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safely transport it might suable

other vessels to

carry.

more than

they could do with safety to such- passengers; for instance a Rever Steamer of 900 lous nett burden would be entitled to

Au

carry

“་

(six hundred,

passengers whilst her dick space ~ might be only sufficient to carry half that number with safety, and thing respectfully enbruit that the a perficial extent of the decks for passengers of the Board of Trade and not the "tounage of such steamers should be the proper criterion for estimating the number of passengers to be a

as in the said instructions

carried therein.

13.

that the rules laid down by the said Ordinance, being inapplicable to the purpose for which the

Orduiance was.

کرو گی تم

was passed apply with "great hardship to your Ectitioners, annel as in the case of the.

in as

"Kinshan" it restricts them to less

than one

half the number of

with perfect

passengers theat

can

safely be carried in that vessel and

in the

eale

of the Cowan to bees than a sixth of the number that

such steamer can so carryf

{

14.

That notwithstanding the

-hardslup on your

Petitioners

mentioned in the preceding paragraph

immediately after the Ordinance

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