STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1169 



692 No. 102. 1833, March 27: Extract from Newfoundland Stat- 

 ute, 3 Wm. IV, Cap. 1. 



An Act to provide for the performance of Quarantine, and more effectually to 



provide against the introduction of Infectious or Contagious Diseases, and 



the spreading thereof in this Island. 



[27th March, 1833.] 



Whereas a malignant and highly dangerous disease, called the 

 Cholera or Spasmodic or Indian Cholera, has for some time past 

 prevailed on the Continent of Europe, in Great Britain, and on the 

 Continent of America, and apprehensions are entertained that the 

 same may be introduced into this Island : 



Be it therefore enacted, by the Governor, the Council, and As- 

 sembly, that henceforth all Vessels, as well His Majesty's Ships of 

 War as others, coming from or having touched at any place from 

 whence the Governor or Commander-in-Chief. by and with the advice 

 and consent of His Majesty's Council, shall have adjudged and de- 

 clared it probable any infectious disease or distemper highly danger- 

 ous to the health of the inhabitants of this Island and its Dependencies, 

 whether such disease be Plague, Small Pox, Yellow Fever, Typhus 

 Fever, Cholera Morbus, or any other infectious disease or contagious 

 distemper whatsoever, may be brought; and all Vessels and Boats re- 

 ceiving any Persons, Goods, Wares and Merchandize, Packets, Pack- 

 ages, Baggage, Wearing Apparel, Books, Letters, or other article 

 whatsoever, from or out of any Vessel so coming from or having 

 touched at such infected place as aforesaid, whether such Persons, 

 Goods, Wares and Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wearing 

 Apparel, Books, Letters, or other article whatsoever, shall have come 

 or been brought in such Vessels, or such Persons shall have gone, or 

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

 arrival of such Vessels at any port or place in this Island or its 

 Dependencies, and whether such Vessels were or were not bound to 

 any port or place in this Island or its Dependencies, and all Persons, 

 Goods, Wares and Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wear- 

 ing Apparel, Books, Letters, or other article whatsoever, on board 

 of any Vessel so coming from or having touched at suqh infected 

 place as aforesaid, or on board of any such receiving 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 made by the Governor or Commander-in-Chief of this Island 

 and its Dependencies, for the time being, by and with the advice of 

 His Majesty's Council, concerning Quarantine and the prevention of 

 infection, from the time of the departure of such Vessels from such in- 

 fected place as aforesaid, or from the time when such Persons, Goods, 

 Wares, Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wearing Apparel, 

 Books, Letters, or other articles, shall have been received on board 

 respectively, and all such Vessels and Boats as aforesaid, and all 

 Persons (as well Pilots as others), Goods, Wares and Merchandize, 

 and all other articles aforesaid, whether coming or brought in such 

 Vessels or Boats from such infected place as. aforesaid, or going or 

 being put on board the same either before or after the arrival of 

 such Vessels or Boats at any port or place in this Island or its De- 

 pendencies, and all Persons, Goods, Wares and Merchandize, and 

 all other articles as aforesaid, on board such receiving Vessel or Boat 



