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Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.

fifth day of January next after the revision, and at any election for a casual vacancy held at any time between that day and the next ordinary triennial election.

Qualification of Members.

21. Every male person who is, according to the revised list, entitled to a vote, shall be qualified to be elected a member, and no other person shall be so qualified; and if any person elected ceases after election to be an owner of such quantity of tonnage as would entitle him to a vote he shall no longer continue to act or be considered a member, and thereupon another member shall be elected in his place.

Application to Corporations.

22. A corporation owning a ship shall be entitled to be registered in like manner as any individual, with the substitution of the office of the corporation for the residence of the individual. The vote of such corporation shall be given by some person whom the corporation may appoint in that behalf, and that person shall be qualified to be elected a member, and if the corporation ceases after his election to be an owner of such quantity of tonnage as entitles the corporation to be registered as a voter, that person shall cease to be a member and another member shall be elected in his place.

EIGHTH SCHEDULE.

Particulars to be registered by Master of a Ship concerning a Birth at

Date of birth.

Sea.

Name (if any) and sex of the child.

Name and surname, rank, profession, or occupation of the father.
Name and surname, and maiden surname of the mother.

Nationality and last place of abode of the father and mother.

Particulars to be registered by Master of a Ship concerning a Death at

Date of death.

Name and surname.

Sex.

Age.

Rank, profession, or occupation.

Sea.

Nationality and last place of abode.
Cause of death.

Section 254.

Sections 277,

360.

Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.

NINTH SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Maximum Fees to be paid for Passenger Steamer's Certificate.

For passenger steamers not exceeding 100 tons.
Exceeding 100 tons and not exceeding 300 tons.
Exceeding 300 tons and not exceeding 600 tons.
And for every additional 300 tons above 600 an additional

PART II.

Maximum Fees for Survey of Emigrant Ships.

For an ordinary survey of the ship, and of her equipments,
accommodation, stores, light, ventilation, sanitary arrange-
ments, and medical stores

For a special survey.

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Sections 292, 367.

TENTH SCHEDULE.

Regulations as to number of Persons carried on Emigrant Ships.

(1.) An emigrant ship shall not carry under the poop or in the round house or deck house or on the upper passenger deck, a greater number of steerage passengers than in the proportion of one statute adult to every fifteen clear superficial feet of deck allotted to their

use.

(2.) An emigrant ship shall not carry on the lower passenger deck a greater number of steerage passengers than in the proportion of one statute adult to every eighteen clear superficial feet of deck allotted to their use.

(3.) Provided, that if the height between the lower passenger deck and the deck immediately above it is less than seven feet, or if the apertures (exclusive of side scuttles) through which light and air are admitted together to the lower passenger deck are less in size than in the proportion of three square feet to every one hundred superficial feet of that deck, the ship shall not carry a greater number of steerage passengers on that deck than in the proportion of one statute adult to every twenty-five clear superficial feet thereof.

(4.) An emigrant ship, whatever be her superficial space of decks, shall not carry a greater number of steerage passengers on the whole than in the proportion of one statute adult to every five superficial feet, clear for exercise, on the upper deck or poop, or on any round house or deck house which is secured and fitted on the top with a railing or guard to the satisfaction of the emigration officer at the port of clearance.

(5.) In the measurement of the passenger decks, poop, round house or deck house, the space for the hospital, and the space occupied by that part of the personal luggage of the steerage passengers which the emigration officer permits to be carried there, shall be included.

Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.

ELEVENTH SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS AS TO THE ACCOMMODATION FOR STEERAGE PASSENGERS.

Construction of Passenger Decks.

(1.) The beams supporting the passenger decks shall form part of Section 293. the permanent structure of the ship. They shall be of adequate strength in the judgment of the emigration officer at the port of clearance, and shall be firmly secured to the ship to his satisfaction.

(2.) The passenger decks shall be at least one inch and a half thick, and shall be laid and firmly fastened on the beams continuously from side to side of the compartment in which the steerage passengers are berthed.

(3.) The height between that part of any deck on which steerage passengers are carried and the deck immediately above it shall not be

less than six feet.

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 inclosed 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.

Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.

Hospitals.

(10.) Sufficient space shall be set apart on 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 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.) E.ery emigrant ship shall be supplied with such provision 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 boobyhatch 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.

Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.

TWELFTH SCHEDULE.

WATER AND PROVISIONS.

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.

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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 for

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(1 lb. of flour, or 1 lb. of bis-
cuit, or 14 lb. of oatmeal, or

1 lb. of rice, or 1 lb. of peas..
1 lb. of salt pork or beef.

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