments this year. On 27th May, 1870, we wrote that passage per " Medway " and "Tweed," and the conditions referring to these steamers next voyage respectively, are the same as for late departures. On 7th June, 1870, referring to "Tweed" and "Avon," we offered to take your Emigrants on same terms and conditions as those of other steamers leaving in this year. On 2 1st June, 1870, we wrote to the same effect with regard to " Tweed," " Avon," " Atlas," and " Medway." On the 8th August, 1870, we agreed to take one family at ;^5 lOi-. including Capitation Tax — the rate, as you will observe, being raised by five shillings to cover our payment of the tax. The matter appears to us perfectly clear in our favour, and requires no argument on our part. If you differ from us, please inform us of the grounds of your so doing, and we will consider them. Yours truly, (Signed) Temperleys, CARTER. & Darke. Hon. Sec. British and Colonial Etni juration Fund. 8 Sir, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London, i\th Oct., 1872. A dispute has arisen between yourself, as acting (or the Committee of the British and Colonial Emigration Fund, and our clients, Messrs. Tcmpcrleys, Carter, and Darke, with respect to their claim against the Com- mittee for the balance of their account amounting to ^^582 9.J'. 8^. We have read the correspondence which has passed with respect to the claim, and we have advised our clients that they have an undoubted right to recover from the Com- mittee, or from any member of the Committee, the amount claimed. Under these circumstances we shall be obliged if you will consider the question with your Committee and (if you desire) take the opinion of your Solicitors in the matter; and if those gentlemen should disagree in opinion with us, we shall be happy to meet them and explain our views with respect to the claim, and agree if possible upon a solution of the difficulty which has arisen. We may add that our clients would regret extremely to be forced to litigation with your Committee, and we trust that you will receive this communication as written in no hostile spirit, but simply with the desire to bring the differences which have arisen to an amicable conclusion. We remain. Sir, Your obedient Servant.s, Parker & Ci,.\rkk. J, Standish Haly, Esq. The British and Colonial Emigration Fund, 2, Westminster Chambers. 9 bRiTisH AND Colonial Emigration Society, 2, Westminster Chambers, S.W., October 12, 1872. Gentlemen, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd inst. and also a letter from your Solicitors dated nth, on the subject of your claim for the Capitation Tax paid on our Emigrants in 1870. Assuming your statement that you desire to bring the difference which has arisen between us to an amicable conclusion to be correct, I think it well (before resorting to our Solicitors) to make the following statement for your consideration. On January 19th, 1870, you wrote to me that "your fares for our Emigrants should be fixed as low as possible considering the price of provisions and other expenses " during the season ; and on February 8th you further stated that you should be happy to " contract with the Association for the conveyance of a large number of Emigrants on the most moderate terms possible, either on the footing of a party or otherwise." These letters were submitted to the Committee at the Mansion House on February 9th, 1870, Lord Mayor Besley in the chair, and it was then resolved that I should be authorized to see you and make arrange- ments for the dispatch of Emigrants per " Medway," pro- vided the terms were such as could be approved ; and at a meeting held on the i6th I reported that I had seen you, and that you had offered to take 300 statute a-^^lts in the " Medway " at £$ 5-»"- per statute adult, and thi offer was accepted by the Committee and confirmed under Alder- man Sir James Lawrence's hand. There was no mentiofi oj Capitatiott Tax or any extra charge. I must also draw your attention to the fact that Messrs. Allan Brothers were at this time tendering for the con- veyance of our Emigrants at £4. los. per statute adult from Liverpool, and whilst recognising your plea that you are entitled to an advance upon the rate prevailing at mmuamagff/^ ma lo Liverpool, i cannot admit that you are entitled to an advance of £i (or thereabouts) for such service. I have only to add that I am advised that it is a very grave question how far you are justified in putting in any claim for Capitation Tax under' the provisions of "The Passenger Acts." I shall not, however, raise this question now. You say you wish for an am'cable settlement of our dispute. I will content myself with calling your attention to the circumstances under which the Committee were induced to send the larger portion of their Emigrancs by your steamships in 1870, and as I am of opinion that they have incurred no liability fo»' the payment of the Capi- tation Tax on these people, it will be my unpleasant duty to advise them to resist your demand for this head money, should it be persisted in. I am, Yours truly, J. Standisii Haly. Messrs. Tempcrhys, Carter, &^ Dixrke. Upon the receipt of Messrs. Parker and Clarke's letter, the Secretary consulted Alderman Sir James Lawrence, and having received a copy of the correspondence upon which Messrs. Temperleys found their claim from their Solicitors, Mr. Haly submitted it, together with copies 01 the Passen- ger Acts and of the Contract Tickets, to an eminent O.C. for Opinion, and the following is his view of the legality of the claim : — " Each Contract Ticket is a ormal Contract in the plainest language, excluding Messrs. Temperleys demand ; " and further, " that it is the final contract, the letter being only preliminary ; and that if the shipowners thought they had agreed for the Capitation Tax, why did they not strike out the words in the Ticket, ' including Government dues and Head Money, if any, at the plar , of landing.' } " And sums up his well-considered Opinion •upon the documents submitted, as follows : " Upon the 1 1 whole, it seems to me that the Contract Ticket issued by the shipowners is fatal to their claim, being either the Contract itself, or conclusive evidence of the terms agreed upon by the letters as understood by them, which they can- not contradict ; or, lastly, a document binding by way of estoppel ; for the Associated gentlemen have acted upon the Ticket, by sending Emigrantr. and so altered their position on the faith of Messrs. Temperleys' own statement of terms, which the latter cannot now be permitted to deny." The substance of this Opinion having been communicated to Messrs. Temperleys, and they still persevering in their demand, it is considered necessary to convene a Special General Meeting of the Board, in order that the course of action may be decided on. ■^ -»-«».„»<«!?*,■*««'«>*'► "^ -*1 I /S7^ /