A PROCLAMATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 226, 10 September 1862, Page 7

A PROCLAMATION.

Brinj_'in^ into force certain regulations touching the carriage of passengers from New Zealand to other bullish posses>nns in Australasia. By His Excellency Sir Georgo Grey, Knight, Cominande^ 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 kc, &c, &c. Whereas, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, pa?se<l in the Session held in the Twenty-fourth and j Fweiity-nfth years of Her present Majesty's reign, I intituled " An Art to empower the Governors of the ' several Australian Colonies to regulate the number of aasseufrerd to be carried ia vessels plying between PorU in those Colonies,'' it is amongst' other thin"s enacted that it shall 1« 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 purpj*e (which Proclamation shall take effect from the i.ssuiu,' thereof, if no day shall be named therein for the purj*W),t'j prescribe such rules as he shall think proper for determining the number cf pas-scn.-ers to be carried ia any passenger ship I which shall proceed from any such Colon v j v> any other of H.-r Majesty's possessions for the time I beiinr in Au^trah-ia, and far determining on what deck or decks and subject to what reservations or condition luissengers may l>o carried, and also to pnsv:nl>e such iK.*nalties for the infraction or nonobservajic of such Rules as to such Governor may **in prv.}K.r; and it is also enacted that from the Urn.; wlitu any such proclamation shall take enVt and so luujr as the same ahall continue in force the rules ;«»id enactments contained in "'The Passengers ] A<:t, 1855," relating to the number of passengers to | be carried m auy passenger ship, and the deck o • decks whereon they are to be carried, shall to I apply to any ve^el to which such proclamation shall j lw applicable, .save only as to the recovery and appli- ] cation <..f any j>enalty for auv offence committed | against the said Act before such proclamation shall take t-ffect; Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New A-.-aUnd, in exercise of the power vested in use by the above recited Act, do issue this mv proclamation, to take effect from the loth day of June on-.* thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and I do I hereby prescribe the rules hereinafter set forth f«r determining the number of pa«>ens.'ers 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 Wing in Australasia, and on what deck or decks and under what reservations or conditions passengers may be carried, j and the ]>euaUies for the infraction or non-observance I of such rules, that is to say :— A.—Sailing Vessels. 1. No ship propelled by sails only shall carry a greater numltcr 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 the proportion of one statute adultto every twelve clear superficial feet of deck alloted to their use. 3. No ship shall carry on her lower passenger-deck a greater number of passengers than in the tion of one statute adult to every fifteen clear superficial feet of deck alloted to their use,provided, nevertheless, that if the height between snch lower passen-ger-decK and the deck immediately above it shall Le I 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 space of passenger-decks, shall carry a greater iiumlier of passeugers on the whole tlian in the proportion of one statute adult to every five superficial feet clear for exercise on the upper deck or poop (it secured, and fitted on the top with a railingor guard to the satisfaction of the Emigrant Offiecra tthe port of clearance,) on any round-house or deck-house 5. In the measurement of the passenger-decks poop, round-house, or deck-house, the space for the 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 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:— b) 1. Measure in cubic feet the clear space alloted to fore-cabin passengers between decks, and divide the cubic contents by 72. 2. Count the number of sleeping bertlis 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 lore-cabin passengers who may be carried. 4. Proceed in the same manner with the space alloted to after-cabin passengers. The results of the said computations shall determine the number of fore-cabin and after-oabin 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 o{ the said denominations. PENALTIES. • If there Khali 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 men- ! tioned, the master of such slup or vessel shall be liable to a penalty 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 this sixteenth day of May, in the year of ouo Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two Q Gftgy By His Excellency's command, William Fox. God savb the Qussn 1