THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 237

the 28th November, 1877, making regulations for the
admission of stock from New Zealand and elsewhere.
I have, &c.,

FRED. J. SANDERSON,
(For the Chief Secretary.)
The Hon. the Colonial Secretary,
New Zealand.

At the Executive Council Office, in Adelaide, the
twenty-eighth day of November, 1877.
Present :
The Hon. the CHIEF SECRETARY.
The Hon. the COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS.
The Hon. the COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS.
The Hon. the MINISTER OF EDUCATION.

WHEREAS by The Public Health Act, the Governor
is empowered to make such orders as may seem to
be necessary for the purpose of prohibiting or regu-
lating the introduction into the province from any
country or colony, or part of a country or colony (in
which respectively any disease in sheep, cattle, horses,
swine, or other animals of the same or any other kind
or kinds whatsoever is known to exist), of all sheep,
cattle, horses, swine, or other animals of the same or
any other kind or kinds whatsoever, or of meat, skins,
hides, horns, hoofs, or other parts of any animals, or
of hay, straw, fodder, cloths, or other articles likely
to propagate amongst men or animals any infectious
or contagious disease whatsoever: And the Governor
is also authorized to make such orders as may seem
to be necessary for the purpose of prohibiting or
regulating the mode and time of removal to and from
such parts or places within the province as may be
designated in any such order of all sheep, cattle,
horses, swine, or other animals of the same kind or
any other kinds whatsoever: And whereas diseases
are known to exist in sheep, cattle, and horses, in
New South Wales, Victoria, New Zealand, Queens-
land, Tasmania, and Western Australia: And whereas
by an Order in Council bearing date the fifth day of
September, 1877, regulations and orders were made
and published in the Government Gazette, regulating
the introduction of sheep, cattle, and horses into the
said province from New South Wales, Victoria,
Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia: And
whereas it is necessary to rescind the aforesaid regu-
lations and to issue others in lieu thereof: Now it is
hereby ordered by the Governor in Council, that
from the date hereof the regulations of the fifth day
of September, 1877, shall be made void, and in lieu
thereof, the regulations hereinafter set forth regu-
lating the introduction into the Province of South
Australia of sheep, cattle, and horses, from New
South Wales, Victoria, New Zealand, Queensland,
Tasmania, and Western Australia, and also respecting
the time and mode of removal of the said animals
within the said province, should now be made and
published: And it is further ordered that the said
regulations shall forthwith be published in the
Government Gazette, and from the date of such pub-
lication shall thenceforth be observed until further
order herein :-

REGULATIONS.

ORDERS REGULATING THE IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS
BY SEA.

1. No sheep, cattle, or horses, shall be imported
   by sea into the province without a permit, in writing,
   from an inspector. Any person importing without
   such permit shall be liable to a penalty of not less
   than ten pounds nor more than fifty pounds.

2. Any owner or agent importing any sheep, cattle,
   or horses into the province shall produce, if required
   by an inspector, a certificate of a qualified veterinary
   surgeon that the sheep, cattle, or horses so imported
   are free from disease.

3. Every sheep imported by sea shall, on being
   landed, be removed in such manner, and to such
   quarantine ground, as the inspector shall direct, and
   shall be there detained for a term of not less than
   fourteen (14) days, and be there twice dipped as
   directed by the inspector. The expenses of such
   removal, quarantine, and dressings to be paid by the
   owner or agent before such animals are released. If
   such animals are not released within two days after
   any inspector shall have requested the owner or
   agent to remove the same, they may be destroyed by
   order of the inspector. Any person acting in contra-
   vention of this clause shall be liable to a penalty of
   not less than ten pounds nor more than fifty pounds.

4. All cattle or horses shall, if required, be disin-
   fected as an inspector may direct; and may be
   detained in quarantine for a term of not less than
   fourteen (14) days at the expense, in all things, of
   the owner or agent. Any person committing a breach
   of this clause shall be liable to a penalty of not less
   than ten pounds nor more than fifty pounds.

5. All animals arriving in any South Australian
   port, if found, on inspection by an inspector, to be
   suffering from pleuro-pneumonia, or any infectious or
   contagious disease, shall, if required by an order in
   writing of an inspector, be destroyed by the owner,
   agent, or person apparently in charge of such animal
   or animals; and if such order is not complied with
   within such time as an inspector in such order directs,
   the inspector may give an order to seize and destroy
   such animals, and any person or persons authorized
   by an inspector shall destroy such animals accord-
   ingly; and the owner, agent, or person apparently
   in charge shall be liable to a penalty of five pounds
   for every day in which any such animal is left
   undestroyed after the date fixed in such order.

6. No fodder, hay, straw, fittings, or articles used
   in connection with imported animals, shall be landed
   without permission from an inspector. Any such
   fodder, hay, straw, fittings, or articles shall be disin-
   fected or destroyed, if so required, by order of an
   inspector; and any owner or agent neglecting to
   comply with this order within three days of the date
   of such order, shall be liable to a penalty of not less
   than five pounds for every day in which such order is
   not complied with.

7. Any animals hereinbefore described in these
   orders imported into Port Adelaide by sea for tran-
   shipment, may be landed under permit from an
   inspector, if clean, and placed in quarantine grounds
   for a period of ten days, without being dipped or
   disinfected, and shall be removed from such ground
   by order of an inspector only, under a penalty of
   not less than thirty pounds.

8. Any animals, as before mentioned, imported
   into this province under a permit from an inspector,
   may be removed to such lands as the inspector shall
   consider necessary, and such land shall be considered
   and used as a quarantine for the purpose and term
   for which the inspector shall direct; and any person
   removing from, or placing on, any animals, without
   an order from an inspector, shall be liable to a
   penalty of not less than ten pounds nor more than
   fifty pounds.

ORDERS REGULATING THE INTRODUCTION OF
ANIMALS INTO THE PROVINCE BY LAND.

9. Any animals introduced across the boundary
   line of the province from New South Wales or
   Victoria, found to be suffering from pleuro-pneu-
   monia, or any infectious or contagious disease, may
   be destroyed by order of an inspector.

10. All persons introducing sheep, cattle, or horses
    to this province overland from either of the Colonies
    of New South Wales and Victoria shall give not less
    than twenty-four hours' notice in writing to the