AD. 1899.]
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
[No. 10.
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TABLE D.
SPACES TO BE ALLOTTED TO PASSENGERS IN SHIPS NOT WITHIN THE CHINESE PASSENGERS ACT, 1855.
Coasting Trade.
1. In the case of a passenger ship which is solely employed in trading or going between the following limits, namely, Hongkong and the Coast of China, Formosa, Cochin China, and the Philippine Islands-
Between the 15th of October and the 31st of May, inclusive:----
(a.) the space to be provided on the between decks shall be, for the lower passenger deck, 12 superficial and 84 cubic feet of space for each passenger, and for the upper passenger deck 9 superficial and 54 cubic feet for each passenger; and
(b.) on the upper or weather deck there shall be provided 4 superficial feet of deck space for exercise for the crew and for every passenger accommodated on the passenger decks; and if it is intended to carry passengers on the remaining spaces of the said weather deck, then 12 superficial feet of such remaining space shall be provided for each such upper deck passenger.
Between the 1st of June and the 14th of October, inclusive :-
(c.) the space to be provided on the passenger decks shall be in accordance with the first paragraph of this Table, but no ship shall carry upper deck passengers, except as hereinafter provided, unless she is furnished with a deck house or other permanent protection against the weather for the number of passengers such structure will accommodate at 12 superficial feet and 72 cubic feet per adult passenger.
Foreign Trade.
Sections 10 (8.) (a.) (v.) and 11 (3.)
Spaces to be allotted to passengers in ships solely employed in coasting trade.
2. In the case of a passenger ship which is employed in trading or going between Hongkong and some place or places situate beyond the following limits, namely, the Coast of China, Formosa, Cochin China, and the Philippine Islands-
(a.) the space to be provided under the poop, or in the round house or deck house, or on the upper passenger deck shall be not less than 15 clear superficial feet of deck allotted to the use of each statute adult passenger, and on the lower passenger deck not less than 18 clear superficial feet of deck allotted to the use of each statute adult passenger: Provided that, if the height between the lower passenger deck and the deck immediately above it is less than 7 feet, or if the apertures (exclusive of side scuttles) through which light and air are admitted together to the lower passenger deck are less in size than in the proportion of 3 square feet to every 100 superficial feet of that deck, the ship shall not carry a greater number of passengers on that deck than
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