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) Shipping Consolidation Ordinance 1879,
Amendment Ordinance, 1889.
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This Ordinance was
ht in on the recommendation
brought
of the Attorney General
as it was
found that the powers vested in in Executive Conneil
the Governor.
were not sufficiently large to -make the regulations that were necessitated by the existence of . Epidemic cholera in eManila and other places in the neighbourhood, Manila having been proclaimed
infected port, vessels evaded the
an
from thence
quarantine
quarantine regulations by calling at
Amoy
or Swatow where there was no
disease. One of these vessels had 15
decoth
deaths from cholera between Manila and Amoy and one between Amoy
A
and HongKong, and arrived here
board which
with a case
on
fortunately is progressing favourably. The ship
was
placed in quarantine,
although at the time this proseeding
"
and it was with
was ultra vires, and it
the view of meeting this and
similar cases that the Ordinance
was passed
3.