the proportion of three square feet to every one hundred superficial feet of the lower passenger-deck no greater number of passengers shall be carried on such deck than in the proportion of one statute adult to every twenty-five clear superficial feet thereof.

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 determined in manner following, viz.:

1. Measure in cubic feet the clear space allotted to fore-cabin passengers between decks, and divide the cubic contents by 72.

2. Count the number of sleeping berths exclusively provided for the accommodation of fore-cabin passengers, and add to it the number obtained as above.

3. The total number thus obtained is the total number of fore-cabin passengers who may be carried.

4. 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 denominations.

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 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.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,

WILLIAM FOX.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

A PROCLAMATION.

Intimating Her Majesty’s assent to certain Bills 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 certain Bills passed by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said Colony, intituled,

“An Act to extend to the Province of Marlborough certain provisions of the Naval and Military Settlers Act, 1860,”

“An Act to amend the Regulations for the sale or disposal of Crown Lands in the Province of Nelson,”

“An Act to enable the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland to issue Certificates by way of Land Orders to certain persons,”

“An Act to provide for the settlement of certain outstanding claims by Pensioners lately serving in the New Zealand Fensible Force,”

were presented to the Governor of the said Colony for Her Majesty’s Assent, and the said Bills were 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 whom it may concern that the said Bills have 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 twenty-ninth 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!

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Acts left to their operation by Her Majesty.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 9th June, 1862.

THE following Acts, passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand in the Session