A.SAILING VESSELS.

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

A.SAILING VESSELS.

1. No sliip propelled by sails oaly shall carry a greater n amber 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 round-house or deck-house or on the upper passengerdeck 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 canyon her lower passenger-deck a greater number cf passengera than in the proportion of one statute adult to every fifteen clear superficial feet of deck alloted to their use,prpvWed, uevertheltS3, that if the height between such lower passen-ger-deck and the deck immediately above it sliall 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 feet to every one hundred superficial feet of the lower T»as.«enger deck, no greater number of passengers shall be carried on such deck than in the proportion of oae statute adult to every twenty-five clear superficial feet thereof.

4. No ship, whatever be her tonnage or superficial space of passenger-decks, sliall carry a greater number of passengers on the whole than in the proportion of one statute adult to every five superficial feet clear lor exercise on the upper deck or poop (ii secured, and fitted on the top with a railingor guard, to the satisfaction of the Emigrant Officer a tthe port of clearance,) on any round-house or deck-house

5. In the measurement of the passenger-decks, poop, rouml-house, ox deck-house, the space for the hospital ami that occupied by such portion of the persona! luggage of the passengers as the Emigration Officer may permit to be carried there, shall be included.