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23. An isauing-room of such dimensions and in such part of the ship as shall from time to time be approved by the Government shall be provided, but not on the passenger-deck, from which room the provisions shall be issued daily to the emigrants as hereinafter provided, and such issuing-room shall be fitted with counter, scales, and weights, and all other requisites, to the satisfaction of the Government. 24. Three separate hospitals shall be provided—-one for men, one for women and children, and one for single women, which shall be of the form and dimensions, and placed in such positions respectively, and furnished with such bedding and requisites, as shall be required by the Government. Bathrooms with baths and proper appliances for obtaining a sufficient supply of water shall be provided for use by women and children, to the satisfaction in all respects of the Government. A bath-room or requisite appliances for bathing shall also be provided for use by men. 25. The Contractors shall, at their expense, and to the satisfaction of the Government, provide and fit up an apparatus for distilling fresh from salt water, of a size calculated to supply not less than 500 gallons of water in twenty-four hours, and to be approved on behalf of the Government, and shall provide a person competent to manage such apparatus, and shall keep the same working throughout every day at the ship's expense so long as there are any emigrants on board, and shall make all issues of water to the emigrants as far as practicable from the water so distilled. 26. No gunpowder, hides, or any commodity likely, iu the opinion of the Government, by reason of its nature, quality, or quantity to be detrimental to the safely or health of the emigrants, shall be taken as cargo or otherwise. Such gunpowder as may be necessary for the ship's use shall be properly stowed in a place of r. Kail, 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 Government if emigrants shall be conveyed in the ship. 27. The Government shall, fourteen days prior to the day fixed for the ship to sail from London, furnish in writing to the Contractors a list of the number and ages of the emigrants expected to embark, according to which list the Contractors shall proceed to fit up the ship, and the Government shall not be liable to make any payment in respect of any person who shall not actuallv embark and proceed as a passenger, notwithstanding such person may have been included in any list furnished by the Government, except that, if more than ten of the emigrants mentioned in such list shall not embark and proceed as passengers, the Government shall pay to the Contractors one moiety of the passagemoneys which would have been otherwise payable as hereinafter mentioned in respect of such emigrants in excess of the said number of ten who shall not embark and proceed as passengers. 28. Each ship shall be ready to be fitted fourteen days before the day fixed for the ship to sail from London, and the ship shall be fitted in the Port of London, and to the satisfaction of the Government. 29. 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 'twreen decks cleared, a:>d the ship in all respects ready for the reception of emigrants at the Port of Plymouth six hnurs before noon of the day fixed for the ship to leave Plymouth, after which time no other cargo shall be shipped. The emigrants shall then be taken on board, with their baggage, by the Contractors, and the victualling of them shall, commence, the Government being allowed until six hours after the noon of such day to provide emigrants, and the ship shall proceed to sea immediately afier the completion of the embarkation, or as soon afterwards as the state of the weather will permit. The Contractors shall obtain from an officer, to be appointed by the Government for that purpose, a certificate to the following effect: "I hereby certify that the fittings of the ship \lnsert name] were complete, and that the vessel was in all respects ready for the reception of her emigrants six hours before noon of the day of , 188 ." 30. In the event of the ship not being ready for the reception of emigrants as before described, of which the Government shall be the sole judge, the Government may, in their discretion, provide the surgeon, matron, and emigrants with board and lodging on shore until all preparations shall have been completed to the satisfaction of the Government, the expenses of which will be deducted from the sum payable for the passage-money of the emigrants. 31. The Contractors, or some person duly authorized by them, shall provide, fill io, sign, and issue all contracts required to be given to emigrants by the law for the time being in force relating to emigrants. 32. The Contractors shall provide an emigrants' steward, whose duty it shall be to issue to the emigrants daily the provisions and water to which they are entitled according to the dietary scale. Schedules A and B (Particulars and Conditions of Contract). 33. The Contractors shall also provide for the exclusive use of the emigrants a competent baker and a cook, and such an additional cook, if any, as required by " The Passengers Act, 1855." The emigrants' steward, baker, and cook or cooks shall be approved respectively by the Government. 34. The Government shall appoint a surgeon to each ship, who shall be an officer of the ship and be borne on the articles. Instructions shall be issued to him as respects the Government emigrants, and the Contractors 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 Contractors with a separate cabin properly fitted up to the satisfaction of the Government, and a first-class passage, with 40 cubical feet of space in the hold for luggage, and shall be provided with one bottle of ale daily and three bottles of wine weekly for his perspnal consumption, or the Contractors may agree with the surgeon to give him a sum of money instead of wine or ale. 35. The Government will issue^instructions to the captain as respects the Government emigrants, and an undertaking in accordance therewith shall be taken by the Contractors from him that they will be faithfully observed. " 36. The Contractors shall, at their own expense, provide a competent person, approved of by the