A PROCLAMATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 180, 25 June 1862, Page 6

A PROCLAMATION

Bringing into, force certain regulations touching the carriageof passengers from New Zealand to other English possessions in Australasia. By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor arid Commamler-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 reign, intituled " An A-;t to empower the Governors of the several Australian Colonies to regulate 'the number of liassengers to bft carried in vessels plying between Ports in those Colonies, 1' it is amongst other tilings 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 bo 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 purpose),to prescribe such rules as'he shall think

proper for determining the number cf passengers to be carried ii\ 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 s.-cm proper; and it is also enacted that from, the time when any such proclamation shall take eifect, and so long- as the same shall continue in force, the rules and enactments contained in " The Passengers Act, 1855," relating to the number of passengers to be carried in any passenger ship, and the (leek o decks whereon they are to be Carried, shall cease to apply to any vessel to which such proclamation shall b3 applicable, save only as to the recovery and aoplicatiou of any penalty for any offence commi'ted against the said Act before such proclamation shall take effect:

Jfow, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of Now Zealand, in exercise of the 'p&wer vested in me by the above recited Act, do issue this ruy proclamation, to take effect from the 10th 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 way he carried in any passenger ship which shall proceed from the Colony of New Zealand to any other of Her luajesty's possessions for the time being in Australasia, and on vrfiat deck or decks and under what reservations or conditions passengers may be carried/ and the penalties for the infraction or non-observanc6 of such rules, that is to say :—

A.-Saimxg 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 Ihe proportion of one statute adult to every twelve clear superficial feet of deck alloted to their use.

3. No ship shall carryon 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 passen-ger-deck and the deck immediately above it shall be less than seven feet, or if the apertures (exclusive of side scuttl&s) through which light and air shall be admitted together to the lower passenger-deck, shall be loss 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 deck, than in the proportion of one statute adult to every twenty-five clear superficial feet thereof.

4. No ship, whatever be her tonnag-e or superficial space, of pnssenger-deeks, shall cany a greater number of passengers on the whole than in the proportion of pne.statrite adult to every five superficial teet clear for exercise on the upper deck or poop (it secured, and fitted on the top with a railing or guard, to the satisihetion of the Emigrant Officer at the port

of clearance,) on any rdu'id'-libuse or deck-house. 5. In the ■ rnua-nux'montof the -passenger-decks,, poop, round-house, or deck-house, the space for thu hospital and that occupied by such portion of the personal luggage of tlit passengers us tlie'Emigration Officer may permit to be curried there, shall bo included. ' B.—STKAMEitS. Tiie number of passengers who may be earned en boart of any vessel propelled by steam power shall be ascertained and determined in manner following, viz:— 1. Measure, in cubic feet the c)ea,v space alloted f > fore-cabin passengers between docks, and divide the cube contents by 7-. 2. Count the number of sleeping berths exclusively prow'ded for the accomodixtion of fore-cabin passeugeis, and ad.i to it the numbur obtained as above. 3. The totil number thus obtained is the t.Af\ number of torc-enbiu passengers who may be carried. 4. Proceed in the same manner with the space i'lloteci to after-cabin passengers. The results of the said computations shall determine the number of fore-rabiu and after-cabin passengers respectively who may be carried on board of a vessel propelled by steam power,and all passengers o board thereof.shall bo included in one or other of the said denominations. PENALTIES. If there shall bo on board of any ship or vessel at or aftur the time of clearance a greater number either of persons or passengers (.except by births at sen) than in the proportions respectively hereinbefore mentioned, the master of such ship or vessel shall be liab'e 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 Seal of Ihe Colony of New Zealand, this sixteenth day of May, in the year of oui Lord, ouc thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. G. Gkev. By His Excellency's command, William Fox. God Save the Queen i