A PROCLAMATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 186, 20 June 1862, Page 6

A PROCLAMATION

Bringing into force certain regulations touching the carriage of passenger.-) 4'iom New Zealand to other English poss-essions in Australasia. By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Hoiiouible Or !er of the

Brith, 'Governor and■Commaoder-in-Chicf. in and over Her -Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c, &c, &o. Whereas, by" an Act of the Impnrial Parliament, passed in the Session held in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth years of Her present Majesty's reign, intituled " An Act to empower the Governors of the Several Austiaiian Colonies to regulate the number of dasseugers to,b.: curried in vessels plying between Ports in thoso Colonies/-' it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be'lawful for the Governor of each of hor Majesty's Colonies alieady or hereafter to uc~establin;hed 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 day shall be named therein for the i/iirpose),to prescribe such rule's as he shall think proper for determining the ' number cf passengers to lie carried in any passenger ship which shall pioceed from any such Colony ■to any other of .Tier Majesty's possessions, for the time being in Australasia, and for determining on what deck or decks aud su Eject to what reservations or conditions .passengers may be carried,' and also to prescribe such penalties for the infraction or nonobservance of such liulca as to 'such' Governor may , |Seeiu"proper j and .it f is also enaet'edjth'.at from the tiniewhen' any such x>roclauiation shall effect,' and so long' as the same shall continue' in" force", the' rules and enactments contained in " The Passeneers Act, 1855," relating to the number of passengers to -

be carried in any passenger Miip, nnd the deck or decks wheieon they <ue to be cai lied, shall ..cease to apply to any m-woI to vlnch such pinckuuation 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 Georare 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 eifect from tho 16' th day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and I do hereby prescribe the rules hereinafter set forth for determining the number of passengers who may bo 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 nnsscngcrs may he carried, and the penalties for the infraction or non-observance of such rules, that is to say : — A.- Sailing Vessels. 1. No ship propelled by sails only shall carry a greater number .of persons (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 passengerdeck a greater number of passengers than in the proportion of one statute adult to every twelve clear superficial fuet of deck alloted to their use.

3. No ship shall carry on her lower passongor-deck a greater number of passengers than in the proportion.of one statute adult to every fifteen clear super-, ficial feet of deck allotod to their U3e,provk'ed, nevertheless, that if the height between such lower passen-ger-deck and the deck immediately .above ifc shall bo less than seven feet, or if the apertures (exclusive of side scuttles) through which light and air shall be admitted together to the loiver passenger-deck, shall be less in size than in the proportion of three square feet to every one, hundred superficial feet of the lower passenger deck, no greater number of passengers shall be carried on such desik 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-docks, shall carry a greater number of passengers on the whole than in the proportion of one statute aHult to every five superficial feet clear for exercise on the 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 cle:irance,) on any round-house or deck-house.

5. In the measurement of the pa?sen;rer-.decks, poop, round-house, or deck-house, the space for the hospital and that occupied by such portion of the ■ personal luggage of the. passengers as the Emigration, Officer may permit to be carried there, shall be included. B.—Steamers. " The numbsr of -passengers who may be carried on board, of any vessel propelled by steam power shall be ascertained' ami determined in manner following, viz:— ' .'. 1. Measure in cubic feet the .-.'oar space allotcd to fore-cabin passengers bet ween,decks, and divide the cubic contents by 7-. ■ • 2: Count the number of sleeping berths exclusively provided for the aecomodntion of fore-cabin passengers, and ad.j to it the number obtained as above. 3. The to til number thus obtained is' the. total number of tore-cabin passengers who may be carried. - 4. Proceed in the same manner with the space alloted to nftor-cabin passengers. The results of the s.-iid computations shall determine tho number of fore-cabin and'of tor-cabin passengers respectively who may be carried on board of a vessel propelled by steam power.nnd all passengers on board thereof 'shall be included in one or other of the s-sid.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 sea) than in the proportion's respectively hereinbefore mentioned, the master «f 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 my hand, at Wellington, and issued 'under the Sfi'al of the Colony of New Zealand, this sixteenth day of Mny, in the year of our ' Lord! one thousand eit'lit hundred and sixty-two. . G. Grey. By His Excellency's command, ' Wii.ltam Fox. G-od Save the Qitebn !