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instructions shall be respected and carried out. The Surgeon shall be provided by the Company with a separate cabin, and a first-class passage, with 40 cubical feet of space in the hold for luggage, and an allowance of one bottle of ale daily, and three bottles of wine weekly. 11. The Queen will not interfere in the appointment of the Captain, or any of the officers or crew of the ship, but it shall be competent to her, if she should have good and sufficient reason to do so, to direct the removal of any or either of them, and the Company shall remove them and appoint others. The Queen will also issue instructions to the Captain as respects the Government emigrants (copy annexed), and the like undertaking shall be taken by the Company from him, that they will be faithfully observed. 12. Excepting stress of weather, or some other sufficient cause, the ship shall leave the docks and proceed down the river on the day following that on which the passengers are placed on board, and shall be ready for inspection by the Government Inspector on the day following. 13. The Company shall place on board each ship, on the embarkation day, a competent person, approved of by the Queen, whose duty it shall bo to superintend the embarkation arrangements, to put the passengers into their proper berths, to see that efficient provision is made for victualling them, and generally to do what is necessary to their convenience. The passengers shall be correctly messed on being placed on hoard, and the person now referred to shall go down the river with the ship, and remain on board until she is cleared for sea. He shall see that the arrangements for messing the passengers are properly understood and acted upon both by the officer charged with the serving out of the provisions and the passengers' cooks, as well as by the passengers themselves, and shall do generally what is necessary for the establishment of order and regularity in these respects. These arrangements for the messing and general management of the passengers, as well as all others which concern their convenience and comfort, shall be completed to the satisfaction of the Queen before the ship sails from the port of departure. 14. When the Queen shall have signified her approval with regard to the matters referred to in the preceding section, the ship shall proceed with all possible despatch to her destination, and shall not touch at any intermediate port other than that to be designated by the Queen except from urgent necessity. 15. Full rations, according to the following scale, shall be issued during the voyage, and until the passengers are landed at port of destination in New Zealand, to each male and female passenger of twelve years of age and upwards, and half rations to children of one year and under twelve years of age. The water and all articles of food shall be of the best quality, and shall be in sweet and good condition when issued for the use of the passengers ; that is to say:—

(a) These articles are to be prime new Irish or American East India beef, and picked pieces of prime mess pork, either Irish, Dantzic, or Hambro'. (b) No part of this supply to consist of soup and bouilli. (c) The biscuit to be extra Navy biscuit, and equal to sample furnished. At least two-thirds of the supply for the voyage shall be put on board the ship either in tanks or sound casks or barrels. (d) Equal weights of rice and oatmeal to be shipped, and the distribution to be made, as far as may be practicable, according to the preference of the passengers respectively. (c) The allowance of flour for these days is to be issued to the baker on the preceding days respectively, to be by him made into bread, and issued in lieu of flour on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday in each week. Children between one and four years of age are to receive preserved meat instead of salt meat every day, and in addition to the articles to which they are entitled by the above-written scale, half a pint of preserved milk daily, and every alternate day one egg or two teaspoonfuls of condensed egg, and 8 oz. of arrowroot or sago weekly. Children under one year old, three pints of water daily ; and if above four months old, half a pint of preserved milk daily, also 3 oz. preserved soup, and every alternate day one egg or two teaspoonfuls of condensed egg, 12 oz. biscuit, 4 oz. oatmeal, 4 oz. sago or arrowroot, 8 oz. flour, 4 oz. rice, and 10 oz. sugar, weekly. And to provide for the issue of tho preserved milk and preserved soup, there shall he shipped 112 pounds of desiccated milk and 30 pounds of soup for every hundred statute adults. To infants under four months old, the Surgeon may issue such nutriment as he may consider necessary. The Surgeon may order an additional quart of water to be issued daily for the use of each person sick in the hospital. While in any port of tho United Kingdom, or in any port into which the vessel may put before completing the voyage, and for two days after leaving it, and while the emigrants remain on board in

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