Clearing Certificate for Ship Pennsylvania.

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Document ID 800343
Date 27-09-1863
Document Type Newspapers (Shipping News)
Archive Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Citation Clearing Certificate for Ship Pennsylvania.; PRONI T9; CMSIED 800343
52038
First Port of Departure - Glasgow

Final Clearing Certificate for Passenger Ships.

Name of Ship: Pennsylvania.
Registered Tonnage: 1592.
Aggregate Number of Superficial feet in the several
compartments set apart for Passengers other than Cabin
Passengers: 1500.
Total Number of Statute Adults the Ship can Legally
carry, exclusive of Master, Crew, and Cabin Passengers:
100.'
Intending to touch at -.
Bound to: New York.
Name of Master: [A. Jones.?]

Cabin Passengers    Number of Souls    Equal to Adults,
    computed by
                                       Passengers' Act.

Adults, Male 12           10                 10
years and upwards.

Adults Female 12          16                 16
years and upwards

Children, Males
between 1 and 12.           3                 1«

Children Females
between 1 and 12.           7                 3«

Under 1 year.               1                  -

Total                      37                 31

Intermediate and        Number of    Equal to Adults
Steerage Passengers.    Souls        computed by the
                                     Passengers' Act.

Adults, Male 12             44              44
years and upwards

Adults Female 12            27              27
years and upwards

Children, Males             11              5«
between 1 and 12.

Children Females             9              4«
between 1 and 12.

Under 1 year.                2              -

Total                       93              81

Crew              Number        Equal to Adults computed
                                by the Passengers' Act

Men                71                        71
Boys                -                         -

Total              71                        71

Total Number of Adults including crew, computed according
to the Passengers' Act
                                             183

I, the undersigned, acting under the authority of the
Passengers' Act, do hereby Certify that the foregoing
appear to be the burthen and dimensions of the above named
vessel, and also to be the number and description of her
passengers and crew. And I further Certify, that I have
approved of the quality of the provisions, water, and stores,
put on board for the use of the Passengers, and that I
have inspected the list of Passengers of the said vessel,
and that it appears to be correct, and that the number of
passengers does not exceed the number allowed by the
Passengers' Act.- And finally, I Certify that all the
requirements of the said Act, so far as the same can be
complied with before the departure of the Ship is,
in my opinion seaworthy, in safe trim, and in all respects
fit for her intended voyage; and that her Passengers and
Crew are in a fit state to proceed.

Dated at Larne (Belfast) this 29 day of September 1873.

Signature of Officer of Customs,
[N?] Brigs. [Briggs?]

Officer of Customs for the Port of Belfast.
No. 177.