A PROCLAMATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 180, 13 June 1862, Page 4

A PROCLAMATION

Bringing into force certain .emulations touching the carriage of passengers fro-a New Zealand to other English possessions in Aii~trala?ia. By His Excellency Sir Ge >vge Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most, Honorable OHer of the Bath, Governor and Cormnaiider-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same,

&c, &c, &c. Whereas, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the Session held in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth years of Her present Majesty's re"ign, intituled "An Ast to empower tlie Governors of he several Australian Colonies to regulate the number of passengers to be carried in vessels plying between Ports in those Colonies/ it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor of each 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 pur pose (which Proclamation 'shall take effect from the issuing thereof, if no day 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 in any passenger ship which shall proceed from any such Colony to any other of Her Majesty's possessions for the time being in Australasia, and for determining on what deck or decks and subject to what reservations or conditions passengers may be carried, and also to prescribe such penalties for the infraction or nonobservance 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 " The Pas'sensiers Act, 1855," relating to the number of passengers to be carried in any passenger ship, and the deck or decks whereon they are to be carried, shall cease to ripply to any vessel to which such proclamation shall be applicable, save only as to the recovery and application of any penalty for any offence committed against the said Act before such proclamation shall take effect:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the power vested in me by the above recited Act, do issue this my proclamation, to take effect from the 16th day of June, one thousand eightj hundred and sixty-two, and I do hereby prescribe the rules hereinafter set forth for determining the number of passengers who may be carried in any passenger ship 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, and the penalties for the infraction or non-observance of suck rules, that is to say : — A.- Sailing Vessels, 1. No ship propelled by sails only shall carry a greater number of persona (including every individual on board) than in the proportion of one statute adult to every two tons of'her registered tonnage. " 2. No ship shall carry under the poop or in the round-house or deck-house or on the upper passengerdeek a greater number of passengers tlian in the proportion of one statute adult to every twelve clear superficial feet of deck alloted to their use. 3. No ship shall carry on her lower passenger-deck a greater number of passengers than in the proportion of one statute adult to every fifteen clear superficial feet of deck alloted to their use,provided, nevertheless, that if the height between such lower passengewleck and the deck immediately above it shall be less than seven feet, or if the apertures (exclusive of side scuttles) through which light and air shall be admitted together to the lower piissenger-deck, shall be less in size than in the p?x>portion of three square feet to every one hundred supt:rfieial feet of the lower Eassenger deck, no greater number of passengers shall c carried on such deck than in the proportion of one statute adult to every twenty-five clear superficial feet thereof. 4. No ship, whatever be her tonnage or superficial space of passenger-decks, shall carry a greater number of passengers on tli*; whole than in the proportion of one statute adult to every five superficial feet clear for exercise uu tlie upper deck or poop (it secured, and fitted on the top with a railing or guard, to the satisfaction of the Emigrant Officer at the port of clearance,) on any ronti i-house or deck-house. 5. In the measurement -of the passenger-decks, Eoop, round-house, or dec'.t-house, the space for the ospital and that occupied by such portion of the : personal luggage of the p«- ?engevs as the Emigration Officer may permit to b-.: carried there, shall be included. B.—SsiiVMERS. The numbsr of passengers who may be carried on board of any vessel propelled by steam power shall be ascertained and determined in manner following, 1. Measure in cubic feet the clear space alloted to fore-cabin passengers between decks, and divide the cubic contents by 7-!. . 2. Count the number of sleeping berths exclusively provided for tlie accoraodatioii of fore-cabin passengers, and adJ to it the number obtained as above. 3. The total number thus obtained is the total number of iore-cabiu passengers who may be carried. 4. Proceed in the same manner with the space alloted to after-cabin passengers. . The results of the said computations shall determine, the number of fore-cabin and after-cabin passengers respectively who may be carried on board of a vessel propelled by steam power,and all passengers on board thereof shall be included in one or other of the said denominations. PENALTIES. If there shall be on board of any ship or vessel at or after the time of clearance a greater number either of persons or passengers (except by births at son) than in the proportions respectively hereinbefore mentioned, the master of such ship or vessel shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds nor less than one pound sterling for each person or passenger constituting such excess. Given under mv hand, at "Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this .sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. G. Grey. By His Excellency's command, ' William Fox. flop Save the Qpeek1-!

M. Boufcicault has obtained LIOO damages in New York against the proprietors of the Bowery for playing tile"-' rOctoroon" without permission. Defendants pleMedl that the " Octoroon" was takenfrorn a story by Captain Mayne Iteid, and wa3 unprotected in law.