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CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
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2-Master's certificate relative to Chinese doctor (provided he fails in securing
an European surgeon for a reasonable remuneration).
3.-Certificate under the chop seals of two Chinese apothecaries' shops, vouching
for competency of doctor.
IV.-List of provisions and medicines, according to the scale laid down in the Act, signed by the master.
V.-Certificate of a resident physician that he has examined the medicines, that they are good, and in accordance with the requirements of the Act.
VI.-Passenger list in duplicate, with a summary attached, specifying the numbers respectively of passengers, under the Act, cabin passengers, crew, including master and all persons on ship's articles; showing total number of souls on board, signed by master.
Note.-Chinese cooks, stewards, interpreter, doctor, &c., are invariably passengers, berthed and fed with the others, although borne by law on the ship's articles for purposes of discipline. In future, their names, with their rating on board, will appear at the end of the passenger lists, and they will be included in the gross number that the ship can carry, but numerically they will be entered, as heretofore, under the head of "crew on ship's articles." About 4 cooks and stewards to every 100 passengers has been the rule.
VII.-Either at this time or after the passengers are collected on board they must be inspected individually by a resident surgeon, who must also inspect the crew and give his certificate that none appear, by reason of any bodily or mental disease, unfit to proceed or likely to endanger the health or safety of other persons about to proceed, in such vessel. VIII. The master will give notice when all the passengers are on board, and when he wishes to clear for sea.
Note. The broker must personally assure himself that every passenger is on board and report to that effect, after which the emigration officer will proceed on board, muster and count the passengers, and make a final inspection of the ship. After this is done, and not before, the ship is at liberty so shift her berth, if it is desired; the master mentioning the fact to the Harbour- Master; who will then deliver to him his emigration papers and port clearance.
In the fitting up and equipment of Chinese passenger ships, the following general rules will obtain,
1.-Ships with full compliment of passengers, shall carry boats according to the following scale, or size and description, approved by the emigration officer:-
Less than 200 Tons Register....
200 to 400
,,
400 600 1,000
600
27
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1,000 1,500
""
2 Boate.
3
""
4
""
5
""
6
""
7
"
"
1,500 and upwards,,
""
Note.-In every case one boat must be a properly fitted life boat, and one a long
boat.
II.—Ships must carry at least 2 life buoys, slung, prepared for sudden emergencies. III.-In the absence of a forcepump and hose, reaching fore and aft, a ship must be provided with not less that 3 dozen buckets, in case of fire.
IV. Every hatchway leading into passengers' quarters must be covered by a well secured house about six feet high, having as much ventilation as is compatible with strength, and being water tight. The hatches are not to be closed during the voyage, unless stress of weather demands it.
Note.-When women are carried, they must have a separate hatchway entrance, apart from the males; and the male and female quarters must be divided by a strong bulkhead with no door or aperture in it, The female quarters must be aft, as also the water closets for their use.
V. The berths, cooking cabooses, water closets, &c., must be all properly secured,
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