Otago Provincial Gazette – 1859 – No. 87

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✨ Quarantine Regulations and Pilot License



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Peace, the superior Officer of Customs of the Port, and the Health Officer or Medical Practitioner as aforesaid, to be convened for that purpose by the Resident Magistrate, which Board, or the majority of them, shall have authority to detain such Vessel in quarantine until every symptom of the aforesaid disease has disappeared, when the same Board, or the majority of them, have hereby power to release such Vessel from quarantine, and admit her to pratique.

  1. During the period any Vessel may be in quarantine the Resident Magistrate and Health Officer shall visit her alongside from time to time, and institute such Regulations as the nature of the case may demand, and the Master or Commander shall carry such Regulations into effect, or forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

  2. All penalties hereby imposed shall be recovered in a summary way.

SCHEDULE A.

Questions required to be answered by the Master or other person in command of any ship or vessel arriving in the Port of from any infected place.

  1. What is the name of the vessel and tonnage?
    Answer.

  2. What is the Master’s name, and are you the Master?
    Answer.

  3. From whence did you come, and when did you sail?
    Answer.

  4. At what ports have you touched on your passage?
    Answer.

  5. What vessels have you had intercourse or communication with on your passage, and whence did they come?
    Answer.

  6. Have you any and what bills of health?
    Answer.

  7. Did the cholera or any other highly infectious and dangerous disease prevail at the place from which you sailed or at any of the places at which you may have touched, or on board of any vessel with which you have had communication? If so, state when and where.
    Answer.

  8. In the course of your voyage, have any persons on board suffered from sickness of any kind, what was the nature of such sickness, and when did it prevail? How many persons were affected by it, and have any of them died in the course of the voyage?
    Answer.

  9. What number of Officers, Mariners, and Passengers have you on board?
    Answer.

  10. What was the whole number of persons on board your vessel when you sailed?
    Answer.

  11. What is the whole number of persons now ill on board your vessel?
    Answer.

  12. If there be no sickness now on board, when did the last attack of disease appear, and when did it entirely disappear?
    Answer.

Pilot’s License.

By virtue of the power in me vested, you are hereby authorised and directed to act as Pilot for the Port of ... and you are enjoined to use your best skill and knowledge in all duties appertaining to that office, strictly conforming to the Regulations of the Harbour aforesaid, and obeying such orders and instructions as you may from time to time receive from me:

Given under my hand this ... day of ... in the year of our Lord 18 ..., at in New Zealand.



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🏥 Quarantine Regulations (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Quarantine, Vessels, Fines, Penalties, Health

🚂 Pilot's License Authorization

🚂 Transport & Communications
Pilot, License, Port, Authorization