New Zealand Gazette – 1842 – No. 25

Page 178

✨ Quarantine Regulations and Schedules



(179)

  1. 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.

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

  3. The Police Magistrate and Health Officer,
    or Medical Practitioner appointed for that pur-
    pose by the Police Magistrate, shall, upon the
    receipt of such report, visit the vessel so an-
    chored, and if they shall find that any sickness
    of an infectious or contagious nature exist on
    board of her, they shall submit the informa-
    tion to a board, consisting of the Police Magis-
    trate, 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 Police Magistrate; which board, or the majo-
    rity of them, shall have authority to detain such
    vessel in quarantine, until every symptom of the
    aforesaid disease has disappeared, when the same
    authority have hereby power to release such
    vessel from quarantine, and admit her to prae-
    tique.

  4. During the period any vessel may be in
    quarantine, the Police Magistrate and Health
    Officer shall visit her alongside, 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.

Provided always, that all vessels that may be
placed in quarantine by Proclamation of the
Governor in Council, shall be admitted to pra-
tique at the expiration of the term therein-
named, unless any sickness shall exhibit itself
during the performance of such quarantine.

SCHEDULE B.

For each and every barrel or package
containing 50 lbs. of gunpowder,
and upwards, for any period not ex-
ceeding six weeks .................... £ s. d.
0 1 0

Ditto ditto, above six weeks, per week 0 0 2

For each and every barrel or package
containing less than 50 lbs., for any
period not exceeding six weeks.... 0 0 6

Ditto ditto, above six weeks ........ 0 0 1

SCHEDULE C.

Questions required to be answered by the Master,
or other person in command of any ship or
vessel arriving in the Port of
from
any infected place :

  1. What is the name of the vessel and tonnage ?
    Answer.

  2. What is the master's name, and are you the
    master?
    Answer.

  3. From whence do you come, and when did
    you sail?
    Answer.

  4. At what ports have you touched on your
    passage?
    Answer.

  5. What vessels have you had intercourse or
    communication with on your passage,
    and from whence did they come?
    Answer.

SCHEDULE A.

Rates of Pilotage to be paid by Vessels entering
any of the after-mentioned Harbours.
£ s. d.

a Waitemata. For all vessels drawing
ten feet water, and under ............ 1 10 0

For every additional foot, or fractional
part of a foot, a further sum of.... 0 2 6

b Wellington.
c Nelson.
d Bay of Islands.
e Manukau.
f Hokianga.



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🏘️ Continuation of Regulations concerning Harbour management, Pilots, and Quarantine procedures (continued from previous page)

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
13 June 1842
Quarantine enforcement, Harbour Master duties, Police Magistrate, Health Officer, Pilotage rates, Gunpowder storage fees, Vessel inspection questions