A PROCLAMATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 211, 12 August 1862, Page 7

A PROCLAMATION.

Bringing into force certain regulations touching the "carriage of passengers from New Zealand to other English possessions in Australasia.: .By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the :Mos>t Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Gommander-in-Chief in and OTer Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the sam« 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 Ast to empower the Governors of the several Australian Colonies to regulate the* number of dassengers to be carried in rebels plying between Ports in those Colonies," it is amongst other things enacted thit 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 tim« issued for the purpose (which Proclamation shall take effect from the issuing thereof, ifno day shall be named therein for the purpose), to prescribe such rules as he «T»aH think "proper for determining the number cf passengers to be carried ia 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 nonobservanc of such Rules as to such Governor may seem proper; and it is also enacted that^from tha time when any such proclamation shall take effect, and so long as the same shall continue in force, the rules and enactmente contained in " The Passengers Act, 1855," relating to the number of passengers to be carried in any passenger ship, and the deck o decks whereon they are to be carried, shall cease to apply 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 sh&ls take effect: - ;;

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Gresthe Gfovemor 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 eight hundred and sixty-two, and I do hereby^ prescribe the rules hereinafter set forth for determining the cumber 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, arid 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 such rules, that is to say:— « A.— Sailing Vbssels. ■ 1. No ship propelled by sails only shall carry a greater number of persons (including every mdi- • vidual 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 feet of deck alloted to their use. S. No ship shall carry on her lower passenger-deck & greater number of passengers than in the proportion of one statute adult to every fifteen clear superficial feet of deck alloted to their use,prorlded, 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 scuttles) through -which light and air shall be admitted together to the lower 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 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 i space of passenger-decks, shall cany a greater s number of passengers on the whole than in the proL portion of oue statute adult to every five superficial feet clear for exercise on ths upper deck or poop (ii secured, and fitted on the top with a rauingor guard, " to the satisfaction of the Emigrant Officera tthe port I of clearance,) ■on any round-house or deck-house 5. In the measurement of the passenger-decks, r poop, round-house, or deck-house, the space for the I hospital and that occupied by such portion of the k personal luggage of the passengers as the Emigration t Officer may permit to be carried there, shall be . included. i B.—SmsAKßits. i - The number of passengers who may be carried on \ board of any "vessel propelled by steam power shall be r ascertained and determined in manner following, r viz:— " :;:> ■ ■•• -'-.'• ■>; -'''■' - _'••■ .''■;' i 1 ■•-.*■■" & ": 1. Measure in cubic feet the elexr space "alloted to - fore-cabin passengers between decks, and* divide the o cubic content* by 72. H 3. Count the number of sleeping berths exclusively provided for the accomodation of fore-cabin passengers, and add to it the number obtained as above. f 3. The total number thus obtained is the total l" number of fore-cabin passengers who may be carried. £ -4.; Proceed in the same maTvner, with the space alloted to after-cabin passenger?. The results of the said computations shall deterie mine the number of fore-cabin and after-cabin pasJ sengers respectively who may be carried on board of a a vessel propelled by steam power,and all passengers on e > board thereof shall be included in one or other of the ** said denominations. . *" PMfAi/rns. *' If there shall be on board of any ahfp or Teasel at S" or after the time of clearance a greater number either ' of persons or passengers (exceptby births at sea) than in the proportions respectively hereinbefore men-" •=«. tioned, the master of such ship orvessdahall beliable >r- to a penalty not exceeding-fiye pounds-nor less than v. one pound sterling for each person or passenger consi stitotingsueh excess. [, [ - , _ or Given under my hand, at Wellington, and issued es - under the Seal of the Colony or New Zealand, en this sixteenth dtT of M«y, m the year of ou er Lord, one thousand tight hundred and sixty-two ed ■-.;--•■■ " G. Gxkt. re, By HiiEicellency'B command, . ne Wiuiuc Fox. B« GODfiATBWUI QOTEBT!