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the rate of at least ten superficial feet for each statute adult:

(4.) That no greater number of passengers be carried than in the proportion of fifteen to every one hundred tons of the ship’s registered tonnage:

(4.) That in passenger ships of less than five hundred tons registered tonnage not more than two head of large cattle be carried, nor in passenger ships of larger tonnage more than one additional head of such cattle for every additional two hundred tons of the ship’s registered tonnage, nor more in all in any passenger ship than ten head of each cattle: The term “large cattle” shall include both sexes of horned cattle, deer, horses, and asses; four sheep of either sex, or four female goats, shall be equivalent to, and may, subject to the same conditions, be carried in lieu of one head of large cattle:

(5.) That proper arrangements be made, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the port of clearance, for the housing, maintenance, and cleanliness of the animals, and for the stowage of their fodder:

(6.) Not more than six dogs, and no monkeys or made goats, shall be conveyed as cargo in any passenger ship: For any breach of this prohibition, or of any of the above conditions, the owner, charterer, and master of the ship, or any of them, shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding three hundred pounds nor less than five pounds.

9. The requirements of the thirty-fifth section of the said “Passengers Act 1855,” that six ounces of lime juice should be issued weekly to each statute adult on voyages exceeding eighty-four days in duration for sailing vessels, or fifty days for steamers, shall be confined to the period when the ship shall be within the tropics; during the other portions of the voyage, the issue of lime juice shall be at the discretion of the Medical Practitioner on board; or, if there be no such practitioner on board, at the discretion of the master of the ship.

10. In addition to the substitutions in the dietary scales specified in the thirty-fifth section of the said “Passengers Act 1855,” soft bread baked on board may be issued, at the option of the master of any passenger ship, in lieu of the following articles, and in the following proportions: (that is to say)—one pound and a quarter of a pound of such soft bread may be issued in lieu of one pound of flour, or of one pound of biscuit, or of one pound and a quarter of a peck of oatmeal, or of one pound of rice, or of one pound of peas.

11. The forty-sixth section of the said “Passengers Act 1855” shall be applicable to cabin as well as to other passengers landed on account of sickness; and the passage money of all cabin or other passengers so landed may be recovered in the manner pointed out in the said Act, upon the delivery up of their contract tickets, and notwithstanding that the ship may not have sailed: Provided always, that in the case of cabin passengers so landed, one half only of their passage money shall be recoverable.

12. The twelfth, fifty-first, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth sections of the said “Passengers Act 1855” shall be and the same are hereby repealed, except as to the recovery and application of any penalty for any offence committed against the said Act, and except so far as may be necessary for supporting or continuing any proceeding heretofore taken or hereafter to be taken thereunder; and in lieu of the enactments contained in such sections the enactments in the four next following sections shall respectively be substituted—(that is to say,)

13. If any passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea without the master having first obtained such certificate of clearance, or without his having joined in executing such bond to the Crown as by the said “Passengers Act, 1855,” are required, or if such ship, after having put to sea, shall put into any port or place in the United Kingdom in a damaged state, and shall leave or attempt to leave such port or place with passengers on board without the master having first obtained such certificate of clearance as is required by section fifty of the said “Passengers Act, 1855,” such ship shall be forfeited to the use of Her Majesty, and may be seized by any officer of Customs, if found within two years from the commission of the offence within any port or place in Her Majesty’s dominions; and such ship shall thereupon be dealt with in the same manner as if she had been seized as forfeited for an offence inuring forfeiture under any of the laws relating to the Customs: Provided that it shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State to release, if he shall think fit, any such forfeited ship from seizure and forfeiture, on payment by the owner, charterer, or master thereof, to the use of Her Majesty, of such sum not exceeding two thousand pounds, as such Secretary of State may by any writing under his hand specify.

14. If any passenger ship shall be wrecked, or otherwise rendered unfit to proceed on her intended voyage, while in any port of the United Kingdom, or after