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"Passengers Act of 1864", which was an amendment of the 1855 act.
(This is the British Act)

1: All passengers who shall not be prevented by sickness or other sufficient
cause, to be determined by the surgeon, or in ships carrying no surgeon,
by the master, shall rise not later than seven o'clock, am, at which hour
the fires shall be lighted.

2: It shall be the duty of the cook or cooks, appointed under the 39th
section of the said "Passengers Act 1855", to light the fires, and to
take care that they be kept lighted during the day; and also to take care
that each passenger or family of passengers shall have use of the fireplace
at proper hours, in an order to be fixed by the master.

5. The breakfast hour shall be from eight to nine o'clock, am. Before the
commencement of breakfast, all the emigrants, except as herein before
excepted, are to be out of bed and dressed, and the beds rolled up, and
the deck on which the emigrants live properly swept.

7. Dinner shall commence at one o'clock, pm, and supper at six pm.

12. The coppers and cooking utensils shall be cleaned every day, and the
cisterns kept filled with water.

23. No passengers shall go to the ship's cookhouse without special permission
from the master, nor remain in the forecastle among the sailors on
any account.

Contract for S. S. Elysia.
(THIS WAS TRANSLATED FROM ITALIAN TO ENGLISH BY A COMPUTER PROGRAM.)

Administrative Dispositions

Every passenger must be provided with the rules of sea passage. The
Baggage for every passenger must not exceed 100 Kilograms and must not go
beyond the measure of a quarter of a cubic meter: the excess will be paid on
7 of every 100 Kilograms or every tenth of a cubic meter or more. On every
Baggage will be marked the name of the passenger and the Port of destination
They are considered Baggage, the sole effects of use and the laundry.

Every passenger must accompany their baggage and watch over at the
embarkation and unloading of the same, Society will not answer any dispersion
of the Baggage.

In the price of the Ticket of embarkation for every plaza it is
understood and established treatment from the Society for each class, in all
of the ways, forms and time pointed out by the relative rules.

The passengers that do not embark on the first day, at the time
established for the departure, forgives the whole hire.

The passenger is responsible for the consequences of the every customs
infringement declared for wrong or false declaration of the proper baggage,
To all of the normal Rules on board.

The passenger declares to have taken knowledge, and have to conform to
all the dispositions brought by the relative one Rule on board.

Chart of the provisions according to the Rules of the Mercantile Marine

                                Grams                  

Fresh white bread                700

Every day

Or:

Biscuits of 1st quality          500

Every Day

Fresh or salty ox meat           250

5 days of the week

Rice                             120

on the 2 days of the week in which meat is distributed

Thin pasta of 1st quality        120

every day of the week except the 2 times the rice distributed.

Peas or dry beans                50 

on the 5 days of the week in which meat is distributed

Tuna in oil                      50

on the 2 days of the week in which meat is not distributed

Potatoes                         200

The same

Cheese of Holland or Bra*        50

On the 2 days of the week in which meat is not distributed,

and on the fat day of the week in which coffee is not distributed.

Coffee or 2nd quality            20

Every day of the week except for the 2 days you get a fizzy drink

White sugar of 3rd quality       30

Every day of the week except for the 2 days that 

coffee is not distributed

Salty anchovies                  20

On the fat day of the week in which coffee is not distributed

Oil from edible olives           10

Every day

Salt                             20

The same

Wine                            1.2 liter

Five days of the week when coffee is distributed

Wine                            3.4 liter

Two days of the week when coffee is not  distributed.



In the tropics more rations will be distributed of six cent't 

trios of brady for every passengers.



Please remember this was translated from Italian to English 

by a computer software program(not by me)

This was obtained from a contract between an Emigrant Agent 

for S. S. Elysia and Pasquale DeFranco on Nov. 28, 1892  

Naples to New York.

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