496 FOREIGN STATUTES. 



or in Part, to any Person or Persons the Subject or Subjects of or owing 

 Allegiance to His Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, shall repair to, or 

 trade or touch at the said Island of Saint Helena, or shall be found 

 bovering within Eight Leagues of ihe Coast thereof, and shall not de- 

 IDart from the said Island or the Coast thereof when and so soon as the 

 Master or other Person having the Charge and Command thereof shall 

 be ordered so to do by the Governor or Lieutenant Governor of the said 

 Island for the time being, or by the Commander of His Majesty's Naval 

 or Military Force stationed at or off the said Island for the time being, 

 (unless in case of unavoidable Necessity, or Distress of Weatlier,) such 

 Ship or Vessel shall be deemed Forfeited, and shall and may be seized 

 and detained and prosecuted in the same manner as hereinl)cfore en- 

 acted as to Ships, Vessels or Boats of or belonging to any Subject or 

 Subjects of His Majesty. 



QUARANTINE ACT OF 1825. 



[0 Geo. IV. C. 78, Sees. 2, 8, 9. 27Ui June, 182.5.1 



AN ACT to repeal the .several Laws relating to the Performance of Quarantine, anti to 

 make other Provisioiis in lien thereof. 



II. And be it enacted. That from and after the First Day .of June, One 

 thousand eight hundred and twenty-tive, all Vessels, as well His Maj- 

 esty's Ships of War as others, coming from or having touched at any 

 Place from Avhence His 31ajesty, His Heirs or Successors, by and with 

 the Advice of His or Their Privy Council, shall have adjudged and de- 

 clared it probable that the Plague or other infectious Disease or Distem- 

 per highly dangerous to the Ilealth of His .^lajesty's Subjects may be 

 brouglit, and all Vessels and Boats receiving any Person, Goods, Wares 

 and Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage,Wearing Apparel, Books, 

 Letters, or any other Article whatsoever, from or out of any Vessel so 

 coming from or having toucheil at such infected Place as aforesaid, 

 whether such Persons, Goods, Wares and Merchandize, Packets, Pack- 

 ages, Baggage, Wearing Apparel, Book.^-, Letters, or other Articles, shall 

 have come or been bronght in such Vessels, or such Person shall have 

 gone, or Articles have been put on board the same, either before or after 

 the Arrival of such Vessels at any P(U^t or Place in the United Kingdom, 

 or the Islands or Guernseii, Jersey, Aldeniey, Sarl\ or Man, and wliether 

 such Vessels were or were not bound to any Port or Place in the United 

 Kingdom or the Islands aforesaid, and all Persons, Goods, Wares and 

 Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wearing Apparel, Books, 

 Letters, or any other Article wdiatsoever on board of any Vessels so coming 

 from or having touched at such infected Place as aforesaid, or on board 

 of any such Eeceiving Vessels, or Boats as aforesaid, shall be and be 

 considered to be liable to Quarantine within the Meaning of this Act, 

 and of any Order or Orders which shall be nuide by His Majesty, His 

 Heirs and Successors, by and with the Advice of Ilis or Their Privy 

 Council, concerning Quarantine and the Prevention of Infection, from 

 the Time of the Dei)arture of such Vessels from such infected Place as 

 aforesaid, or from the time when sucli Persons, Good^, Wares, Mer- 

 cliandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wearing Apparel, Books, Let- 

 ters, or other Articles shall have been recelvoJ on board respec- 

 tively. * * * 



