ccccxxvi "Forms," No. 32-continued. APPENDIX. SCHEDULE (L.) (a). PASSENGER'S CONTRACT TICKET. These directions, 1. A contract ticket in this form must be given to every and the "Notices passenger engaging a passage from the United Kingdom to passengers" be- to any place out of Europe, and not being within the low, form part of, Mediterranean Sea. and must appear on, each contract ticket. 2. The victualling scale for the voyage must be printed in the body of the ticket. 3. All the blanks must be correctly filled in, and the ticket must be legibly signed with the christian names and surname and address in full of the party issuing the Equal to Adults. in I engage that the person named in the margin hereof shall be provided with a steerage passage to, and shall be landed at, the port of in the ship with not less than ten cubic feet for luggage for each statute adult, and shall be victualled during the voyage and the time of detention at any place before its termination, according to the subjoined scale, for the sum of £ including government dues before embarkation, and head money, if any, at the place of landing, and every other charge, except freight for excess of luggage beyond the quantity above specified, and hereby acknowledge to have full received the sum of £ in part payment. The following quantities, at least, of water and provisions (to be issued daily), will be supplied by the master of the ship, as required by law, viz., to each statute adult three quarts of water daily, exclusive of what is necessary for cooking the articles required by the Passengers Act to be issued in a cooked state; and a weekly allowance of provisions according to the following scale: [Here insert the victualling scale intended to be used on the voyage. This must be either the scale prescribed in the 35th section of the Passengers Act, 1855, or that scale modified by the introduction of articles authorized by the act to be substituted for oatmeal, rice, and potatoes.] [N.B. If mess utensils and bedding are to be provided by the ship, the stipulation must be inserted here.] Signature in full. Place and date. [If signed by a broker or agent, state on whose behalf.] souls, equal to Deposit £ to be paid at statute adults. To be signed in full by the party issuing the ticket *Insert number of souls and of statute adults respectively. NOTICES TO PASSENGERS. 1. If passengers, through no default of their own, are not received on board on the day named in their contract tickets, or fail to obtain a passage in the ship, they should apply to the government emigration officer at the port, who will assist them in obtaining redress under the Passengers Act. 2. Passengers should carefully keep this part of their contract ticket till after the end of the voyage. N.B.-This contract ticket is exempt from stamp duty. (a) See Passengers Act, 1855, s. 71. FORMS. SCHEDULE (M.) (a). Form of Emigrant Runner's Annual Licence. ccccxxvii The christian and surnames in address of the A. B.* of in the having made application in writing to us, the undersigned justices of the peace assembled in petty sessions, for the t of to grant to him a licence to enable him to be registered as an emigrant full, with the runner in and for t and the said [4. B.] having also been recommended party applying as a proper person to receive such licence by an emigration officer, or by the for the licence, chief constable [or other head officer of police, as the case may be] of [the must be here district, town or place in which the said A. B. is to carry on his business]: We, the correctly inunder-mentioned justices, having no sufficient cause shown to us, and seeing of ourselves no valid reason why the said A. B. should not receive such licence, do hereby grant to him this licence for the purposes aforesaid, subject nevertheless to be revoked for misconduct on the part of the said A. B., as in the "Passengers Act, 1855," is provided. SCHEDULE (N.) (b). Form of Summons for a Defendant or a Witness. This is to command you to appear without fail on the in the day of noon, at serted. + City, town, or district in which the emigrant runner is to carry on his business. o'clock before me, or other the magistrate or justices of the peace then and there present*, [to answer the complaint of (an emigration • Insert this officer, or assistant emigration officer, or officer of customs), when the deor [in the colonies a government emigration or immigration fendant is sumagent, as the case may be], for a breach of the moned. + Insert this in case a witness is section [or sections, as the case may be], of the "Passengers Act, 1855,"]† [or to give evidence in the complaint of A. B. against C. D. for breach of the summoned. "Passengers Act, 1855."] Form of Conviction and Order of Adjudication under the “Passengers Act, + Here describe personally came before me [or us, as the case may be], at to answer the complaint of County, or city, or A. B.* for a breach of the section [or sections, as borough, or police the case may be], of the "Passengers Act, 1855," in that, district, or stew-&c.† or [as the case may be], for a breach of the contract artry of [as contained in a certain contract ticket, dated the case may be]. issued by for a passage to Whereupon I [or we] did proceed to examine into the complaint so made against there is no conthe said C. D., and the same having been [admitted to be true by the said C. D., or as the case may be,] fully proved to my [or our] satisfaction by the testimony on oath of E. F., a credible witness [or witnesses], I [or we] § (do convict him the said C. D. of the offence [or offences] aforesaid; and I [or we]) do adjudge and order that he shall pay to the said A. B. as such [emigration officer, or government emigration agent, or officer of customs, or passenger of the ship as the case may be], the sum of £ by way of penalty [or by way of subsistence money, or of return of passage money, or as damages for breach of such contract as aforesaid, as the case may be,] [|| and shall also pay to the said A. B. the further sum of £ as compensation for the loss and inconvenience occasioned to ¶ by the loss of passage in the ship ]. ** (And I [or we] do also adjudge and order that the licence granted to the Insert this said C. D. to act as a passage broker be forfeited.) ++ (And I [or we] do hereby also adjudge and order that the sum of £ being a part not exceeding one moiety of the said penalty of £ be applied (a) See Passengers Act, 1855, s. 76. (b) See Passengers Act, 1855, s. 85. where the offender is a passage broker, and his licence is de clared forfeited. ++ Insert this where compensation out of the "Forms," No. 32-continued. to compensate ‡‡ for the wrong or damage which he [she or they] has or have sustained in this matter.) And I [or we] do further adjudge and order that the said C. D. shall forthwith pay to the said A. B. the further sum of £ for the costs and charges by him the said A. B. incurred in the prosecution of this matter. Given under my hand and seal [or our hands and seals], this day Justice of the peace, police or stipendiary magistrate, or sheriff or steward, or sheriff or steward substitute [as the case may be], for §§ Form of Conviction and Order of Adjudication where the Defendant does not A. B. Complainant. County, or city, or appear. to to Be it remembered, that C. D. of being duly summoned to answer the complaint of A. B. for a breach of the section [or sections] of the "Passengers Act, 1855," in that, &c.t, or [as the case may be], for a breach of the contract contained in a certain contract ticket, and issued by dated for a passage in the ship did not appear before me [or us], pursuant to the said summons. Nevertheless, I [or we] did proceed to examine into the complaint so preferred against the said C. D., and the same having been duly proved to my [or our] satisfaction by the testimony on oath of E. F., a credible witness [or witnesses], I [or we] do, &c. (proceed as in preceding form of conviction according to the circumstances of the case). the case may be]. [as No. 33.-Boat Scale for Passenger Ships clearing under the Passengers Acts (a). SCALE showing the minimum number and size of boats which the emigration officers in the United Kingdom will be prepared to pass for passenger ships in the exercise of the discretion vested in them by the 27th section of the "Passengers Act, 1855." The cubic contents of the boats in the above table are ascertained by multiplying their outside length, their outside width, and their inside depth together, and then their product by 6. In vessels of 200 tons and upwards no boat of less than 90 feet of cubical contents is to be counted in the number. In vessels of 600 tons and upwards, two of the boats should be lifeboats. No greater number of boats need be taken than are sufficient to carry all the crew and passengers on board. (a) See Passengers Act, 1855, s. 27, and M. S. Act, 1876, s. 20. A scale substantially the same as the above was issued by the Emigration Commissioners for the guidance of their officers. The above scale is sanctioned by the Board of Trade. As to the boats to be carried by sea-going ships and "passenger ships" under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, see M. S. Act, 1854, ss. 2, 292, 303; M. S. Act, 1873, s. 15, and the "Table of dimensions and number of boats" there referred to, post "Forms," No. 42]. No. 34.-Fire Engines and Number of Fire Buckets to be carried in "Passenger Ships" clearing under the Passengers Acts (a). REMARKS.-All the working parts of the engines to be of gun metal. The suction pipe must be fitted with a copper rose, weighted to 10lbs., with a ring and [The above scale of Fire Engines and Fire Buckets to be carried in "Passenger Ships" clearing under the Passengers Acts, was issued by the Emigration Commissioners for the guidance of their officers, and has the sanction of the Board of Trade. For provisions compelling seagoing steamships to be fitted with a fire hose connected with the engines of the ship, see M. S. Act, 1854, s. 301.] сеееххіх No. 35.-Specification of Water Casks, suitable for Passenger Ships of Note. The staves should be white oak; the heading yellow pine, pitch pine, or oak. If pine, the sap wood should be taken off, and oak cantles be used. The hoops should be according to the above specification, or of equal substance. The casks should be all gauged, and the contents marked on the bung stave of each. (a) See Passengers Act, 1855, s. 33, and M. S. Act, 1876, s. 20. [The above specification was issued by the Emigration Commissioners for the guidance of their officers, and is sanctioned by the Board of Trade.] |