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as cargo or otherwise. Such gunpowder as may be necessary for the ship's use shall be properly stowed, in a place of security. Rail, bar, hoop, and pig iron shall not be taken in quantities exceeding one-fourth of the ship's register tonnage, nor salt in quantities exceeding one-tenth of such tonnage. The cargo, of whatever kind, shall be stowed to the satisfaction of the Queen. 24. The Queen shall give not less than six weeks' notice in writing to the Contractor when a ship is required for the conveyance of emigrants, and the approximate amount and description of cargo or freight, with the approximate number of statute adults, to bo despatched by each ship, and the date named as that on which the ship is required shall be called the embarkation day. 25. Eourteen days prior to the day fixed as the embarkation day, the Queen shall furnish in writing to the Contractor a list of the names and ages of the emigrants expected to embark, upon which date the Contractor shall proceed to fit up the ship, and the Queen shall not be liable to make any payment in respect of any person who shall not actually embark as a passenger, notwithstanding the name of such person may have been included in any list furnished by tho Queen. 26. All the fittings shall be completed, the cargo, provisions, and water shipped and stowed away ■ —space being left in an approved part of the ship for the emigrants' baggage, as hereinafter provided— the 'tween-decks cleared, and the ship in all respects ready for the reception of passengers at the port of embarkation twenty-four hours before noon of the day hereinbefore named as the embarkation day, after which time no other cargo shall be shipped, and a certificate shall be obtained by the Contractor from an officer to be appointed by the Queen for that purpose to the following effect: —" I hereby certify that the fittings of the ship [Insert name] were complete, and that tho vessel was in all respects ready for the reception of her passengers noon of day of 187 ." The passengers shall then bo taken on board with their baggage by the Contractor, and the victualling of them shall commence, the Queen being allowed two clear days, besides the day fixed for embarkation, to provide passengers ; and the ship shall proceed to sea on the day after the completion of the embarkation, or so near thereto as is possible. 27. In tho event of tho ship not being ready as before described, of which the Queen shall be the sole judge, the Contractor shall pay demurrage at the rate of £25 per day for each noon that may intervene between the time appointed for the ship to be ready as aforesaid and the time at which the vessel is reported ready by the officer of the Queen ; and the Queen may in her discretion provide the Surgeon, Matron, and passengers with board and lodging on shore, until all preparations shall have been completed to her satisfaction, the expenses of which shall be repaid by the Contractor, and the Queen may deduct the expenses so incurred, as well as the demurrage, out of the first moneys becoming due, as hereinafter described, to the Contractor. 28. The Contractor, or some member of his staff duly authorized by him, shall provide, fill in, sign, and issue all contracts required to be given to the passengers by the law for the time being in force relating to emigrants. 29. The Contractor shall provide a passenger's steward, whose duty it shall be to issue to the passengers daily the provisions and water to which they are entitled according to the under-written dietary scale. 30. The Contractor shall also provide, for the exclusive use of the passengers, a competent baker and a cook, and such an additional cook, if any, as required by " The Passengers Act, 1855." The passengers' steward, baker, and cook or cooks shall be approved respectively by the Queen. 31. The Queen shall appoint a Surgeon to each ship. The Surgeon will be an officer of the ship, and be borne on the articles. Instructions will be issued to him as respects the Government emigrants, and the Contractor shall stipulate expressly with and obtain an undertaking from the Captain that those instructions shall be respected and carried out. The Surgeon shall be provided by the Contractor with a separate cabin, properly fitted up to the satisfaction of the Queen, and a first-class passage, with 40 cubical feet of space in the hold for luggage, and shall have an allowance of one bottle of ale daily, and three bottles of wine weekly, for his personal consumption, or the Contractor may agree with tho Surgeon to give him a sum of money instead of any allowance of wine or ale whatever. 32. 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, from time to time to direct the removal of any or either of them, and the Contractor shall remove them and appoint others. The Chief Officer must in all cases have a Master's Certificate as well as the Captain. The Queen will also issue instructions to the Captain as respects the Government emigrants, and the like undertaking shall be taken by the Contractor from him, that they will be faithfully observed. 33. The Contractor shall place on board the ship, on the embarkation day, a competent person, approved of by the Queen, whose duty it shall be to assist the officer appointed by the Queen in 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 whatever is necessary for the comfort and convenience of the passengers, and shall remain on board until the ship 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 tho port of embarkation. 34. When the Queen shall have signified her approval with regard to the matters referred to in the preceding section, and with the general equipment of the ship, such 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. 35. Full rations, according to the scale mentioned in Schedule A, shall be issued during the voyage, and until the passengers are landed at port of destination in New Zealand, to each male and