THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 11

who shall suffer any Goods, Wares, or Mer-
chandise, 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 unship-
ped or landed, the sum of twenty pounds.
7. Every person or persons who shall
knowingly receive any Goods, Wares, or
Merchandise, Packets, Package, Baggage,
Books, or Letters, or any other article what-
ever, from any vessel so anchored, shall
forfeit for each and every article the sum of
twenty pounds.
8. Any person who, without the authority
of the Board of Health, shall go within the
limits of any Quarantine Station when any
vessel shall be there at anchor performing
Quarantine, or within the limits of any
Lazaret whilst the same is occupied, shall
forfeit any sum not exceeding £20, and shall
be liable to be detained and kept in Quaran-
tine as if he were a passenger of such vessel
subject to Quarantine.
9. If any Officer or person entrusted with
the performance of any duties respecting
Quarantine shall in any way neglect his
duty, he shall for each offence forfeit any
sum not exceeding £20.
10. The Harbour Master or Pilot shall,
immediately after any vessel shall have been
anchored in Quarantine, report the same to
the Resident Magistrate, and to the Health
Officer of the Port, or to the person or
persons acting or appointed to act for those
functionaries.
11. There shall for every Port be a Health
Officer, to be from time to time appointed
by the Superintendent of the Province, who
shall, immediately upon receipt of the said
report, visit the vessel so anchored, and if
he shall find that any sickness of an infec-
tious or contagious nature exists, or shall
then recently have existed on board of her,
submit full information in regard thereto to
the Board of Health hereinafter mentioned.
12. The Board of Health shall consist of
the Resident Magistrate of the Port, one or
more Justices of the Peace, the Superior
Officer of Customs at the Port, the Health
Officer of the Port, and, if the Health Officer
be not a medical practitioner, one or more
legally qualified medical practitioners, to be
appointed by the Superintendent of the
Province, of which Board the Resident
Magistrate shall be convener.
13. The said Board, or the majority of
them, shall have authority to detain any such
vessel as aforesaid in Quarantine until every
symptom of any infectious or contagious
disease as aforesaid shall have disappeared,
and until sufficient time to prevent the
spread of such disease shall in the opinion of
the Board have elapsed since the last case
disappeared, and thereupon to release such
vessel from Quarantine and admit her to
pratique.
14. It shall be lawful for the Superintend-
ent of any Province, upon the recommenda-
tion of the said Board, to appoint any station
or place within any port or harbour in the
said Province for the performance of Quarant-
ine, where all vessels liable to Quarantine,
and the crews, passengers, and persons on
board thereof shall perform the same, and
also, if necessary, to appoint Lazarets and
other places where the crews, passengers,
and other persons, and the goods, wares, and
merchandise which shall or may be on board
the said vessels shall and may be detained,
landed, and kept for the performance of
Quarantine.
15. If any person shall, contrary to the
provisions of this Act, quit any vessel in
Quarantine, or go within the limits of any
Quarantine Station or Lazaret, it shall be law-
ful for any Peace Officer or Constable to ap-
prehend him and carry him before a Justice
of the Peace, who may, if he shall think fit,
grant his warrant for conveying such person
back to the vessel Quarantine Station or
Lazaret which he shall have left, there to
remain and perform Quarantine.
16. The aforesaid Board shall have power
to prescribe all measures necessary for
cleansing, purifying, and disinfecting any
vessel in Quarantine, and the passengers
and crew thereof, and the goods, wares, and
merchanise therein, and, if necessary, to
order the destruction of any clothing or
materials which cannot be cleansed, purified,
or disinfected.
17. During the detention of the crew or
passengers of any vessel in Quarantine,
whether on board or on shore, the master of
such vessel shall provide and supply pro-
visions for the said crew and passengers on
the same scale as during the voyage.
18. 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
regulations into effect, or forfeit for each
offence a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.
19. The Resident Magistrate at any port
for which no Harbour Master or Health
Officer is appointed shall have and exercise
all the powers hereinbefore given to such
officers.

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 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.