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4. The decks, including the space under the
   bottom of the berths, shall be swept before
   breakfast, and all dirt thrown overboard.
5. The breakfast hour shall be from eight to
   nine o'clock A.M. Before the commencement
   of breakfast, all the emigrants, except as
   hereinbefore excepted, are to be out of bed
   and dressed, and the beds rolled up, and the
   deck on which the emigrants live properly
   swept.
6. The deck shall further be swept after every
   meal, and after breakfast is concluded shall
   be also dry holystoned or scraped. This
   duty, as well as that of cleaning the ladders,
   hospitals and round houses, shall be per-
   formed by a party who shall be taken in
   rotation from the adult males above fourteen,
   in the proportion of five to every one
   hundred emigrants, and shall be considered
   as sweepers for the day. But the single
   women shall perform this duty in their own
   compartment, where a separate compartment
   is allotted to them, and the occupant of each
   berth shall see that his own berth is well
   brushed out.
7. Dinner shall commence at one o'clock P.M.,
   and supper at six P.M.
8. The fires shall be extinguished at seven P.M.,
   unless otherwise directed by the master or
   required for the use of the sick; and the
   emigrants shall be in their berths at ten
   o'clock P.M., except under the permission or
   authority of the surgeon, or if there be no
   surgeon, of the master.
9. On each passenger deck there shall be lit
   at dusk and kept burning till daylight, three
   safety lamps, and such further number as
   shall allow one to be placed at each of the
   hatchways used by passengers.
10. No naked light shall be allowed between
    decks or in the hold, at any time or on any
    account.
11. The scuttles and stern ports, if any, shall,
    weather permitting, be opened at seven
    o'clock A.M. and kept open till ten o'clock
    P.M.; and the hatches shall be kept open
    whenever the weather permits.
12. The coppers and cooking utensils shall be
    cleaned every day, and the cisterns kept
    filled with water.
13. The beds shall be well shaken and aired on
    deck, weather permitting, at least twice a
    week.
14. The bottom boards of the berths, if not fix-
    tures, shall be removed and dry-scrubbed,
    and, weather permitting, taken on deck, at
    least twice a week.
15. Two days in the week shall be appointed by
    the master as washing days; but no washing
    or drying of clothes shall on any account be
    permitted between decks.
16. On Sunday mornings the passengers shall be
    mustered at ten o'clock A.M, and will be
    expected to appear in clean and decent ap-
    parel. The Lord's Day shall be observed as
    religiously as circumstances will admit.
17. No spirits or gunpowder shall be taken on
    board by any passenger; and if either of
    those articles be discovered in the possession
    of a passenger, it shall be taken into the cus-
    tody of the master during the voyage, and
    not returned to the passenger until he has
    landed or is on the point of landing.
18. No loose hay or straw shall be allowed below
    for any purpose.
19. No smoking shall be allowed between decks,
20. All gambling, fighting, riotous, disorderly,
    or quarrelsome conduct, swearing, and violent
    or indecent language, are strictly prohibited.
21. Fire-arms, swords, and other offensive wea-
    pons shall, as soon as the passengers embark,
    be placed in the custody of the master.
22. No sailor shall be allowed to remain on the
    passenger deck among the passengers, except
    on duty.
23. No passenger shall go to the ship's cook-
    house without special permission from the
    master, nor remain in the forecastle among
    the sailors on any account.
24. In vessels not expressly required by the said
    "Passengers Act, 1855," to have on board
    such ventilating apparatus as therein men-
    tioned, such other provision shall be made
    for ventilation as shall be required by the
    Emigration Officer at the port of embark-
    ation, or, in Lis absence, by the officers of
    Customs.
25. And to prevent all doubts in the construc-
    tion of this Order in Council it is hereby
    further ordered, that the terms "United
    Kingdom," "Passenger," "Passenger Ship,"
    "Passenger Deck," and "Master" shall
    herein have the same significations as are
    assigned to them respectively in the said
    "Passengers Act, 1855."

And the Right Honourable Henry Labouchere,
one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State,
is to give the necessary directions herein ac-
cordingly.
WM. L. BATHURST.

[CIRCULAR.]

Downing-street,
April 1st, 1856.

SIR, I transmit to you herewith copies of
two General Orders, which the Commissioners
of Customs, have issued to their Officers in the
United Kingdom, with regard to the carry-
ing into effect certain provisions of the
Merchant Shipping Act, of 1854; and I have
to instruct you to cause these General Orders
to be delivered to the Registrars of Shipping
in the Colony of New Zealand, for the guidance
of those Officers in all cases similar to those in
which the Orders are applicable.

I have, &c, &c.
Governor Gore Browne.

W. LABOUCHERE.

No. 176
1855.

By the Commissioners for managing and
causing to be levied and collected Her
Majesty's Customs and other Duties.

17th December, 1855.

READ the Reports of the Solicitor, the Chief
Registrar of Shipping, and the Surveyor-General
for Tonnage, suggesting that further instructions
may be issued to the Registrars on the following
points, for their guidance in carrying out the pro-
visions of the Act 17th and 18th Victoria, chap.
104, and 18th and 19th Victoria, chap. 91, in re-
gard to the registry of British Ships, viz.:

That an application to the Board from the
Owners, requiring a vessel to be re-measured,
under the 27th sec. of the Merchant Shipping
Act, be dispensed with, and that upon a written
application from the Owner, the Registrar may
cause the vessel to be re-measured under the
Regulations of the said section, transmitting to
the Board a quarterly account of the Vessels re