THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

4. No ship, whatever be her tonnage or
   superficial space of passenger-decks, shall carry
   a greater number of passengers on the whole
   than in the proportion of one statute adult to
   every five superficial feet clear for exercise on
   the upper deck or poop (if secured, and fitted
   on the top with a railing or guard, to the
   satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the
   port of clearance) on any round-house or deck-
   house.
5. In the measurement of the passenger-
   decks, poop, round-house, or deck-house, the
   space for the hospital and that occupied by
   such portion of the personal luggage of the
   passengers as the Emigration Officer may
   permit to be carried there shall be included.
   B.—STEAMERS.
   The number of passengers who may be
   carried on board of any vessel propelled by
   steam power shall be ascertained and deter-
   mined in manner following, viz.:—
6. Measure in cubic feet the clear space
   allotted to fore-cabin passengers between
   decks, and divide the cubic contents by 72.
7. Count the number of sleeping berths
   exclusively provided for the accommodation of
   fore-cabin passengers, and add to it the
   number obtained as above.
8. The total number thus obtained is the
   total number of fore-cabin passengers who may
   be carried.
9. Proceed in the same manner with the
   space allotted to after-cabin passengers.
   The results of the said computations shall
   determine the number of fore-cabin and after-
   cabin passengers respectively who may be
   carried on board of a vessel propelled by steam
   power and all passengers on board thereof shall
   be included in one or other of the said denomi-
   nations.
   PENALTIES.
   If there shall be on board of any ship or
   vessel at or after the time of clearance a
   greater number either of persons or passengers
   (except by births at sea) than in the proportions
   respectively hereinbefore mentioned, the master
   of such ship or vessel shall be liable to a penalty
   not exceeding Five pounds nor less than One
   pound sterling for each person or passenger
   constituting such excess.

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
Disallowing the Taranaki "Weights and
Measures Ordinance, 1862."

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight, Commander of

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the Most Honorable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Com-
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 Act made and enacted
in the Imperial Parliament, holden in
the Fifteenth and Sixteenth years of the reign
of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An
Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the
Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other
things eacted that whenever any Bill shall
have been assented to by the Superintendent
as in the said Act provided, the Superintendent
shall forthwith transmit to the Governor an
authentic copy thereof, and it shall be lawful
for the Governor at any time within three
months after any such Bill shall have been
received by him to declare by Proclamation
his disallowance of such Bill, and that any such
disallowance shall make void and annul the
same from and after the day of the date of
such Proclamation or any subsequent day to
be named therein;

And whereas the Ordinance hereinafter
specified has been enacted by the Superinten-
dent of the Province of Taranaki, with the
advice and consent of the Provincial Council
thereof, and the said Ordinance was received
by the Governor on the Fifth day of May,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two;
And whereas it is expedient that the said
Ordinance should be disallowed:
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New
Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested
in me in that behalf by the said recited Act of
Parliament, do hereby proclaim and declare
my disallowance of the following Ordinance,
passed by the Superintendent and Provincial
Council of the Province of Taranaki, viz.:—
"WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ORDINANCE, 1862."

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
For the Naturalization of certain persons.

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.
WHEREAS by "The Naturalization
Act, 1861," it is enacted that every