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igencies of the intended voyage, and shall be placed under the charge of the surgeon, when there is one on board, to be used at his discretion.

SEC. 29. Except as hereinafter provided, no passenger ship shall clear out or proceed on her voyage until some medical practitioner, to be appointed by the Emigration Officer at the port of clearance, shall have inspected the medicine chest of the said ship, and also all the passengers about to proceed in her, and shall certify to the said Emigration Officer that the said ship contains a sufficient supply of medicines, instruments, and other things requisite for the medical treatment of the passengers during the intended voyage, and that none of the passengers appear to such medical practitioner likely, by reason of being affected by any infectious or other disease, to endanger the health of the other persons about to proceed in such vessel.

SEC. 30. In case any such medical practitioner shall notify to the Emigration Officer at the original port of clearance, or at any other port or place in the United Kingdom into which the vessel may subsequently put, or in case the said Emigration Officer shall be otherwise satisfied, that any person about to proceed in any such passenger ship as aforesaid is likely, by reason of being affected by any infectious or other disease, to endanger the health of the other persons on board, it shall be lawful for such Officer to reland or cause to be relanded any such person, and such members of his family, if any, that may be dependent on him: or as may be unwilling to be separated from him; and no passenger ship shall clear out or proceed on her voyage so long as any such diseased person shall be on board.

SEC. 31. Provides that passengers so relanded may recover passage money.

SEC. 32. Provides for the return of passage money and compensation to passengers where passage is not provided for them according to contract.

SEC. 33. Provides for subsistence in case of detention.

SEC. 34. Provides that in case of wreck, &c., passengers shall be provided with a passage by some other vessel; and in default, may recover compensation by summary process.

SEC. 35. The master of any ship, whether passenger ship or otherwise, shall not land or cause to be landed any passenger, without his previous consent, at any port or place other than the port or place at which such passenger may have contracted to land.

SEC. 36. Every passenger in a passenger ship arriving at the end of his voyage shall be entitled for at least 48 hours next after his arrival to sleep in such ship, and to be provided for and maintained on board thereof in the same manner as during the voyage, unless in the further prosecution of her voyage such ship shall quit the port or place within the above mentioned period.

SEC. 38. If any passenger ship shall, after having obtained her clearance, be detained in port for more than seven days, or shall, after having been to sea, put into or touch at any port or place in the United Kingdom, it shall not be lawful for any such passenger ship to proceed on her voyage until there shall have been laden on board, at the expense of the owner, charterer, or master of such ship, such further supply of pure water, wholesome provisions of the requisite kinds and qualities, and medical stores, as may be necessary to make up the full quantities of those articles herein before required for the use of the passengers during the whole of the intended voyage, nor until the master of the said ship shall have obtained from the Emigration Officer or his Assistant, or, where there is no such officer, or in his absence, from the officer of Customs at such port or place, a certificate to the effect as the certificate hereinbefore required to enable the ship to be cleared out; and in case of any default herein the said master shall be liable, on conviction, as hereinafter mentioned, to the payment of a penalty not exceeding £100 nor less than £50; and further, if the master of any passenger ship so putting into or touching at any port or place as aforesaid shall not within 24 hours thereafter report his arrival, and the cause of his putting back, and the condition of his ship and of her stores and provisions, to the Emigration Officer, or, as the case may be, to the officer of Customs at the port, and shall not produce to such officer the official or master's list of passengers, such master shall for each offence be liable to the payment of a penalty not exceeding £10 nor less than £2.

SEC. 42. It shall not be lawful, in any passenger ship, to sell to any passenger during the voyage any spirits or strong waters; and that if any person shall during the voyage, directly or indirectly, sell or cause to be sold any spirits or strong waters to any such passenger, he shall be liable for every such offence, on such conviction as hereinafter mentioned, to the payment of a penalty not exceeding £20 nor less than £5.

SEC. 43. And for the more effectually securing the due observance of the several

requirements as well of this Act as of any rules or regulations which may at any time be prescribed by any order in council as aforesaid, and also for the better securing the due payment of all penalties which the master of any passenger ship may be adjudged to pay, under or by virtue of the provisions of this Act or of any such order in Council, be it enacted, That before any passenger ship shall clear out or proceed on any voyage to which this Act shall extend, the owner or charterer, or, in the absence of such owner or charterer, one good and sufficient person on his behalf, to be approved by the chief officer of Customs at the port of clearance, shall, with the master of the said ship, enter into a joint and several bond in the sum of £1,000 to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, the condition of which bond shall be, and that the said ship is in all respects seaworthy, and that all and every the requirements of this Act, and of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners acting in the manner prescribed by this Act, and of any order in Council passed in virtue of this Act, shall in all respects be well and truly fulfilled and performed, and, moreover, that all penalties, fines, and forfeitures which the master of such ship may be adjudged to pay for or in respect of the breach or nonperformance of any of such requirements as aforesaid shall be well and truly paid; and in Scotland such bond shall be deemed and taken to be a probative deed: Provided always, that such bond shall be without stamps: provided also, that no such bond shall be put in suit, and that no prosecution, suit, action, information, or complaint shall be brought, under or by virtue of this Act, upon or by reason of the breach of any of the requirements thereof, in any of Her Majesty's posses sions abroad, after the expiration of 12 calendar months next succeeding the termination of any such voyage as aforesaid, nor in the United Kingdom, after the expiration of 12 calendar months next after the return of the said ship or of the said master to the United Kingdom.

SEC. 44. Provides that no person may act as passage broker in respect of passengers to North America without a license.

SEC. 47. Provides that contract tickets must be given in respect of passages to North America.

SEC. 50. In every ship, whether a passenger ship or otherwise, fitting or intended for the carriage of passengers, or which shall carry passengers on any voyage to which any of the provisions of this Act may for the time being extend, if every such facility for inspection shall not be afforded as hereintofore required, and that if any such passenger ship shall clear out or proceed on her voyage before the master shall have obtained a certificate as herein before required that all the requirements of this Act have been complied with, or if before a clearance be demanded for any ship, whether a passenger ship or otherwise, such lists of passengers, or if at any time during the voyage all such additions to the master's lists, or if such additional or separate lists, as hereinbefore required, shall not be duly made, signed, and delivered to the proper officer, or if any such list or any additions to the same shall not be duly exhibited to or deposited with the proper officer at any port or place as hereinbefore required, or if any of such lists or the additions thereto respectively shall be willfully false, or if any passenger ship shall clear out or proceed on her voyage without having been duly surveyed as hereinbefore required, or if the lower or hold beams at any time during the voyage in any such passenger ship shall not form part of her permanent structure, or if the second deck or platform shall not be of the thickness and laid or secured in such manner as hereinbefore required, or if the hight between such second deck or platform and the upper deck, or between such second deck or platform and the deck beneath it, when used for carrying passengers, shall be less than six feet, or if there shall be more than two tiers of berths on any one deck, or if such berths shall not be securely constructed, or shall not be of such dimensions as hereinbefore required, or if there shall not be such an interval between the deck and the floor of the berths as hereinbefore required, or if any of the berths shall be taken down contrary to the requirement in that behalf hereinbefore contained, or if the passengers shall not have free access to or from the between decks in the manner hereinbefore required, or if any passenger ship carrying as many as 100 passengers shall clear out or proceed on her voyage without having on board such adequate ventilating apparatus as hereinbefore required, or if there shall not be provided boats and life buoys of such description and number as hereinbefore required, or if any such passenger ship shall proceed on her voyage without being properly manned, or shall have on board as cargo any articles likely to endanger the safety of the ship or the health or lives of the passengers as hereinbefore mentioned, or if any part of the cargo shall be carried on deck, or ' if in any passenger ship at any time during the voyage there shall not be on board properly stowed away under hatches for the use and consumption of the passengers,

such water and provisions, and of description, quantity, and quality, as may be required by or under the provisions of this Act, or if such water and provisions shall not be issued in the quantities and in manner hereinbefore required, or if the water shall not be carried in such tanks or casks as hereinbefore required, or if there shall not be on board of any ship carrying as many as 100 passengers at all times during the voyage such passengers, cook and place for cooking and cooking apparatus as hereinbefore required, or if any passenger ship carrying as many as 50 persons on any voyage of which the computed length shall exceed 12 weeks, or any other voyage, except to North America, as many as 100 persons, or (except as hereinbefore excepted) on any voyage to North America as many as 100 passengers, shall clear out or proceed on her voyage without having on board, or shall not at all times during the voyage have on board, such medical practitioner as hereinbefore required, or if there shall not be on board of any passenger ship such medicines, instruments, and medical apparatus, and such printed or written directions for the use of the same, as may at any time be required by or under the provisions of this Act, or if any passenger ship, except as hereinbefore provided, shall clear out or proceed on her voyage before such medical inspections of the medicines and passengers shall have taken place, and such certificate of the medical inspector shall have been granted as hereinbefore required, or if any diseased person on board any such passenger ship, or the members of his family, shall not be relanded as hereinbefore required, or if any passenger shall without his previous consent be landed at any place other than the place at which he may have contracted to land, or if any passsenger shall not be allowed to sleep and be maintained on board the ship after arrival for the period and in manner hereinbefore provided, or if there shall not be kept on board copies of this Act, or if one of such copies shall not be produced on demand, as hereinbefore required, then and in every such case respectively the master of every such ship, or, as the case may be, of every such passenger ship, shall be liable for and in respect of each and every such offence as aforesaid, on such conviction as hereinafter mentioned, to the payment of a penalty not exceeding £50 nor less than £5.

SEC. 51. enforces the penalty on falsifying or forging forms of application for free passages, or the certificates in support thereof.

SEC, 52. Prescribes forms for the recovery of penalties and compensation moneys.

RAILROAD, CANAL, AND STEAMBOAT STATISTICS.

PASSAGES OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.

In the Merchants' Magazine for September, 1851, (vol. xxv., pages 337-379,) and in the number for November, 1851, (vol. xxv., pages 635–639,) we published full statistics of the British and American Ocean Steamers from January to June, 1851. We now present, from tables prepared by the Courier and Enquirer, the several trips of each line since that date, the amount of specie taken to Liverpool on each voyage, and the passengers carried from port to port to the close of the past year. The statement is also valuable as a matter of reference, showing the relative speed of the different steamers, and the average of time consumed by the two lines during this period of six months. We have in the recapitulation the subjoined result, namely :

FOURTEEN TRIPS OF THE COLLINS LINE FROM LIVERPOOL.