Passengers Act Amendment. Horses, and Asses; Four Sheep of either Sex, or Four (5.) That proper Arrangements be made, to the Satisfaction of (6.) Not more than Six Dogs, and no Pigs or Male Goats, Dogs and Pigs. shall be conveyed as Cargo in any Passenger Ship: For any Breach of this Prohibition, or of any of the above Conditions, the Owner, Charterer, and Master of the Ship, or any of them, shall be liable for each Offence to a Penalty not exceeding Three hundred Pounds nor less than Five Pounds. 9. The Requirements of the Thirty-fifth Section of the said Issue of Lime "Passengers Act, 1855," that Six Ounces of Lime Juice should Juice. be issued weekly to each Statute Adult on Voyages exceeding Eighty-four Days in Duration for Sailing Vessels, or Fifty Days for Steamers, shall be confined to the Period when the Ship shall be within the Tropics; during the other Portions of the Voyage the Issue of Lime Juice shall be at the Discretion of the Medical Practitioner on board; or, if there be no such Practitioner on board, at the Discretion of the Master of the Ship. 10. In addition to the Substitutions in the Dietary Scales specified in the Thirty-fifth Section of the said "Passengers Act, 1855," soft Bread baked on board may be issued, at the Option of the Master of any Passenger Ship, in lieu of the following Articles, and in the following Proportions; (that is to say,) One Pound and a Quarter of a Pound of such soft Bread may be issued in lieu of One Pound of Flour, or of One Pound of Biscuit, or of One Pound and a Quarter of a Pound of Oatmeal, or of One Pound of Rice, or of One Pound of Peas. 11. The Forty-sixth Section of the said "Passengers Act, 1855," shall be applicable to Cabin as well as to other Passengers landed on account of Sickness; and the Passage Money of all Cabin or other Passengers so landed may be recovered in the Manner pointed out in the said Act, upon the Delivery up of their Contract Tickets, and notwithstanding that the Ship may not have sailed: Provided always, that in the Case of Cabin Passengers so landed One Half only of their Passage Money shall be recoverable. Substitution of soft Bread for other Bread Stuffs. Sect. 46. of recited Act to apply to Cabin Passengers, and Passage Money made recoverable on relanding. 12. The Twelfth, Fifty-first, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Sections 12, 51, Sections of the said " Passengers Act, 1855," shall be and the 53, and 54. of same are hereby repealed, except as to the Recovery and Appli- recited Act repealed, and cation of any Penalty for any Offence committed against the other Provisaid Act, and except so far as may be necessary for supporting sions substior continuing any Proceeding heretofore taken or hereafter to be tuted. taken thereunder; and in lieu of the Enactments contained in such Sections the Enactments in the Four next following Sections shall respectively be substituted; (that is to say,) Passengers Act Amendment. Forfeiture of 13. If any Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea Ship if Master without the Master having first obtained such Certificate of proceeds to Sea without Certi- Clearance, or without his having joined in executing such Bond ficate of Clear- to the Crown as by the said "Passengers Act, 1855," are ance, &c. Such Ship to In case of required, or if such Ship, after having put to Sea, shall put into any Port or Place in the United Kingdom in a damaged State, and shall leave or attempt to leave such Port or Place with Passengers on board without the Master having first obtained such Certificate of Clearance as is required by Section Fifty of the said "Passengers Act, 1855," such Ship shall be forfeited to the Use of Her Majesty, and may be seized by any Officer of Customs, if found, within Two Years from the Commission of the Offence, in any Port or Place in Her Majesty's Dominions; and such Ship shall thereupon be dealt with in the same Manner as if she had been seized as forfeited for an Offence incurring Forfeiture under any of the Laws relating to the Customs: Provided that it shall be lawful for One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to release, if he shall think fit, any such forfeited Ship from Seizure and Forfeiture, on Payment by the Owner, Charterer, or Master thereof, to the Use of Her Majesty, of such Sum not exceeding Two thousand Pounds as such Secretary of State may by any Writing under his Hand specify. 14. If any Passenger Ship shall be wrecked, or otherwise rendered unfit to proceed on her intended Voyage, while in any Port of the United Kingdom, or after the Commencement of the Voyage, and if the Passengers, or any of them, shall be brought back to the United Kingdom, or if any Passenger Ship shall put into any Port or Place in the United Kingdom in a damaged State, the Master, Charterer, or Owner shall, within Forty-eight Hours thereafter, give to the nearest Emigration Officer, or in the Absence of such Officer to the Chief Officer of Customs, a written Undertaking to the following Effect; that is to say, if the Ship shall have been wrecked, or rendered unfit as aforesaid to proceed on her Voyage, that the Owner, Charterer, or Master thereof shall embark and convey the Passengers in some other eligible Ship, to sail within Six Weeks from the Date thereof, to the Port or Place for which their Passages respectively had been previously taken; and if the Ship shall have put into Port in a damaged State, then that she shall be made seaworthy, and fit in all respects for her intended Voyage, and shall, within Six Weeks from the Date of such Undertaking, sail again with her Passengers; in either of the above Cases the Owner, Charterer, or Master shall, until the Passengers proceed on their Voyage, either lodge and maintain them on board in the same Manner as if they were at Sea, or pay to them Subsistence Money after the Rate of One Shilling and Sixpence a Day for each Statute Adult, unless the Passengers shall be maintained any Hulk or Establishment under the Superintendence of the Emigration Commissioners mentioned in the said Passengers Act, 1855, in which Case the Subsistence Money shall be paid to the Emigration Officer at such Port or Place. If the substituted Ship or damaged Ship, as the Case may be, shall not sail within in the Passengers Act Amendment. the Time prescribed as aforesaid, or if Default shall be made in any of the Requirements of this Section, such Passengers respectively, or any Emigration Officer on their Behalf, shall be entitled to recover, by summary Process, as in the said Passengers Act, 1855, is mentioned, all Monies which shall have been paid by or on account of such Passengers or any of them for such Passage, from the Party to whom or on whose Account the same may have been paid, or from the Owner, Charterer, or Master of such Ship, or any of them, at the Option of such Passenger or Emigration Officer: Provided that the said Emigration Officer Power to remay, if he shall think it necessary, direct that the Passengers move Passhall be removed from such damaged "Passenger Ship," at the sengers from Expense of the Master thereof; and if after such Direction any Penalty on damaged Ship; Passenger shall refuse to leave such Ship, he shall be liable to a Passengers Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings, or to Imprisonment not refusing. exceeding One Calendar Month. 15. If any Passenger or Cabin Passenger of any Passenger Ship shall, without any Neglect or Default of his own, find himself within any Colonial or Foreign Port or Place other than that for which the Ship was originally bound, or at which he or the Emigration Commissioners, or any public Officer or other Person on his Behalf, may have contracted that he should land, it shall be lawful for the Governor of such Colony, or for any Person authorized by him for the Purpose, or for Her Majesty's Consular Officer at such Foreign Port or Place, as the Case may be, to forward such Passenger to his intended Destination, unless the Master of such Ship shall, within Forty-eight Hours of the Arrival of such Passenger, give to the Governor or Consular Officer, as the Case may be, a written Undertaking to forward or carry on, within Six Weeks thereafter, such Passenger or Cabin Passenger to his original Destination, and unless such Master shall accordingly forward or carry him on within that Period. Governors or send on Pas- Master of the so. the Two preceding Sections to be a Debt due to the Crown. 16. All Expenses incurred under the last preceding Section Expenses or under the Fifty-second Section of "The Passengers Act, incurred under 1855," or either of them, by or by the Authority of such Secretary of State, Governor, or Consular Officer, or other Person, as therein respectively mentioned, including the Cost of maintaining the Passengers until forwarded to their Destination, and of all necessary Bedding, Provisions, and Stores, shall become a Debt to Her Majesty and Her Successors from the Owner, Charterer, and Master of such Ship, and shall be recoverable from them, or from any One or more of them, at the Suit and for the Use of Her Majesty, in like Manner as in the Case of other Crown Debts; and a Certificate in the Form in Schedule (A.) hereto annexed, or as near thereto as the Circumstances of the Case will admit, purporting to be under the Hand of any such Secretary of State, Governor, or Consular Officer, (as the Case may be,) stating the total Amount of such Expenses, shall in any Suit or other Proceeding for the Recovery of such Debt be received in Evidence without Proof of the Handwriting or of the official Character of such Secretary of State, Governor, or Consular Officer, Passengers Act Amendment. Officer, and shall be deemed sufficient Evidence of the Amount of such Expenses, and that the same were duly incurred, nor shall it be necessary to adduce on behalf of Her Majesty any other Evidence in support of the Claim, but Judgment shall pass for the Crown, with Costs of Suit, unless the Defendant shall specially plead and duly prove that such Certificate is false or fraudulent, or shall specially plead and prove any Facts showing that such Expenses were not duly incurred under the Provisions of this Act, and of the said "Passengers Act, 1855," or either of them: Provided nevertheless, that in no Case shall any larger Sum be recovered on account of such Expenses than a Sum equal to twice the total Amount of Passage Money received or due to and recoverable by or on account of the Owner, Charterer, or Master of such Passenger Ship, or any of them, for or in respect of the whole Number of Passengers and Cabin Passengers who may have embarked in such Ship, which total Amount of Passage Money shall be proved by the Defendant, if he will have the Advantage of this Limitation of the Debt; but if any such Passengers are forwarded or conveyed to their intended Destination under the Provisions of the last preceding Section they shall not be entitled to the Return of their Passage Money, PassageMoney, or to any Compensation for Loss of Passage under the Provisions of the said "Passengers Act, 1855.” Passengers forwarded by Governor, &c. not entitled to Return of Bond to repay Expenses of rescuing and forwarding shipwrecked Passengers, where Owners and Charterers of Vessel reside abroad. Recited Act and this to be as One. 17. In the Case of a Passenger Ship, of which neither the Owners nor Charterers reside in the United Kingdom, the Bond required to be given to the Crown by the Sixty-third Section of the "Passengers Act, 1855," shall be for the Sum of Five thousand Pounds instead of Two thousand Pounds; and an additional Condition shall be inserted in such Bond to the Effect that the Obligors therein shall, subject to the Provisions and Limitations herein-before contained, be liable for and shall pay to Her Majesty and Her Successors, as a Crown Debt, all Expenses which may be incurred under the Provisions herein-before and in the "Passengers Act, 1855," contained, in rescuing, maintaining, and forwarding to their Destination any Passengers of such Ships who by reason of Shipwreck or any other Cause, except their own Neglect or Default, may not be conveyed to their intended Destination by or on behalf of the Owner, Charterer, or Master of such Ship. 18. The said "Passengers Act, 1855," and this Act, shall be construed together as One Act. SCHEDULE (A.) Form of Governor's or Consul's Certificate of Expenditure in the I hereby certify, That, acting under and in the Case. Passen gers (e). N.B.—3. State &c. (c). generally the Nature of And I further certify, for the Purposes of the Disaster and where the Tenth Section of the said "Passengers it occurred. But if the Amendment Act, 1863," that the total Passengers were only left behind, without any Amount of such Expenses is Default of their own, Pounds, and that such Expenses were duly state the Fact accord- incurred by me under the said Acts or One ingly. of them. Given under my Hand, this 6 Day of 18 Governor of, &c., (or as the An Act to further extend and make compulsory the Practice of Vaccination in Ireland. [13th July 1863.] VHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fourteenth and Fif teenth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to provide for the better Distribution, Support, and 14 & 15 Vict. Management of Medical Charities in Ireland, and to amend an c. 68. Act of the Eleventh Year of Her Majesty, to provide for the Execution of the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland, it is provided that the Medical Officer of every District constituted under the said Act shall and he is thereby required to vaccinate all Persons who may come to him for that Purpose, subject to such Regulations as may be issued by the Poor Law Commis'sioners in that Behalf; and by another Act, passed in the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Years of Her said Majesty, 'intituled An Act to make further Provision for the Practice of 21 & 22 Vict. Vaccination in Ireland, it is provided that the Committee of c. 64. Management of every Dispensary District in Ireland shall, subject to the Approbation of the Commissioners, divide such Dispensary District into so many Vaccination Districts as they may deem advisable and necessary, and shall report such Dis. tricts to the Commissioners for their Approval, and shall require the Medical Officer of such District to attend at some convenient Place within each Vaccination District, to be approved of by the said Committec, at such Times as the said Committee may fix or approve; and the said Medical Officer is thereby required to vaccinate all Persons resident in his District, who may come to him for that Purpose, or whom he may be requested to vaccinate, being fit Subjects for Vaccination, subject to such Regulatious as may be issued by the Commissioners in that Behalf : And whereas it is expedient that the Practice of Vaccination in Ireland should be still further extended:' Be it therefore acted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and 26 & 27 VICT. 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