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dical 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.

12. During the period any vessel may be in Quarantine, the Resident Magistrate and Health Officer shall visit her slongside 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.

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.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, December 16th, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

The Provincial Surgeon at Auckland,
The Medical Attendant at Russell,
The Colonial Surgeon at New Plymouth,
The Colonial Surgeon at Whanganui,
The Provincial Surgeon at Wellington,
The Medical Attendant at Napier,
The Provincial Surgeon at Nelson,
The Provincial Surgeon at Canterbury,
The Provincial Surgeon at Otago,
to be Health Officers at these places respectively, for the purpose of carrying out the Quarantine Regulations.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Treasury,
Auckland, December 30th, 1857.

IT is hereby notified that all applications, elsewhere than at Auckland, for Licenses to sell fowling pieces to Natives must be made through the Resident Magistrate of the District in which the applicant resides.

C. W. RICHMOND.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, December 29th, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that

JOHN YEEDEN LLOYD, Esq.,
has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council of New Zealand, and that his Excellency has been pleased to accept such resignation.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, December 29th, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Lieut.-Colonel MOULD, R. E.,
to be inspector of Public Works for the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.