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to and recoverable by or on account of the owner, charterer, or master of such passenger ship, or any of them, for or in respect of the whole number of passengers and cabin passengers who may have embarked in such ship, which total amount of passage money shall be proved by the defendant, if he will have the advantage of this limitation of the debt; and if any such passengers are forwarded or conveyed to their intended destination under the provisions of the last preceding section, they shall not be entitled to the return of their passage money, or to any compensation for loss of passage under the provisions of the said “Passengers Act, 1855.”

17. In the case of a passenger ship of which neither the owners nor charterers reside in the United Kingdom, the bond required to be given to the Crown by the sixty-third section of the “Passengers Act, 1855,” shall be for the sum of five thousand pounds instead of two thousand pounds; and an additional condition shall be inserted in such bond to the effect that the obligors therein shall, subject to the provisions and limitations hereinbefore contained, be liable for and shall pay to Her Majesty and Her Successors, as a Crown debt, all expenses which may be incurred under the provisions hereinbefore and in the “Passengers Act, 1855,” contained, in rescuing, maintaining, and forwarding to their destination any passengers of such ships who by reason of shipwreck or any other cause, except their own neglect or default, may not be conveyed to their intended destination by or on behalf of the owner, charterer, or master of such ship.

18. The said “Passengers Act, 1855,” and this Act, shall be construed together as one Act.

SCHEDULE A.

Form of Governor’s or Consul’s Certificate of expenditure in the case of passengers shipwrecked, &c.

I hereby certify, that, acting under and in conformity with the provisions of the British “Passengers Act, 1855,” and of the “Passengers Act Amendment Act, 1863,” I have defrayed the expenses incurred in rescuing, maintaining, supplying with necessary bedding, provisions, and stores (a), and in forwarding to their destination, passengers (including cabin passengers (b)) who were proceeding from to in the passenger ship _____, which was wrecked at sea, &c. (c)

(a) N.B.—1. If more passengers were rescued than forwarded or if bedding, &c., was not supplied, alter the certificate to suit the facts of the case.

(b) N.B.—2. Omit the words in brackets when necessary.

(c) N.B.—3. State generally the nature of the disaster and where it occurred. But if the passengers were only left behind without any default of their own, state the fact accordingly.

And I further certify, for the purposes of the tenth section of the said “Passengers Amendment Act, 1863,” that the total amount of such expenses is _____ pounds, and that such expenses were duly incurred by me under the said Acts or one of them.

Given under my hand, this day of 18 _____.

[Governor of, &c., (or as the case may be) Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul at]

[From the New Zealand Gazette, Oct. 30, 1863.]

Private Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 30th Oct., 1863.

THE Governor having accepted the resignation of The Honorable Thomas Russell, holding the offices of Colonial Secretary and Secretary for Crown Lands,

The Honorable Reader Gilson Wood, holding the offices of Colonial Treasurer and Commissioner of Customs,

The Honorable Francis Dillon Bell, holding the office of Minister for Native Affairs,

The Honorable Crosbie Ward, holding the office of Postmaster-General,

The Honorable Thomas Russell, holding the office of Minister for Colonial Defence,

His Excellency has been pleased this day to appoint—

The Honorable William Fox, to be Colonial Secretary,

The Honorable Reader Gilson Wood to be Colonial Treasurer and Commissioner of Customs,

The Honorable Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, to be Postmaster-General,

The Honorable Thomas Russell to be Minister for Colonial Defence.

By command,

WILLIAM SEED,

Private Secretary.

Private Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 30th October, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased this day to appoint

The Honorable Frederick Whitaker, the Attorney-General, with first seat in the Ministry,

The Honorable William Fox,

The Honorable Reader Gilson Wood,

The Honorable Thomas Bannatyne Gillies,

The Honorable Thomas Russel,

to be Members of the Executive Council; and His Excellency directs it to be notified that these gentlemen have this day taken the necessary Oaths.

WILLIAM SEED,

Private Secretary.