APRIL 6.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 453

AS TO THE CONVEYANCE, ETC., OF PASSENGERS.

The tender must state the maximum rates to be charged to second-cabin, third-cabin, and steerage
passengers who pay their own fares respectively to New Zealand, and no higher rates respectively for
such passengers will be permitted. Such sum is to be per statute adult, and is to include proper cabin
or berth accommodation, and proper dietary and other supplies for such passengers respectively (such
dietary and supplies for third-cabin and steerage passengers not being less in quantities and quality
than for Government emigrants), from the date fixed for the vessel's departure until the time of her
discharge in the passengers' respective ports of destination in New Zealand.

Children under one year of age at the time of embarkation, who accompany such passengers, are
to be conveyed and dieted free of charge.

Second-cabin passengers are to be allowed not less than 25 cubic feet of luggage, and third-cabin
and steerage passengers not less than 15 cubic feet of luggage, per statute adult, free of charge, paying
for any excess at the rate of 2s. 6d. per cubic foot.

The said rates are to include the taking on board and the landing of such passengers and their
luggage.

In a ship which carries Government emigrants, passengers paying their own fares may not be
berthed in that portion of the between-decks reserved for the emigrants without special permission in
writing from the Agent-General, and steerage passengers, not being Government emigrants, may not
be taken in the ship unless approved in like manner, and all passengers to whom such permission shall
be granted will be required to sign an undertaking to conform to the regulations established by the
Government.

AS TO THE CONVEYANCE, ETC., OF EMIGRANTS.

The Government do not undertake to send any emigrants by any ship, or, if any shall be sent
guarantee any particular number; but all emigrants which the Government shall deem it convenient
to send from the United Kingdom to the colony by the ships of the Contractors are to be conveyed by
any ship as they may require.

The Government are not, however, to require less than 150 nor more than 300 statute adults to
be conveyed in any one ship, unless by agreement with the Contractors.

Each ship is to be provided with the necessary quantities of provisions and other articles and
things to enable the stipulations hereinafter contained to be observed and complied with, and also with
all necessary and sufficient provisions and stores for the officers and crew, and of not inferior quality to
that of the like articles provided for the emigrants, besides what may be required for any other
passengers, if any.

Each ship is to be fitted and provided with sufficient scuttles, deck-lights, and ventilation; also
with proper bed-places, seats, tables, water-closets, urinals, and shoots, hospitals and dispensary,
issuing-room, &c.; pump and hose for drawing water from the hold; cooking apparatus, oven, baking
troughs, and other requisites for baking bread, to the satisfaction of the Government; also with the
articles mentioned in the Schedules marked A, B, C, D, and E, hereunto annexed, and with whatever
else the Government may deem necessary for the cleanliness of the ship, and the convenience and
safety of the emigrants. The fittings of the ship are to be approved by the Government.

Notwithstanding the provisions of "The Passengers Act, 1855," a space of 18 clear superficial
feet, at the least, of deck is to be calculated and allowed for the use of each statute adult, including
the space allotted for hospitals. The space between decks is to be divided for emigrants into three
compartments only that is to say, for single men, married couples, and single women; and there is
to be at least one separate hatchway and ladderway from each compartment to the upper deck.

An issuing-room of such dimensions and in such part of the ship as shall be approved by the
Government is to be provided, but not on the passenger-deck, from which room the provisions are to
be issued daily to the emigrants as hereinafter provided. The issuing-room is to be fitted with counter,
scales and weights, and all other requisites, to the satisfaction of the Government.

Three separate hospitals are to be provided-one for men, one for women and children, and one
for single women-which are to be of the form and dimensions, and placed in such positions, and to be
furnished with such bedding and requisites, as shall be required by the Government. Bath-rooms,
with baths and proper appliances for obtaining a sufficient supply of water, are to be provided for use
by women and children, to the satisfaction in all respects of the Government. A bath-room, or
requisite appliance for bathing, is also to be provided for use by men.

The Contractors are, at their own expense, and to the satisfaction of the Government, to provide
and fit up an apparatus for distilling fresh from salt water, of a size calculated to supply not less than
500 gallons of water in twenty-four hours, and to be approved on behalf of the Government; and to
provide a person competent to manage such apparatus, and to keep the same working throughout every
day at the ship's expense so long as there shall be any emigrants on board, and to make all issues of
water to the emigrants, as far as practicable, from the water so distilled.

No gunpowder, hides, or any commodity likely, in the opinion of the Government, by reason of its
nature, quality, or quantity, to be detrimental to the safety or health of the emigrants, is to be taken
as cargo or otherwise. Such gunpowder as may be necessary for the ship's use is to be properly stowed
in a place of security. Rail, bar, hoop, and pig iron are not to be taken in quantities exceeding one-
fourth of the ship's register tonnage, nor salt in quantities exceeding one-tenth of such tonnage. The
cargo, of whatever kind, is to be stowed to the satisfaction of the Government if emigrants are carried.

Fourteen days prior to the day fixed for the ship to sail from London the Government will
furnish in writing a list of the numbers and ages of the emigrants expected to embark, according to
which list the Contractors are to proceed to fit up the ship, and the Government will not be liable to
make any payment in respect of any person who shall not actually embark as an emigrant, notwith-
standing such person may have been included in any list furnished by the Government, except that if
the short shipment exceeds ten statute adults the Government will pay one moiety of the passage-
money which would have been payable for each statute adult above ten short shipped.