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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH MOVEMBER, 1898.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 496.

With reference to Government Notification No. 385 of the 2nd September last, the following letter from H. B. M. Minister Resident and Consul-General for Siam, with its enclosure, is published. By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st November, 1898.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

H. B. M. LEGATION, BANGKOK, October 18, 1898.

SIR,-With reference to my letter of the 18th of August last, I have the honour to forward to Your Excellency herewith copies of a Quarantine Regulation, which I issued on the 14th instant, in substitution of previous Regulations and Amendments.

I have the honour to be,

Sir.

Your most obedient Servant,

WM. J. ARCHER,

His Excellency

THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT

OF HONGKONG.

for H. B. M. Minister Resident.

NOTICE.

Whereas Bubonic Plague has now ceased to be epidemic in Swatow, but whereas the disease is now endemic in Hongkong and several Chinese ports;

The undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, under and by virtue of the powers in that behalf conferred upon him by Section 84 of Her Majesty's Order in Council, 1889, has ordained that the Quarantine Regulation of April 9, 1898, together with the amendments thereto of May 7, and August 16, 1898, shall be repealed, and has made in their place the following Regulation for the peace, order and good Government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the King of Siam.

REGULATION,

1. For the purposes of this Regulation the Inspection Station shall be in the river Menam Chow Phya, opposite the Custom House at Paknam.

2. Any vessel, which having cleared from Hongkong or any Chinese port, arrives in Siamese waters on or after the date of the present Regulation, shall drop anchor at the said Inspection Station, and shall stay there until such a time as the Medical Officer shall have boarded her and have given pratique.

3. No person other than the Health Officer, or one of his Assistants, shall communicate from any ship coming from Hongkong, or any Chinese port, with the land, or from the land with such ship, or from such ship with other ships, before she has received pratique.

4. The Master, or other person having the control of any vessel in quarantine, shall give the Health Officer such information about the vessel and the voyage, and the health of the crew and pas- sengers and otherwise as the Health Officer may require, and shall answer fully and truly questions put to him by the Health Officer, and shall, if required by the Health Officer, furnish the necessary boats and appliances for the landing of passengers or crew at the Quarantine Station, and shall, in à general way, give the Health Officer all necessary assistance to enable him to grant pratique to the vessel.