Arrangements for the Ship. Before Clearance, Provisions and Water to be surveyed. Provisions for the Crew not to be inferior to those for the Passengers. s. 29. Penalty. Power to Emigration Officer to reject and mark bad Provisions, and direct the same to be landed, &c. Water Tanks or Casks to be approved by Emigration Officer. Passengers Act Amendment. For the like Purposes, the said Emigration Commissioners, acting by and under the Authority of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, from Time to Time, by any Notice in Writing issued under the Hands of any Two of such Commissioners, and published in the London Gazette, may nevertheless declare what shall be deemed to be the Length of Voyage from the United Kingdom to any of the said herein-before mentioned Places, or to any other Port or Place whatsoever, and may fix such different Lengths of Voyage as they may think reasonable for such different Descriptions of Vessels as aforesaid. XXXI. Before any "Passenger Ship" shall be cleared out, the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance shall survey or cause to be surveyed by some competent Person the Provisions and Water by this Act required to be placed on board for the Consumption of the Passengers, and shall satisfy himself that the same are of a good and wholesome Quality, and in a sweet and good Condition, and are in Quantities sufficient to secure throughout the Voyage the Issues herein-after prescribed: In addition to the Allowance of pure Water for the Use of each Passenger there shall be shipped for cooking Purposes an additional Supply of pure Water after the Rate of at least Ten Gallons for every Day of the prescribed Length of Voyage for every One hundred Statute Adults on board; and also for the Use of the Crew and all other Persons on board an ample Supply of wholesome Provisions and pure Water, which shall not be inferior in Quality to the Supply of the same Articles provided for the Consumption of the Passengers: All such Water, Provisions, and Stores shall be provided and properly stowed away in accordance with the Requirements of the Twenty-ninth Section of this Act, by and at the Expense of the Owner, Charterer, or Master of the Ship; and if a Clearance be obtained for any "Passenger Ship" which shall not be then stored with the requisite Quantities of such Water, Provisions, and Stores as are required by this Act, the Owner, Charterer, or Master of such Ship, or any of them, shall for each Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Three hundred Pounds Sterling. XXXII. If such Emigration Officer shall consider that any of the Provisions or Stores or Water are not of a good and wholesome Quality, or are not in a sweet and good Condition, it shall be lawful for him to reject and mark the same, or the Packages or Vessels in which they are contained, and to direct the same to be landed or emptied; and if such rejected Provisions or Stores or Water shall not thereupon be forthwith landed or emptied, or if, after being landed, the same or any Part thereof shall be reshipped in such Ship, the Owner, Charterer, or Master thereof, or any of them, or if reshipped in any other "Passenger Ship," the Person causing the same to be reshipped, shall for each Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding One hundred Pounds Sterling. XXXIII. In every "Passenger Ship" the Water to be laden on board, as herein-before required, shall be carried in Tanks or in Casks to be approved by the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance. When Casks are used, they shall be sweet and tight, of sufficient Strength, and if of Wood, properly charred inside, and. Passengers Act Amendment. and shall not be capable severally of containing more than Three hundred Gallons each: The Staves of the Water Casks shall not be made of Fir, Pine, or soft Wood. In case of Noncompliance with any of the Requirements of this Section, the Owner, Charterer, or Master of such Ship, or any of them, shall for each Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds. Arrangements for the Ship. intermediate Ports to fill up Water. XXXIV. If any "Passenger Ship" shall be intended to call at Provision for any intermediate Port or Place during the Voyage, for the Pur- touching at pose of taking in Water, and if an Engagement to that Effect shall be inserted in the Bond mentioned in the Sixty-third Section of this Act, then it shall be sufficient to place on board at the Port of Clearance such Supply of Water as may be requisite, according to the Rate herein-after mentioned, for the Voyage of the said Ship to such intermediate Port or Place, subject to the following Conditions; (that is to say,) First, That the Emigration Officer signify his Approval in Writing of the Arrangement, to be carried amongst the Papers of the Ship, and exhibited to the Chief Officer of Customs, or to Her Majesty's Consular Officer, as the Case may be, at such intermediate Port or Place, and to be delivered to the Chief Officer of Customs, or to Her Majesty's Consular Officer, as the Case may be, on the Arrival of the said Ship at the final Port or Place of Discharge: Secondly, That if the Length of either Portion of the Voyage, Thirdly, That the Ship shall have on board at the Time a Clear- s. 63. XXXV. The Master of every "Passenger Ship" shall, during Dietary Scales the Voyage, including the Time of Detention at any Place before of Provisions. the Termination thereof, issue to each Passenger, or where the Passengers are divided into Messes, to the Head Man for the Time being of each Mess on behalf and for the Use of all the Members thereof, an Allowance of pure Water and sweet and wholesome Provisions, of good Quality, according to the following Dietary Scale; (that is to say,) if the Length of the Voyage, computed as herein-before mentioned, shall not exceed Eighty-four Days for Ships propelled by Sails only, or Fifty Days for Ships propelled by Steam, or Steam in aid of Sails, then according to the Dietary Scale marked "A. ;" but if the Length of the Voyage, computed as aforesaid, shall exceed Eighty-four Days for Ships propelled by Sails only, or Fifty Days for Ships propelled by Steam, or Steam in aid of Sails, then according to the Dietary Scale marked "B." WATER. Arrangements for the Ship. Passengers Act Amendment. WATER. Three Quarts of Water daily to each Statute Adult, exclusive of the Quantity herein-before specified as necessary for cooking the Articles herein-after required to be issued in a cooked State. PROVISIONS.-Weekly, per Statute Adult. Penalty on ance. SUBSTITUTIONS. Substitutions at the following Rates may, at the Option of the Master of any "Passenger Ship," be made in the above Dietary Scales, that is to say :— 1 lb. of preserved Meat 1 lb. of Rice lb. of preserved Potatoes 10 oz. of Currants for 1 lb. of Salt Pork or Beef. - for versâ. 1 lb. of Potatoes. for 8 oz. of Raisins. Passengers Act Amendment. shall be liable for each Offence to a Penalty not exceeding Fifty Arrangements Pounds Sterling. for the Ship. XXXVI. The Messes into which the Passengers in any Passen ger Ship may be divided shall not consist of more than Ten Size of Messes. Statute Adults in each Mess, and Members of the same Family, whereof One at least is a Male Adult, shall be allowed to form a separate Mess. The Provisions according to the above Scale shall Provisions to be be issued, such of them as require to be cooked, in a properly issued daily, cooked State, daily before Two o'Clock in the Afternoon, to the and Articles which require Head Person for the Time being of each Mess on behalf and for cooking to be the Use of the Members thereof. The first of such Issues shall cooked. be made before Two o'Clock in the Afternoon of the Day of Embarkation to or for such Passengers as shall be then on board. In case of Noncompliance with any of the Requirements of this Section, the Master of the Ship shall for each Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds. authorize an al tary Scale. XXXVII. The said Emigration Commissioners for the Time Power to Emibeing, acting under the Authority of One of Her Majesty's Princi- gration Compal Secretaries of State, may from Time to Time, by any Notice missioners to for that Purpose, issued under the Hands of any Two of such ternative DieCommissioners, and published in the London Gazette, authorize the Issue of Provisions in any "Passenger Ship" according to such other Dietary Scale (besides that herein-before prescribed) as shall in their Opinion contain in the whole an equivalent Amount of wholesome Nutriment; and after the Publication of such Notice it shall be lawful for the Master of any "Passenger Ship" to issue Provisions to his Passengers either according to the Scale by this Act prescribed, or according to the Scale authorized by the said Commissioners, whichever may have been set forth in the Contract Tickets of the Passengers: Provided always, that the said Commissioners acting under such Authority and by such Notice as aforesaid may revoke or alter any such Dietary Scale authorized by them, as Occasion may require. XXXVIII. Every Passenger Ship" carrying as many as One hundred Passengers shall have on board a seafaring Person, who gers Stewards. shall be rated in the Ship's Articles as Passengers Steward, and who shall be approved by the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, and who shall be employed in messing and serving out the Provisions to the Passengers, and in assisting to maintain Cleanliness, Order, and good Discipline among the Passengers, and who shall not assist in any way in navigating or working the Ship. 66 Power to Commissioners to alter Dietary Scale. As to Passen In case of Noncompliance with any of the Requirements of this Penalty on Section, the Master of the Ship shall for each Offence be liable Noncomplito a Penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds nor less than Five Pounds ance. Sterling. ratus. XXXIX. Every "Passenger Ship" carrying as many as One As to Passenhundred Passengers shall also have on board a seafaring Man, or ger Cooks and if carrying more than Three hundred "Statute Adults," Two cooking Appaseafaring Men, to be rated and approved as in the Case of Passengers Stewards, who shall be employed in cooking the Food of the Passengers: A convenient Place for cooking shall also be set apart on Deck; and a sufficient cooking Apparatus, properly covered Passengers Act Amendment. Arrangements covered in and arranged, shall be provided, to the Satisfaction of for the Ship. the said Emigration Officer, together with a proper Supply of Fuel adequate, in his Opinion, for the intended Voyage. In case of Noncompliance with any of the Requirements of this Section, the Master of the Ship shall for each Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds nor less than Five Pounds Sterling. Penalty on ance. In what Cases Interpreters to be carried. Penalty. In what Cases a Medical Man must be carried. Penalty. Qualification of Penalty. XL. In every Foreign "Passenger Ship" in which as many as One Half of the Passengers shall be British Subjects, unless the Master and Officers or not less than Three of them shall understand and speak intelligibly the English Language, there shall be carried, where the Number of Passengers does not exceed Two hundred and fifty, One Person, and where it exceeds Two hundred and fifty, Two Persons, who understand and speak intelligibly the Language spoken by the Master and Crew and also the English Language, and such Persons shall act as Interpreters, and be employed exclusively in Attendance on the Passengers, and not in the working of the Ship; and no such Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea without having such Interpreter or Interpreters on board; and the Master of any such Foreign Ship clearing out or proceeding to Sea without having such Interpreter or Interpreters on board as aforesaid shall for each Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds nor less than Five Pounds Sterling. XLI. Every "Passenger Ship" shall in the following Cases carry a duly qualified Medical Practitioner, who shall be rated on the Ship's Articles : First, when the Duration of the intended Voyage, as hereinbefore computed, exceeds Eighty Days in the Case of Ships propelled by Sails, and Forty-five Days in the Case of Ships propelled by Steam, and the Number of Passengers on board exceeds Fifty: Second, whenever the Number of Persons on board (including In case of Noncompliance with any of the Requirements of this XLII. No Medical Practitioner shall be considered to be duly qualified for the Purposes of this Act unless authorized by Law to practise in some Part of Her Majesty's Dominions, or, in the Case of a Foreign Ship, in the Country to which such Ship may belong, as a Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary, nor unless his Name shall have been notified to the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, and shall not be objected to by him, nor unless he shall be provided with proper Surgical Instruments to the Satisfaction of such Officer: Provided nevertheless, that where the Majority of the Passengers in any "Passenger Ship," or as many as Three hundred, are Foreigners, any Medical Practitioner who may be approved by such Emigration Officer may be carried therein. In case any Person shall proceed or attempt to proceed as |