Clarke, Richard [Editor]: The regulations of the government of Fort William in Bengal in force at the end of 1853 - to which are added, the acts of the government of India in force in that presidency: with lists of titles and an index (3): Acts from 1834 to 1853 (London, 1854)

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ACT XV.

[A.D. 1842.

tiers of berths ; and that no such ship or vessel shall carry passengers on
any such voyage to Mauritius unless there shall be an interval of six inches
at least between the deck or platform and the door of the lower tier
throughout the whole extent thereof; and whatever may be the tonnage
of the ship or vessel, no greater number of passengers shall be taken on
board of such ship or vessel than shall be after the rate of one such person
for every twelve superficial feet of the lower deck or platform unoccupied
by goods or stores, not being the personal luggage of such persons.
AY/M. In the computation of the number of passengers within the mean-
ing of these Regulations, two chiidren under the age of ten years shall be
considered as equal to and shall be reckoned as one person only.
There shall be actualiy laden and on board of every ship or vessel
bringing emigrants into Mauritius, at the time of departure of such ship
or vessel from the port or place at which such labourers shafl be embarked,
good and wholesome provisions for the use and consumption of the said
passengers, over and above the victualling of the crew, to the amount or in
the proportion following; that is to say, a supply of water to the amount
of tive gallons to every week of the computed voyage for every passenger
on board such ship or vessel, such water being carried in tanks or sweet
casks, and a supply of rice, bread, biscuit, dour, oatmeal, or bread studs,
to the amount of seven pounds weight to every week of the computed
voyage for every such passenger. Provided always, that when any such
ship or vessel shall be destined to call at a port or place in the course of
her voyage for the purpose of Riling up her water-casks, a supply of water
at the rate before mentioned for every week of an average voyage to such
port or place of calling shall be deemed to be a compliance with this
Regulation. And provided that the preceding Regulation regarding food
shall be deemed to have been complied with in any case where it shall be
made to appear that by the special authority of the Governor-General of
India, any other articles of food were substituted for the articles above
enumerated, as being in his judgment equivalent thereto.
The number of weeks winch shall be deemed necessary for the
voyage to Mauritius from any port or ports in India shall be such as
shall, from time to time, be determined by any law or ordinance to be pro-
mulgated for that purpose by the Governor-General of India in Council,
and according to any such law or ordinance shall and may be further
determined, whether at diderent periods of the year diderent estimations
are to be made of the probable length of any such voyage, and if by any
such law or ordinance the removal of emigrants should during any parti-
cular period of the year be prohibited altogether, then any such removal
during such prohibited period shall in Mauritius be regarded, dealt with, and
punished as an infringement of these present Regulations.
AY/MM. Before any such ship or vessel shall be cleared out on any such
voyage, the agent appointed under this ordinance for the port or place from
which such ship or vessel shall be cleared out, shall survey, or cause to be
surveyed by some competent person, the provisions and water hereinbefore
required to be on board for the consumption of passengers, and shall ascer-
tain that the same are in good and sweet condition, and also that, over and
above the same, there is on board an ample supply of water and stores tor
the victualling of the crew of the ship or vessel; and shall also ascertain
that such ship or vessel is generally reputed seaworthy, and that the direc-