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of distress), and any person offending against this regulation shall incur a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

25. Any person removing shingle, stone, or any part of the soil below high water mark, without permission from the Harbour Master, or in the absence of the Harbour Master a Resident Magistrate, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

26. To the Master of every Vessel, or in the absence of the Master, to the principal Officer on board, a copy of the Harbour Regulations shall be delivered by the Harbour Master, provided, however, that it shall not be necessary in any case to issue a second copy of the Regulations to the Master or Officer in charge of the same vessel, unless on demand of such Master or Officer, and in such case only on the payment of a fee of two shillings and sixpence, to be accounted for by the Harbour Master.

27. Every Master or other Officer of a Ship or Vessel to whom a copy of the Harbour Regulations shall have been delivered, shall give on demand an acknowledgment thereof, to the Pilot or other Officer delivering the said copy, and any Pilot failing to demand, and any Master of a ship or vessel refusing on demand to give such acknowledgment, shall forfeit and pay a fine of not more than five pounds.

Power to Resident Magistrates in certain cases.

29. The Resident Magistrate at any Port for which no Harbour Master is appointed shall have all such powers as are hereinbefore given to Harbour Masters. All penalties hereby imposed shall be recoverable in a summary way.

NOTE.—Provision has been made for the application to this Colony of the Passengers’ Act, 1855 (18 and 19 Victoria, cap. 119), by Proclamation dated the 19th day of March 1856.

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.

1. The Master of every Vessel arriving in the Harbour which shall be deemed by the Harbour Master or Pilot to be liable to quarantine, shall, on being directed so to do by the Harbour Master, cause the same to be anchored in the Quarantine Ground appointed for the Harbour, or in default thereof he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred pounds.

2. The Master of every Vessel so anchored, shall neither himself quit, nor permit any Seaman, Passenger, or other person to quit the same until he shall have been duly admitted to pratique; and any Master infringing or permitting to be infringed this regulation, shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds.

3. Every Seaman, Passenger, or other person so quitting, shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.

4. Every Vessel so anchored is to hoist a yellow flag, of not less than six breadths of bunting, at the Main, by day, and a light by night in a lanthorn, such as is used in Her Majesty’s Navy, and to keep the same respectively hoisted until released from Quarantine, or forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.

5. The Master of every Vessel so anchored is to deliver to the Harbour Master or Pilot, or other authorised person, 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 A annexed.

6. The Master of every Vessel so anchored, who shall suffer any goods, wares, or merchandise, 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 unshipped 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 whatever, from any vessel so anchored, shall forfeit for each and every article the sum of twenty pounds.

8. Any person going within the limits of any Quarantine Station, when any Vessel shall be there at anchor, performing quarantine, shall forfeit any sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

9. If any officer or person entrusted with orders respecting quarantine shall in any way neglect his duty, he shall forfeit for each offence the sum of twenty pounds.

10. The Harbour Master shall, immediately after his having so anchored any Vessel, report the same to the Resident Magistrate and Health Officer, or to the person or persons acting, or appointed to act, for those functionaries.

11. The Resident Magistrate and Health Officer, or a Medical Practitioner appointed for that purpose by the Resident Magistrate, shall, upon receipt of such report, visit the Vessel so anchored; and if they shall find that any sickness of an infectious or contagious nature exists on board of her, they shall submit the information to a Board, consisting of the Resident Magistrate and one or more Justices of the