ROYAL GAZETTE.

DOWNING STREET, 26th January, 1867.

[Circularx]

Sin,

I have the honor to transmit to you, for your information, the accompanying cepies of Orders and Regulations, which have been made by the Lords of the Privy Council, relating to the Public Health, and of Directions and Regulations issued by the Board of Supervision in Scotland under their Lordships’ Order of the 4th of June last. putting in force the Provisions of Part 2 of the Nuisances Removal (Scotland) Act, together with copies of three Memoranda, which have been drawn up by the Medical Ofﬁcer of the Privy Council.

I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient Humble Servant, CAMERON. .Lieut. Governor DCNDAS,

&c. &c. &c.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 10th day of January, 1867.

By the Lords ofHer NIay'csty’s Most Honourable Privy Council. PRESENT :

Lord President,

Mr. Secretary Walpole, Mr. Corry,

Mr. Gathorne Hardy.

fHEREAS by the “Diseases Prevention Act, 1855,” “ it is, amongst ether things, enacted that whenever any part of England appears to be threatened with, or is atfected by, any formidable epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease, the Lords and others of Her Majesty‘s Most Hon curable Privy Council, or any three or more of them (the Lord President of the Council, or one of Her Majesty‘s Principal Secretaries of State being one), may, by Order or Orders, to be by them from time to time made. direct that the provisions therein contained for the prevention of diseases be put in force in England, or in such parts thereof as in such Order or Orders respectively may be expressed, and may from time to time, as to all or any of the parts to which any such Order or Orders extend, and in like manner, revoke or renew any such Order ; and that, subject to revo- cation and renewal as aforesaid, every such Order shall be in force for six calendar months, or for such shorter period as in such Order shall be expressed; and that every such Order of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, or of any members thereof as aforesaid. shall be certiﬁed under the hand of the Clerk in Ordinary of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, and shall be published in the London Gazette ; and such publica- tion shall be conclusive evidence of such Order, to all intents and purposes :. .

And whereas in an Act passed in the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of Her Majesty’s reign, chapter seventy- seven. certain provisions are contained as to what shall be the Local Authority for executing the said Diseases Pre- vention Act:

And whereas the provisions of the above-recited Acts,

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were, by an Order of the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most HOnourable Privy Council. of the 14th day of July, 1866, put in force within the whole of England:

And whereas by a certain other Order of the Lords oi Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council of the 25th day of August last, after reciting the said Order of the 14th July, and the 11th Section of the “ Diseases Prevention Act, 1855,” and that it appeared expedient to enlarge the applica- tion of the said Order, so that the same should extend to parts and arms of the sea lying within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, their Lordships did, in exercise of the powers in them vested. as in the said Order mentioned, order that the said recited Order of the 14th day ofJuly last should extend. and the same was thereby extended to all parts and arms of the sea lying within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty within three miles of the coasts of England:

And whereas the said Orders will, unless renewed, expire on the Hill day ofJanuary, 1867, and it is deemed expedient that the said Orders should be renewed, and that the previ- sions of the said Acts should be continued in force as here- inafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Hon- ourable Privy Council do hereby, in exercise of the powers given by the said Act, and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, order and direct that the provisions contained in the said Acts for the prevention of diseases shall. from and after the date of this present Order, be and be continued in force Within the whole and every part of England, and all parts and arms of the sea lying within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, within three miles of the coasts of England, for the period of six calendar months from the date of this Order, and that the said recited Order shall be renewed

accordingly for such period as aforesaid. (Signed) EDMUND HARRISON.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 10th day of January, 1867.

By the Lords of Her Majesty’s AIost Honourable Privy Council.

PRESENT 2

Lord President, Mr. Secretary Walpole,

Mr. Corry. Mr. Gathorne Hardy.

HEREAS the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Hon»

curable Privy Council, by an Order made this 10th day of January, 1867, in exercise of the powers given by “ the Diseases Prevention Act, 1855,” and the Amending Act of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of Her Majesty, chapter seventy-seven, and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, did order and direct that the provision contained in the said Acts for the prevention of diseases should, from and after the date of that Order, be and be continued in force within the whole and every part of England and all parts and arms of the sea lying within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty within three miles of the coasts of England, for the period of six calender months from the date of that order, and that certain recited orders then in existence and therein more particularly referred to, should be renewed accordingly f0r such period as aforesaid.

And whereas the Lords of Her Majesty’s Privy Council have thought ﬁt, under the authority conferred upon them by the said ﬁrst cited Act and all other Acts in such behalf, to issue certain directions and regulations, to be in force within the MetrOpolis so long as the provisions aforesaid "shall be in force under the said Order: