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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-ence 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 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
information to a Board consisting of the Resi-
dent Magistrate, 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 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
master or commander shall carry such Regu-
lations into effect, or forfeit a sum not exceed-
ing twenty pounds.

POWER TO RESIDENT MAGISTRATES 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 im-
posed, shall be recoverable in a summary way.

S C H E D U L E A.

Questions required to be answered by the
Master or other person in command of
any ship or vessel arriving in the Port
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 and
   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 highly in-
   fectious and dangerous disease, prevail at the
   place from which you sailed, or at any of the
   places at which you have touched, or on board of
   any vessel with which you have had communi-
   cation? If so, state when and where?
   Answer.

8. In the course of your voyage, have any
   persons on board suffered from sickness of any
   kind, what was the nature of such sickness, and
   when did it prevail? How many persons were
   affected by it, and have any of them died in the
   course of the voyage?
   Answer.

9. What number of officers, mariners, and
   passengers have you on board?
   Answer.

10. What was the whole number of persons
    on board your vessel when you sailed ?
    Answer.

11. What is the whole number of persons
    now ill on board your vessel?
    Answer.

12. If there be no sickness now on board,
    when did the last attack of disease appear, and
    when did it entirely disappear ?
    Answer.

At the Government House at Auckland, the
twenty-fifth day of November, 1859.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR,
COL. GOLD,
MR. WHITAKER,
MR. RICHMOND,
MR. TANCRED.

WHEREAS, by the "Post Office Act,
1858," it is amongst other things
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor
in Council from time to time to make Rules
and Regulations for the managing of the seve-
ral Post Offices, for the receiving, despatching,
conveying, and delivering of letters, (including
the imposition of fees for private boxes and de-
liveries,) for the detaining, opening, and return
or other disposal of irregularly posted, un-
claimed, and refused letters, or such as from
any cause whatever cannot be delivered or for-
warded, and the contents thereof respectively,
and for the publication of the lists of the same,
for the making, custody, and sale of Postage
labels, for the receiving and paying of money
in connection with the said Postal Service, and
for the conduct of Post Officers; and any such
Rules and Regulations at any time in force, to
alter, vary, or revoke; AND WHEREAS in pur-
suance and exercise of the said recited power
and authority, His Excellency the Governor in
Council did by a Proclamation bearing date
the 13th day of January last, make certain
Rules and Regulations for the management of
the Post Offices, and for the guidance of the
Officers therein employed;