A PROCLAMATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 217, 30 August 1862, Page 7

A PROCLAMATION.

Bringing into force certain regulations touching the <;arna.'.-e ot passengers from \ew Zealand to other Jiiijjlish iws.-i&ssioas in Austr;ilasia. - By His Jixcclieney Sir George Grey, Knk'ht, Cominun.ter oi the Most Honorable Order of the liath Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and ita Ucpiti Jeneies, and Vice-Admiral of the same

\»iierc-as, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament parsed in the session held in the Twenty-fourth and U-ttity-fittli years of Htr present Majesty's reign, lutituicl A;i A;-t to empower the Governors of the several Australian Ooloiues to regulate the number of dasscDsers to be earrie-l in vessels plyin- between lorn iii those Colonies," it is amongst other thinia enactel tint it shall 1^ iav.fal for the Governor of wch of ncr .Majesty's Colonies already or hereafter to be establishedi 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 lie named therein for the purpose),to prescribe such rules as he shall think proper ior determining the number cf passeiißera to be carried^ ia any {ossenger ship which fihall proceed from any such Colony to any other of Her Majesty's possessions for the time beiy- in Austnilaaa, and for determining oa what deekoruecks ana subject to what reservations or conditions paw-tigers may te earned, and also to prescribe sucu penalties for the infraction or nonobservnnc of such Rules as to such Governor may seem proper; and it "is also enacted that from »h*e tune when any such proclamation shalL take effect and so lung- as the same shall continue in force the rules ami enactments contained in "'The Passengers A--r, 1555/' relatie- to the number of passengers to be earn&l in :uiy 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 agumst_tne said. Act beiore sucli proclamation shall tuse eliect:

>««', therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor ! ;ot Aew Zealaiv.i, in exercise of the power vested in ; nic by the above recited Act, do issue this my pro- i : ciamation, to take effect from the 16th daj of June ! [ one tlioiisan.-t ei-ht hundred and sixty-two, and I do | hereby prescribe the rules hereinafter set forth for ! tieteriniinus; the number of passengers who may be carried m any pa«en-er ship which shall proceed ; irom the Colony of New Zealand to any other of H-r | I ..lajestys i;.os.,es3ions for the time being in Austra- ! j lasia, 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 I ot such rules, that is to bay :— A.- Saimkg Vessels. I 1. No ship propelled by sails only shall carry a I creater numher of persons (including every mdi;- --; vnlual on kiard) th:m in the proportion of one"statute I ad ml to every two tons of her registered tonsajje. I ± No ship shall carry under the poop or in the 1 round-house or deck-house or on the upper passengerdeck a greater number of passengers than in the proportion oi oue statute adult to every twelre clear su- ! pedicial feet of deck alioteJ to their use. | 3. No ship shall carry on her lower passenger-deck ia_ greater number of passengers than in the propor- ' Uou of one sbitutc adult to every fifteen clear suj^r- ; facial feet of deck alloted to their use,proviJed, never- ; theless, that if me height between such lower passeni ger-deck and tiie 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 m «Z3 than in the proportion of three square ieet to every one Hundred superficial feet of the lower »KU«enger deck, no greater number of passengers shaii be earned on such deck than in the proportion of one feet'fheSot- c> *cry twcnt^£ve <**** superficial 4. No ship, whatever be her tonnage or superficial space of passenger-decks, shall earn- a Vreater number of passengers on the whole than in the proportion of oue statute adult to every five superficial Icet clear for exercise on the upper deck or mod {£ secured, nnd fitted on the top with a railingor guard to tiie satfclacuou of the Emigrant Officer? tthe port of Ciearanee,) on any round-house or deck-house o. In the measurement of the passenjrsr-deek* poop, round-house, or deck-house, the epace for tie hospital and that occupied by such portion of the personal luggage of the passengers as the Emigration Ofhcer 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:— 6> 1. Measure in cubic feet the clear space alloted to fore-cabin passengers between decks, and divide the cubic contents by 7-\ 2\9°, u"t tlie "uml«r oi sleeping berths exclusively provided for the accomodation of fore-cabin passengers, and adJ to it the number obtained as above. 3. The total number thus obtained is the total number of tore-cabin passengers who raav be carried. 4. Proceed in the same manner with "the spare 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 l 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 m the proportions respectively hereinbefore mentioned, the master of such ship or vesser shall be liable to a penally not exceeding five pounds nor less than one pound sterling lor each person or passenger constituting such excess. ... Given under my hand, at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand tiriV sixteenth day.of May, m the Tear of ouo Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-two j By His Excellency's command, * * j William Fox. , Gqb avb the Qoxbm !