ment Board, but so far only as may be necessary for exercising the powers and discharging the duties by this Act. transferred to and imposed on the Local Government Board, the name of such Board shall, according to circumstances, be deemed to be substituted for the Poor Law Board, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, as the case may require; and any act or thing which might, if this Act had not passed, have been done by the Poor Law Board, or by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or by Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, so far as relates to the powers and duties hereby transferred, may be done by the Local Government Board.

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8. Where under an Act, whether passed before or after Duplicate the passing of this Act, any return relative to any rate, toll, sent to Local tax, or due raised in England (other than such as is raised for the public revenue of the United Kingdom) is required to be sent to one of Her Majesty's Secretaries of State or any other department of the government, a duplicate of such return shall in like manner be sent to the Local Government Board, and any person failing to send the same shall be subject to the like penalties as a person neglecting to send any return under the Act of the session of the 23rd and 24th years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chap. 51.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL AS TO THE CHOLERA IN SHIPS.

By an order in Council, dated the 29th day of July, 1871, and published in a supplement to the London Gazette of Friday, the 28th of July, after a recital of the 6 Geo. 4, c. 78, s. 6, and the s. 52 of the Sanitary Act, 1866, and further that "cholera is now prevailing in certain parts of continental Europe with which this country has communication, and that it is requisite to take precaution, as far as is practicable, against the introduction of that disease into this country," it is ordered as follows:

1. In this order the term "ship" includes vessel or boat, the term "master" includes the officer or person for the time being in charge or command of a ship; the term "cholera " includes choleraic diarrhoea; the term "nuisance authority has the same meaning as in "The Sanitary Act, 1866" (a).

2. It shall be lawful for any nuisance authority, having reason to believe that any ship arriving in its district comes from a place infected with cholera, to visit and examine such ship before it enters any port, or lands any person or thing in the district, for the purpose of ascertaining whether such ship comes within the operation of this order.

3. The master of every ship within the district of a nuisance authority having on board any person affected with cholera, or the body of any person dead of cholera, or anything infected with or that has been exposed to the infection of cholera, shall, as long as the ship is within such district, moor, anchor, or place her in such position as from time to time the nuisance authority directs.

4. No person shall land from any such ship until the examination hereinafter mentioned has been made.

(a) See 29 & 30 Vict. c. 90, s. 15, post, in the Appendix.

5. The nuisance authority shall, immediately on the arrival of such a ship, cause all persons on board of the same to be examined by a legally qualified medical practitioner, and shall permit all persons who shall not be certified by him to be suffering from cholera to land immediately.

6. All persons certified by the examiner to be suffering from cholera shall be dealt with under any rules that may have been made by the nuisance authority under the 29th section of the Sanitary Act, 1866 (b); or where no such rules shall have been made, shall be removed, if their condition admits of it, to some hospital or place to be designated for such purpose by the nuisance authority, and no person so removed shall quit such hospital or place until some physician or surgeon shall have certified that such person is free from the said disease.

7. In the event of any death from cholera taking place on board such vessel, the body shall be taken out to sea, and committed to the deep, properly loaded, to prevent its rising.

8. The clothing and bedding of all persons who shall have died, or had an attack of cholera on board such vessel, shall be disinfected, or (if necessary) destroyed, under the direction of the nuisance authority.

9. The ship, and any articles therein which may be infected with cholera, shall be disinfected by the nuisance authority.

10. Every person obstructing the nuisance authority in carrying this order into effect, or otherwise offending against this order, shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding 201.

Another order in Council, bearing date the 3rd day of August, 1871, empowers any custom-house officer, or other

(b) See post, in the Appendix.