be imprisoned without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months, and in all other cases the court shall."

3. The words "justice of the peace" Amends section 8 wherever occurring in section eight of the of the principal Act. principal Act, shall be omitted, and the

words "police magistrate" substituted therefor.

laws.

4. In printing the new edition of the Printing of Act in laws, the Commissioners are hereby required new edition of the to print the principal Act as amended by this Act, and to alter the marginal notes where necessary, and to omit this Act from the new edition of the laws.

CAP. XLI.

(Assented to 24th April, 1893.)

BARBADOS.

An Act to incorporate into one Act certain pensions granted by resolutions of the Legislature during the session 1892-'93.

BE

E it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of this Island, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. From and after the passing of this Act, the Treasurer of the island, shall, and he is hereby authorised to pay annually, in equal monthly payments from the public treasury on the warrant of the Governor-in-Executive Committee to the several persons mentioned in column one of the schedule to this Act annexed, during the term of their respective

Grant of annuities mentioned in the Schedule.

Printing of Aot

natural lives the sums mentioned and set out in column three of the said schedule against the respective names of those per

sons.

2. In preparing and printing the new in new edition of edition of the laws of Barbados, the Comthe laws. missioners are hereby required to add the Schedule annexed to this Act to the first Schedule of "The Annuitants Act, 1891," and when such addition shall have been made the Commissioners shall omit this Act from the new edition of the laws.

ren

Resolution dered inoperative.

Suspending

tion.

3. Immediately on the coming into operation of this Act the several resolutions of the Legislature granting the said pensions shall become inoperative, and cease to have effect.

sec- 4. This Act shall not come into operation
unless and until the officer administering
the Government notifies by proclamation
that it is Her Majesty's pleasure not to dis-
allow the same, and thereafter it shall come
into operation upon such day as the officer
administering the Government shall notify
by the same or any other proclamation.
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Short title.

Interpretation of

terms.

CAP. XLII.

(Assented to 25th April, 1893.)

BARBADOS.

An Act to amend the law relating to quarantine.

BE

E it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of this island, and by the authority of the same, as follows;

PART I.

PRELIMINARY.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Quarantine Act, 1893."

2. In this Act unless the context otherwise requires the following terms shall have the meanings hereinafter assigned to them respectively, that is to say,

"infectious disease" means cholera, yellow fever or small pox.

"infected place" means,

(a) any port or place within Her Majesty's West Indian Dominions where any of the three infectious diseases abovementioned exists to the extent mentioned in section three of this Act at the time of a vessel's arrival here therefrom, or has existed to the like extent at the time of such vessel's departure therefrom, or within a period prior to such departure equal to the incubation period of such infectious disease or,

(b) any port or place not within Her Majesty's West Indian Dominions which has in accordance with section

three of this Act been declared an infected place.

"infected vessel" means,

(a) every vessel not otherwise infected but which has arrived from an infected place as above defined after an absence therefrom of less than the incubation period of the disease with which such place is infected is an infected vessel;

() every vessel on board of which on any given day there is or on any of the preceding days within the incubation period of any of the abovementioned infectious diseases there was any person suffering from such infectious disease, is on such given day an infected vessel;

is

(c) every vessel on board of which at any time during the voyage hither there has been a disease of an infectious or contagious character, which from local circumstances considered dangerous to the health of the island and which is (either before or after the vessel's arrival) so declared by the Governor-in-Executive Committee, is after such declaration an infected vessel;

(d) every vessel on board of which on

any given day there is any person who on such given day or on any of the preceding days within the incubation period of one of the abovementioned infectious diseases was in a place or on some other vessel infected with such disease, is on such given day an infected vessel;