A PROCLAMATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 178, 11 June 1862, Page 4

A PROCLAMATION

■-Bfjngingir,t6"forcdCO'i'Eai:.r-fe>ul:iti'oiis touching the carriage of passengers frqra New Zealand to other English possessions in AiisJtrainsia. By His Kxcellency Sir (iejrge (.Trey, Knight. Commander of the Most Honorable Order.'of the Bath, Governor and Ccimnaiidev-in-Ghief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of I\ Tew Zealand and I its Dependencies, and Vicj-Admiral of the same,

Whereas, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the Session held in the Twenty-fourth aud, Twenty-fifth years of Her present Majesty's reign, intituled " An Ait to empower the Governors of the several Australian Colonies to reguhite the number of passengers to ba carried hi vessels plying between Ports in thouc Colonies/ it is amongst other things enacta.lthat it shall be lawful.for the Governor of eacli of her .Majesty's Colonies already or hereafter to be established in Australasia, by any Proclamation to be by him from time to time issued for the purpose (which Proclamation shall take effect from the issuing thereof, if no clay shall be "named therein for the purpose),to prescribe such'rules as he shall think proper for determining the number 'cf passengers to be carried iii any passenger ship which shall proceed from any such Colony to any other of Her Majesty's posscssionsfor the time being in Australasia, and fur determining on what deck or docks and subject to what reservations or conditions passengers may be carried, and also to prescribe such penalties for the infraction or nonobservanco of such Rules as, to such Governor may seem proper; and it is also enacted that from the time when any such proclamation shall take effect, and so long as the same shall continue in force, the rules and enactments contained in "Tho I'assenaors Act, 1855," relating to tho number of passengers to ba carried in tiny passenger ship, and the deck or decks whereon .they nve to bo carried, shall cease to apply to any vessel to which such proclamation shall ba applicable, save only aa to.the recovery ami application of any penalty for any offence committed iigainst- the said Act before such proclamation shall take eltei't:

Wov,r, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in exnreiss of the puwet- vested in me by the above recited Actj (Jo issue this my proclamation, to take effect from the IGtli day of June, one thousisna eight hundred and sixty-two, and I do hereby prescribe the rules hereinafter set forth fur determining the number of passengers who may be carried in any passenger jjhip which shall proceed from the Colony of .New Zealand to any other of Her Majesty's possessions for the time being in Australasia, and on what deck or decks and .under what reservations or conditions passengers may be carried, aud the penalties lor the infraction or non-observance of such rules, that is to say*.— A.- Sailing Vessels. 1. No ship propelled by sails o:ily shall carry a greater number of persons (including every inilivtdual on board) than in the proportion "of one statute adult to every two tons of her registered tonnage. 2. No ship shall eiu-ry under the poop or in the round-house or deck-horiso or on the upper passengei--deck :i greater number of passengers tiian in ihs proportion of one statute adult to every twelve cl^ar auporiiciiii feut of deck allotad to tfieir use. 3. No ship shall carry on her lower passenger-deck ■a greater number of passengers than in tha proportion of one statute adult to every fifteen clear superficial feet of (ici'k allocedto their use;provWed, nevertheless, that it the hsigirt between such lower passen-ger-deck and the deck immediately above it sliaii be luss than seven feet,- or il'_ the apertures (exclusive of side scuttles) through which light and air shall be adlnitled together to the.lower passenger-deck, shall be loss in iAv.z than 'in the proportion of throe square feet to every one hundred suporiiaial feet of the lower passenger deck, no greater number of passengers, shall be carried on such deck than in the proportion of one statute adult to every twenty-five clcav superficial feet thereof. ' ' >• ■ • . 4. No ship, -whatever be her tonnag-s or superficial ?pncc of pusseii^w-iledi.s, sh;ill c;i!-ry a greater number, of passengers on tha r>'hu!c than in the proportion of oae si.ilule adult to every five superficial itiet clear for exercise on the upper deck or poop (it secure!, and lilted on the top with'a raiJing or guard, to the satisfaction of the Emigrant Officer-at the port of clearance,) on any round-house or deck-iiouso. 5. lii the measurement of the passenger-decks, poop, round-house, or deck-houso, the space for the hospital aud that occupied by such portion. of the personal luggage of tht passengers as the Emigration Officer may permit. to bo carried there, shall be iucluiicd. ' ' ■ ■ ' ■ ■ ■' B.—Steaiiehs. The numbsr of passengers who may be carried on board of auy vessel propelled by steam po\ver -shall be ascertained anc detcrmiued in manner following, viz :— 1. Measure in cubic feet the clear space alloted to fort'-mbin passengers between docks, and divide the cubic contents by 72. :"".'" 2. Count ths number of sleeping- berths exclusively provided for the aecouwdation of fora-cabin passengers, and adU'to it theniiiubsi' obtained rls abpve. 3. Tiio tot.U number . thus obtained is the tital number of fore-cabin passengera who'may be carried. ' 4. Proceed in the same manner with the space alloted to after-cabin passetigers. | The results ol the said computations shall determine the number of fore-cabin and after-cabin passenjrers respectively v.iio may be carried on board of a Vtssc-l propslled by steam po\ver,auc! all passengers on board thereof shall bo included in one or other of the snid denominations. PENALTIES. If there shall be on board of any ship or vessel af or after the time of clearance a greater number either of persons ov passengers (except by bivtlnat saa) than in tlii> proportions respectively hereinbefore mentioned, the master cf such ship or vessel shall be liable to i\ penalty not exceeding five pounds nor Jfss than one puiuul sterling tor each person or passenger constituting such execss. ,

Given'under my. hand," at Wellinsrton,- and issued under the Saal of the Colony of New Zealand, thia sixteenth, day of May,'in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. G. GIIEY. By His Excellency's command,' William Fox. God Save the Queen !