Transcript of passengers' contract ticket (T/1806/3).
I engage that the Parties herein named shall be provided with a Steerage Passage to the Port of ....................... in Australia in the ship .................. with not less than Ten Cubic Feet for Luggage for each Statute Adult, and shall be victuated during the Voyage and the Time of Detention at any Place before its Termination, according to the subjoined Scale for the sum of £.......... including Government Dues before Embarkation, and Head Money, if any, at the place of Landing, and every other Charge, except Freight for Excess of Luggage beyond the Quantity above specified, and I hereby acknowledge to have received the sum of
£ { } in payment
In addition to any Provisions which the Passengers may themselves bring, the following Quantities, at least of Water and Provisions (to be issued daily) will be supplied by the Master of the Ship, as required by Law, viz, to each Statute Adult 3 Quarts of Water daily; and a Weekly Allowance of Provisions according to the following Scale-;
3 Quarts of Water daily
Weekly per Statute Adult
2lbs 8oz of Bread or Biscuit, not inferior in quality to Navy Biscuit.
8oz Sugar
2lbs Rice
1 lb of Wheaten Flour
2oz Tea or 4oz of Cocoa or of roasted Coffee.
5lbs Oatmeal
2 oz Salt.
The following substitutions for articles in the above Dietary Scale may be made, at the option of the Master of any Passenger Ship, provided that the substituted Articles be set forth in the Contract Tickets of the Passengers, that is to say, 5lbs of good Potatoes, or 8oz of Beef or of Pork, exclusive of bone, or of preserved meat, or 12oz of Dried Salt Fish, or 1lb of bread or biscuit not inferior in quality to Navy Biscuit, or 1lb of best Wheaten Flour, or 1lb of Split Peas, or 1lb 4oz of Oatmeal, or for 1lb of Rice; and 4oz of Preserved Potatoes may be substituted for 1lb of potatoes, but in Vessels clearing out from Scotch or Irish Ports the weekly allowance of Oatmeal shall not be less than the rate of 3lbs 8oz for each Statute Adult.
Signature in Full ...............................
on Behalf of Gibbs, Bright & Co.
Notices to Passengers
1. If the Ship does not proceed to Sea on the day specified above, Passengers, if ready to go on Board, are entitled to Subsistence Money at the rate of One Shilling a Day per Statute Adult (each person of fourteen or two children between one and fourteen years of age being reckoned as a Statute Adult) for each day of delay until the final departure of the Ship; but if the Passengers are lodged and maintained in any establishment under the Superintendence of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, the Shilling a day is payable to the Emigration Officer at the Port of Embarkation. In either case the money may be recovered by summary Process before Magistrates. If, however, the Ship is unavoidably detained by wind or weather, and if the Passengers be maintained on board in the same manner as if the Voyage had commenced, no Subsistence Money is payable.
2. If Passengers fail to obtain a Passage in the Ship, according to their Contract, either from her having sailed before the appointed time, or from there being no room in her, or through any default of the Owner, Charterer, or Master, and are not provided with a Passage in some other equally eligible Ship, to sail within 10 days to the same Port, then they are entitled to a return of their Passage-Money, and to such Compensation, not exceeding £10, as the Justices may award.
3. Passengers should carefully keep this part of their Contract Ticket till after the end of the Voyage.
N.B. This Contract Ticket is exempt from Stamp Duty.
