Department of Agriculture. By Order in Council of the 3rd of May, 1907, in virtue of The Cold Storage Act, 1907, the annexed regulations made in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act were approved and established. REGULATIONS. 1. The Minister of Agriculture may make appointments of inspectors and other persons for the enforcement of the Act. 2. No application shall be considered for any cold storage warehouses except those equipped with mechanical refrigeration, nor for any place where any such cold storage already exists or where the proposed cold storage would compete directly with other establishments of the same class. 3. Applications for a subsidy under the Act must be made in the following form which shall be known as Schedule A. APPLICATION FOR COLD STORAGE SUBSIDY. Application is hereby made on behalf of.. in the province of.. ..of... ..for the subsidy offered under The Cold Storage Act for a public cold storage warehouse equipped with mechanical refrigerating machinery to be erected at.. PARTICULARS. Size of building in cubic feet... System of mechanical refrigeration to be used. Capacity of refrigerating machinery in tons of refrigeration per 24 hours. Character of the available water supply.. Estimated cost of building, equipment and water supply. Cost of site..... Will the whole building be used for the purposes of a public cold storage? ATTACHED ARE THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS: EXHIBIT 1, being a copy of the plans and details of the insulation of warehouse. 2, being a true copy of the specification of warehouse and insulation. 4, sketch showing location of warehouse or proposed warehouse in regard to Department of Agriculture. 4. The owners of cold storage warehouses in order to secure the subsidy, will be required to maintain the following temperatures therein, for the preservation of the various products mentioned: 5. Nothing in these regulations shall prevent owners of subsidized cold storage warehouses from entering into special contracts with customers for the maintenance of temperatures other than those herein specified. 6. The first instalment of the subsidy shall not be paid until the applicant shall have presented proper vouchers for the cost of building, equipment, site and other expenditure. 7. The owners of cold storage warehouses to which the subsidy or any part thereof has been paid, may be required to make an annual report to the Minister of Agriculture in such form as may be prescribed. Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xl., p. 2642. By Order in Council of the 12th of June, 1907, in virtue of the provisions of section 3, chapter 74, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906, intituled An Act respecting Quarantine, the quarantine regulations established by the Order in Council of the 18th August, 1898, were rescinded and the annexed regulations substituted therefor: CANADIAN QUARANTINE REGULATIONS. ADMINISTRATION. The whole of the quarantine service of Canada is controlled by the Minister of Agriculture. It is administered under him by the Director General of Public Health. Each quarantine station is in the immediate charge of a specially appointed medical quarantine officer. At each unorganized maritime or inland quarantine station, the local collector of customs is the quarantine officer for the purposes of these regulations. The Governor in Council may, however, from time to time appoint a temporary medical quarantine officer at any unorganized maritime or inland quarantine station, who shall supersede for the time being the collector of customs as the quarantine officer of the port. THE QUARANTINE STATIONS. The quarantine stations of Canada are: Province of Quebec (a) Grosse Isle, in the River St. Lawrence, with Rimouski, the Louise embankment Department of Agriculture. Province of Nova Scotia (a) Halifax, the Harbour and Lawlor's Island; Province of New Brunswick (a) St. John, the Harbour and Partridge Island; (b) Chatham, the Harbour and Middle Island. Province of Prince Edward Island (a) Charlottetown, the Harbour and Keppoch. Province of British Columbia (a) Victoria, the Harbour and William Head; (b) Vancouver and the Harbour; (c) Prince Rupert, the Harbour and the Kinnahan Islands; Every other maritime port, each such port being designated an unorganized maritime quarantine station; And every inland port on the Canadian frontier, each such port being designated an unorganized inland quarantine station. GENERAL PROVISIONS. Quarantine officers justices of the peace. 1. Every quarantine officer at a quarantine station in Canada and every customs collector, in his quality of quarantine officer, shall for the purpose of these regulations be a justice of the peace in virtue of the provisions of Sec. 7 of the Act respecting Quarantine, Chap. 74, Revised Statutes. Persons entering Canada. 2. Every person entering Canada, whether through a customs port or otherwise, shall be held to be subject to these regulations. (a) Once a person has been released from this outer ring of Dominion quarantine, he or she passes from under the health jurisdiction of this department. Classes of passengers. 3. Passengers for the purpose of these regulations are divided into two classes, cabin and steerage. Steerage passengers are thos: occupying compartments other than those of first and second cabin. Quarantinable diseases. 4. The graver quarantinable diseases are: Asiatic cholera, plague, small-pox, typhus fever and yellow fever. The minor: Chicken-pox, diphtheria, enteric fever (typhoid), measles and scarlet fever. Other infectious diseases. (a) In addition to the above recital, it is the duty of every quarantine officer to satisfy himself as to the presence or absence of any other contagious or infectious disease. Department of Agriculture. Leprosy. 5. It is the duty of every quarantine officer to satisfy himself as to the fact of the presence or absence of leprosy among the passengers or crew; and in the event of any case of such disease being found, the person affected shall not be allowed to enter Canada, but shall be detained at quarantine at the vessel's expense until taken aboard by the same vessel when next outward, and in the event of the vessel failing to take back the said leper, he or she shall be deported by the government at the expense of the owners of the vessel after an interval of fourteen days from the date of the landing of such person unless satisfactory reasons be given for further delay. Vessels from outside of Canada. 6. Every vessel arriving from any port outside of Canada at any organized quarantine station shall be inspected by a duly appointed quarantine officer, at the place duly appointed for such inspection, and shall not be allowed to make customs entry at any port in Canada until it has received a clean bill of health from such officer at such place. (a) If a vessel from an infected foreign port bound for a port in Canada, which is an unorganized quarantine station, has first to pass an organized quarantine station, it shall be held to call at such station before proceeding to its destination. Definition of infected port. (b) Within the meaning of these regulations an infected port or country is a port or country where any one of the graver quarantinable diseases above designated exists as an epidemic or has been communicated to one or more persons through the medium of an infected person, personal effects or otherwise. A port or country is not considered infected when a single case or a small number of cases has been reported, and the disease has not been communicated from such cases. Prince Edward Island. (c) These regulations shall also apply to vessels arriving at any port in the province of Prince Edward Island from any port in any other province of the Dominion of Canada that has been declared by the Minister to be infected with any of the graver quarantinable diseases. Coasting vessels, &c. 7. Coasting vessels from Newfoundland and from ports in the United States contiguous to Canada and, in the case of Prince Edward Island, vessels from ports in other provinces of the Dominion of Canada, and free from infectious disease, may, from time to time, be excepted from these regulations by order of the Minister of Agriculture. (a) Vessels from Europe touching at Newfoundland ports on their way to a Canadian port will not be considered coastwise vessels under this regulation. Coastwise after clearance. 8. After having made customs entry at any port in Canada a vessel, if she proceed to any other port in Canada without first again going abroad, shall be held and regarded as Department of Agriculture. His Majesty's ships of war. 9. His Majesty's ships of war and transports arriving at any port in Canada in a healthy condition are excepted from quarantine inspection and detention; but in the event of the presence on board of any such vessel of any of the graver forms of quarantinable diseases as designated in section 4, these regulations shall apply as in the case of other vessels arriving from outside of Canada. Pilots. 10. It shall be the duty of every pilot on boarding a vessel arriving at any port in Canada to furnish the master of such vessel with a copy of the regulations, under the penalty hereinafter prescribed. Quarantine signals. 11. Every vessel from any port outside of Canada requiring quarantine inspection shall, on arrival at any port in Canada, display a yellow flag at the fore by day, for a distinctive quarantine signal, in order to inform the quarantine officer that his services are required, and any such vessel arriving by night shall display a red light at the fore for such signal. (a) No such vessel shall proceed past the quarantine inspection ground until she has been visited and released by the quarantine officer. Persons liable to detention. 12. Every person who shall be on board any vessel arriving from any port outside Canada at any organized quarantine station or who shall have gone on board any vessel after such arrival and before such vessel has been inspected by a duly appointed quarantine officer, shall be liable to the provisions of sections 18 and 23, and no such person shall leave such vessel without the permission of such officer until such vessel shall have been declared by such officer free from infectious disease. Any person violating this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $400 and imprisonment for 6 months. Customs and revenue officers. The word "person" as used in this regulation shall be deemed to include customs and revenue officers and others or servants of the Crown being on or going on board any vessel so arriving either in the discharge of their duty or otherwise. Hours of inspection. 13. Every vessel shall be inspected immediately on arrival. (a) With the exception that in periods of the epidemic prevalence of any of the graver quarantinable diseases, or to meet the special requirements of any particular port, the Minister of Agriculture may direct that inspection shall only take place between sunrise and sunset. Quarantine officer to satisfy himself as to health of vessel. 14. Every quarantine officer shall satisfy himself as to the presence or absence of infectious disease by the personal inspection of those on board or by the sworn statement |