Jus ted to furnish the masters of all vessels ng passengers between their respective ntries, and each owner or consignee of Ing at their ports, with one copy of this JAMES GUTHRIE, s: but shoul of the vessel or article, cabins, or ot the same n r the purpo capable of be! ms of the ves ovided be de se of passenge and in all cas said lockers to be the deck le for all the one hospital in rate therefrom purposes requ luded in the s not occupy mol form: Prov sight between rriage of passengers in steamships and other vessels. Senate and House of Representatives of merica in Congress assembled, That no wned in whole or in part by a citizen of y a citizen of any foreign country, shall ssel, at any foreign port or place other ous territory of the United States, a ssengers than in proportion of one to vessel, not including children under the computation, and computing two chiler eight years of age as one passenger. priated for the use of such passengers, è occupied by stores or other goods not of such passengers, shall be in the folz: On the main and poop decks or plathouses, if there be any, one passenger sters of all re h one copy o be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor thereof, before any circuit or district co shall, for each passenger taken on boar said, or the space aforesaid, be fined in and may also be imprisoned, at the dis fore whom the penalty shall be recov months; but should it be necessary nience of the vessel, that any portion o articles, or article, should be placed on decks, cabins, or other places appropr sengers, the same may be placed in lo pared for the purpose, on an exterior s wave, capable of being cleansed in like platforms of the vessel. In no case, h thus provided be deemed to be a part o the use of passengers, but the same s from, and in all cases where prepared face of said lockers or enclosed space taken to be the deck or platform from w be made for all the purposes of this a that one hospital in the spaces appropr separate therefrom by an appropriate as its purposes require, may be prepar be included in the space allowable for shall not occupy more than one hundre or platform: Provided, That on board the height between the decks is seven a ships and other res Representati ssembled, Th art by a citize eign country ort or place United State oportion of o children under mputing two e as one passe of such passen or other goods hall be in the poop decks or any, one pass -1 and the owners thereof shall severally m of five dollars for each passenger on such voyage, to be recovered by the Uniwhere such vessel may arrive or depart. ther enacted, That all vessels, whether r any foreign country, having sufficient ling to law, for fifty or more passengers, engers,) shall, when employed in transers between the United States and Eur deck, for the use of such passengers, a -way leading to the apartments allotted low deck, firmly secured to the deck or with two doors, the sills of which shall ve the deck, so constructed that one door se may at all times be left open for vens so employed, and having the capacity nd fifty such passengers or more, shall and the stairs or ladder, leading down ent, shall be furnished with a hand-rail but booby hatches may be substituted than fifty s be deemed d ther enacted, That every such vessel so the legal capacity for more than one Ts, shall have at least two ventilators to r apartments occupied by such passenall be inserted in the after part of the ts, and the other shall be placed in the Seven reof shall , having suff or more passen employed in th ngers or more, dder, leading d every such vessel passengers shal deck, housed and conveniently arrang or cooking range, the dimensions of four feet long and one foot six inches dred passengers; and provision shall aforesaid, in this ratio, for a greater o gers; but nothing herein contained s to make such arrangements for cookin shall be deemed desirable. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, T as aforesaid shall have on board, for th at the time of leaving the last port v sail, well secured under deck, for e twenty pounds of good navy bread, f teen pounds of oatmeal, ten pounds pounds of peas and beans, twenty pou of vinegar, sixty gallons of fresh wat pork, and ten pounds of salt beef, fr good quality; but at places where eit flour, or peas and beans cannot be P and on reasonable terms, the quantity other last named articles may be in therefor; and, in case potatoes cannot able terms, one pound of either of sai tuted in lieu of five pounds of potat such vessels shall deliver to each pass part of the aforesaid provisions wee na distribute such provisions, cooked as walch S jurisdictio aptain of s 9. And Es at an eployed What to de Sectors of th report in of law 1 and if su approved by jacie evi 10. And tions, pena deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, of before any circuit or district court of all be fined not more than one thousand mprisoned for a term not exceeding one at the enforcement of this penalty shall ponsibility of the captain or master and gers as may have suffered from said default. Further enacted, That the captain of any ed is hereby authorized to maintain good abits of cleanliness among such passene preservation and promotion of health; hall cause such regulations as he may , to be posted up, before sailing, on board accessible to such passengers, and shall ed up during the voyage; and it is heresaid captain to cause the apartments ocngers to be kept at all times in a clean, e owners of every such vessel so employed uct the decks, and all parts of said apartbe thoroughly cleansed; and they shall nvenient privy or water-closet for the exne hundred such passengers. And when That said passengers cannot. be mustered dding, it shall be the duty of the captain to cause the deck, occupied by such pasd with chloride of lime, or some other Tessels app ended and steerage br steam, in manner The masters a to amend arity of the hole or in red August its with t priated to t The propelled |
