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An additional quart of water, in excess of the quantity provided by the above-written dietary scale, shall be issued to each statute adult, daily, while the ship is within the tropics. These quantities to be net, exclusive of the water required for cooking the provisions which the Passengers Act requires shall be served in a cooked state. Proper arrangements are to be made for the proper and efficient cooking of these provisions, and for the distribution of them among the passengers at the stated hours for meals. The slush shall not be the perquisites of the cook, but shall be reserved for the use of the emigrants, and divided amongst them at the discretion of the Surgeon. Provided that the Minister for Immigration for the time being may at any time alter the scale of rations set forth in Schedules A and B, on giving three months' previous notice in writing to the Company in New Zealand ; and if by reason of such alteration, the quantity of rations to be supplied by the Company shall be diminished, then a proportionate reduction upon the price stipulated to be paid for the conveyance of emigrants under this agreement shall be made and allowed by the Company to the Queen ; and if on the other hand such supply shall be increased, the extra cost of such increased supply shall be paid by the Queen to the Company, in addition to the price stipulated to be paid for the conveyance of such emigrants, as aforesaid. 23. Medical comforts, according to scale set forth in Schedule C, shall also be placed on board. A list of these articles, signed by the Company or their Agent, shall be supplied to the Queen, and they shall be issued by the Captain on the requisition of the Surgeon. 24. Medicines and other articles, as per annexed Schedule D, together with any extra medicines and articles which may be required by any regulations for the time being of the Board of Trade, shall be obtained by the Company and placed on board in some easily accessible position, to be specially approved by the Queen under the charge of the Surgeon. 25. The Surgeon shall keep a medical journal and a list of the medical comforts issued, both of which shall be handed to the Immigration Officer on the arrival of the ship at its port of destination in New Zealand. 26. No single man shall be taken in the ship as a saloon passenger, without the consent of the Queen, unless he is a member of a family also passengers in the ship. No passengers not provided by the Queen shall be berthed between decks, without special permission in writing, and no steerage passenger not provided by her shall be taken in the ship unless approved in like manner by the Queen. 27. The passengers shall not be molested either on crossing the Line, or at any other time, and they shall be properly treated in every respect by the Master, officers, and crew of the vessel. The Master shall strictly prohibit and prevent, on the part of the crew or officers, any communication with the female passengers; and a special clause embodying these stipulations shall be inserted in the ship's articles. The Master'shall himself abstain from all improper and unuecessary communication with the female passengers; and he shall attend to all practicable suggestions of the Surgeon calculated to promote the health and comfort of the passengers. The Master and officers shall not directly or indirectly sell or permit to be sold to the passengers any article except tobacco, and this only with the sanction of the Surgeon. 28. The upper deck, excepting the space occupied by the spare spars and boats, shall be kept quite clear for the use of the passengers. The single women shall have the use of the poop-deck for exercise, and shall not be permitted, when on dock, to go into any other part of the ship; and no sailmaking or sail-mending is to be permitted on the poop-deck during the voyage. 29. A proper space, to be approved by the Queen, shall be set apart in the hold of the ship for passengers' luggage, at the average rate of fifteen cubic feet for every statute adult; the whole of such space to be free of charge, and at the disposal of the Queen if not all required for emigrants' luggage. Luggage beyond the said average of fifteen cubic feet to be charged for at a rate not exceeding one shilling per cubic foot. The Master shall cause such luggage as is marked " Wanted on the Voyage," and required by any of the passengers, to be brought out of the hold every third cv fourth week for the exchange of articles. 30. The ~Queen shall cause constables and others to be appointed, whose duty it shall be to maintain, under the directions of the Surgeon and Captain, order and cleanliness throughout the ship, and especially to keep the water-closets clean and in good order. One of such Constables, who shall be a married man, shall be appointed in respect of every thirty single women, to attend to the drawing and the cooking of the provisions of the single women, and the delivery of them to their compartment of the ship, as provided in the instructions to the Captain and Surgeon, and the Queen shall pay all gratuities of all descriptions attaching to these appointments, as also provided in those instructions. 31. The Company shall provide in the single women's compartment an enclosed cabin for a matron, to be appointed by the Queen. The matron shall have a free passage, and be supplied with her food and one reputed quart bottle of beer daily, in her own compartment, from the Captain's table, or the Company may agree with the matron to allow her a sum of money in lieu of such bottle of beer daily. 32. On arrival at the port of disembarkation the Company or their agent shall transmit a nominal list of all the passengers on board, signed by them or him and the Surgeon, to the Immigration Officer or other officer acting in that capacity. This list shall be a transcript of the list of the passengers embarked, with a note against the name of each individual who, from any cause, may not be landed alive, stating the reason thereof, and added thereto the names or description of infants wrho may have been born on the voyage. The Company shall, without charge, land the passengers, with their luggage, as they may be directed to do by the Immigration Officer. 33. Seven clear working or lay days shall be allowed for the disembarkation of the passengers, exclusive of the day of arrival. The Queen shall pay demurrage, at the rate of fourpence halfpenny per ton register per day, for every day the ship is detained by Her beyond this period. And until these lay days shall have expired, or all the passengers shall have finally quitted the ship, bulk shall not be broken, or the berths of the passengers disturbed, except with the consent of the Immigration