Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
I. So much of Act XXI. of 1844 as is liereinbefore recited, is repealed, so far as regards ships or vessels c a e n g e m i ~ n t labourers from Calcutta.
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11. No ship' or vessels carrying emigrant labourers to .Jamaica, British Guiana, or Trinidad, shall sail from Calcutta at any other time than between the thirty-first day of any August and the first day of March next thereafter ensuing.
111. No ship or vessel carrying emigrants and having more than one deck, shall have less than the height of five feet and six inches ask the bast betkeen decks, and in case such ship or vessel shall have only one deck, .'a pl,laifo& s h d be laid beneath such deck in such manner as to >"& s P ace of the height of five feet and -six inches at the least, and ~uc@platform shall not be so laid as that the lower beams shall project above the same, and whatever may be the tonnage of the ship or vessel, ship ~ i r :vesml fiik &all be &er the of one emigmt la,bom.e~ for every slemiity-fmo hbie feet `of` spaee be:tween decks, or btween the deck and plakfdrm, am~capied by goods or stores not being the perssnal luggage of such emigrant hboure~s, anything in A d XV. of 1842, or in the Schedule tbrsia mentioned, to the contrary nodwithstmcling.
' IV. Section I., Act XXI. of 1843 is hereby repealed, and from and after the passing of this Act, emigration to Mauritius -may ladully take place under the provisions of Act XV, of 1842 from the Port of Bombay, as 'well as from the .Ports of Madras and Calcutta.
Source: India Code