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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
mander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Order in Council,
made on the Fourth day of October,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine,
the Province of Marlborough was constituted
and established under the "New Provinces
Act, 1858," and it is provided by the Con-
stitution Act that it shall be lawful for the
Governor of New Zealand, by Proclamation or
otherwise, to dissolve the Provincial Council of
any Province, whenever he shall think it ex-
pedient to do so;
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the said
power do by this Proclamation dissolve the
Provincial Council of the said Province of
Marlborough.
Given under my hand, at Welling-
ton, and issued under the Seal
of the Colony of New Zealand,
this sixteenth day of May, in
the year of our Lord, One
thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two.
G. GREY.
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLIAM Fox.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

A PROCLAMATION

Bringing into force certain Regulations
touching the carriage of passengers from
New Zealand to other English possessions
in Australasia.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight, Commander of
the Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand and
its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c.,
&c.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial
Parliament, passed in the Session held
in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth years
of Her present Majesty's reign, intituled "An
Act to empower the Governors of the several
Australian Colonies to regulate the number of
passengers to be carried in vessels plying
between Ports in those Colonies," it is amongst
other things enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor of each of Her Majesty's Colo-
nies already or hereafter to be established in
Australasia by any Proclamation to be by him
from time to time issued for the purpose (which
Proclamation shall take effect from the issuing
thereof, if no day shall be named therein for
the purpose) to prescribe such Rules as he
shall think proper for determining the number
of passengers to be carried in any passenger
ship which shall proceed from any such Colony
to any other of Her Majesty's possessions for
the time being in Australasia, and for deter-
mining on what deck or decks and subject, to
what reservations or conditions passengers
may be carried, and also to prescribe
such penalties for the infraction or
non-observance of such Rules as to such
Governor may seem proper; and it is also
enacted that from the time when any such
Proclamation shall take effect, and so long as
the same shall continue in force, the rules and
enactments contained in "The Passengers
Act, 1855," relating to the number of
passengers to be carried in any pas-
senger-ship, and the deck or decks whereon
they are to be carried, shall cease to apply to any
vessel to which such Proclamation shall be
applicable save only as to the recovery and
application of any penalty for any offence
committed against the said Act before such
Proclamation shall take effect:
Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the
power vested in me by the above recited Act,
do issue this my Proclamation to take effect
from the 16th day of June, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two, and I do hereby
prescribe the Rules hereinafter set forth for
determining the number of passengers who
may be carried in any passenger ship which
shall proceed from the Colony of New Zealand
to any other of Her Majesty's possessions for
the time being in Australasia, and on what
deck or decks and under what reservations or
conditions passengers may be carried, and the
penalties for the infraction or non-observance
of such Rules, that is to say:-
A.-SAILING VESSELS.

1. No ship propelled by sails only shall
   carry a greater number of persons (including
   every individual on board) than in the propor-
   tion of one statute adult to every two tons of
   her registered tonnage.
2. No ship shall carry under the poop or in
   the round-house or deck-house or on the upper
   passenger-deck a greater number of passengers
   than in the proportion of one statute adult to
   every twelve clear superficial feet of deck
   allotted to their use.
3. No ship shall carry on her lower passen-
   ger-deck a greater number of passengers than
   in the proportion of one statute adult to every
   fifteen clear superficial feet of deck allotted to
   their use, provided, nevertheless, that if the
   height between such lower passenger-deck and
   the deck immediately above it shall be less
   than seven feet, or if the apertures (exclusive
   of side scuttles) through which light land air
   shall be admitted together to the lower passen-
   ger-deck shall be less in size than in the
   proportion of three square feet to every one
   hundred superficial feet of the lower passenger-
   deck no greater number of passengers shall be
   carried on such deck than in the proportion of
   one statute adult to every twenty-five clear
   superficial feet thereof.