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No. 38.

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Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, THURSDAY, 31sT AUGUST, 1882.

VOL. XXVIII.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 348.

1879.

The following Regulations are published under the provisions of Section 25 of Ordinance 8 of

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 31st August, 1882.

REGULATIONS MADE BY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 25 OF ORDINANCE 8 OF 1879.

CHOLERA.

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

AMOY, BANJOEMAS.

BEZOCKI, CHERIBON,

KIUNG CHOW, MANILA,

PANAY, PROBOLINGO, SULU.

and ZAMBOANGA,

are places now infected with an infectious disease, viz.: cholera, it is hereby ordered by the Governor in Council as follows:

1. Vessels arriving from Amoy, Banjoemas, Bezocki, Cheribon, Kiung Chow, Manila, Panay, Probolingo, Sulu, and Zamboanga (hereinafter referred to as the infected places) shall immediately on entering the waters of the Colony fly the Quarantine Flag, and shall keep the same flying, and shall be deemed to be in quarantine until released from quarantine by express written order of the Health Officer.

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

3. No vessel arriving from the infected places, shall enter the waters of the Colony before 6 A.M., or after 7 P.M.

4. Every vessel arriving from the infected places shall proceed to the Quarantine Ground, and shall remain there until released from quarantine by order of the Health Officer. The Quarantine Ground shall be within the following boundaries, and the Master of every vessel shall remove his vessel to any part of the Quarantine Ground 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).