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to the Pilot or other Officer delivering the
said copy, and any Pilot failing to demand, or
any Master of a ship or vessel refusing on
demand to give such acknowledgment shall
forfeit and pay a fine of not more than five
pounds.
28. The Passengers Act, 5 and 6 Victoria,
cap. 107, has been extended to this colony by
Proclamation dated the 29th day of June,
1849.

QUARANTINE.

29. The Master of every vessel arriving at
    any Harbour within the Province of Auck-
    land which shall be deemed by the Harbour
    Master to be liable to quarantine, shall, on
    being directed so to do by such 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.
30. The Master of every vessel so anchored,
    shall neither himself quit, or permit any sea-
    men passenger, or other person to quit the
    same, until he shall have been duly ad-
    mitted to pratique, or forfeit the sum of one
    hundred pounds.
31. Every seamen, passenger, or other per-
    son so quitting, shall, for every such offence
    forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.
32. 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 are used in Her
    Majesty's Navy, and to keep the same respec-
    tively hoisted until released from quarantine,
    or forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.
33. The master of every vessel so anchored
    is to deliver to the Harbour Master, or other
    authorised person, his Bill of Health, Mani-
    fest, Log-book and Journal, and he is to fill
    up a Report in the form and manner pointed
    out in the Schedule A. annexed.
34. The Master of every vessel so anchored
    who shall suffer any goods, wares, or mer-
    chandize, packets, books, letters, or other ar-
    ticles to be unshipped or landed, and any
    person or persons who shall be con-
    cerned in the unshipping or landing of the
    same, shall forfeit for each and every article
    so unshipped or landed, the sum of twenty
    pounds.
35. Every person or persons who shall
    knowingly receive any goods, wares, or mer-
    chandize, packets, packages, 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.
36. 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.
37. 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 twenty pounds.
38. The Harbour Master shall, immedi-
    ately after his having so anchored any vessel,
    report the same to the Resident Magsitrate
    and Health Officer, or to the person or persons
    acting, or appointed to act for those function-
    aries.
39. The Resident Magistrate and Health
    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 con-
    tagious nature exists on board of her, they
    submit the information to a Board, con-
    sisting of the Resident Magistrate, and one or
    more Justices of the Peace, the superior officer
    of the Customs of the Port, and the Health
    Officcer or Medical Practitioner as aforesaid,
    to be convened for that purpose by the Re-
    sident Magistrate; which board, or the ma-
    jority of them, shall have authority to detain
    such vessel in Quarantine until every symp-
    tom 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.
40. 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 regu-
    lations into effect, or forfeit a sum not exceed-
    ing 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 to Harbour Masters. All penalties
hereby imposed, shall be recoverable in a
summary way.

SCHEDULE A.

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 ton-
   nage?
   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