CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9] — Page 516

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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

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