PROCLAMATION.
BY His Excellency Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the Carriage of Passengers by Sea, it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governor of any of Her Majesty's Possessions abroad, by any Proclamation to be by him, from time to time, issued for that purpose, (which shall take effect from the issuing thereof), to declare what shall be deemed for the purposes of the said Act to be the length of the voyage of any ship carrying Passengers from such Possessions to any other place whatsoever, and to substitute for the Articles of food and provisions specified in the said Act, such other articles of food and provisions as he shall deem to be a full equivalent for the same; and also to declare what medicines, medical instruments, and other matters shall be deemed necessary for the medical treatment of the Passengers during such Colonial voyage.
And Whereas also by a certain other Act of the said Parliament passed in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her said Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to amend the Passengers Act, 1852, so far as relates to the Passages of Natives of Asia or Africa and also Passages between the Island of Ceylon and certain Parts of the East Indies, it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governors of Her Majesty's Possessions abroad, if they shall think fit, to declare by Proclamation that Ships intended to pass within the Tropics, from any Ports within their respective Governments, may convey Passengers being Natives of Asia or Africa after the rate of one for every twelve super- ficial feet of the passenger Deck, instead of one for every fifteen such superficial feet, as required by the Twelfth Section of the said "Passengers Act, 1852"; Now, therefore, I Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Bart., the Governor aforesaid, by this my Proclamation, issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the Rule of computation by which the length of the voyage of any ship carrying Passengers from Hongkong to the several Places hereinafter enumerated shall be computed, for the purposes of the said recited Act, that is to say;-
PASSAGE from HONGKONG to the undermentioned PLACES for Ships propelled by Sails.
IN THE MONTHS.
OCTOBER APRIL
ΤΟ
TO
MARCH SEPTEMBER
BOTH INCLUSIVE
DAYS
California or West Coast of America North of the Equator, West Coast of America South of the Equator, Sandwich Islands,
100
120
120
...
New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Feejee Islands,
Tahiti, Society or Friendly Islands, Sydney, Melbourne, or South Australia, ... Western Australia,
Van Diemen's Land, ...
New Zealand,
Manila,
Singapore,
Batavia,
Ceylon,
...
...
+
100
100
ZAYNKNRA?
60
Madras or Calcutta,
60
Bombay,
60*
Mauritius or Bourbon,
65
Cape of Good Hope,
147
168
West Indies, East Coast of America,
162
180
Great Britain or Europe,
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45
56
80
60
25
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