Num. 37. 445

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1874.

Vessels from Lyttelton to Victoria liable to Quarantine.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th July, 1874.

THE following copy of a Proclamation received from the Government of Victoria, is published for general information.

DANIEL POLLEN.

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PROCLAMATION

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of Victoria and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by “The Public Health Statute, 1865,” (28 Vict. No. 264,) it is amongst other things enacted, that if the Governor in Council shall by Proclamation notify that any place beyond the seas is infected with the cholera or other infectious or contagious disease, and that it is probable such disease may be brought from such place to Victoria, immediately after such notification all vessels whatever arriving from or having touched at any such place, and all vessels and boats receiving any person or thing whatsoever from or out of any vessel so coming from or having touched at any such infected place as aforesaid (whether such person or thing shall have come or been brought in such vessel, or such person shall have gone or have been put on board the same, either before or after the arrival of such vessel at any place in Victoria, and whether such vessel was or was not bound to any place in Victoria), and all persons and things whatsoever on board of any vessel so coming from or having touched at such infected place as aforesaid, or on board of any such receiving vessels or boats as aforesaid, shall be liable to quarantine within the meaning of this Part of this Act, and of any order made by the Governor in Council, and notified by Proclamation, concerning quarantine and the prevention of infection from the time of the departure of such vessels from such infected place as aforesaid, or from the time such persons or things shall have been received on board respectively: and it is also enacted that all such vessels and boats as aforesaid, and all persons (as well pilots as others), and all things whether coming or brought in such vessels or boats from such infected place as aforesaid, or going or being put on board the same either before or after the arrival of such vessels or boats at any place in Victoria, and all persons and things as aforesaid on board such receiving vessel or boat as aforesaid, shall, upon their arrival at any place in Victoria, be obliged to perform quarantine in such places for such time and in such manner as shall be from time to time directed by the Governor in Council, and notified by Proclamation as aforesaid. Until such vessels and boats, persons and things, as aforesaid, shall have respectively performed and shall be duly discharged from quarantine, no such persons or things shall, either before or after the arrival of such vessels or boats at any place in Victoria, come or be brought on shore, or go or be put on board any other vessel or boat, in order to come or be brought on shore in any such place (unless in such manner and in such cases and by such license as shall be directed or permitted by any such order as aforesaid). Now therefore, I, the Governor of Victoria, with the advice of the Executive Council, do by this Proclamation notify that the Port of Lyttelton, in New Zealand, is infected with small-pox, and that it is probable that such disease may be brought from such place to Victoria.

Given under my hand and the Seal of the Colony, at Melbourne, this fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, and in the thirty-seventh year of Her Majesty’s reign.

(L.S.) G. F. BOWEN.

By His Excellency’s command.
J. G. FRANCIS,
Chief Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!