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it shall lie on the person charged to prove such a request and the time 

 within which the animal had a supply of Avater. 



(4.) But the Privy Council may from time to time, if they think 

 fit, by order prescribe any other period, not less than twelve hours, 

 instead of the period of twenty-four hours aforesaid, generally, or in 

 respect of any particular kind of animals. 



(5.) The company supplying water or food under this section may 

 make in respect thereof such reasonable charges (if any) as the Privy 

 Council by order approve, in addition to such charges as they are for 

 the time being authorised to make in respect of the carriage of 

 animals. The amount of those additional charges accrued due in 

 respect of any animal shall be a debt from the consignor and from 

 the consignee thereof to the company, and shall be recoverable by the 

 company from either of them, with costs, by proceedings in any 

 court of competent jurisdiction. The company shall have a lien for 

 the amount thereof on the animal in respect whereof the same 

 accrued due, and on any other animal at any time consigned by or 

 to the same consignor or consignee to be carried by the company. 



VI -STATUTOEY EEGULATIOXS FOE THE CAEEIAGE 

 OF HOESES m PASSENGEE STEAMEES. 

 By the "Passengers Act (Amendment Act), 1863," 26 & 27 A^ict. 

 c. 51, § 8, it is provkled : " Notwithstanding the Prohibition contained 

 in the Twenty-ninth Section of the said 'Passengers Act, 1855,' 

 Horses and Cattle may be carried as Cargo in Passenger Ships, 

 subject to the following conditions : 



"(1.) That the Animals be not carried on any Deck below the Deck 

 on which Passengers are berthed, nor in any Compartment 

 in which Passengers are berthed, nor in any adjoining Com- 

 partment, except in a Ship built of Iron, and of which the 

 Compartments are divided off by Water-tight Bulkheads 

 extending to the upper Deck : 

 "(4.) That in Passenger Ships of less than Five hundred Tons 

 registered Tonnage not more than Two Head of large Cattle 

 be° carried, nor in Passenger Ships of larger Tonnage more 

 than One additional Head of such Cattle for every additional 

 Two Hundred Tons of the Ship's registered Tonnage, nor 

 more in aU in any Passenger Ship than Ten Head of such 

 Cattle : The Term " large Cattle " shall include both Sexes 

 of horned Cattle, Deer, Horses, and Asses ; Four Sheep of 

 either Sex, or Four Female Goats, shall be equivalent to, 



