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Seher 5
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Whether it is intended that the Ship should call or station at or near suel Port or Place with the object of taking on Board any Cargo ad Pas- sengers
If not, then with what object
Oc
Proposed Date of Departure from........
Name of Master.............
Names and Address of the Shipowners.
Names of Charterers
Names of Agents
Number of Asiatic Passengers to be Free
conveyed
↑ Assisted
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(a) Here
1, the undersigned, hereby apply for a Licence under Insert period. Section 9 of the Asiatic Emigration Ordiunuce, 191 () Insert it for (a)........
..[and I do solemnly swear that the required. above particulars are true]. (5)
(c) Inserl if required.
Section 22.
I'rohibition of ship departing without certificate.
Application for certi- ficate and notice.
Inspection of ship.
Accommoda-
tion of
Passengers.
The Surveyor's Certificate is herewith attached.
(Signed.)
Agent or Charterer of Ship.............
[Sworn by the abovenamed
this
1
day
of
Before me,
(Signed.)
Justice of the Peace.] (C)
THE FOURTH SCHEDULE.
REGULATIONS RESPECTING SHIPS UNDER GENERAL
OR OUTPORT LICENCE ON SHORT VOYAGES.
1. No emigrant ship or British emigrant ship licensed under general or outport licence under the provisions of this Ordinance shall clear out or proceed to sea on any short voyage unless the master thereof has received from an Emigration Officer a copy of these Regulations and a certificate in the form in the Schedule to these Regula- tions, nor until the master has entered into the bond in the form set out in the Second Sebedule to the said Ordi-
nance.
2. No Emigration Officer shall be bound to give such certificate until seven days after receiving from the owners or charterers of the ship, or, if they are absent, from their respective agents, an application in writing for the same and a notice that the ship is laid on for the conveyance of Asiatic emigrants.
3. After receiving such application, the Emigration Officer, and any person authorized by him in that behalf, shall be at liberty at all times to enter and inspect the ship, and the fillings, provisions, and stores therein; and any person impeding such entry or inspection, or refusing to allow the same, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offence.
4. The following conditions as to the accommodation of passengers shall be observed to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer :-
(1.) that the ship is in a state of perfect cleanliness
and if necessary has been disinfected;
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(2.) that the space appropriated to the passengers between decks is clean, properly lighted and ventilated, and contains at the least nine super- ficial and y-four cubic feet on the upper between decks and eighteen superficial and one hundred and twenty-six cubic feet of space on the lower between decks for every adult on board, that is to say, for every pos scuger above twelve years of age aud for every two passengers between the ages of one nud Twelve years; and that the height between lecks is at least six feet;
(3.) that the accommodation for female passengers between decks is separate from that provided for male passengers:
(4.) that a space of four superficial foot per adult is left clear on the upper deck for the use of the passengers;
(5.) that sufficient latrines, both as to condition and number, are provided in suitable parts of the ship;
(6.) that a reasonable space is set apart, properly divided and fitted up, as a sick-bay or hospital;
(7.) is the measurement of the passenger decks,
for the purpose of determining the number of passengers to be carried in any such ship, the space for the sick-bay or hospital shall be in- cluded,
5. No part of the cargo or of the provisions, water, or stowage stores shall be carried on the upper deck, or ou the passen of cargo,
ger decke, unless, in the opinion of the Emigration Officer, provisions, the same is so placed as not to impedo light or ventilation etc. or to interfere with the comfort of the passengers nor unless the same is stowed and secured to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer; and the space thereby occupied or rendered mavailable for the accommodation of the passen- gers shall be deducted in caleanting the space by which the number of passengers is regulated.
6. The Emigration Officer may, in his discretion, permit Conditions deck passengers to be carried, on such conditions as may as to carriage from time to time be prescribed under instructions from one of dack
of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, aud, til passengers. and subject to such instructions, on the conditions follow- iug:-
(1.) a suitable awning with sereon shall be provided on deck, sufficient for the protection of the passengers from the sun and from rain;
(2.) the space appropriated to such deck passengers shall contain at the least sixteen superficial feet for every adult, that is to say, for every passenger above twelve years of age and for every two passengers between the ages of one and twelve; and
(3.) in case deck passengers are carried in addition to other passengers for whom accommodation between decks is provided, the space to be appropriated for deck passengers shall be reckoned exclusively of the space of four superficial feet per adult required to bo left clear on the upper deck for the use of such other passengers.
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