CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
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nery occupies so much of the registered tonnage, the numbers are limited by the space check alone, and the tonnage check is not applicable.
In calculating the numbers which can be taken under the tonnage check in sailing vessels, all persons on board, including the master, crew, and cabin passengers are to be counted, reckoning, however, two children between the ages of 1 and 12 as one person; but in calculating the number of statute Adults for the space check, the master, crew, and bond fide cabin passengers are not to be counted.
H. G. THOMSETT, R.N.,
Emigration Officer, &c.
PROCLAMATION.
JOHN BOWRING.
By His Excellency Sir JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Com- mander-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 eighteenth and nineteenth years of Her Majesty's reign, entitled An Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passengers' Ships, under the third clause thereof it is enacted, that "it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong to declare by pro- clamation, for the purposes of this Act, what shall be deemed to be the duration of the voyage of any Chinese passengers:-
Now therefore, I, Sir JOHN BOWRING, Governor as aforesaid, by this my proclama- tion issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the rule of com- putation by which the length of the voyage of any ship carrying Chinese passengers from Shanghai, Ningpo, Foochow, and Amoy, to the several places hereinafter men- tioned, shall be computed for the purposes of the act above referred to; that is to say:-
COMPUTATION OF LENGTH OF VOYAGE IN ANY CHINESE PASSENGER SHIP FROM THE NORTHERN PORTS OF CHINA TO THE UNDERMENTIONED PLACES.
From Shanghai and Ningpo.
From Foochow.
From Amoy.
Oct. to Apr. to Oct. to Apr. to Oct. to Apr. to Mar. Sept. Mar. | Sept. Mar. Sept.
Both inclusive. Both inclusive. Both inclusive.
To California or West Coast of America, North of
the Equator......
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West Coast of America, South of the Equator... Sandwich Islands....
70
90 70 95
100 100 115 52 73
73 97
115 117 117
74
54
74 55
""
New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fejee Islands, Ta-
hiti, Friendly Islands.........
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105
125 103
113
102
107
"
Sydney, Melbourne, or South America.....
65
100
62
90
61
85
"
Western Australia.............
50
80
47
70
46
65
"
Van Dieman's Land.....
70
100
67
70
66
85
**
New Zealand..............
80
110
77
100
76
95
Manila....
15
40
12
30
11
25
**
"
Singapore.
25
65
22
55
21
50
Batavia...
35
80
32
70
"
31
65
,, Ceylon..,
50
90
47
80
46
75
Madras or Calcutta..
55
95
52
85
"
51
80
,, Bombay...
65
100
63
90
62
85
"J
Mauritius or Bourbon...
65 100
63
90
62
85
Cape of Good Hope
70 105
67
95
66
90
""
West Indies or East Coast of America..
152 188 150
178
148
173
"
Great Britain or Europe ..
•
167 204 163
194
163
190
Siam
25
13
65
23
55
22
50
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