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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 shipped in not less quantities than mentioned in the same Schedule, and shall be in sweet and good condition when issued for the use of the passengers. Children between one and twelve years of age shall receive preserved meat instead of salt meat every day; and, in addition to tho articles to which they are entitled by the scale in Schedule A, a further allowance as set forth in Schedule B. Children under one year of age shall receive the rations specified for them in Schedule B, which shall be shipped in not less quantities than therein mentioned. To infants under four months old, such nutriment shall be issued as the Surgeon may consider necessary. An additional quart of water shall be issued daily for the use of each person sick in the hospital if the Surgeon shall so order. While in any port of the 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 the port of disembarkation, two-thirds of a pound of fresh meat, one and a half pounds of soft bread, and one pound of potatoes per statute adult, shall be issued daily, with a suitable supply of vegetables, in lieu of other rations, except tea, coffee, sugar, and butter. Children between one and twelve } rears of age, in addition to the rations provided for in this scale, shall have a pint of fresh milk daily. Children under one year and above four months of age shall have the same rations as detailed in Schedule B. substituting fresh milk for preserved, and children under four months of age shall have such nutriment as the Surgeon may consider necessary. All or any of the children shall be messed separately if and so long as the Surgeon shall during the voyage so require. An additional quart of water, in excess of the quantity provided by the above-written'dietary scale, shall be issued to each statute adult daily while the ship is within the tropics. These quantities to be net, exclusive of the water required for cooking the provisions which the Passengers Act requires shall be served in a cooked state. Proper arrangements are to be made for the proper and efficient cooking of these provisions, and for the distribution of them among the passengers at the stated hours for meals. The slush shall not be the perquisites of the cook, but shall be reserved for the use of the emigrants, and divided amongst them at the discretion of the Surgeon. Provided that the Minister for the time being may at any time alter the scale of rations set forth-in Schedules A and B, on giving three months' previous notice in writing to the Contractor; and if by reason of such alteration, the quantity of rations to be supplied by the Contractor shall bo diminished, then a proportionate reduction upon the price stipulated to be paid for the conveyance of emigrants under this agreement shall be made and allowed by the Contractor to the Queen; and if on the other hand such supply shall be increased, the extra cost of such increased supply shall be paid by the Queen to the Contractor, in addition to the price stipulated to be paid for the conveyance of such emigrants as aforesaid. 36. Medical comforts, according to scale set forth in Schedule C, shall also be placed on board. A list of these articles, signed by tho Contractor or his Agent, shall be supplied to the Queen, and they shall be issued by the Captain on the requisition of the Surgeon. 37. Medicines and other articles, as per annexed Schedule D, together with any extra medicines and articles which may be required by any regulations for the time being of the Board of Trade, shall be obtained by the Contractor, and placed on board in some easily accessible position, to be specially approved by the Queen under the charge of the Surgeon. 38. The Surgeon shall keep a medical journal and a list of the medical comforts issued, both of which shall be handed to the Immigration Officer on the arrival of the ship at its port of destination in New Zealand. 39. No single man shall be taken m the ship as a saloon passenger, without the consent of the Queen, unless be is a member of a family also passengers in the ship. No passengers not provided by the Queen shall be berthed between decks, without special permission in writing, and no steerage passenger not provided by her shall be taken in the ship unless approved in like manner by the Queen. 40. The passengers shall not be molested either on crossing the line, or at any other time, and they shall be properly treated in every respect by the Master, officers, and crew of the vessel. The Master shall strictly prohibit and prevent, on the part of the crew and officers, any communication with the female passengers ; and a special clause embodying these stipulations shall be inserted in the ship's articles. The Master shall himself abstain from all improper and unnecessary communication with the female passengers ; and he shall attend to all practicable suggestions of the Surgeon calculated to promote the health and comfort of the passengers. The Master and officers shall not directly or indirectly sell or permit to be sold to the passengers any article except tobacco, and this only with the sanction of the Surgeon. 41. The upper deck, excepting the space occupied by the spare spars and boats, shall be kept quite clear for the use of the passengers. The single women shall have the use of the poop-deck for exercise, and shall not be permitted, when on deck, to go into any other part of the ship ; and no sailmaking or sail-mending is to be permitted on the poop-deck during the voyage. 42. A proper space, to be approved by the Queen, shall be set apart in the hold of the ship for passengers' luggage, at the average rate of 15 cubic feet for every statute adult; the whole of such space to be free of charge, and at the disposal of the Queen if not all required for emigrants' luggage. Luggage beyond the said average of 15 cubic feet to be charged for at a rate not exceeding one shilling per cubic foot. The Master shall cause such luggage as is marked " Wanted on the Voyage," and required by any of the passengers, to be brought out of the hold every third or fourth week for the exchange of articles. 43. The Queen shall cause constables and others to be appointed, whose duty it shall be to maintain, under the directions of the Surgeon and the Captain, order and cleanliness throughout the ship, and especially to keep the water-closets clean and in good order. One of such constables, who shall be a married man, shall be appointed in respect of every thirty single women, to attend to the drawing and the cooking of the provisions of the single women, and the delivery of them to their