the Governor of New Zealand shall
have signified, as provided by the said
Act, that Her Majesty has been pleased
to assent to the same.

Commencement of Act.
III. This act shall be proclaimed
in New Zealand by the Governor, or
person administering the Government
thereof, within six weeks after a copy
of such Act shall have been received
by such Governor, and shall take
effect in New Zealand from the day of
such Proclamation; except that the
repeal of section seventy-four of the
said recited Act, and of so much of
section sixty-two as relates to sums pay-
able to the New Zealand Company,
shall only take effect in or before
the fifth day of April, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-eight payment
be made to the New Zealand Company
of the sums and in the manner specified
in the New Zealand Company's Claims
Act passed during the present Session
of Parliament.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Christchurch, 29th Dec., 1857.
HIS HONOR the Superintendent
directs the re-publication of the
following Quarantine Regulations for
the Port of Lyttelton.
JOHN OLLIVIER,
Provincial Secretary.

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 per-
formance 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.

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QUARANTINE REGULATIONS

1. The Master of every vessel arriving at
   any Harbour shall be detained until the
   Harbour Master to be liable to the penalty
   shall, on being directed so to do by the
   Harbour Master, cause the same to be an-
   chored in the Quarantine ground appointed
   for the Harbour, or forfeit and pay for
   every such offence, the sum of one hun-
   dred pounds.

2. The Master of every vessel so an-
   chored, shall neither himself quit, nor suffer
   mit any seaman, passengers, or other per-
   son to quit the same,—until he shall have
   been duly admitted to pratique, on pain of
   the sum of one hundred pounds.

3. Every seaman, passenger, or other
   person so quitting, shall, for every 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 an-
   chored is to deliver to the Harbour Mas-
   ter, or other authorized 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 here
   annexed.

6. The Master of every vessel so an-
   chored who shall suffer any goods, wares,
   or merchandize, 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
   merchandize, packets, package, baggage,
   books, or letters, or any other article whatso-
   ever, 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 ves-
   sel shall be there at anchor, performing
   Quarantine, shall forfeit any sum not ex-
   ceeding 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, im-
    mediately 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.