the animals, and for the stowage of their fodder:

6. Not more than six dogs, and no pigs or male 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.

7. 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 in sailing vessels, or fifty days for steamers, shall be complied with 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.

8. 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 oatmeal, or of one pound rice, or of one pound of peas.

9. The forty-sixth Section of the said “Passengers Act, 1855,” shall be applicable to cabin as well as to other passengers housed on an equal count of sickness; and the passage money of all cabin or other passengers so housed 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 housed one half only of their passage money shall be recoverable.

10. 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fifty-third, and fifty-fourth Sections of the said “Passengers Act, 1855,” shall be and the same are hereby repealed, except as to the recovery and application of any penalty for any offence committed against the said Act, and except so far as may be necessary for supporting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, in 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 incurring 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 such 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 the commencement of the voyage, and if the passengers, or any of them, shall be brought back to the United Kingdom, or if any passenger ship shall put into any port or place in the United Kingdom in a damaged state, the master, charterer, or owner shall, within forty-eight hours thereafter, give to the nearest Emigration Officer, or in the absence of such Officer to the chief Officer of Customs, a written declaration to the following effect: that is to say, if the ship shall have been wrecked, or rendered unfit to proceed on her voyage, that the owner, charterer, or master thereof, shall embark and convey the passengers in some other eligible ship, to sail within six weeks from the date thereof, to the port or place for which their passages respectively had been previously taken; and if the ship shall have put into port in a damaged state, then that she shall be made seaworthy, and fit in all respects for her intended voyage, and-hall, within six weeks from the date of such undertaking, sail again with her passengers; in either of the above cases, the owner, charterer, or master shall, until the passengers proceed on their voyage, either lodge and maintain them on board in the same manner as if they were at sea, or pay to them subsistence money after the rate of one shilling and sixpence a day for each statute adult, unless the passengers shall be maintained in any hulk or establishment under the superintendence of the Emigration Commissioners mentioned in the said “Passengers Act, 1855,” in which case the subsistence money shall be paid to the Emigration Officer at such port or place. If the substituted ship or damaged ship, as the case may be, shall not sail within the time prescribed as aforesaid, or if default shall be made in any of the requirements of this Section, such passengers respectively, or any Emigration Officer on their behalf, shall be entitled to recover, by summary process, as in the said “Passengers Act, 1855,” is mentioned, all moneys which shall have been paid by or on account of such passengers or any of them for such passage.