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"Passenger Ship shall signify
• every description of such "ship carrying upon any "voyage to which the provisions
of this Act shall extend more
than thirty Passengers or greater number of Passengers
than in the
one proportion of one to every fifty Tons of the "Registered Tonnage of such Ship if propelled by Sails,
or Statute Adult to every thirty-five Tons if propelled by Steam ?" By the same Section it is provided that "the expression Passengers
shall include all passengers "except Cabin Passengers, and
except labourers under indenture to the Hudson's Bay Company and their families "carried in ships the property
or chartered by the said Company...
The 11th Section provides
that "no ship fitted or intended as a
Passenger Ship
shall clear out or proceed to sea until the Master thereof shall have attained
from the Emigration Officer
at the Port of clearance a Certificate of clearance under "his hand that all the
requirements of this Act so "far as the same can be complied