A PROCLAMATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 229, 13 September 1862, Page 7

A PROCLAMATION.

Bringing into force certain regulations touching the Carriage of passengers from N rew Zealand to other English pOßses&iiiiß in Australasia. By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Moit Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Cominander-in-Cliief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same kc, kc. Ice. 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 tie Governors of the several Australian Coloniea to regulate the number of dassengers to b» carried in vessels plying between Ports in those Colonies,' 1 it is amongst other thing 3 enacted that it thall be lawful for the Governor of each of her Majesty's Colonies already or hereafter to be established iv Australasia, by any Proclamation to be by him from time to time issued for the pur-po->e (which Proclamation shall take effect from the issuing thereof, if no day shall be named therein for the purpose),to prescribe such rules as be shall think proper for determining the number cf passengers to be carried in any passenger ship which hliall proceed from any such Colony to any other of Her Majesty's possessions for the time bcinij in Australasia, and for determining on what deck or decks and subject to *hat reservations or conditions passengers may be carried, and also to prescribe such penalties for the infraction or nonobftervane of mich 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 Passensers Act, 1855," relating to the number of passengers to bo carried ia any passenger ship, and the deck o 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 effect. Now, therefore, I, Sir Georpe Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the power vetted in me by the above recited Act, do issue this my proclamation, to take effect from the lCth 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 hay :—