✨ 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.
- 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.
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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. -
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. -
Every Seaman, Passenger, or other
person so quitting, shall, for every such offence,
forfeit the sum of twenty pounds. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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). -
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:—
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What is the tonnage of the vessel, and
her name?
Answer. -
What is the Master's name, and are you
the Master?
Answer. -
From whence do you come, and when
did you sail?
Answer. -
At what Ports have you touched on your
passage?
Answer. -
What vessels have you had intercourse or
communication with on your passage, and from
whence did they come?
Answer. -
Have you any, and what Bills of Health?
Answer. -
Did the cholera, or any other in-
fectious and dangerous disease, prevail at he
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