Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 2nd Sept., 1863.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs
the publication of the following return.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

Abstract of the Quantity of Land Sold and Granted in the different Districts for the Month ending the 31st August, 1863:

CAUTION.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 2nd Sept., 1863.

NOTICE is hereby given, that no person will be allowed to board or quit any vessel arriving from any port or place beyond the Province, until the Quarantine Regulations, now in force, have been duly complied with.

The penalties, in case of an infringement of the regulations will be most strictly enforced.

By order of His Honor the Superintendent,

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

The following are the Regulations now in force —

1. The Master of every vessel arriving at any harbor which shall be deemed by the Harbor Master to be liable to Quarantine shall, on being directed so to do by the Harbor Master, cause the same to be anchored in the Quarantine ground appointed for the Harbor, 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 lantern 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 Harbor Master or other authorized person his bill of health, manifest, log-book, and journal; and he is to fill up a report in the 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 vessels 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 such offence the sum of twenty pounds.

10. The Harbor 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 to be appointed from time to time 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, or shall have then recently existed on board of her, they shall submit the information to a Board, consisting of the Resident Magistrate, one or more Justices of the Peace, the superior Officer of the Customs.