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SHIPPING ACTS.

DIGEST OF LAWS RELATING TO THE CARRIAGE OF PASSENGERS BY SEA, WITH APPENDIX,

AS EMBRACED IN

"THE PASSENGERS ACTS, 1855 AND 1863."
VOYAGES FROM UNITED KINGDOM.
Title and Scope of Acts.

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Section 6, Act 1855. Section 7, Act 1855. name of their Secretary from personal liability. Section 8, Act 1855.

Board of Trade to carry Act into execution. Board of Trade may sue and be sued in the or one of themselves, and to be exempt

Board of Trade to appoint Emigration Officers and Assistants in the United Kingdom for purposes of Act. Governors to appoint in the Colonies.

Section 9, Act 1855. Duties of Emigration Officers to be performed by Officers of Customs in certain cases.

Section 10, Act 1855. Facilities to Emigration Officers to inspect any ship, whether passenger ship or not.

Sections II and 17, Acts 1855 and 1863. No passenger ship to be cleared without Emigration Officer's certificate that the requirements of the Act have been fulfilled, or without bond being given to the Crown.

Section 13, Acts 1853 and 1863. Passenger ship clearing out or sailing without obtaining Emigration Officer's certificate or giving bond to the Crown to be forfeited.

Matters relating to Ship to be attended to before sailing, Number of Passengers, Fittings, Stores, Surgeon, &c.

Section 13, Act 1855. Passengers to be carried only on two decks. Cabin passengers may be carried in poop or deck house in addition, if their number does not exceed one to every 100 tons of the ship's reg. tonnage.

Section 14, Act 1855.

to be carried.

Rules for determining number of passengers

Number of passengers to be limited only

Section 5, Act 1863. by space, and not by tonnage check.

Section 15, Act 1855. be repealed.

Acts of 16 and 17 Vic., cap. 84, not to

Section 16, Act 1855. Two lists of passengers to be delivered by master of every ship before clearance. Returns of deaths and births at sea to be sent to the Registrar-General by Custom House Officers and Consuls abroad.

Section 6, Act 1863.

Section 17, Act 1855.

Cabin passengers to be included in lists.

Lists of additional passengers embarked

after clearance also to be delivered.

Section 18, Act 1855, and Section 7, Act 1863. Penalty on stowaways and those aiding them.

Section 19, Act 1855. from Surveyor's report. Section 20, Act 1855. Section 21, Act 1855.

of berths.

Section 22, Act 1855.

All passenger ships to be surveyed. Appeal

Regulations as to beams and decks.
Regulations as to arrangement and size

Berthing of passengers. Single men to be

in a separate compartment. Sexes to be berthed separately, except husband and wife, or children under 12 years.

Section 23, Act 1855.

landed.

Berths not to be removed until passengers

Hospitals.
Privies.

Light and ventilation.

Section 24, Act 1855. Section 25, Act 1855. Section 26, Act 1855. Section 27, Act 1855. Anchors, night signals, fire-engines, compasses, buoys, chronometers to be carried. Provisions regarding boats from beginning of Section to words "immediate use at sea,' repealed by Merchant Shipping (life saving and appliances) Act, 1888. Section 28, Act 1855. Manning.-Appeal against Emigration Officer's judgment as to efficiency of crew.

Section 29, Act 1855. Articles dangerous or injurious to health prohibited as cargo or ballast. Stowage of cargo and stores.

Section 8, Act 1863. Cattle in limited numbers and under certain conditions may be carried.

Section 30, Act 1855. Computation of voyages for sailing and steam vesels. Board of Trade may declare length of voyage in

certain cases.

Section 31, Act 1855. Provisions and water for passengers and crew to be surveyed by Emigration Officer. Like articles of both to be of equal quality. Additional water for cooking. Section 32, Act 1855. bad provisions to be landed. Section 33, Act 1855. Section 34, Act 1855. to fill up water.

Emigration Officer may mark and direct

Section 35, Act 1855. Section 9, Act 1863. tropics.

Section 10, Act 1863. bread-stuffs.

Water casks and tanks.

Proviso for touching at intermediate ports

Dietary scale.

Full issue of lime juice imperative only in

Soft bread may be substituted for other

Size of messes.

Section 36, Act 1855. Provisions to be issued daily before two o'clock, and such as require cooking in a cooked state.

Section 37, Act 1855. Board of Trade may authorise use of alternate dietary scale.

Section 38, Act 1855.

Passengers' stewards.

Section 39, Act 1855. Section 40, Act 1855. Section 41, Act 1855. carried.

Section 42, Act 1855. Section 43, Act 1855. Section 44, Act 1855. medicines, &c. Proviso obtained.

Section 45, Act 1855.

Passengers' Rights Section 46, Act 1855.

passengers re-landed.

Cook and cooking apparatus.
In what cases interpreters must be carried.
In what cases a medical man must be

Qualification of medical men.
Medicines and medical comforts.

Medical inspector of passengers and where no medical inspector can be

Re-landing sick passengers.

before, during, and after the voyage.

Return of passage money to sick

Section II, Act 1863. Return of half-passage money to sick cabin passengers re-landed.

Section 47, Act 1855. Subsistence money to be paid to passengers so re-landed.

Return of passage money if passage not

Section 48, Act 1855. provided according to contract. Section 49, Act 1855. Section 50, Act 1855.

Subsistence money in case of detention. Stores to be replenished when ships put back, and report to be made immediately to Emigration Officer. Section 14, Act 1863. Passengers' rights in case of wreck or other disaster off the coast. They may be landed for the ship to be repaired.

Section 52, Act 1855.

The Secretary of State, Governor or

Consul may pay expenses of taking off passengers at sea.
Section 15, Act 1863.

Governors or Consuls may send on to

their destination shipwrecked passengers, if the master of the ship fail to do so.

Section 16, Act 1863. to be a Crown debt.

Section 55, Act 1855. void on account of nature Section 56, Act 1855. than at destination. Section 57, Act 1855. after arrival.

Section 58, Act 1855.

Expenses incurred under last two sections

Insurance of passage-money not to be of the risk.

Passengers not to be landed elsewhere

Passengers to be maintained 48 hours

Passengers' right of action preserved,
Miscellaneous Provisions.

Section 59, Act 1855. Rules may be prescribed by order in council for health, cleanliness, and ventilation.

Section 60, Act 1855. Surgeon and master to enforce such rules. Section 61, Act 1855. Copy of Act and extract of Order in Council to be kept and exhibited on board. Section 62, Act 1855. Section 63, Act 1855.

duplicate.

Section 17, Act 1863. resides abroad.

Section 64, Act 1855. colony.

Sale of spirits on the voyage prohibited.
Bond to the Crown by master, &c., in

Bond when owner, master, or charterer

Counterpart of bond to be forwarded to

Section 65, Act 1855. In the absence of agreement to the contrary the owner to be responsible in respect of any default in complying with requirements of Act,

Section 66, Act 1855. license.

Section 67, Act 1855.

Passage Brokers.

No passage broker to act without a

How passage brokers' licenses may be

obtained (bond with two sureties), and how forfeited.
Section 69, Act 1855.
except in writing.

Passage brokers to employ no agents

Penalty on persons fraudulently inducing

Section 70, Act 1855. others to engage passengers. Section 71, Act 1855.

Contract tickets to be given to cabin as

well as other passengers, and to be without stamps.

Section 72, Act 1855. Penalty for altering or inducing any person to part with contract ticket.

Section 73, Act 1855. Summary remedy for breach of regulations in contract ticket provided.

Section 74, Act 1855.

Penalty on cabin passengers and masters, &c., omitting to produce contract tickets.

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Section 75, Act 1855. Penalty on persons acting as “emigrant runners without licence and badge, and on those employing them Section 76, Act 1855. Mode of licensing and registering "runners.

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Section 77, Act 1855. newed annually.

Section 78, Act 1855.

"Emigrant runner's" licence to be re

Penalty on "runners" for certain acts of misconduct, and on persons using "runner's" badges not lawfully issued to them.

Section 79, Act 1855. Fresh badges may be obtained in case of loss or mutilation of old ones.

Section 80, Act 1855. Runners not entitled to commission from any passage broker unless acting with his authority, nor from emigrants for procuring them passages.

Section 81, Act 1855. List of runners to be exhibited by brokers, and sent to Emigration Officers.

Section 82, Act 1855. Trustees of docks may pass bye-laws for regulating landing and embarkation of emigrants, and for licensing emigrant porters. Bye-laws to be approved by Secretary of State.

Section 83, Act 1855. Penalty for falsifying documents to obtain passages from the Board of Trade; for falsely assuming to act as their agent; and on personation.

Clauses Relating to Penalties and Procedure.

Section 84, Act 1855. By whom penalties and compensation monies to be recovered.

Section 85, Act 1855. complaints under the Act. Section 86, Act 1855.

Tribunals for adjudicating on offences and

Police and stipendiary magistrates, and in

Scotland sheriffs, &c., have the same power as justices of the peace. Section 87, 1855. No objection allowed or conviction quashed for want of form.

Section 88, Act 1855. thereout may be given to Section 89, Act 1855. exemption from Act. Section 90, Act 1855. Officer.

Application of penalties; compensation party aggrieved.

Burden of proof lies on persons claiming Proof of negatives.

Proof of being Government Emigration

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