A PROCLAMATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 212, 25 August 1862, Page 7

A PROCLAMATION.

Bringing into force certain regulations touching the carriage of passengers from Ne.wr Zealand to other English possessions in Australasia.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Mobt Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and ita Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same &c, &c, inc. Whereas, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, parsed 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 dassengere 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 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 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 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 carried in any passenger ship, and the deck o decks whereon they are to be earned, shall cease to apply to any vessel to which such proclamation shall be applicable, save only &s to the recovery and application of any penalty for any offence committed against the eaid 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 eight hundred and sixty-two, and I do ! hereby prescribe the rules hereinafter set forth for ! determining the number of passengers who may be I carried in any passenger ship which shall proceed I from the Colony of New Zealand to any other of Her I Majesty's possessions for the time being in Außtra- | lasia, and on what deck or decks and under what I reservations or conditions passengers may be carried I and the penalties for the infraction or non-observance !of such rules, that is to bay :— I A.—Sailikq Vesshis. * j 1. No ship propelled by sails only shall carry a | greater number of persons (including every indij vidual on board) than in the proportion of one statute | adult to every two tous of her registered tonnage. | 2. No ship shall carry under the poop or in the j round-house or deck-house or on the upper passengerI deck 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 canyon 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 aiid 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 sudi 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 the whole than in the proportion, of one statute adult to every five superficial feet clear for exercise on the upper deck or poop (il secured, and fitted on the top with a railingor guard to the satisfaction of the Emigrant Officera tthe port of clearance,) on* anyround-house or deck-house 5. In the measurement of the passenger-decks, poop, rouna-house, or deck-house, the space for the hospital aud 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 number of passengers who may be carried on board of any vessel propelled by steam power shall be ascertained and determined in manner following viz:—

1. Measure in cubic feet the clear space alloted to fore-cabin passengers between decks, and divide the cubic contents by 72. ■• • r™.

2. Count the number of deeping berths exclusively provided for the accomodation of fore-cabin passengers, and add to it the number obtained as above/ 3. The total number thus obtained is the total number of lore-cabin passengers who may be carried. 4 k Proceed in the same manner with the space alloted to after-cabin passengers. The results of the said computations ahall 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 th« 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 in the proportions respectively hereinbefore mentioned, the master of such ship or Teasel ahaH he liable to a penalty not exceeding Stc pounds nor less than one pound sterling for each person or passenger constituting such excess.,. -™v Given under my band, at .Wellington, and issued under.the SeJl of & thw wxteenta day of If *?> h. th» year of ouo Lord, onethousand eight hundred and sixty-two

By His Excellency's command, Wxvuux Fox. • w ' , ftt» &JLX9 THB QUWW!