700
1879.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH AUGUST, 1882.
Business during vacation.
Vacation current on passing of this order to cease.
During vacation the Court may also receive petitions and applications for injunctions, attachments, executions, and other urgent matters and grant, and dissolve or set aside the same, and may also if it thinks fit under the circum- stances of any particular case transact any other civil business.
Save as above provided, no business shall be transacted in the Supreme Court or the offices connected therewith during any vacation.
5. Any vacation current at the time of the passing of this Ordinance shall thereupon cease; Provided that in any cause or matter pending at the time of the passing of this Ordinance, the Chief Justice may if he thinks justice re- quires it, order that proceedings therein be suspended until the date at which the then current vacation would otherwise have ended, or until such earlier date as he thinks fit.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 336.
The following Regulations are published under the provisions of Section 25 of Ordinance 8 of
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st August, 1882.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
REGULATIONS MADE BY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 25 OF ORDINANCE 8 OF 1879.
CHOLERA At Manila.
Whereas by Section 25 of Ordinance 8 of 1879, it is provided that whenever the Governor in Council has reasonable cause for believing that any country or place is infected with any infectious or contagious disease, he may make such regulations concerning vessels arriving from such country or place as he thinks necessary for preserving the public health of the Colony.
And whereas the Governor in Council has reasonable cause for believing that Manila is a place now infected with an infectious disease, viz.: cholera, it is hereby.ordered by the Governor in Council as follows:-
1. No boat, except that of the Health Officer of the Port, is to approach within twenty yards
of
any vessel that is flying the quarantine flag or has been placed in quarantine.
2. No person shall leave any vessel that is in quarantine without permission of the Health Officer of the Port: neither shall any letters be sent or received except through the Guard Boat employed in the quarantine service.
3. Vessels arriving from Manila shall immediately on entering the waters of this Colony fly the
Quarantine Flag.
4. No such vessels shall be admitted to pratique until 10 clear days have elapsed since the vessel
left the said place.
5. If there has been any case of cholera on board of such vessel the vessel shall not be admitted to pratique until 10 clear days have elapsed since any person suffering from such disease was last on board such vessel.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 21st August, 1882.