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Credit: British West Indian Conference on Quarantine, 1888. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Mr. BEEKELEY: This is a draft Ordinance. Many of the clauses of this Act are nothing more than regu- lations really as to the treatment of pasesngers, cargo, &c. Is it or is it not, that the Government would have power under this clause to alter some of these regulations? I don't propose that they shall be allowed, therefore I wish to put something in. Many rales, really local rules, might be made by the colony, but this might have the effect of upsetting what we have done here. The PEESIDENT : No rules under an Act, it is understood as a matter of law, can be inconsistent with the Act. Instead of saying the following Eules shall be observed, we might say the following provisions. Mr. BEEKELEY: It says, the following rules are to be. If you leave it as it is at the present moment it will not do. The words not inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance were added in the clause. Clause 7, Fees payable to Harbour Masters and Health Officers, struck out. Clause Executive Authority may declare ' Infected Places :' The PEESIDENT: The following is proposed instead of A in that clause:— [See Paragraph A, Minutes, Fifth Sitting. Page 75.] Dr. BOWEN : The reason we have put in the word originated is that you may get two or three ships coming to a place each week with yellow fever, and they may be quarantined. But it is not because three ships are there that the port should be declared infected. Mr. BEEKELEY: I only throw it out for your consideration : Don't you think that the power given to the Governor is going to make some clash- ing with the definition of the tenn infected place? Dr. GEIEVE : Yoii will find as the Ordinance goes on it won't. Mr. BEEKELEY: I will take your ipse dixit for it, but I submit what we ought to do is, after infectious disease to add and the Governor shall do so and so. Dr. GEIEVE: It strikes me if you were to put it in the definition clause, you would still have to give the power to the Governor. The PEESIDENT : I quite see your point. We might take it later. Dr. BOWEN: It should not be taken that I have agreed with it as it stands at present. Mr. SANDEESON: If we find it clashes, we can go back to it. The PEESIDENT: It is only a question whether it should come in here or in the definition clause. Under Infected vessel liable to quar- antine, the clause stood :— Every vessel arriving at any of the ports of this colony fi'om any place outside the colony, shall immediately on arrival, &c. Mr. BEEKELEY : As it reads, Mr. Low, any vessel coming from Grenada to you would be able to land her passen- gers without being inspected : Grenada is not a port outside, no more is St. Vincent, However, I am prepared to accept it, because I had once the plea- sure of proposing a similar Act which Her Majesty's Government were pleased to disallow. Mr. low : We are now one colony, Grenada, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia. We have a Governor-in-Chief and three Administrators. The PEESIDENT : Of course, this is intended to apply to each separate Island in the case of the Leeward Islands, which is one colony. Mr. BEEKELEY : Has the Confer- ence made up its mind as to the mean- ing of the word Communication ? Mr. SANDEESON : I have. Mr. BEEKELEY : But has the Con- ference made up its mind ? The PEESIDENT : We had a discussion, and decided we could not settle it until we came to the place in the Ordinance. Mr. BERKELEY: We have come to it now.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21297678_0202.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
