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The Government Resolution legalising the examination of inward
railway traffic was published on April 13th, and ran as follows :-
" The  Bombay  Plague   Committee  are   hereby   empowered to
appoint Medical men as Plague Authorities at railway stations in the
Than a District for the purposes of these rules.    Such Plague Autho-
rities shall have authority to inspect railway passengers, intending rail-
way passengers, and other persons found in  railway  trains or at the
railway stations to which these rules are or may  hereafter be applied,
and  to  detain and send to hospitals or other places appointed for the
purpose   persons found or believed to be   suffering from  the Plague.
These rules  are  hereby  made  applicable  to the railway stations of
Kalyan, Thana, and Coorla on the G. I. P. Railway, and Palghar, Santa
Cruz, and Bandora on the Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railway.
The Medical Staff appointed by Government at the stations   of Kalyan
and Palghar for the purposes of the  inspection  referred to in Govern-
ment  Resolution No. 723-211-P, dated February 10th, 1897, shall be
considered Plague Authorities for the purposes of these rules.    On the
Great Indian Peninsula Railway persons travelling by up through trains
shall  be  medically  examined  at Kalyan,  and no   further  medical
inspection  of such  trains  will be requisite ;  but no passengers shall
be allowed to  enter such trains at any  stations between  the  stations
of Kalyan and   Coorla,   except  at  Thana.    All   local up-trains  shall
be  emptied and   their passengers  medically inspected  at  Coorla, but
no passengers shall be allowed  to  book from  Coorla till they have
been medically inspected. On the Bombay, Baroda & Central India Line
up-trains starting from stations north of Bandora shall be stopped for
medical inspection  of their passengers at  Santa  Cruz, except in the
case of the up-mail train,  the passengers by  which shall be inspected
at Palghar.    No persons, shall be allowed to book at Bandora Station
by up-trains until they have been medically inspected.    Season ticket-
holders and free pass-holders will ordinarily be excused from inspection,
but the Plague Authorities may inspect them on any occasion on which
they consider  it  advisable to do so.    The Plague Authorities under
these rules shall be  placed under  the immediate  orders of Surgeon-
Captain Jennings, I.M.S., who is authorized to make all the necessary
arrangements and to commence inspection under these rules as soon as
his arrangements are completed."