POWER TO RESIDENT MAGISTRATES IN CERTAIN CASES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVI, Issue 1277, 9 December 1859, Page 4

POWER TO RESIDENT MAGISTRATES IN CERTAIN CASES.

Tne Resident Magistrate, at any Port for which no Harbour Master is appointed, shall have such powers as are hereinbefore given to Harbour Mastfts. All penalties, hereby imposed, shall be' recoverable in a summary way.

SCHEDULE A. Questions required to be answered by the Master or other .person in command of any ship or vessel arriving in the Port of from any infected place. 1. What is the tonnage of the vessel and her name? Annoer. 2. What is the master's name, and are you the Master? ">** Answer. 3. From whence do you come, and when did you stil? Answer. 4. At what ports have jou touched on your passage? Answer. 5. What vessels have you had intercourse, or communication with, on your passage, and from whence did they come f Answer. 6. Have you any, and what Bills of Health? Answer. 7. Did the Cholera, or any other highly infectious and dangerous disease, prevail at the place from -which you sailed, or at any of the places at which you have touched, or on board of any vessel with which, you have had communication? If so, state when and where ? Answer. 8 In the course of your voyage, have any persons on board suffered from sickness of any kind, what was the nature of such sickness, and when did it prevail ; How many persons were affected by it, and have any of them died in the course of the voyage ? Answer. 9, What number of officers, mariners, and passengers have vou on board ? Answer. 10. What was the whole number of persons on board your vessel when you sailed ? Answer. 11, What is the whole number of persons now ill on board your vessel ? Answer. 12. If there be no sickness now on board, when did the last attack of disease appear, and when did it entirely disappear ? Answer.