Keeping order.—Passengers and others on board a passenger steamer are required by the law to conduct themselves with propriety. In particular, fee offence will be committed on a steamer, and a fine of forty shillings incurred (without prejudice to the recovery of any fare payable), in any of the following circumstances : (a) If any person being drunk or disorderly has been on that account refused admission thereto by the owner or any person in his employment, and, after having the amount of his fare (if he has paid it) returned or tendered to him, nevertheless persists in attempting to enter the steamer ; (b) If any person being drunk or disorderly on board the steamer is requested by the owner or any person in his employ to leave the steamer at any place in lir United Kingdora, at Which he can conveniently do so, and, after having the amount of his fare (if he has paid it) returned or tendered to him, does not comply with the request ; (c) If any person on board the steamer, after warning by the master or other officer thereof, molests or continues to molest any passenger ; (d) If any person, after having been refused admission to the steamer by the owner or any person in his employ on account of the steamer being full, and having had the amount of his fare (if he has paid it) returned or tendered to him, nevertheless persists in attempting to enter the steamer ; (e) If any person having gone on board the steamer at any place, and being requested, on account of the steamer being full, by the owner or any person in his employ to leave the steamer, before it has quitted that place, and having had the amount of his fare (if he has paid it) returned or tendered to him, does not comply with that request ; (f) If any person travels or attempts to travel in the steamer without first paying his fare, and with intent to avoid payment thereof ; (g) If any person having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and skilfully proceeds in the steamer beyond that distance without first paying the additional fare for the additional distance, and with intent to avoid payment thereof; (h) If any person on arriving in the steamer at a point to which he has paid his fare knowingly and wilfully refuses or neglects to quit the steamer ; (i) If any person on board the steanier fails, when requested by the master or other officer thereof, either to pay his fare or exhibit such ticket or other receipt, if any, showing the payment of his fare, as is usually given to persons travelling by and paying their fare ibr the steamer. And a fine of £20 is incurred by any one on board who wilfully does or causes to be done anything in such a manner as to obstruct or injure any part of the machinery or tackle, or to obstruct, iinpede, or molest the crem, or any of them, in the navigation or management of the steamer, or otherwise in the execution of their duty. The officers of the steamer have a right to detain a person who commits any of these offences, and take him before a magistrate. Such a person is also bound to give his name and address when so required by the master or an employee of the owner. If be refuses or gives a false name and address, he renders himself liable to a fine of .£20, to be paid to the owner. The master of a home trade passenger steamer has power to exclude drunken passengers and also those who are misconclucting themselves to the annoyance or injury- of other passengers.
EndgranIs. ships are the subject of special statutory provisions. And particu larly is this so with regard to the survey thereof, and to their due equipment with compasses, chronometers, fire-engines, anchors, &c. There are also regulations as to the number of, and accommodation for, the passengers ; the limit of the number of steerage passengers that may be carried ; their restriction on certain decks ; the stowage of cargo and luggage, so that the health and comfort of the steerage p ts sengers may be adequately provided for. The subject of food, water, and medical stores and attendance is dealt with very fully, and in great detail. An emigrant slid!) is one which carries more than fifty steerage passengers or a greater number of steerage passengers than one adult to every thirty-three tons of the ship's registered tonnage if she is a sailing ship, or one to every twenty tons of her registered tonnage if she is a steamer. By the term adult is meant a person aged twelve,
or two persons between ono and twelve years old. It must also be a seagoing ship—British or foreign—voyaging from the British Islands to some port out of Europe and not within the Mediterranean sea or on a colonial voyage. The master of the ship must give a bond for the due observance of his statutory obligations, and lie is required to make lists of his passengers. Three months' imprisonment is the punishment inflicted upon any one who is found on board an emigrant ship with intent to obtain a passage therein without consent; and £20 the fine which may be inflicted upon any one aiding and abetting him. Passengers contracts.—A printed contract ticket, according to a prescribed form, is given to every person who pays for a passage as a steerage passenger in any ship, or for a passage as a cabin passenger in any emigrant ship proceeding from the British Islands to any port out of Europe and not within the Mediterranean Sea. A cabin passenger is a person who (a) has a space of thirty-six clear superficial feet at least allotted to his exclusive use ; (b) messes throughout the voyage at the same table as the master or first officer of the ship ; (c) pays a fare which is in the proportion of thirty shillings for every week of the length of the voyage if the voyage is from Great Britain to a port south of the Equator, or twenty shillings if the voyage is from Great Britain to a port north of the Equator ; and (d) has a duly signed ticket in the prescribed form. Any other passenger is a steerage passenger. But persons are not cabin passengers unless—(a) the space allotted to their exclusive use is in the proportion of 36 clear superficial feet to each statute adult ; and (b) the fare contracted to be paid by them amounts to at least the sum of .£25 for the entire voyage, or is in the proportion of at least 65 shil lings for every 1000 miles of the length of the voyage ; and (c) they have been furnished with a duly signed contract ticket in the form approved by the Board of Trade for cabin passengers. The ticket must be given by the person who receives the passage-money, and be signed by or on behalf of the owner, char terer, or master of the ship. It is not liable to stamp duty, nor need it be given when the contract is with the Board of Trade or its agents, but in any other case a fine of £50 will be incurred by any one who receives the passage-money and does not give the prescribed ticket. It may be that some question arises respect ing the breach or non-performance of a stipulation in the ticket. In such a case the passenger has the right to have the question determined by a court of sum mary jurisdiction, and such a court has special power to award damages and costs to the complainant if the circumstances warrant it ; but such damages and costs must not exceed the amount of the passage-money specified in the ticket, and £20 in addition. A passenger, unless he has reasonable cause not to do so, must on demand produce his ticket to any emigration officer for his inspection, failing which he will incur a fine ; and so must the owner, charterer, or master of a ship produce his counterpart of the ticket. A penalty of £20 is incurred by any one who alters, or renders useless, his ticket, unless it is the ticket of a cabin pas senger who consents. Spirits are not allowed to be sold on an emigrant ship. A steerage passenger in an emigrant ship is entitled to at least forty-eight hours after his arrival at the end of his voyage to sleep in the ship, and to be provided for and maintained on board thereof in the same manner as oaring the voyage, unless within that period the ship leaves the port in the further prosecution of her voyage. If his passage is not provided according to the contract, he is en titled to a return of passage-money and compensation ; and if the ship delays in proceeding on her voyage, he is entitled either to subsistence money or main tenance on board. A penalty is incurred by the master for landing at the wrong place ; and the expenses of rescue and the conveyance of passengers on a wrecked ship are allowed.