seamen, passenger, or other person to quit the same,—until he shall have been duly admitted to partique, or 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 other authorized 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, for each and every article so unshipped or landed, forfeit 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 functions.

11. The Resident Magistrate and Health Officer, or Medical Practitioner appointed for that purpose by the Resident Magistrate, shall upon the 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 Peace, the superior officer of the 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 partique.

12. 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.

POWER TO RESIDENT MAGISTRATE IN CERTAIN CASES

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.

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 tonnage of the vessel and her name?

Answer.

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

Answer.

3. From whence do 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 from 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 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.