A PROCLAMATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 218, 20 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 Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same iic, &c. Sec.

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 A2t to empower the Governors of the several Australian Colonies to regulate the number of daseengers to be carried in vessels plying between Port's m 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 htm 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 purj>63e),to prescribe such rules as he shall think proper for determining the number cf passengers to bo carried in any passenger ship which shall proceed from any each 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 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 Passengers Act, 1855," relating to the number of passengers to be earned 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 shall take effect:

W, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, th« Governor of IVew Zealand, m exercise of the power vested in me by the above recited Act, do issue this mv 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 number of passengers who may be earned in auy passenger ship which shall proceed from the Colony of New Zealand to any other of Her Majesty a 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 6uch rules, that is to bay :—

A.—Sailing Vessels. 1. No ship propelled by sails only shall carry a greater number of persons (includine every individual on board) than in the proportion of one statute adult to every t-.ro 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 passeneerdeck a greater number of passengers than iuthe proportion of one statute adult to every twelve clear superficial feet of deck alloted to their use.

8. No ship sliall canyon her lower passenger-deck a greater number of passengers than in the proportion of one statute adult to every fifteen dear 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 scuttles) through which light and air shall be admitted together to the lower pa3senger-deck, shall be less in size than in the proportion of three square teet to every one hundred superficial feet of the lower oassenger deck, no greater number of passengers shall be earned on such deck than in the proportion of one statute adult to every twenty-five dear superficial

4. No ship, -vpnatever be her tonnage or superficial space of passenger-decks, shall carry a greater number of passengers on the whole than in the proportion of one statute adult to every five superfidal teet dear for exercise on the upper deck or poop (ii secured, and fitted on the top with a railineor guard to the satisfaction of the Emigrant Ofticera tthe port of clearance,) on any round-house or deck-house 5. In the measurement of the passenger-decks poop, round-house, or deck-bouse, the space for till 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 uxduded. '-■

B.—Steamers. The number of who may be carried on board of any vessel propelled by steam power shall be ascertained ana determined in manner followine viz:— &> 1. Measure in cubic feet the dear space alloted to fore-cabin passengers between decks, and divide the cubic contents by 7-f. 2. Count the number of sleeping berths exclusively provided for the accomodation of fore-cabin passengers, and ada to it the number obtained as aboveT^ 3. The total 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 after-cabin passenger?.. 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 sea) than !? respectively hereinbefore mentioned, the master of such ship or vessel shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fire pounds nor less than one pound Bterhng tor each person or passeneer constituting such excess. c Given under my hand, at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand this sixteenth day of May, L theTeafof^ Lord, one thousand eight hundred anisic-two By His Excellency's commaud, °* G* BT* Wilioam Fox. : God Save th» Qussk !