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

24. Three separate hospitals shall be provided—one for men, one for women and children, and
    one for single women, which shall be of the form and dimensions, and placed in such positions respec-
    tively, and 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 shall be provided for
    use by women and children, to the satisfaction in all respects of the Government. A bath-room or
    requisite appliances for bathing shall also be provided for use by men.

25. The Contractors shall, at their expense, and to the satisfaction of the Government, 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 shall
    provide a person competent to manage such apparatus, and shall keep the same working throughout
    every day at the ship's expense so long as there are any emigrants on board, and shall make all issues
    of water to the emigrants as far as practicable from the water so distilled.

26. 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, shall be
    taken as cargo or otherwise. Such gunpowder as may be necessary for the ship's use shall be properly
    stowed in a place of security. Rail, bar, hoop, and pig iron shall not 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, shall be stowed to the satisfaction of the Government if emigrants shall
    be conveyed in the ship.

27. The Government shall, fourteen days prior to the day fixed for the ship to sail from London,
    furnish in writing to the Contractors a list of the number and ages of the emigrants expected to
    embark, according to which list the Contractors shall proceed to fit up the ship, and the Government
    shall not be liable to make any payment in respect of any person who shall not actually embark and
    proceed as a passenger, notwithstanding such person may have been included in any list furnished by
    the Government, except that, if more than ten of the emigrants mentioned in such list shall not embark
    and proceed as passengers, the Government shall pay to the Contractors one moiety of the passage-
    moneys which would have been otherwise payable as hereinafter mentioned in respect of such emigrants
    in excess of the said number of ten who shall not embark and proceed as passengers.

28. Each ship shall be ready to be fitted fourteen days before the day fixed for the ship to sail
    from London, and the ship shall be fitted in the Port of London, and to the satisfaction of the
    Government.

29. All the fittings shall be completed, the cargo, provisions, and water shipped and stowed
    away—space being left in an approved part of the ship for the emigrants' baggage, as hereinafter
    provided—the 'tween decks cleared, and the ship in all respects ready for the reception of emigrants
    at the Port of Plymouth six hours before noon of the day fixed for the ship to leave Plymouth, after
    which time no other cargo shall be shipped. The emigrants shall then be taken on board, with their
    baggage, by the Contractors, and the victualling of them shall commence, the Government being
    allowed until six hours after the noon of such day to provide emigrants, and the ship shall proceed to
    sea immediately after the completion of the embarkation, or as soon afterwards as the state of the
    weather will permit. The Contractors shall obtain from an officer, to be appointed by the Government
    for that purpose, a certificate to the following effect: "I hereby certify that the fittings of the ship
    [Insert name] were complete, and that the vessel was in all respects ready for the reception of her
    emigrants six hours before noon of the day of , 188."

30. In the event of the ship not being ready for the reception of emigrants as before described,
    of which the Government shall be the sole judge, the Government may, in their discretion, provide the
    surgeon, matron, and emigrants with board and lodging on shore until all preparations shall have been
    completed to the satisfaction of the Government, the expenses of which will be deducted from the
    sum payable for the passage-money of the emigrants.

31. The Contractors, or some person duly authorized by them, shall provide, fill in, sign, and issue
    all contracts required to be given to emigrants by the law for the time being in force relating to
    emigrants.

32. The Contractors shall provide an emigrants' steward, whose duty it shall be to issue to the
    emigrants daily the provisions and water to which they are entitled according to the dietary scale.
    Schedules A and B (Particulars and Conditions of Contract).

33. The Contractors shall also provide for the exclusive use of the emigrants a competent baker
    and a cook, and such an additional cook, if any, as required by "The Passengers Act, 1855."
    The emigrants' steward, baker, and cook or cooks shall be approved respectively by the Govern-
    ment.

34. The Government shall appoint a surgeon to each ship, who shall be an officer of the ship and
    be borne on the articles. Instructions shall be issued to him as respects the Government emigrants,
    and the Contractors shall stipulate expressly with and obtain an undertaking from the captain that
    those instructions shall be respected and carried out. The surgeon shall be provided by the Contrac-
    tors with a separate cabin properly fitted up to the satisfaction of the Government, and a first-class
    passage, with 40 cubical feet of space in the hold for luggage, and shall be provided with one bottle of
    ale daily and three bottles of wine weekly for his personal consumption, or the Contractors may agree
    with the surgeon to give him a sum of money instead of wine or ale.

35. The Government will issue instructions to the captain as respects the Government emigrants,
    and an undertaking in accordance therewith shall be taken by the Contractors from him that they will
    be faithfully observed.

36. The Contractors shall, at their own expense, provide a competent person, approved of by the