A PROCLAMATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 181, 14 June 1862, Page 4

A PROCLAMATION

Bringing into force certain l-egulations touching the carriage of passengers from New Zealand to other .English possessions in Australasia. By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral °ftne same, &c., &c, &c. '■ ■ ' : Whereas, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the Session held in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth years of Her present- Majesty's reign, intituled " An Act to empower the Governors of the several Australian Colonies to regulate the number of passengers to be carried in vessels plying between

Ports in those Colonies,'' it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be "lawful for the Governor of each of her -Majesty's Colonies already or hereafter to be established in Australasia, by any Proclamation to be by him from time to time issued for the purpose (which Proclamation shall take elFeet from the issuing thereof, if no day shall be named therein for the purpose),to prescribe such rules as he shall think proper for determining the number cf passengers to be carried m 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, aud ■ also to prescribe such penalties for the infraction or non-ou.-sevvance of such Rules as to such Governor may seem proper; and it is also enacted that from the time when any such proclamation shall take effect, and so long as the same shall continue in force, the rules and enactments contained in " The Passeneers Act, 1855," relating to the. number of passengers to hi carried in any passenger ship, and the deck or decks whereon they are to be carried, shall cease to apply to any vessel to which such proclamation shall be applicable, save only as to the recovery and application of any penalty for any offence committed against the said Act before such proclamation shall take efl'ect:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the power vested in me by the above recited Act, do issue this ray proclamation, to take effect from the 10th day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and I do hereby prescribe the rules hereinafter set forth for determining the number of passengers who .may be 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 penalties for the infraction or non-observance of such rules, that is to .say : — A.- Sailino Vessels. 1. No ship propelled by sails only shall # carry a greater number of persons (including every individual on board) than in the proportion of one statute adult to every two tons of her registered tonnage. 2. No ship shall carry under the poop or in the ronnd-house or deck-house or on the. upper passeugerdeek a greater number of passengers than in the proportion of one statute adult to every twelve clear superficial feet of deck alloted to their use. 3. No ship shall carryon her lower passenger-deck a greater number of passengers than in the proportion of one statute adult to every fifteen clear, superficial feet of deck alloted to their use,provirJed, nevertheless, that if the height between such lower passen-ger-deck and the deck immediately above it shall be less than seven feet, or if the apertures (exclusive of side scuttles) through which light and air shall be admitted together to the lower passenger-deck, shall be less in size than in the proportion of three square fecit to every one hundred superficial feet of the lower passenger deck, no greater number of passengers shall be carried on such deck than in the proportion of one statute adult to every twenty-five clear superficial feet thereof. 4. No ship, whatever be her tonnage or superficial 3pace of passenger-decks, shall carry a greater number of passengers on the whole titan iv the proportion of one statute adult to every rive superficial feet clear ior exercise on the upper deck or poop (ii secured, and fitted on the top witii a railing or guard, to the satisfaction of the Emigrant Officer at the port of clearance,) on any round-house or deck-house. 0. In the measurement of the passenger-decks, poop_, round-house, or deck-house, the space for the hospital and that occupied by such por;i;ii of the personal luggage of the passengers as tlie Emigration Officer may permit to be carried there, shall be included. B.—STEA3IERS. The nimibc-r of passengers who may be earned on board of any vessel propelled by steam power shall be ascertained and determined in manner following, viz: — , 1. Measure in cubic feet the clear space alloted to fore-cabin passengers between decks,. and divide the cubic contents by 12. 2. Count the number of sleeping berths exclusively provided for the accomodation of fore-cabin passen-" gel's, and adJ to it the number obtained as above. 3. The total number thus obtained is the tc>tal number of fore-cabin passengers who may be carried. 4. Proceed in the same manner with the space alloted to after-cabin passengers. The results of the said computations shall determine the number of fore-cabin and after-cabin passengers respectively who may be carried on board of a vessel propelled by steam power,aud all passengers on board thereof shall be included in one or other of the said denominations.

■ PENALTIES. 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 les3 than one pouud sterling ior each person or passenger constituting such excess. Given under my hand, at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, [ this sixteenth day of May, in the year of our I Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. G. Grey. ! By His Excellency's command, William Fox. God Save tiik Queen !