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Credit: British West Indian Conference on Quarantine, 1888. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Mr. SANDERSON; You would have to put it that some of the unenlightened members have protested against the right of appeal. Mr. BERKELEY: Let us have a resolution. The president : We will make a note of it if you like. Mr. low : I don't particularly want any note made. The PRESIDENT: I only'want uniformity. Mr. low : The President is of opin- ion and other members are of opinion that there should be a right of appeal, and as the feeling is so against me I do not think it worth while that a note I should be made of it: I do not wish to press it here. The president : But we should like you to press it here, if you intend doing it elsewhere. Mr. low : I only say I think it is essential. Clause 35. Appropriation of Penal- ties. (Page 49.) The president : It is left here to the Board to decide in cases of all penalties as to whether rewards should be given to informers, or parties instru- mental in obtaining convictions. I think it is a local matter. At all events it is the feeling some such provision should be made. [An addition to Clause 35 was made. See Minutes, Fourth Sitting. Page 71.] Reverting to Clause 34, Mr. SANDERSON observed : We go a great deal further than this, we give hard labour. Mr. BERKELEY: Oh no, no hard labour. Mr. SANDERSON: With or without hard labour then ? Mr. low : In every Ordinance where there is a penal clause, discretion is left to the magistrate to impose imprisonment with or without hard labour. Dr. BOWEN: Liberal as I feel about it, I think the man who has deli- berately broken the law should do hard labour. Clauses 36 and 37, ** Protection of persons acting under this Ordinance and Expenses of Ordinance provided for, passed over, as being local matters. Clause 38. Proviso with regard to Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and other vessels carrying Mails. (Page 50.) Dr. G-RIEVE : I would suggest that Steam Packet be left out. Mr. McKINNEY: Everything relat- ing to passengers should be struck out. Mr. SANDERSON: You might as well say, nothing to prevent the landing of cargo as well as mails under regula- tions. Don't they come from the same place ? Dr. G-RIEVE : Landed after proper disinfection, as directed in the present Ordinance. The provisions in the Honduras clause were adopted:— [See Minutes, Fourth Sitting. Page 72.] Clauses 39 and 40 struck out, Sus- pension and revival of Ordinance and Repealing Clause. (Page 50.) The PRESIDENT: We have got through the model Ordinance, but there are certain things not touched: If you look at the Ordinance of 1884, you will see certain provisions necessary to bring in, I expect. Dr. grieve : There is the whole question of the regulations affecting vessels in Quarantine, when loading and unloading. We shall have to make a set of regulations exactly on the same plan as we have done with regard to passengers. Mr. BERKELEY : A formal bill of health should be printed. Conference adjourned at 5.15 p.m. FIFTH SITTING. Thursday^ 11th October. The PRESIDENT: The result of our work which we concluded last night upon the Ordinance is in the hands of the printers and will be up here in the course of an hour or so. I don't think it will be advisable to deal any more](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21297678_0190.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
