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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 bona 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
From
From Amoy.
Shanghai and Foochow.
Ningpo.
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..
90
70 95
73
97
74
"
""
West Coast of America, South of the Equator.. Sandwich Islands................
100
100
115
115
117
117
70
52
73
54
74
65
New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fejee Islands, Ta-
105
125 103
113
102
107
hiti, Friendly Islands.........
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
"1
"
"
New Zealand...
Manila...
Singapore...
Batavia..
,, Ceylon.....
Madras or Calcutta..
Bombay....
Mauritius or Bourbon....
,, Cape of Good Hope
80 110
77 100
76
15
40
12
30
11
25
65
22
55
21
50
35
80
32
70
31
65
50
90
47
80
46
76
55
95
52
85
51
80
65
100
63
90
62
85
65
100
63
90
62
85
70
105
67
95
66
90
"
West Indies or East Coast of America.
"
Great Britain or Europe
•
"
Siam....
152 188 150 178 148 173 204 163 194 163 190
167
25
65
23
55
22
50
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