A PROCLAMATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 219, 2 September 1862, Page 7

A PROCLAMATION.

Bringing into force certain regulations touching the carriage of j*assen?ers from New Zealand to other English po«He*iioim in Australasia.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, ComicaiiJer of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, (fovernor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colouy of New Zealand and its Dei tendencies, and Vice-Adiairal of the same

Whertas, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, parsed in the rfe*v;ion held ia the Twenty-fourth anil Twenty-fifth years of Her jire tut Majesty's reign, intitule! " An A?t to empower tb* Governors of the several Australian Colonies to reeulate the number of da-M^n^ens to b<; carrk-d in vessels plying between I'ort--* in thw-e Colonies/ it is amongst other things enacted tli.it it shall bs lawful fur the Governor of «acli of her Majesty's Colonies already or hereafter t« I*,- cs-taWNied in Australasia, by aiiy rroclauiation '.» be by him fn>tn time to time issued for the pur-jkj-45 (which Proclamation shrdl take effect from the wsuin^ thereof, if no <|ar shall be named therein for the purpose),to jire^.-ribe such rules as he shall think proj.-er for determining tUe number cf pas-w:s-er* to lit curried ia any {passenger ship ■which shall prowl from any Bu>;h Colony U> any other of Her Majesty's possessions for the time l*eing in Au»truSasia, and ft>r deterniiuing on whitt deck or deck* and subject to wimt refiervationa or coudit'iDHjs jiansengers may be carried, and also to prescribe such |*n;tlue» for the infraction or non-ulx-*:rvanc of such Itulea as to such Governor may wt-ai pn>per; arid it is aUo enacte<l that from the time when any such proclamation shall take effect, and so lonp aa the same sh«Ul continue in foree, tlie ruies and enactmentii contained in "The Passengers Act, 1555," reLitiug to the number of passengers to be carried in any i>asseugfcr ship, and the deck o decks whereon they are to be carried, fchall cease to apply to any ves.stl to which mica proclamation shall be applicable, save only as to the recovery and application of any penalty for auy offence" committed a^ain-st the ssiid Act before such proclamation shall take effect:

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 mv proclamation, to take effect from the lGth daj of June, one tiiousan4 t-is^bt 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 G>lony t>f New Zealand to any other of Her Majesty's posseasions for the time being ia AuitralaKJa, and on what deck or decks and under what reservations or couditions passengers may l»e carried, and the i^.-nallies for the infraction or non-observance vi fcu-Jj rules, that is to ivy :— A.- Sailing Vessels. 1. No ship propelled by sails only sliall carry a •rpv-iter number of persons (including every mdi,- , vidaal on Uurd) than in the projeirtion of one" statute adult to even- two tons of her registered tonuage. 2. No ship shall carry under tlie poop or in the round-house or deck-house or on the upper passengerdeck a greater number of t»asseugers than iv the proportion of one statute adult to every twelve clear superficial feet of deck alloted to their use. 3. No ship shall carry on her lower passenger-deck i 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,T>rovi<?ed, nevertheless, that if the height between such lower passen-ger-deck and the deck immediately above it shall be le*s 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 feet 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 tonnape or superficial •pace of passenger-decks, shall earrv a greater number of passengers on the whole than in the proportion of one statute adult to every five superficial feet clear for exercise on the upper deck or poop (if secured, and fitted on the top with a railingor guard, to the satisfaction of the Emigrant Officera tthe port of clearance,) on any round-house or deck-house 5. In the measurement of the passenger-decks, poop, round-house, or deck-bouse, the space for the hospital and that occupied by such portion of the personal luggage of the passengers as the Emigration Officer may permit to be carried there, shall be included. B.—Steamers. The number of passengers who may be carried on board of any vessel propelled by steam power shall be ascertained and determined in manner following, viz:— 1. Measure in cubic feet the dear space alloted to fore-cabin passengers between decks, and divide the cubic contents by 72. 2. Count the number oi sleeping berths exclusively provided for the aceomodntion of fore-cabin passenger*, and ad J to it the number obtained as above. 3. The total number thus obtained is the total number of tore-cabin passengers who may be carried. 4. Proceed in the same manner with "the space alloted to after-cabin passenger**. 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,and all passengers on board thereof shall be included in one or other of tlw 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 fire pounds nor less than one pound sterling lor each person or passenger constitutiug such excess. Giveu 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 ouo Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two G. Grbt.

By His Excellency's command, William Fox. God ats tes Qubw \