INDIA. Company may carry on any Trade which His Majesty's other Subjects may carry on. Military Stores not to be carried without a special Licence. Vessels not to proceed to any Port between the Indus and Malacca, until admitted to Entry at one of the principal Settlements in India. If Court of Directors do not comply with Application for Leave to go to minor Ports, the same shall be referred to Commissioners for Affairs of India, Port to Port and from Place to Place within the same Limits, except the said Dominions of the Emperor of China, under such Rules and Restrictions as are herein-after mentioned; any thing in any Act or Acts of Parliament, or in any Charter of the said Company, to the contrary notwithstanding. Sect. 3. AND be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said United Company to carry on any Trade and Traffic which His Majesty's other Subjects may carry on under the Authority of this Act; any thing in any Charter of the said Company, or in any Act or Acts of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding. Sect. 5. PROVIDED also, and be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any Person or Persons to carry any Military Stores to any Place upon the Continent of Asia, between the River Indus and the Town of Malacca on the Peninsula of Malacca inclusive, or to the said Company's Factory of Bencoolen, in the Island of Sumatra, or its Dependencies, save only the said United Company, or such as shall obtain their special Leave and Licence in Writing, or a special Leave and Licence in Writing under their Authority for that Purpose. Sect. 6. PROVIDED also, and be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any Ship or Vessel, other than a Ship or Vessel of the said Company, to proceed from any Port or Place without the Limits of the said Company's Charter, to any Port or Place on the Continent of Asia, between the River Indus and the Town of Malacca inclusive, other than the said Company's principal Settlements of Fort William, Fort Saint George, Bombay, and Prince of Wales Island, until after such Ship or Vessel shall have been admitted to Entry at some one of the said Four principal Settlements, without a special, Licence in Writing from the Court of Directors of the said United Company; any thing herein-before contained to the contrary notwithstanding. Sect. 7. PROVIDED also, and be it further enacted, That when and as often as any Application shall be made to the said Court of Directors for a Licence, specially authorizing any Ship or Vessel to proceed to any Place or Places upon the Continent of Asia, from the River Indus to the said Town of Malacca inclusive, other than the said Four principal Settlements, the said Court of Directors shall, within Fourteen Days from the Receipt thereof, unless they shall think fit to comply therewith, transmit the same to the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, together with any Representation which the said Court may think proper to make upon the Subject of such Application; and in case the said Board of Commissioners shall think fit to direct the said Court of Directors to issue such Licence, the said Court of Directors shall and they are hereby required forthwith to issue the same, upon such Terms and Conditions as the said Board of Commissioners shall from Time to Time think fit: Provided always, that in all Cases in which the said Board of Commissioners shall direct the said Court of Directors to issue any such Licence, which they shall have declined to issue without such Direction, the special Circumstances inducing them to give such Directions shall be recorded in the Books of the said Board. Sect. 8. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Court of Directors of the East India Company, with the Consent and Approbation of the Commissioners for the Affairs of India, to declare that any other Port or Place, or Ports or Places on the Continent of India, between the Indus and the Town of Malacca, or in any Island in the East Indian Seas, under the Government of the said Company or of His Majesty, shall be considered, for the Purposes of this Act only, as one of the principal Settlements of the said Company, and such Port or Place, or Ports or Places shall be so considered accordingly. Sect. 11. PROVIDED also, and be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any Ship or Vessel engaged in Trade under the Authority of this Act, other than the Ships of the said United Company, to clear out from any Port or Place belonging to His Majesty, or to any Prince, State, or Country in Amity with His Majesty, where any Consul or Vice Consul of His Majesty shall be resident, for any Port or Place under the Government of His Majesty or of the said Company situate more to the Northward than Eleven Degrees of South Latitude, and between the Sixty-fourth and the One hundred and fiftieth Degrees of East Longitude from London, until the Master or other Person having the Command of such Ship or Vessel shall have made out and exhibited to the Collector of the Customs, or other Person duly appointed, or to His Majesty's Consul or Vice Consul resident at such Port or Place of Clearance (as the Case may be), a true and perfect List in such Form as has been settled in virtue of former Acts, or shall from Time to Time be settled by the Court of Directors of the said Company, with the Approbation of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, specifying and setting forth the Names, Capacities, and Descriptions of all Persons embarked or intended to be embarked on board such Ship or Vessel, and all Arms on board or intended to be put on board the same; and when and as soon as any such Vessel shall have been admitted to Entry at any such Port or Place within the Limits aforesaid, the Master and other Person having the Command of such Ship or Vessel, shall in like manner make out and exhibit to the principal Officer of the Customs or other Person thereunto authorized, a true and perfect List, in Form to be settled as aforesaid, specifying the Names, Capacities, and De INDIA. A Proportion of British Seamen to the Tonnage of any scriptions of all Persons on board, or who shall have been on board such Ship or Vessel from the Time of the Sailing thereof to the Time of Arrival, and of all Arms on board, or which shall during that Time have been on board such Ship or Vessel, and the several Times and Places at which such of the said Persons as may have died or left such Ship or Vessel, or such of the said Arms as may have been disposed of, have been disposed of. Sect. 21. AND whereas Lascars and other Natives of the East are not deemed to be equal in Strength and Use to European or other Seamen, and the requiring the Proportion of Ship sufficient. Three-fourths of British Seamen in Ships having as Part of the Crew Lascars and Natives of the East, would compel such Ships to carry a larger Number of British Seamen than other Ships, or to employ a smaller Number of Lascars and Natives of the East than would be sufficient to make a proper Crew; be it therefore enacted, That any Ship or Vessel duly registered, manned in Part with Lascars or Natives of India, which shall be commanded by a British Master, and navigated by Four British Seamen, as Part of the Crew, for every Hundred Tons of her registered Burthen, and so in proportion for any Part of a Hundred Tons, shall be deemed, construed, and taken to be navigated according to Law as to the Crew of any such Ship or Vessel, although the Number of such British Seamen shall not be equal to the Proportion of Three-fourths of the whole Crew of such Ship or Vessel; any thing in any Act or Acts of Parliament, or Law or Laws, to the contrary notwithstanding. Act not to require British Seamen on board Vessels employed in Trade between Port and Port. Masters of out List of every Lascar, &c. on board, before such Ship shall be admitted to Entry. Sect. 23. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act, or in any other Act or Acts of Parliament contained, shall extend or be construed to extend to require any Number of British Seamen to be on board as Part of the Crew or Mariners of any Ship or Vessel employed in Trade only between Ports and Places within the Limits of the Charter of the said Company, including the Cape of Good Hope. Sect. 27. AND be it further enacted, That the Master or Vessels to make other Person having the Command of every Ship or Vessel trading under the Authority of this Act, which from and after the passing of this Act shall arrive at any Port in the United Kingdom of Great Britain or Ireland, and which shall have on board, or which during any Part of her Voyage shall have had on board, either as Part of her Crew or in any other Character, or for any other Reason, any Asiatic Sailor, Lascar, or Native of any of the Territories, Countries, Islands, or Places within the Limits of the Charter of the said United Company, before such Ship or Vessel shall be admitted to Entry, shall make out and exhibit to the principal Officers of the Customs, Person thereunto lawfully authorized, a true and perfect List and Description of every such Asiatic Sailor, Lascar, or Native aforesaid, which shall then be, or who during any Part of her Voyage shall have been on board such Ship or Vessel, with a true Account and Statement what shall have become of every such Asiatic Sailor, Lascar, and Native aforesaid, who may have been and shall not then be on board. 4o GEO. IV. Cap. 88. INDIA. An Act for regulating Vessels carrying Passengers between PASSEngers, Great Britain and Ireland. [18th July 1823.] IRELAND. No Captain of any Vessel under the Port. WHEREAS it is expedient that such Regulations should be made respecting Vessels carrying Passengers between Great Britain and Ireland as may tend to the Security and Convenience of such Passengers; be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the First Day of September Öne thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, it shall not be lawful for the Mas200 Tons shall ter or Commander or Person having the Charge or Command of take more than any Vessel employed in the Conveyance of Passengers between 20 Passengers, Great Britain and Ireland, being of any Burthen less than Two unless licensed hundred Tons, to have or take on board, or to carry or convey by Collector any greater Number of Persons than Twenty as Passengers of Customs at from any Port in Great Britain to any Port in Ireland, or from any Port in Ireland to any Port in Great Britain, unless a Licence for the Conveyance of Passengers shall have been previously granted to the Owner or Owners, or Master or Commander of such Ship or Vessel, under the Hand of the Collector, Comptroller, or other Chief Officer of the Customs, at the Port from which such Vessel shall sail from Great Britain to Ireland, and from Ireland to Great Britain respectively; and it shall be lawful for every such Collector, Comptroller, or other Chief Officer of the Customs, to grant and sign such Licence without Fee or Reward, in such Form and under such Regulations as shall be directed by the Commissioners of Customs: Provided always, that no such Licence shall be granted by such Collector, Comptroller, or other Chief Officer, except upon such Certificate as shall be required by the Commissioners of the Customs, that such Vessel is Sea-worthy and properly found in all respects; and every such Licence shall remain in force for the Space of One Year from the Date thereof, and no longer. Sect. 2. AND be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of any Ship or Vessel so licensed for the Conveyance of Passengers which shall clear out from any Port or Place in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, from and after the First Day of September One thousand eight Proportion of Five adult Per- IRELAND. including the Crew. Tonnage according to Certificate of Registry. If Ship partly PASSENGERS, hundred and twenty-three, to have on board at or after being cleared out at any one Time, or to convey, carry, or transport from any Port or Place in Great Britain or Ireland respectively, in any such Ship or Vessel, a greater Number of Persons (exclusive of the ordinary Crew of such Ship or Vessel), than in the Proportion of Five adult Persons, or of Ten Children under Fourteen Years of Age, or of Fifteen Children under Seven Years of Age, for every Four Tons of the Burthen of such Ship or Vessel; and every such Ship or Vessel shall be deemed and taken to be of such Tonnage or Burthen as is or may be described and set forth in the respective Certificate of the Registry of each and every such Ship or Vessel, granted in pursuance of the several Acts in force in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, relating to such Certificates; and if any such Ship or Vessel shall be partly laden with Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, or Horses or Carriages, then it shall not be lawful for the Master or other Person having the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, to receive or take on board a greater Number of Persons (exclusive of the ordinary Crew) than in the Proportion of Five adult Persons, or of Ten Children under Fourteen Years of Age, or of Fifteen Children under Seven Years of Age, for every Four Tons of that Part of such Ship or Vessel which shall remain unladen; and such Goods, Wares, or Merchandize with which such Ship or Vessel may be partly laden shall, at the Sight and under the Direction of the Collector or Comptroller or other Officer of the Customs, at the Port or Place where such Goods, Wares, or Merchandize shall be taken on board, be stowed and disposed of in such a Manner as to leave good, sufficient, and wholesome Accommodation for the Proportion of Persons hereby allowed in such Case to be received on board. laden with Goods, &c. the Tonnage for Passengers to be exclusive of the Part laden. Penalty on Owners taking On taking more allowed, 51. for Ship having more than 20 Passengers Sect. 3. AND be it further enacted, That if any Master or Person having the Charge or Command of any such Ship any or Vessel shall take on board any Passenger or Passengers, or if the Owner or Owners of any such Ship or Vessel shall engage to take on board any Passenger or Passengers beyond the Number of Twenty as aforesaid, without such Licence being previously obtained by such Master, Owner, or other Person as by this Act is required, every such Master or other Person, or Owner or Owners, shall for every Offence forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds; and if any Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of any such Ship or Vessel, shall take on board, or if such Master or other Person, or the Owner or Owners of any such Ship or Vessel, shall engage to take on board a greater Number of Persons than in the Proportion allowed by this Act, such Master or other Person as aforesaid shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Five Pounds for each and every or any such Person, exceeding in Number the Proportion herein-before limited; and every such Ship or Vessel so having on board, or conveying or carry |