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Penalty for refusing or neglecting to convey mails.
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12. If the company of proprietors of any railway, or any of their respective officers, servants, on agents, shall refuse or neglect to carry or convey any mails or post letter bags, when tendered to them for such purpose by the postmaster general or any officer of the Post Office, or shall refuse to carry on their railway any mail coaches, carts, or carriages, as herein-before provided, when so required by the postmaster general, or shall refuse or neglect to receive, take up, deliver, and leave any such mails or post letter bags, mail guards, or other officers of the Post Office, mail coaches, carts, or carriages, at such places, at such times, on such days, and subject to such regulations and restrictions as to speed of travelling, places, times, and duration of stoppages, as the postmaster general shall from time to time reasonably direct or appoint, as herein-before provided or shall not obey, observe, and perform all such regulations, respecting the conveyance of the mails and post letter bags, mail coaches, carts, and carriages on any such railways, as the postmaster general, or such officer of the Post Office as he shall nominate in that behalf, shall make for the purposes aforesaid, then and in any such case the company of proprietors, who, or whose officer, servant, or agent, shall so offend in the premises, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty pounds; provided nevertheless, that the payment of or liability to such penalty shall not in any manner lessen or affect the liability of any such company under any bond which may have been given by them under the provisions herein-after contained.
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