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not come or be brought on shore, or go or be put on board of any other ship or vessel in Canada, except on the said Partridge Island when duly required by competent authority.
All boats, ships or vessels of the class and description hereinbefore mentioned as liable to make their Quarantine in the said Harbour of St. John, shall anchor within a mile of the outside or southern end of Partridge Island, (unless forced by stress of weather to anchor inside the said Island, in which case such vessels shall anchor as close as practicable to the sail Island,) there to be inspected by the Inspecting Physician and ordered according to the circumstances as aforesaid.
The Inspecting Physician of the Port of St. John shall visit, on their arrival, such boats, ships or vessels, and shall direct them as best calculated for the Public Health, and in accordance with the intent and meaning of the present Regulations and such orders in Council as may be communicated to him from time to time.
13.—Inspecting Physicians of the Ports of Halifax and St. John.
The Inspecting Physicians of the Ports of Halifax and Saint John (or any medical officer nominated to act as assistant or in their absence) shall have, respectively, the control over all officers and employes, who may be appointed or employed for the service of the Quarantine in the said Ports, respectively, and the medical attendance over the sick and healthy passengers, or crew detained on board, or who may have been landed to undergo the said Quarantine on shore, and the said inspecting physicians shall have, respectively, the same duties to perform and the same authority as those hereinbefore designed to the Medical Superintendent of the Quarantine of Grosse-Isle, and shall fulfil the said duties and exercise the said authority in the same manner as prescribed for the said Medical Superintendent.
14.—Vessels in Quarantine at the Ports of Halifax and St. John.
In all cases where vessels having passengers on board, on account of sickness amongst such passengers, shall be detained in Quarantine, the Master or person in charge may, on application to the inspecting physician of the said Ports of Halifax or St. John respectively, be allowed to land the said passengers with their luggage; and the vessel being properly cleansed, purified and disinfected under the superintendence and with the licence of the Inspecting Physician, may proceed up the harbour without the said passengers, upon the master or person in charge paying to such person as shall be appointed to receive the same, ten pence for each passenger, to bear the expense of their conveyance, and also at the rate of one shilling per diem for each of the said passengers, to reimburse the expense of their maintenance for the time during which such vessel, in the judgment of the Inspecting Physician would have had to be detained in Qua- rantine wating for the passengers not affected with any of the pestilential or infectious diseases aforesaid, otherwise such vessel shall be detained in Quarantine until the passengers not sick of the aforesaid diseases, shall be cleansed, washed, purified and disinfected.
15.—Pilots of the Ports of Halifax, and St. John.
Pilots of the Ports of Halifax and St. John respectively, having been furnished with copies of the said Act, and of these regulations, shall exhibit the same to the Master or person in charge of any boat, ship or vessel they may board:—every Pilot having charge of a vessel of the description of those liable to make Quarantine at the Ports of Halifax or St. John respectively, shall bring her to anchor within the limits of the anchorage grounds hereinbefore defined for the said Forts respectively:—They shall also keep a Union Jack flying at the peak of all vessels under their charge, until boarded by the proper Medical Officer aforesaid.
16.—General Provisions.
All vessels trading between any ports or places within Canada, and not having touched at any ports or places without the Dominion nor communicated with any other vessel which shall have arrived from any port without the Dominion, shall be exempt from the foregoing rules and regulations, so far as respects the necessity of going to or stopping at the anchorage ground aforesaid; nor shall the said rules and regulations apply to any Vessel of War, or to Transports or Vessels having Queen's Troops on board accompanied by a Medical Officer, and in a healthy state, or to any Steamer, unless sickness or death may have occurred during the passage.
No Vessel shall be entered or cleared at the Port of Quebec or Montreal, until all the requirements of the foregoing Regulations in reference to such Vessel shall have been fully complied with.
Any person who shall contravene, either by omission or commission, any of the foregoing Regulations, shall for every such offence incur and pay a Fine not exceeding Four Hundred Dollars, to be recovered in the manner prescribed by the said Act; and every person who, upon conviction of any such offence, shall fail to pay the amount of fine which lie shall have been condemned to pay, shall be imprisoned until such Fine be paid.
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all previous orders or regulations are hereby revoked. Now Know ye that we do hereby command, and. enjoin upon all our loving subjects that they do take notice of and obey the said Regulations so made as aforesaid and govern themselves accordingly.
By Command,
- HECTOR. L. LANGEVIN,
- Secretary of State.
- HECTOR. L. LANGEVIN,
Government Notices.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, OTTAWA,
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS it is amongst other things enacted by the 58th section of the Act 31 Vic. Cap. 6, entitled : "An Act respecting the Customs," that the Importer "of any cattle or swine, may slaughter and cure and pack the same (and if such cattle or swine are imported in the carcass, may cure and pack the same) in bond," providing such slaughtering, curing and packing be done and conducted under such Regulations and restrictions as the Governor in Council may from time to time make for this purpose; which said Regulations may extend to the substitution of Beef and Pork in quantities equivalent to the produce of such cattle and swine.
And whereas it has been found expedient to give effect to the said section 58, so far as regards the importation of Swine.
His Excellency in Council on the recommendation of the Honorable the Minister of Customs and under the authority of the 58th clause of the said recited Act, has been pleased to order and it is hereby ordered that the slaughtering, curing and packing
