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A PROCLAMATION

Intimating Her Majesty’s assent to a certain Bill passed by the General Assembly.

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 Majesty’s
Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same,
&c., &c.,

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the
Session of Parliament held in the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth years
of Her Majesty’s
reign, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution
to the Colony of New
Zealand,” it is amongst other things enacted
that no Bill which shall be reserved
for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure thereon
shall have any force or authority within
the Colony of New Zealand until the Governor
of the said Colony shall signify by Speech
or Message to the Legislative Council and
House of Representatives of the said Colony,
or by Proclamation, that such Bill has been
laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that
Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to
the same;

And whereas a certain Bill passed
by the Legislative Council and House of
Representatives of the said Colony, intituled
“An Act to regulate the descent of Lands
held by persons of the Native Race under
Title derived from the Crown,” was presented
to the Governor of the said Colony for
Her Majesty’s Assent, and the said Bill was
reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s
pleasure thereon:

Now, therefore, I, the Governor
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions
of the said in part recited Act, do by this Proclamation signify
and proclaim to all to whom it
may concern that the said Bill has been laid
before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her
Majesty has been pleased to assent to the
same.

Given under my hand at Wellington,
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.

By His Excellency’s command,
G. Grey.

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 Majesty’s Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&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
Colonies 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 the
same 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 determining
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
passenger-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 proportion
   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 passenger-
   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 and
   air shall be admitted together to the lower
   passenger-deck shall be less in size than in