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on demand an acknowledgment thereof in
writing to the Harbour Master, or other
officer delivering the said copy; and any
Harbour Master failing to demand, or any
Master of a ship or vessel refusing on demand
to give such acknowledgment, shall forfeit
and pay a fine not exceeding £5.
13. No waterman or other person in charge
of any boat shall go alongside, or board, or
suffer or permit any person to board, any
vessel arriving at any port from beyond sea,
until such vessel is properly secured at her
anchorage: and any person offending against
this regulation shall forfeit and pay a sum not
exceeding £5. Provided that this regulation
shall not be construed to prevent the board-
ing of any such vessel by the owner or agent,
or any other person having the written per-
mission of the owner or agent, or by any
Immigration agent, Pilot, boarding officer,
officer of Customs, or health officer, or other
person acting in the execution of his duty.

II.—Quarantine.

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 will
   be liable to 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 ad-
   mitted to pratique, and any Master so infrin-
   ging, or permitting to be infringed, this regu-
   lation, will be liable to forfeit and pay any
   sum not exceeding 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 res-
   pectively hoisted until released from Quaran-
   tine, 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 authorized 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 mer-
   chandize, packets, books, letters, or other
   articles, to be unshipped or landed, and any
   person or persons who shall be concerned in
   the unshipping or landing of the same, shall
   forfeit for each and every article so unshipped
   and landed, the sum of twenty pounds.

7. Every person or persons who shall
   knowingly receive any goods, wares, or mer-
   chandise, 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 Quaran-
   tine, 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
   offence the sum of twenty pounds.

10. The Harbour Master or Pilot shall, im-
    mediately after his having so anchored any
    vessel, report the same to the Resident
    Magistrate and Health officer, or to the per-
    son 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 conta-
    gious nature, exists on board, they shall submit
    the information to a Board, consisting of the
    Resident Magistrate, and one or more Justice
    or Justices of the Peace the superior,
    officer of the Customs of the Port, and the
    Health officer or Medical Practitioner as afore-
    said, to be convened for that purpose by the
    Resident Magistrate, which board, or the
    majority of them, shall have authority to
    detain such vessel in Quarantine until every
    symptom of the aforesaid disease has disap-
    peared, 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 re-
    gulations into effect, or forfeit a sum not ex-
    ceeding twenty pounds.

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 Auckland 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.