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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1866.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1866.
THE following Despatch with enclosure from Her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the
Colonies is published for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.

[CIRCULAR.]

Downing Street, 22nd August, 1866.
SIR, — In consequence of the prevalence of Cholera
in this Country, Her Majesty's Government have
considered it necessary to advise the Queen to
exercise the power vested in Her Majesty by the 59th
Clause of the Passenger Act of 1855, and to cause an
Order in Council to be passed, requiring that, from
and after the 20th instant, every Passenger Ship to
which the said Act extends, carrying more than
fifty passengers, shall have on board a duly qualified
Medical Practitioner.

I have the honor to transmit to you six copies
of this Order, and to request that you will cause it
to be made public within the limits of your
Government, and that you will give such further
directions as may be requisite for ensuring the due
observance of its requirements.

I have, &c.,
CARNARVON.

Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.,
&c., &c., &c.

Enclosure.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight,
the 9th day of August, 1866.
Present:

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by the Passengers' Act, 1855, it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for Her
Majesty, by an Order in Council, to prescribe such
rules and regulations as to Her Majesty may seem
fit, for certain purposes in the said Act specified,

and, amongst others, for requiring duly qualified
Medical Practitioners to be carried in passenger
ships, in cases where they would not be required to
be carried under the provisions of the said Act.
And such Order in Council from time to time, in
like manner, to alter, amend, and revoke as occasion
may require:

And whereas from the prevalence of choleraic
disease in certain parts of the United Kingdom, it
has become expedient that Her Majesty should
exercise the discretion and authority so vested in
Her as aforesaid :

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the
advice of Her Privy Council, and in pursuance and
exercise of the authority vested in Her by the said
Passengers' Act, 1855, doth hereby order as follows;
that is to say :

From and after the 20th instant, and so long as
this Order shall continue in force, every passenger
ship, carrying more than 50 passengers on any voyage
to which the said Act extends, shall, whatever be the
duration of the voyage, and subject to the provisions
of the 42nd section of the said Act, carry a duly
qualified Medical Practitioner, who shall be rated
on the ship's articles.

To prevent all doubts in the construction of this
Order in Council, it is hereby further ordered, that
the terms "passenger," and "passenger ship," shall
have the same significations as are assigned to them
respectively in the said Passengers' Act, 1855, and
unless inconsistent with the context words of one
number shall import both numbers.

And the Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon,
one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State,
is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

I have, &c.,
ARTHUR HELPS.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st November, 1866.
THE following Ordinance, passed by the Provincial
Council, and assented to by the Superintendent
of the Province of Taranaki, intituled"The Sale of Liquors Ordinance, 1866,"