A PROCLAMATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 227, 11 September 1862, Page 7

A PROCLAMATION.

Bringing into force certain regulations touching the j carriage of pa'vsengers from New Zealand to other i English possessions in Australasia. ; By llu Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Cora inander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and CoMinauder-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and | its Dependencies, and Viee-Adiniral of the same ( Whereas, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, pn?sed in the Session held in the Twenty-fourth and | Twenty-fifth years of Her present Majesty's reign, \ intitule! "AnK± to empower the Governors of the j several Australiau Colonies to regulate the number of da>>.s<iHyera to b? carried in vessels plying between Ports in those Colonies/ it is amongst other things enact*!l that it shall l>9 lawful for the Governor of each of her Majesty's Colonies already or hereafter to by established in Australasia, by any Proclamation to be by hiisi from time to ti?ne issued for the purpj*e (which Proclamation shall take effect from the issuing thereof, if no day shall l>e named therein for the purpose),to prescribe such rules as he shall think | proper for determining the number cf "pas- ; senders to be carried in 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 nonolwirvanc of such Jtules as to such Governor may stem proper; and it is also enacted that from the time whi-.n 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, lßf>*<," relating to the number of passengers to l>c carried in any passenger ship, and the deck o decks whereoa they are to be carried, shall cease to apply to any vessel to which such proclamation shall lx; applicable, save only ad to the recovery and application of any penalty for any offence committed against the said Act before such proclamation shall i take effect; I Now, therefore, I, Sir Georjje Grey, the Governor j of New Z'uland, in exercise of tiie power vcste-1 in I me by the above recited Act, do issue this my pro- j clarnation, to take effect from the 16th day of June, one thousand eight hundred aad sixty-two, and Ido ' ht r.'by prescribe the rules hereinafter set forth for I determining the number of passengers who may be I 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, and on what deck or decks and under what reservations or conditions passengers may be carried, and the j»enalties for the infraction or non-observance oi *uch rules, that is to say :— A.—Sailiso Vessels. 1. No ship propeilod by sails only shall carry a greater number of i>ersoua (including every indivi'lual on byarJ) than in the proportion of one statute aduit to every two tons of her registered tonnage. 2. No ship shall carry under the poop or in the round-hosise or deck-house or on the upper passengerdeck a greater number of jiassengers than ia the proportion of one statute adult to every twelve clear superficial feet of deck alloted to their use. I 3. No ship sliall carry on her lower passenger-deck j a greater number of passengers than in the propor- j lion of one statute adult to every fifteen clear superficial feet, oi deck alloted to their use,provi«Jed, never- i tbeless, that if the height between such lower passen- ! ger-deck and the deck immediately above it shall be less thau seven feet, or if the apertures (exclusive of side scuttles) through which light and air shall be ad- | mitt«d together to the lower passenger-deck, shall be j less in size than in the proportion of three square feet to every one hundred superficial feet of the lower I y>aii«enger deck, no greater number of passengers shall i be carried on such deck than in the proportion of one j statute adult to every twenty-five clear superficial ! feet thereof. j 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 lor exercise on the upper deck or poop (il secured, and fitted on the top with a railingor guard, to the satisfaction of the Emigrant Officcra 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. —STEAMERB. 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, j viz:— 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 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. Proceed in the same manner with the space al- | loted to after-cabin passengers. The results ol the said computations shall deter- ' mine the number of fore-cabin and after-cabin pas- j sengers 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. PENAL.TIEB. 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 vessel shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds nor less than one pound sterling for each person or passenger constituting such excess. Given under ray hand, at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the Colony or New Zealand, i this sixteenth day of May, in the year of ouo j Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two G Grbt. By His Excellency's command, i William Fox. God save thb Qukbn I