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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

cooks, appointed under the thirty-
ninth section of the said "Passen-
gers Act, 1855," to light the fires, and
to take care that they be kept alight
during the day; and also to take care
that each passenger or family of pas-
sengers shall have the use of the fire-
place at proper hours, in an order to
be fixed by the master.

3. When the passengers are dressed, their
   beds shall be rolled up.

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 com-
   mencement of breakfast, all the emi-
   grants, except as hereinbefore except-
   ed, 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 con-
   cluded shall be also dry holystoned or
   scraped. This duty, as well as that
   of cleaning the ladders, hospitals,
   round-houses, and water-closets, and
   of pumping water into the cisterns or
   tanks for the supply of the water-
   closets, shall be performed by a party
   who shall be taken in rotation from
   the adult males above fourteen, in the
   proportion of five to every one hun-
   dred emigrants, and shall be consi-
   dered as sweepers for the day. But
   the single women shall do all necessary
   acts for keeping clean and in a proper
   state their own compartment, where a
   separate compartment is allotted to
   them, and the occupant of each berth
   shall see that his or her 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 by 10 o'clock P.M. ex-
   cept under the permission or authority
   of the surgeon, or if there be no sur-
   geon, of the master.

9. On each passenger deck there shall be
   lit at dusk, and kept burning till day-
   light, 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 be-
    tween 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 wherever 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 fixtures, shall be removed and
    dry-scrubbed, and, weather permit-
    ting, taken on deck at least twice a
    week.

15. Two days in the week shall be ap-
    pointed by the master as washing
    days; but no washing or drying of
    clothes shall on any account be per-
    mitted 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 apparel. 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
    custody 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. The following kinds of misconduct are
    hereby strictly prohibited; that is to
    say, all immoral or indecent acts or
    conduct, taking improper liberties or
    using improper familiarity with the
    female passengers, using blasphemous,
    obscene, or indecent language, or
    language tending to a breach of the
    peace, swearing, gambling, drunken-
    ness, fighting, disorderly, riotous,
    quarrelsome, orinsubordinate conduct,
    also all deposits of filth or offensive
    acts of uncleanliness in the between
    decks: Provided that no conviction
    under the said Passengers Act for
    any of the offences herein specified
    shall operate as a bar to any civil or
    criminal proceedings which may in
    the ordinary course of law be insti-
    tuted for the same offence by any
    party aggrieved.

21. Fire-arms, swords, and other offensive
    weapons shall, as soon as the pas-
    sengers embark, be placed in the
    custody of the master.

22. No sailors shall be allowed to remain
    on the passenger deck among the
    passengers, except on duty.

23. Nopassenger shall go to the ship's cook-
    house without special permission from
    the master, nor remain in the fore-
    castle among the sailors on any
    account.

24. In vessels not expressly required by