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For the Port of Nelson—Outside the Haven, clear of the tideway therefrom, towards the East entrance of the Waimea River.

For the Port of Lyttelton—Close to the entrance of Poulalo or Rhodes Bay, West of Rapa Island, or Port Levy.

For the Port of Akaroa—In a Bay within the Harbour, immediately to the North of French Bay.

For the Ports of Otago and the Bluff—Such place or places as shall be named for that purpose by the Chief Officer of H.M. Customs at these Ports respectively.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand,
at Government House, at Auckland, this sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency’s command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

At Government House, at Auckland, the 8th day of December, 1857.

Present—
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the Harbour Regulations Ordinance, No. 15 of Session 2, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to make all such Regulations respecting the placing of Vessels in Quarantine, and the performance of such Quarantine, as may seem meet, and to appoint all such officers as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying such Regulations into effect.

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of his Executive Council, has been pleased to approve, and doth hereby approve, of the following Quarantine Regulations for the Colony of New Zealand.

F. G. STEWARD.

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.

1. The Master of every vessel arriving at any Harbour which shall be deemed by the Harbour Master to be liable to quarantine, shall, on being directed so to do by the Harbour Master, cause the same to be anchored in the Quarantine ground appointed for the Harbour, or forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum of one hundred pounds.

2. The Master of every vessel so anchored shall neither himself quit, nor permit any seaman, passenger, or other person to quit the same, until he shall have been duly admitted to pratique, or forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds.

3. Every seaman, passenger, or other person so quitting, shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.

4. Every vessel so anchored is to hoist a yellow flag, of not less than six breadths of bunting, at the Main, by day, and a light by night in a lanthorn, such as is used in Her Majesty’s Navy; and to keep the same respectively hoisted until released from quarantine, or forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.

5. The Master of every vessel so anchored is to deliver to the Harbour Master, or other authorised person, his Bill of Health, Manifest, Log-book, and Journal, and he is to fill up a Report in the form and manner pointed out in the Schedule A. annexed.

6. The Master of every vessel so anchored who shall suffer any goods, wares, or merchandise, packets, books, letters, or other articles, to be unshipped or landed, and any person or persons who shall be concerned in the unshipping or landing of the same, shall forfeit for each and every article so unshipped or landed, the sum of twenty pounds.

7. Every person or persons who shall knowingly receive any goods, wares, or merchandise, packets, package, baggage, books, or letters, or any other article whatever, from any vessel so anchored, shall forfeit for each and every article the sum of twenty pounds.

8. Any person going within the limits of any Quarantine Station, when any vessel shall be there at anchor, performing Quarantine, shall forfeit any sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

9. If any officer or person entrusted with orders respecting Quarantine shall in any way neglect his duty, he shall forfeit for each offence the sum of twenty pounds.

10. The Harbour Master shall, immediately after his having so anchored any vessel, report the same to the Resident Magistrate and Health Officer, or to the person or persons acting, or appointed to act for those functionaries.

11. The Resident Magistrate and Health Officer, or Medical Practitioner appointed for that purpose by the Resident Magistrate, shall upon the receipt of such report, visit the vessel so anchored, and if they shall find that any sickness of an infectious, or contagious nature, exists on board of her, they shall submit the information to a Board, consisting of the Resident Magistrate, and one or more Justices of the Peace, the superior officer of the Customs of the port, and the Health Officer or Medical Practitioner as aforesaid, to be convened for that purpose by the Resident Magistrate, which board, or the majority of them, shall have authority to detain such vessel in Quarantine until every symptom of the aforesaid disease has disappeared, when the same board, or the majority of them, have hereby power to release such vessel from Quarantine, and admit her to pratique.

12. During the period any vessel may be in Quarantine, the Resident Magistrate and Health Officer shall visit her alongside from time to time, and institute such regulations as the nature of the case may demand, and the Master or Commander shall carry such regulations into effect, or forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

POWER TO RESIDENT MAGISTRATE IN CERTAIN CASES.

The Resident Magistrate, at any port for which no Harbour Master is appointed, shall have all such powers as are hereinbefore given.