also
requires
to be
cleared up.
The rules
appended to the Chinese
Passengers Act require that for every Passenger
An
board there shall
be it least 5
Superficial feet
the upper Deck and
12 such feet
belav.
The aegislature of Song
hong had power to
substitute other rules,
อ
but Mr. Labouchere is
dot: Aware that the
rower has been
xercised. Revertheless
in the case of both
these
A
a and the Art stelf
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306
i
these vessels the
number of cuperficial
feet allowed to each Passenger is only about 3 on the Epper Leck And 8 on the Lover.
As the reduced space
in.
so nearly agrees in the case of eas?
Dessel it may
be that
the Ruigration Ifficer
proceeded
on some Local. rule which has escaped.
Notice. But an
explanation
will be demanded an
the point, and it is decidedly W. Labo cheris opinion that the space &ramed in the rules
Appended