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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

109. In addition to the above, every Pilot Station
     is to be provided with a set of Marryat's signal flags,
     which will be used as required.
110. Night signals for open roadsteads, &c.:----

(a.) From Shore.
A boat will come off.---Two white lights vertical
(as to a steamer coming in).
Boat cannot put off.---Two lights vertical, upper
red, lower white.
Wait till daylight, boat will put off then, weather
permitting.---Two lights vertical, upper white,
lower red.
Keep to sea---put to sea.---Two white lights
horizontal with a red light between them (to
be used for vessels approaching or at anchor).

(b.) From Vessel.
Will wait till daylight.---Two lights vertical,
upper white, lower red.
Cannot wait.---Two lights vertical, upper red,
lower white.
Cannot keep to sea---cannot put to sea.---Two
white lights horizontal with a green light
between them.

Waterman's Signal.
111. A ball will be exhibited on a staff in some
conspicuous place near the usual landing to signify
when bad weather fares may be charged as per local
regulations.

X.-QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.
112. There shall for every port be a Health
Officer, who shall from time to time be appointed
and be removable by the Superintendent.
113. There shall for every Port be a Board of
Health, which shall consist of the Resident Magistrate
of the Port, one or more Justices of the Peace, to
be appointed by the Superintendent, the principal
Officer of Customs at the Port, the Health Officer
at the Port, and, if the Health Officer be not a
medical practitioner, one or more legally qualified
medical practitioners, to be appointed by the Super-
intendent. The Resident Magistrate shall be Chair-
man of the Board.
114. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent,
upon the recommendation of the Board of Health, to
appoint any station or place within any port or harbour
for the performance of quarantine, where all vessels
liable to quarantine, and the crews, passengers, and
other 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. Provided that any quarantine ground
or lazaret, heretofore legally appointed by the
Governor or by any Superintendent, shall be deemed
to have been appointed under these regulations.
115. The master of any vessel arriving from any
port in the Australian Colonies or New Zealand
which may at any time, by a notice in the New
Zealand Gazette, be duly declared an infected port,
and the master of every vessel arriving from any port
whatsoever not within the Australian Colonies or
New Zealand shall, on approaching any port in
New Zealand, cause the Health Officer's flag (No. 8
of Marryat's code), to be hoisted at the mast or
mainmast head of the said vessel, and shall keep the
same flying until she has been communicated with by
the Harbour Master, Pilot, or other officer of the
port, after which, if the vessel be considered clean,
the said flag may be hauled down. If any such
vessel shall call at more than one New Zealand port
the flag herein prescribed shall be hoisted on arrival
at each port.
116. Should it be considered necessary by the
Harbour Master, Pilot, or other officer as aforesaid,
that such vessel shall be visited by the Health
Officer, the master shall on being directed so to
do, cause the vessel to be anchored in the quarantine
ground appointed for the harbour, and shall hoist the
quarantine (or yellow) flag as hereinafter appointed.
117. The master of every vessel so anchored is to
deliver to the Harbour Master, Pilot, or other person
duly authorized by the Superintendent to receive
the same, 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 annexed.
118. No person shall go on board any vessel whilst
the yellow quarantine flag is flying, and before she
has been visited by the Health Officer, and if any
person shall offend against this regulation he shall,
in addition to other penalties which he may thereby
incur, be liable to be compelled to remain on board or
in the lazaret until the vessel or her passengers and
crew be duly admitted to pratique, should they be
thereafter placed in quarantine; and no person
shall assist any one on board to leave such vessel or
in any way assist to remove any goods, packages, or
baggage soever, before such vessel has been duly
visited by the Health Officer.
119. The Health Officer shall immediately visit
vessel which has hoisted the yellow flag, and has
been brought up in the quarantine ground, and if
he shall find that any sickness of an infectious or
contagious nature exists or shall then recently have
existed on board of her, he shall declare the vessel to
be in quarantine, and shall submit full information
in regard thereto to the Board of Health. But should
he be satisfied that the sickness is not of a contagious
nature he may authorize the hauling down of the
yellow flag, and the removal of the vessel to the
ordinary mooring ground.
120. The master of every vessel in quarantine is to
hoist at the main a yellow flag of not less than six
breadths of bunting by day, and a white light by
night in an ordinary globe lantern not less than eight
inches in diameter, and to keep the same respectively
hoisted until released from quarantine. The said
lantern at the main to be in addition to the usual
anchor light provided for in the preceding regu-
lations.
121. The master of every vessel in quarantine
shall not either himself quit, or permit any seaman,
passenger, or other person to quit the same until
duly admitted to pratique, except by special authority
from the Board of Health.
122. No seaman, passenger, or other person shall
quit any vessel in quarantine or any lazaret to which
he may have been removed from a vessel in quarantine,
until admitted to pratique.
123. No master of any vessel in quarantine shall
suffer any goods, wares, or merchandise, packets,
package, baggage, books, letters or other articles, to
be unshipped or landed from such vessel.
124. No person shall remove or aid and assist in
removing from any vessel in quarantine or from any
lazaret in which any persons are performing quaran-
tine, any goods, wares, merchandise, packets,
packages, baggage, books, letters or other articles or
any of them.
125. No person shall knowingly receive any goods,
wares, or merchandise, packets, package, baggage,
books, or letters, or any other article whatever, from
any vessel in quarantine or from any lazaret in which
persons are performing quarantine.
126. No person without the authority of the
Board of Health shall go within the limits of the
quarantine station, when any vessel shall be then
at anchor performing quarantine, or within the limits
of any lazaret while the same is occupied by persons