XLIX. Any Pilot who refuses neglects or delays to take charge of a vessel without good and sufficient cause in that behalf or quits any vessel departing before the vessel has passed the point or distance which may be fixed for that purpose by the Superintendent of the Province in which the Port is situate for which such Pilot is appointed or who by drunkenness renders himself incapable of conducting the vessel or by ignorance or from want of due care does or occasions any injury to the vessel or to the tackle or furniture thereof or makes use of any threatening or abusive language to the master shall on proof of the offence forfeit a penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds and shall besides be liable to suspension and dismissal as hereinbefore provided.

SCHEDULE.

HARBOUR MASTERS' FEES.

For every service performed by a Harbour Master under this Act a sum not exceeding One Penny per Ton of the Vessel in respect of which the service is performed.

PILOTAGE RATES.

For every sailing vessel a sum not exceeding six pence per ton inwards and the same sum outwards.

For every steam vessel a sum not exceeding four pence per ton inwards and the same sum outwards.

For every day that a Pilot is detained on board any Vessel whilst under Quarantine or by any act of the Master a sum not exceeding Twenty Shillings per day.

LIGHT-HOUSE RATES.

For every steam vessel and for every vessel employed in the coasting trade on entering inwards at the Customs of this Colony four pence per ton.

For every other vessel entering inwards at the Customs of this Colony nine pence per ton.

VACCINATION.

The following Act passed during the late session of the General Assembly is published for general information:—

DONALD M’LEAN,
Superintendent.

An Act to extend and make compulsory the practice of Vaccination.

[14th December, 1863.]

WHEREAS it is expedient that the Practice of Vaccination should be encouraged and extended:

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows:

I. The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Vaccination Act 1863.”

II. Within three months after the passing of this Act the Superintendent of each Province in New Zealand shall divide such Province or such part of the Province as he shall think fit into convenient districts for affording increased facilities for vaccination and shall from time to time appoint a convenient place or places in each such district for the performance of such vaccination and shall take the most effectual means for giving from time to time to all persons resident within such district due notice of the days and hours at which a medical officer to be by such Superintendent appointed will attend at such place to vaccinate all persons not already successfully vaccinated who may then appear there and also of the days and hours at which such medical officer will attend at such place to inspect the progress of such vaccination in the persons so vaccinated.

III. The parent of every unvaccinated child born in New Zealand after the first day of March 1864 shall within six Calendar months after the birth of such child take or cause to be taken the said child to a medical practitioner or to the medical officer appointed for the district in which the said child is resident for the purpose of being vaccinated and the said medical officer so appointed shall thereupon or as soon after as it may properly be done vaccinate the said child.

IV. Upon the eighth day following the day on which any child has been vaccinated as aforesaid the parent of the said child shall again take or cause to be taken the said child to the medical practitioner or medical officer by whom the operation was performed in order that such medical practitioner or medical officer may ascertain by inspection the result of such operation.

V. Upon and immediately after the successful vaccination of any child the medical officer or medical practitioner who shall have performed the operation shall deliver to the parent presenting the said child for vaccination a certificate under his hand according to the form of Schedule A hereto annexed that the said child has been successfully vaccinated and shall also transmit a duplicate of the said certificate to the Registrar of Births of the district in which the operation was performed and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the successful vaccination of such child in any information or complaint which shall be brought for noncompliance with the provisions of this Act.

VI. If any medical officer or medical practitioner shall be of opinion that any child is not in a fit and proper state to be successfully vaccinated and shall give to the parent of such child a certificate in the form of Schedule B hereto annexed the production of which certificate shall for the period of two months from the date thereof be a sufficient defence against any information or complaint for noncompliance with the provisions of this Act.