28

such sickness; and when did it prevail.
How many persons were affected by it;
and have any of them died in the course
of the voyage?
Answer.

9. What number of officers, mariners,
   and passengers have you on board?
   Answer.

10. What was the whole number of per-
    sons on board your vessel when you sailed?
    Answer.

11. What is the whole number of per-
    sons now ill on board your vessel?
    Answer.

12. If there be no sickness now on
    board, when did the last attack of disease
    appear, and when did it entirely disappear?
    Answer.

Bye-laws for Passenger Vessels

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington,
the twenty-fifth day of June, 1868.

Present:
His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the tenth section of
"The Marine Act, 1867," it is enacted
that the Governor in Council may, from
time to time, make, vary, and repeal bye-
laws and regulations for the prevention of
overloading of either steam or sailing ves-
sels, and of overcrowding of sailing vessels
with passengers, and for defining and regu-
lating the conduct and duties of port
officers and harbour masters, and for regu-
lating all other matters relating to the pro-
tection of life and property of passengers
and others, as the case may be, and by such
bye-laws or regulations to impose any
penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds
in respect of any one voyage or attempted
voyage of any vessel, for the breach of
any bye-law or regulation framed for the
purpose of preventing the overloading of
either steam or sailing vessels and of the
overcrowding of sailing vessels with pas-
sengers, and any penalty not exceeding
fifty pounds for the breach of any such
bye-laws or regulations framed for any
other of the purposes in the said section
mentioned:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Go-
vernor, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the Colony, in
pursuance and exercise of the above recited
power and authority, doth hereby make the
following bye-laws for the purposes afore-
said, and doth order that the same shall
come into operation from the date of publi-
cation thereof.

Poanua Gorrie,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

BYE-LAWS.

1. No vessel, whether a steamer or
   sailing vessel, shall be so laden as to show
   less of her side above water amidships, as
   measured from the covering boards, than
   three inches for every foot of her draft of
   water; but paddle-steamers plying in rough
   water or at sea, shall in no case be laden so
   that their sponsons shall be less than one-
   fourth of the diameter of the paddles above
   the surface of the water.

2. No sailing vessel, trading on the
   coast of the Colony, shall be permitted to
   carry passengers unless she be, in the judg-
   ment of the Collector of Customs, or a
   surveyor appointed by him for the purpose,
   in good order, properly laden or ballasted,
   and fit for the intended voyage, commanded
   by a sober and experienced master, manned
   by an efficient crew, and properly equipped
   and fitted all round with sufficient bul-
   warks, rails, or stanchions with rope or
   chain, and carries at least one life buoy
   and one efficient boat in such a manner
   that both shall be immediately available in
   any emergency.

3. It shall be the duty of the Harbour
   Master or other port officer of any port to
   survey any sailing vessel for the purpose of
   ascertaining whether the regulations con-
   tained in these bye-laws have been com-
   plied with, when called upon to do so, and
   to notify the Collector of Customs, in
   writing, the result of such survey.

4. No sailing vessel, the duration of
   whose voyage does not exceed one day,
   reckoned as per schedule hereto, shall be
   permitted to carry a greater number of
   passengers than one to each ton register,
   or one to every five feet of clear deck space,
   free from all encumbrances; and all such
   vessels shall be provided with at least two
   gallons of water for each adult on board.

5. No decked sailing vessel, the duration
   of whose voyage exceeds one day, reckoned
   as per schedule hereto, shall be permitted
   to carry passengers, unless in addition to
   the equipments and fittings specified in the
   second bye-law, she be fitted with substan-
   tial and firmly secured body-hatches over
   the passenger hatchway, so fixed as to be
   capable of being kept open in all weathers,
   and of affording the greatest possible
   amount of light, air, and protection from
   wet, or unless she has on board sufficient
   water for the intended voyage, to the satis-
   faction of the Collector of Customs or the
   surveyor, and not less than two gallons for
   each adult passenger for each day of the
   average duration of the voyage; and no
   such vessel shall be permitted to carry more
   passengers than at the rate of one adult to
   every seventy-two cubic feet of clear space
   allotted to passenger accommodation below
   hatches, or a greater number of passengers
   than one for every registered ton of her
   burden, or a greater number than one for
   every seven superficial feet of deck space,
   clear for exercise, and properly protected by
   bulwark or rails as aforesaid. The number
   of passengers allowed to be carried shall in
   no case exceed the smallest number ascer-
   tained by any one of the three alternative
   methods of measuring mentioned herein.

6. No vessel carrying passengers shall
   be permitted to carry deck cargo unless it...