QUARANTINE. 



brought on fhore, or go and be put on board any other 

 ftip, &c. in order to go on (hore, though fuch (hip may 

 not be bound to Great Britain, unlefs by direftions and 

 permifiion of his majeftr in council. And all (hips and 

 boats, perfons, pilots, mailers or commanders, goods, wares 

 or merchandize, coming from fuch reftrifted or any in- 

 fe<fted place, fiiall be fubjedl to all the ndes, regulations, 

 and pronfions of the aft, and any order in council, and to 

 all pains and penalties, &c. of that act for any breach or 

 difobedience to it, or of any order in council made under 

 its authority. Se&. lo. of the act. 



By 46 Geo. III. c. 98. his majefty, or any of the lords of 

 the council, as often as they (hall apprehend that the yellow 

 fever, or other highly infeftious dillemper, prevails in 

 America, or the Well Indies, may require every veflel 

 coming from or having touched at thofe places, to come to 

 anchor at certain places to be appointed by the commif- 

 fioners of the cuiloms, for the purpofe of having the ilate 

 of health of the crew afcertained before fhe (hall be per- 

 mitted to enter any port in Great Britain ; but the (hip 

 (hall not be deemed liable to quarantine, unlefs it (hall be 

 afterwards fpecially ordered under that rellraint. Seft. 6. 



Shortly after the paffing the atl of the 45 Geo. III., and 

 under its immediate authority, an order in council was 

 iflucd, dated 5th April 1805, which declared what places 

 his majeily judged it probable the plague, or other infec- 

 tious diftemper or dileafe, may be brought from. They 

 are by velfels coming from or through the Mediterranean, 

 or from the Weil Barbary on the Atlantic ocean, and 

 alio by the importation of certain goods being the growth 

 or produce of Turkey, or Africa within the llreights of 

 Gibraltar or Wed Barbary, from any port in Europe 

 without the ilreights, or on the continent of America. 

 And by further order, dated 7th November 1805, it was 

 declared, that an infeftious difeafe might be brought by 

 veffels coming from or having touched at any port in the 

 ftates of Pennfylvania or New York, but this order has fince 

 been annulled. 



The Goods deemed moll liable to reta'n infeftion are fet 

 forth in three tables, by feft. 33, 35, and 38 of the order in 

 council, and are as follow : 



Class I. — Apparel ; artificial flowers ; baft, or any article 

 made thereof; beads, bracelets, or necklaces, in llrings ; beds, 

 bed-ticks ; books ; brooms ; brufhes ; burdetts ; cambletts ; 

 canvas ; carmenian wool ; carpets ; cordage not tarred ; 

 cotton wool, yarn, or thread, all articles wholly made of 

 or mixed with cotton, (ilk, wool, thread, or yarn ; down ; 

 feathers ; flax ; furriers' wafte ; goats' hair ; gold or filver 

 in thread, cotton, hair, (Ilk, or wool, or any other fubftance 

 hereinbefore enumerated ; grogram ; hats, caps, or bonnets 

 of llraw, chip, cane or any other material ; hemp ; hoofs ; 

 horns and horn tips ; hair of all forts ; leather ; linen ; 

 liqujr of any kind, in bottles or fladis ; lute-flrings, catlings, 

 or harp-ftrings ; maps ; mattrelfes ; mats and matting ; 

 mohair yarn ; nets, new or old ; paper ; packthread ; 

 j parchment; pelts; platting of baft, chip, cane, ftraw, or 

 horfe-hair ; quills ; rags ; fails and fail- cloth ; iilks, viz. 

 crapes and tiff^anies, hu(l<s and knubs, raw filk, thrown or 

 organzine (ilk, walle (ilk, wrought Idk ; llvins, hides, and 

 furs, and parts or pieces of flcins, hides, and furs, whether 

 undrefled, or in part or wholly tanned, tawed, or drelfed ; 

 fponges ; ftraw, or any article made or mixed with ftraw ; 

 ftockings ; thread ; tow ; vellum ; whiflis ; wool, whether 

 raw or anywife wrought ; yarn of all forts. 



Class II. — Senna ; jalap ; gum arable ; gum tragacanth ; 

 myrrh ; opium ; fcammony ; antimony ; cantharides ; alum ; 

 juniper-berries ; pomegranates, flowers and feeds ; fal nitre ; 



fal ammoniac; madder; fumach ; galls; tobacco; cofee • 

 wood HI rafpings ; cork. * 



nnJ^t'" r"j~^/T ' P"'^^' 3"d Other feeds in bulk ; grain-. 

 and other feeds m facks or ca(ks,or ba(l<ets of rufli mat ;S 



%T^ ft V '*' °" P't'^'^' made of articles enumerated in 

 the hrft clais or m packages of wood and o.l in barrels. 



mere vefl-els are to perform quarantine depends upoa 

 arcumftances; for ,f the plague, &c. appears on bo^ard 

 any flup W.,„ theJlraghtso/Giira/tar, (he is to go to one 

 of the fore^n lazarets (at Malta, Ancona, Venice? Meffina, 

 Leghorn Tnefte, Genoa, or Marfe.lles) ; but if it appears 

 r^"' '^^ A-."^^'^, then (he is to go to the harbour of 



n . ,'"' ^^''^" ^"^ '^""'^ Withel, (two of the idands 

 called the Scilly iflands,) or fuch places as his majefty (hd 

 appomt. (Sea. 13. of the aft.) And immediate intelli- 

 gence (hall be given to the commiffioners of the cuftoms 

 and to the privy council, fo that meafures may be taken for 

 the comfort and fupport of the crew and pafl-engers, and 

 luch precautions ufed as the cafe may require ; and the 

 Ihip IS to remain there, and none of the crew or paffengers 

 are to go on (hore, or have any communication with any 

 other velTel ; and any perfon who fliall not aft conformable 

 hereto, or any direftions of the privy council, are to fuffer 

 death without beneiit of clergy. If the veffel cannot make 

 thole illands or other places appointed, pr fnall be forced 

 by trefs of weather to go up either of t!ie Channels, (he 

 (hall not enter any port in Great Britain, or the iflands of 



Guernfey, Jerfey, &c. but (hall remainin fome open road till the 

 mafter receives direction from the privy council. Seel, ii 

 of the aft. ' 



The next regulation is, that (hips not having the plague 

 on board, coming through the Mediterranean, or Weit Bar- 

 bary, without clean bills of health, (except fliips of war, 

 tranfports, or other veflels in the adual fervice of govern- 

 ment, which are to go to the Motherbank near Portfmouth, 

 m a place marked out with yellow buoys,) and all 

 fliips receiving goods out of them, are to perform qua- 

 rantine at Stangate Creek, and no where elie. (Order, 

 ietl. 4.) But by order 15th July 18 13, (hips not having the 

 plague aaually on board, (except king's fliips, &c.) coming 

 from or through the Mediterranean, or Weft Barbary, 

 without clean bills of heahh, bound to the weftern ports of 

 Great Britain, may perform quarantine at Milford Haven. 



The 46 Geo. 111. C.98. fed. 7. authorifes his majefty or the 

 privy council to proiiibit (by proclamation or publication 

 in the Gazette) any perfon, fliips, or boats from going within 

 the limits of any ftation which may be afligned for the per- 

 formance of quarantine by fliips without clean bills of health, 

 under the penalty of 500/. By orders in council, dated 

 2lft July 1806, and 6ch September 1 8 11, it was ordered, 

 that no fliip or boat (except quarantine and cuftom-houfe 

 boats) fliould go, but on cafes of emergency, witiiin the 

 place at the Motherbank fet out with yellow buoys iot 

 fliips not having clean bills of health ; and that fliips with 

 clean bills of health ordered to the Motherbank are to go 

 within the compafs of the yellow buoys, but feparate from 

 his majefty's (hips and fhips without clean bills. 



The two weft buoys are placed to the eaftward oi WootOD 

 Creek, and the two north ones near the Ifle of Wight, 

 with another buoy midway between them, and a red buoy 

 as a mark for a burying-place. 



By feft. 2. of the order of Jth April 1805, fliipj 



(king's (hips as well as others) with clean bills of health. 



Bound to London, Rochefter, Fi-"i , 



n 1 1 / are to pertorm oua- 



verlham, or any creetLS or places I f ^ 



, , . ' , ' ... ^ > rantine at Stao- 



belonging to or within any or/ „ , 



either of the above ports, -j ° 



itfote. 



