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Railway companies to afford additional facilities for the transmission of the mails.
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11. [Recital of 1 & 2 Vict. c. 98.] It shall be lawful for the postmaster general to require, in the manner and subject to the conditions as to payment for service performed prescribed by the said Act, that the mails be forwarded upon any such railway as is herein-before last mentioned at any rate of speed which the inspector general of railways for the time being shall certify to be safe, not exceeding twenty-seven miles in the hour including stoppages; and it shall be also lawful for the postmaster general to send any mail guard with bags not exceeding the weight of luggage allowed to any other passenger, (or subject to the general rules of the company for any excess of that weight,) by any trains other than a mail train, upon the same conditions as any other passenger; provided that in such last-mentioned case nothing herein or in the last-recited Act contained shall be construed to authorize the postmaster general to require the conversion of a regular mail train into an ordinary train, or to exercise any control over the company in respect of any ordinary train, nor shall the company be responsible for the safe custody or delivery of any mail bags so sent.
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