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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST AUGUST, 1891.

TABLE (Ka).

Information to be supplied under Section 24 (2).

Name of Vessel and Flag

Port of Registry

Commanded by

Register Tonnage

Nature and Tonnage of Cargo on board

No. of Crew

Rig and Horse Power

No. of Guns

Name of Owners

Ports of departure and date of leaving Consignees or Agents,--Messrs.

Original Port Last Port

E. Deck

(Cabin

Passengers,- Chinese-Men, Women, Boys, Any Infectious or Contagious Disease on board

Girls,

at any Port of departure

Any Births, Deaths or Accidents on the voyage

Any Explosives on board

Any Casualty on the voyage

Weather

Harbour Regulations supplied

TABLE (L).

Regulations made under the Provisions of Section 25.

1. In these Regulations the term Health Officer means the Health Officer of the Port or any other Medical Officer duly authorized to act for, or assist him; the term Vessels includes Steamers, Sailing Vessels, Junks, and Lorchas. and British and Foreign Ships of War, as well as Merchant Vessels of all kinds; the term port or place at which any infectious or contagious disease prevailed means a port or place proclaimed to be such by order of the Governor in Council published in the Gazette from the date of such proclamation.

2. Every vessel arriving in the waters of this Colony

(a.) After a voyage of less than 3 days from any port or plase at which any infectious or contagious disease prevailed at the time of such vessel's departure therefrom; or

(b) Having at the time of arrival, or having had, during the voyage, any case of any infectious or contagious disesse on board; or

() Having on board any passengers who are less than 3 days from any port or place where any infectious or contagious disease prevailed when such passengers departed therefrom, shall immediately on entering the waters of the Colony fly the Quarantine Flag, and shall keep the saine flying, and shall be deemed to be in quarantine until released therefrom by express written order of the Health Officer, who shall, in every case, board and examine all the passengers and crew of such vessel.

The Quarantine Flag shall be a flag of yellow colour (letter Q in International Code of Signals) hoisted at the highest mast-head forward.

No such vessel shall enter the waters of the Colony before 6 A.M. or after 7 P.M.

3. Every vessel in quarantine shall proceed to the Quarantine Anchorage, and shall not remove therefrom, except from stress of weather, until released from quarantine by order of the Health Officer. No vessel baving to leave the Quarantine Anchorage from stress of weather shall communicate with the shore, or with any ship. and such vessel shall return to the Quarantine Anchorage immediately such stress of weather has subsided. Provided that in case of stress of weather involving probable actual danger to the vessel, the vessel may remove for a time, but shall be deemed nevertheless for all purposes to be in quarantine, and subject to all other regulations applicable to such vessels.

4. The Quarantine Anchorage shall be within the following boundaries, and the Master of every vessel shall remove his vessel to any part of the Quarantine Anchorage as and when required by the Harbour Master:-

Western Boundary.-A line drawn from the West side of Stone Cutters' Island to West side of Green Island (on Admiralty Chart marked as Harbour boundary).

Southern Boundary. That part of a line having the Naval Coal Sheds at Kaulung hearing E. by S., commencing where it meets the Eastern Boundary, and terminating where it meets the Western boundary.

Eastern Boundary.-A South line drawn from a white mark on South side of Stone Cutters Island until it reaches the Southern boundary.

Northern Boundary.-Five fathom line of soundings.

The place hereafter described, as follows, is hereby set apart to be a Lazaretto, namely:-

That part of the Northern shore of Stone Cutters Island which is bounded and contained by a line of yellow posts.