CONDITIONS ON WHICH A PASSAGE TICKET IS ISSUED.
1-The acceptance of this ticket by the passenger will be considered as binding him to all the conditions expressed therein. 2--Passengers not embarking after taking their passage to forfeit half the passage money.
3-Should the vessel be unable, from any case, to continue or complete the intended voyage, the owners reserve the right of forwarding passengers to their destination in the best practicable way (at owners' expense) or of cancelling this agreement by returning the passage money, or the equivalent thereof if at a foreign port.
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4-No person can be received on board who is suffering from any infectious disease, and if in the course of the voyage any passenger shall be found to be suffering from a disease of that character he will be required, at his own expense to find accommodation at any port in which the vessel may happen to be at the time, or at the first port she may reach after the discovery of the existence of the disease. Owners reserve the right of cancelling this agreement by a proportionate return of the passage money or of carrying on the passenger, when recovered, to his destination in one of the vessels belonging to the same line.
5.-All expenses of quarantine to be borne by the passenger.
6. Under no circumstances will the owners be responsible for the loss, or detention of, or damage to any luggage or package of any description.
7.-The owners will not be responsible for the maintenance of passengers, or for their loss of time during any detention arising out of accidents, or for any loss or damage arising from perils of the sea, or from machinery, boilers, or steam, or from any act, neglect, or default whatsoever of the pilot, master, or mariners, or for any consequences arising from sanitary regulations or precautions which the ship's officers or local government authorities may deem necessary, or should such sanitary regulations or precautions prevent embarkation or landing.
8.--When deposit is made to secure a passage the balance of the passage-money to be paid five clear days at least before the intended day of sailing, or the berth is liable to be re-let, and the deposit forfeited.
9.-During the vessel's stay in port in the ordinary course of the voyage passengers will be provided for on board, and no hotel bills will be paid by the owners.
10.-Passengers will be expected to comply with all the regulations established for the maintenance of order and cleanliness on board.
11. Smoking will not be allowed in the saloon or in any of the sleeping-rooms.
12.-Accounts with the steward to be settled weekly.
13.-Wines and liquors will be charged extra, and can be purchased from the steward at the tariff rates. Passengers will not be allowed to take any on board.
14-The steward's fee is included in the passage-money.
15.-Each adult passenger will be allowed 10 cubic feet of luggage free of charge--each child half this quantity. Freight will be charged on any excess at the rate of shillings per cubic foot, payable before embarking. Merchandise or specie will not be considered as luggage.
16-The cost of landing and embarking is not included in the passage-money.
17. Any passenger is liable by Act of Parliament (17 & 18 Victoria, cap. 104) to a penalty of £100 for taking on board gunpowder, or other goods of a dangerous nature, such as lucifer matches, chemicals, or any articles of an inflammable or damaging nature. This will be strictly enforced.
18. All unoccupied berths (except where the whole state room is specially engaged) are liable to be filled up at intermediate ports (by European passengers only).
19.--All berths are let on condition that the passengers may be transferred (except where the whole state room is specially engaged) from one state room to another, if required to accommodate passengers. Such transfer will be made into state rooms as similar as practicable.
19-24 Hong Kong
2. Talbot Court
London E.C.
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