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are

waters) wo line by such greater dangero, such as collision and grounding encountered by those ships than the

Petitioners, the

your

Steamships of your best vidume of which Petitioners believe is afforded by the

mentioned in the preceding.

fact

paragraphe (20.9)

11.

That in

the

year 1876

Ordnance was passed entituled "The

River Steamers Ordinance 1876" (Nr. 11

Macao,

+4 1876) whereby steamers plying between Hongkong bruton and Dinoso, notwithstanding the accommodation

were als

Duy afforded for passengers, prolibited from carrying

than two for every

pesengers

three

tous of nett unasurement, and that to such rule the Kinoban

according and Dowan although specially

constructed to

carry

respectively over sive Thousand and Three thousand

are

-passengers as hureinbefore mentioned only permitted to carry respectively duine hundred and twenty passengers and Four hundred and twenty four passengers.

12.

Your Petitioners show that such mode of retemating the mucumber of passengers Steamers is faulty

to be carried

in as

ou

meuch

River

as

while restricting the vessels of your Petitioners from carrying the full number of passengers they

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