, 1874-12-26

Lh0m according 10 tuo average anu outIeuI
value of sugar of good quality in the market
of the town of st. Pierre during the fortnight
elapsed. The lower and higher prices being
excluded. The price shall be determined
by three arbitrators named after the following
manner two by the parties interested, and
the third by those two, if they cannot agree
on the price.
Article 3rd. The payment shall be made
in the following manner Hall the amount
shall be paid fifteen days after the day of the
last fortnightly grinding, the other halt payable
fifteen DAYS after the first that is to say, one
month after the last day of the fortnightly grind
ing.
age and vipeness to produce good sugar.
The Usine may refuse to receive oil "rat cas-
en- canes," or any other canes which may be
deteriorated and unfit for making sugar, es-
peciallv those cut more than four days In
Che event of fire the burnt canes shall be re-
ceived as good, provided always they should be
delivered to the Usine within eight days. other
wise those canes shall be considered of the be-
aforementioned class, and the interested par
ties shall proceed as before stated.
Article 9th, Messrs. QuennessOn u 20.
bind themselves to send to the Shipping Wharf
Of the Estate the number OF lighters necessary
for carrying the canes,
Monsieur. Oh bis part, obliges
himself to load each day with canes the num-
Der of lighters put at his disposal in the morning
and to deliver them in tie evening
Article 9th. Tho owest weight of the load
Of these lighters is fixed at twenty-five thou
sand kilogrammes of canes (about IS tonS)
all diminution Of weight causes prejudice and
loss to the Usines.
Messrs. OuennessoD & Co. will be entitled
20 damages in the value of one franc for every
hundred k~ilogrammes the load may lack Of the
specified weight.
Article TIL. Failure to comply with Arti-
cles five and six of this agreement will not oo-
oasion fine on one SIDE or on the other when
they may be occasioned by unforeseen clrcum-
stances not under their control such as heavy
ground swells, hurricanes Sc.
Article 9Th. The lighters will be towed to
the shipping places agreed on between Messrs.
Q 4ennesson & Co aud Monsieur ......,-
81 the expense Of the Usine. They Will Do
loaded and replaced at their Stations OF the ex'
pense and by Monsieur. .........s..The
lighters will, strictly speaking, always be con-
sidered a3 under the direct charge OF the Uslne'
but the canes which they may contain viii only
DO under the Responsibility of lac U8Iue, after
they may have reached the usual anchorage
ground Of the Usine. Ia case Of loss and accl-
dents at the anchorage their weight shall be
calculated according to the average weight of
lighter loads previously delivered to the Uslno
by Monsieur ........'...
Article 9th. The expenses for loading the
lighters will be paid by Monsieur.
and after loading he must place the lighters
again at the spot xed on for the ~hteam-tug
to take them, The weight of the canes at tho
Usiae 10 b5 made and taken at the sole cost
of Messrs. Quennesson & Co. Monsieur:
has of course the right TO assist personally or
by deputy at the weighing.
Article 10th The obligations Of the USino
towards Monsieur may be suspended by cir
oumstanoes of major imp ortanco-as f%9reseen
by theCivil Code such as the loss or damage
received by the steam-tug or the lighters.
Under these circumstances Messrs. Quen-
nesson & %. obligo themselves to replace or
repair them with the least possible loss Of time,
The present agreement binds, not only the
parties herein named, but also there heirs, sue
cessors. and representatives under every form
whatsoever.
Made in duplicate and in good faith before
the Notary Public, SC.
ITO be c0atinued.)