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XLVIII. Contracts, of the company to be
enforced by and against President and Council.
XLIX. No member of the said council shall be
personally liable in respect of such contract, cove-
nant, or engagement of the said company aforesaid
or in respect of any contract entered into under
the authority of this act, or other liability of the
said President and Council in their official capacity;
but all such liabilities, and all costs and damages of
the said President and Council in respect thereof,
shall be satisfied and paid out of revenues of India.

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[PRICE 41). STAMPED 5D •]

1 starting of the vessel next autumn. All doubts
have, however, been sbt at rest by the arrival of the
present shaft, which is now being completed in the
turning lathe. There are not many lathes in the
kingdom of sufficient size and strength to turn a
shaft of this kind, since apart from its own weight,
it has counterbalancing masses of iron to relieve the
strain on the lathe in turning it round, which brings
up the whole mass to about 60 tons. This is turned
slowly at about one revolution per minute, the cut-
ters, of which there are two, one at each side, shaving
off long thin strips of the cold metal at the rate of
about one hundred.weight per hour. By the com-
pany turning this shaft for themselves, they effect
an immense saving per hundred-weight in its entire
cost, which in a piece of metal-work of such size,
and one in the manufacture of which so many risks
had to be encountered, of course amounts to a con-
siderable sum. With regard to the future of the
Leviathan herself, there is perhaps no question more
frequently asked by the public than that of where
she is to be docked in case of her wanting repairs or
her bottom requiring cleaning. This question, how-
ever, has, we are glad to say, been satisfactorily
decided, though not quite as regards dockin4 hpr.
There are some docks, we believe, in Liverpool whicb
are long enough "to take in the Leviathan if their
entrances were only wide in proportion ; but, as
they all fail in this latter important particular, the
great vessel when she wants cleaning will have to
be gridironed, as the screw colliers are—that is,
run aground on rows of piles laid along the river's
side for the purpose, and the tide of course will
' leave her dry at each low water. .A spot has
been chosen for this purpose in the Mersey, be-
tween Woodside and Birkenhead, • and to this
place the Leviathan will be taken as often as she
needs repairs or cleaning. It is almost a pity,
however, that no "gridiron" of sufficient length
could be formed or made in the Thames or in any
other river in the kingdom but the Mersey, which
is one of the most rapid and dangerous, and - in
which, we should think, the Leviathan, even with
all the aid which Trotman's anchors give her, must
run more or less of risk either in navigating or
staying at anchor.

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