ELEVENTH

SCHEDULE.

Merchant Shipping.

57 & 58 VICT. c. 60,

Berths.

(4.) There shall not be more than two tiers of berths on any one deck. The interval between the floor of berths and the deck immediately beneath it shall not be less than six inches. The interval between each tier of berths and between the uppermost tier and the deck above it shall not be less than two feet six inches.

(5.) The berths shall be securely constructed and of dimensions not less than six feet in length and eighteen inches in breadth for each statute adult, and shall be sufficient in number for the proper accommodation of all the steerage passengers contained in the lists of passengers by this Act required to be delivered by the master of the ship.

(6.) No part of any berth shall be placed within nine inches of any water closet erected in the between decks.

(7.) All male steerage passengers of the age of fourteen years and upwards (except those who occupy berths with their wives) shall to the satisfaction of the emigration officer at the port of clearance be berthed in the fore part of the ship in a compartment divided off from the space appropriated to the other steerage passengers by a substantial and well-secured bulkhead without opening into or communicating with any adjoining steerage passenger's berth, or, if the ship is fitted with enclosed berths, in separate rooms.

(8.) Not more than one steerage passenger, except in the case of husband and wife, or females, or children under the age of twelve years, shall be placed in or Occupy the same berth.

(9.) Berths occupied by steerage passengers during the voyage shall not be taken down until forty-eight hours after the arrival of the ship at the port of final discharge, unless all the steerage passengers have voluntarily quitted the ship before the expiration of that time. The master of the ship shall alone be liable to a fine for breach of this regulation.

Hospitals.

(10.) Sufficient space shall be set apart in every emigrant ship for use exclusively as a hospital for the steerage passengers, properly divided off, to the satisfaction of the emigration officer at the port of clearance.

(11.) The space set apart for a hospital shall be under the poop or in the round house, or in any deck house which shall be properly built and secured to the satisfaction of the emigration officer at the port of clearance, or on the upper passenger deck, and not elsewhere.

(12.) The space so set apart shall contain not less than eighteen clear superficial feet for every fifty steerage passengers whom the ship carries; and shall be fitted with bed-places, and supplied with proper beds, bedding, and utensils to the satisfaction of the emigration officer at the port of clearance, and shall throughout the voyage be kept so fitted and supplied.

Privies.

(13.) Every emigrant ship shall be provided to the satisfaction of the emigration officer at the port of clearance with at least two privies, and with two additional privies on deck for every one hundred steerage passengers on board, and in ships carrying as many as fifty female steerage passengers with at least two water-closets under the poop or elsewhere on the upper deck to the satisfaction of the emigration officer for the exclusive use of women and young children. The privies shall be placed in equal numbers on each side of the ship, and need not in any case exceed twelve in number.

(14.) All such privies and water-closets shall be firmly constructed and maintained in a serviceable and cleanly condition throughout the voyage, and shall not be taken down until the expiration of forty-eight hours after the arrival of the ship at the final port of discharge, unless all the steerage passengers quit the ship before the expiration of that time.

(15.) The master of the ship shall alone be liable to a fine for breach of the regulations as to privies.

Light and Ventilation.

(16.) Every emigrant ship shall be supplied with such provisions for affording light and air to the passenger decks as the circumstances of the case may, in the judgment of the emigration officer at the port of clearance, require, and if there are as many as one hundred steerage passengers on board shall be supplied with an adequate and proper ventilating apparatus, to be approved by such emigration officer and fitted to his satisfaction.

(17.) The steerage passengers shall have the free and unimpeded use of the whole of each hatchway situated over the space appropriated to them, and over each such hatchway there shall be erected such a booby-hatch or other substantial covering as will, in the opinion of the emigration officer, afford the greatest amount of light and air, and of protection from wet, which the case will admit.

Water and provisions shall be issued to the steerage passengers according to the following dietary scales, that is to say,

Water.

Three quarts daily to each statute adult, exclusive of the quantity necessary for cooking any article issued under this schedule in a cooked state.

Substitutions at the following rates may, at the option of the master of any emigrant ship, be made in the above dietary scales, as follows; that is to say,

14 lb. of soft bread baked on board

1 lb. of preserved meat

} for {

for

lb. of flour, or 1 lb. of biscuit, or
14 lb. of oatmeal, or 1 lb. of rice, or
1 lb of peas.

1 lb. of salt pork or beef.

1 lb. of flour or of bread or biscuit,} for {14 lb. of oatmeal, or 1 lb. of rice, or

or lb. of beef or of pork

peas

for 1 lb. of oatmeal, or vice versa.

...

for

1 lb. of potatoes.

TWELFTH SCHEDULE.

Section 298.

1 gill of vinegar.

Provided that the substituted articles are set forth in the contract tickets of

When the ship is not in the tropics, it shall not be obligatory to issue lime Lime juice. juice, but lime juice may be issued at the discretion of the medical practitioner on board, or if there is no such medical practitioner, at the discretion of the master.

As to power of Board of Trade to substitute new Schedule, see section 17 of the amending Act of 1906 (6 Edw. 7 c. 48), infra. As to repeal of original Schedule in case of substitution of new Schedule, see section 85 of that Act.

THIRTEENTH

SCHEDULE.

Merchant Shipping.

57 & 58 VICT. c. 60,

Regulations as to Messes and Issue of Provisions.

(1.) Steerage passengers may be divided into messes, but a mess shall not consist of more than ten statute adults.

(2.) Members of the same family, whereof one at least is a male adult, shall be allowed to form a separate mess.

(3.) Water and provisions according to the above scales shall be issued daily before two o'clock in the afternoon to the head person for the time being of each mess, on behalf and for the use of the members thereof.

(4.) The first of the issues shall be made before two o'clock in the afternoon of the day of embarkation to such of the steerage passengers as are then on board. (5.) Such provisions as require to be cooked shall be issued in a properly cooked state.

THIRTEENTH
SCHEDULE.

Section 301.

THIRTEENTH SCHEDULE.*

Conditions for Carriage of Horses and Cattle in Emigrant Ships.

(1.) The animals shall not be carried below any deck on which steerage passengers are berthed, nor in any compartment in which steerage passengers are berthed, nor in any adjoining compartment, except in a ship built of iron, and of which the compartments are divided off by water-tight bulkheads extending to the upper deck.

(2.) Clear space on the spar or weather deck shall be left for the use and exercise of the steerage passengers, at the rate of at least ten superficial feet for each statute adult.

(3.) No greater number of steerage passengers shall be carried than in the proportion of fifteen to every one hundred tons of the ship's registered tonnage.

(4.) In emigrant ships of less than five hundred tons registered tonnage not more than two head of large cattle shall be carried, nor in emigrant ships of larger tonnage more than one additional head of large cattle for every additional two hundred tons of the ship's registered tonnage, nor more in all in any emigrant ship than ten head of large cattle. The expression "large cattle" includes both sexes of horned cattle, deer, horses, and asses; and 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.) Proper arrangements shall 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 pigs or male goats, shall be conveyed as cargo in any emigrant ship.

FOURTEENTH SCHEDULE. Section 360.

FOURTEENTH SCHEDULE.*

FORMS UNDER PART III. (PASSENGER AND EMIGRANT SHIPS).

FORM I.

FORM OF MASTER'S BOND.

KNOW all men by these presents, that we, (a)

unto our Sovereign

are held and firmly bound by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland defender of the faith, in the sum of (b) two thousand pounds of good and lawful money of Great Britain, to be paid to our said Sovereign Her [His] heirs and successors; to which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves and every of us, jointly and severally, and our heirs, executors, and administrators, and every of them, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals. Dated this day of

one thousand eight hundred and

Whereas by Part III. of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, it is amongst other things enacted, that, before any emigrant ship clears outwards or proceeds to sea, the master, together with the owner or charterer, or in the event of the owner or

As to power of Board of Trade to substitute new Schedule, see section 17 of the amending Act of 1906 (6 Edw. 7 c. 48), infra. As to repeal of original Schedule in case of substitution of new Schedule, scc section 85 of that Act.

charterer being absent, or being the master, one other good and sufficient person, approved by the chief officer of customs at the port of clearance, shall enter into a joint and several bond to the Crown, in the sum of two thousand pounds:

Now the condition of this obligation is such, that if the ship the above bounden is master, bound to seaworthy, (c) [and if the said ship shall call at the port of

whereof

is in all respects

and there

shall be shipped on board at such port pure water for the use of the steerage
passengers, sufficient in quantity to afford an allowance of three quarts daily to
each statute adult for the period of
days on the voyage from such port
to the final port or place of discharge of such ship,] and if (notwithstanding any
fine by the said Act imposed, and whether the same may have been sued for and
recovered or not) all and every the requirements of the said Merchant Shipping
Act, 1894, (except such of them as relate exclusively to passage brokers and emigrant
runners) and of the Board of Trade acting under the said Act, and of any Order
of Her Majesty in Council relating to "emigrant ships" and now in force, shall in
all respects be well and truly performed (d) [and if the master for the time being
of the said ship shall submit himself, in like manner as a British subject being the
master of a British emigrant ship, to the jurisdiction of the tribunals in
Majesty's possessions abroad, empowered by the said Act to adjudicate on offences
committed against the said Act,] and if moreover all fines, and forfeitures which the
master of such ship may be adjudged to pay for or in respect of the breach or
nonfulfilment of any of such requirements as aforesaid shall be well and truly paid,
and if all expenses incurred by a Secretary of State or governor of a British
possession or British consular officer under the said Act shall also be well and truly
paid, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above bounden
and

in the presence of*

+[I hereby certify, that the above bond was duly signed, sealed, and delivered according to the law of the United Kingdom by the said master of the

(a) Insert here the Christian and surnames in full, with occupations and addresses of each of the two obligors.

(b) The sum must be five thousand pounds if neither the owner or charterer of the ship reside in the British Islands.

(c) The clause within brackets is to be inserted only when the ship is to call at an intermediate port to take in water as provided in Part III. of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.

(d) This clause to be inserted only in the case of a foreign emigrant ship proceeding to any British possession.

Insert names and addresses in full of the witnesses.

Certificate to be signed by the chief officer of Customs and forwarded with the bond to the colony, according to section 319 of the Act.

I hereby certify, that the provisions actually laden on board this ship are sufficient, according to the requirements of Part III. of the Merchant Shipping Act, statute adults for a voyage of

1894, for

days.

Date

18.

(Signature)

Master.

FOURTEENTH
SCHEDULE.