Pilotage and Quarantine Rules




THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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in writing, 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 acknowledg-
ment shall forfeit and pay a Fine not exceeding
(£5) Five pounds.

  1. Every Vessel, excepting Vessels engaged
    solely in the coasting trade, and Vessels
    exempted as aforesaid, shall be placed in charge
    of the first duly licensed Pilot who shall offer
    his services, and Masters of Vessels neglecting
    to heave-to and take the Pilot on board, or
    refusing to accept his services when offered,
    shall be liable to the same amount of pilotage
    as if the services of a Pilot had been accepted.

II.—QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.

  1. The Master of every Vessel arriving in the
    Harbour which shall be deemed by the Harbour
    Master or Pilot to be liable to quarantine,
    shall on being directed so to do by the Harbour
    Master, cause the same to be anchored in the
    Quarantine ground appointed for the Harbour,
    or in default thereof he shall forfeit and pay 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; and any Master infringing or per-
    mitting to be infringed this regulation, shall
    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 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 anchored is
    to deliver to the Harbour Master or Pilot, or other
    authorised 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 A. annexed.

  6. The Master of every vessel so anchored,
    who shall suffer any goods, wares, or merchan-
    dize, packets, books, letters, or other articles,
    to be unshipped or landed, and any person or
    persons who shall be concerned in the unship-
    ping 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 know-
    ingly receive any goods, wares, or merchandize,
    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 vessel 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 each of-
    fence the sum of twenty pounds.

  10. The Harbour 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 a Medical 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 contagious nature
    exists on board of her, they shall submit the in-
    formation to a Board, consisting of the Resi-
    dent Magistrate and one or more Justices of
    the Peace, the superior Officer of Customs
    of the Port, and the Health Officer or Medical
    Practitioner as aforesaid, to be convened for that
    purpose by the Resident Magistrate, which
    Board, or the majority of them, shall have au-
    thority to detain such vessel in quarantine
    until every symptom 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.

  12. 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 Mas-
    ter or Commander shall carry such Regulations
    into effect, or forfeit a sum not exceeding
    twenty pounds (£20).

  13. All penalties hereby imposed shall be
    recovered 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 Manukau
from any infected place:—

  1. What is the tonnage of the vessel, and
    her name?
    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.

  6. Have you any, and what Bills of Health?
    Answer.

  7. Did the cholera, or any other in-
    fectious and dangerous disease, prevail at he



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18 April 1859
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