QUARANTINE. 



^^The duration fo. goods p.fo^ing ,uara.ni.e to be as J^^|j, which is tobe b, openin. and ainng .„ the .ann'er 



Goods of the Ift Clafs, coming '-.without clean Mis of natuVe of [rr°Tl^^^' f'^-/^-). according to the 

 health, forty days at the lazaret, ofder, fed 33 ^ Zlll ^° '' '"'^ '^' '""''" "^ "'^^'^ ^^e package. 



Goods of the 2d Clafs, comingf nuilhout clean h',lh nf r'nr^A^ „f »t, a /--i r 

 health, thirty days. Order feft. .f. '""' '^ „f he°S ^ ' . '' ""'""'^P'"'^'^ ^'"^ ^ '^l"" bill 



Goods remaining after thofe of the ift and 2d Clafs are other of Inn". 'T '^™ f f°™^"«^' one /r»^.//.„,,_y, the 

 removed to a floating or land-lazaret, are to p rform qu Tthefefe M^ h^'"''^ P'r''"" ^he hatches 



Go^ds a;nving from or through the Mediterranean or Se e'n if !i' """/'!?' '""* pafTengers are removed,) and 



Weft Barbary o,^ the Atlantic o^a., i-^^^rrhaCi:; "^^^1.:^ J't ^Z^TSJ^^tX ts^^td' 



the plague on board, without clean bills of health, to be re- after this an^ fn,-fl„.^ r, i & ", " '""^ '" ^ays , and 



.oved to the floating lazaret at Stangat{ Creek, and^er- ^^^.^^:^Zlt;^S.::J^ 



form quarantme tor thirty days. Order, fed. ,4. and 40. fiances arife, and then the time may be^ ex ended to four" 



Goods commg from thofe places W. ./..„ hUls of fix, or eight days, fo as to complete in the whole twentv 



health are to be aired one week m the fame fl„p ; except one days, or even a longer time if neceffary, nd then the^v' 



goods of Clafs I. and II., which are to be removed to the are to be conveyed to the lazaret. Order, fa ,2 ^ 



lazaret and be aired for hfteen days. Order, fedt. 13. In the fecond performance, or expurgat o a tie lazaret 



Goods coming in fl.ips with >/;..*^ 3;//. ,/ /,,,/,/, ^, be all bales of cotton are to be opened ffom one end to the 



treated as ftiips coming withou bills of health, except that other, and fo much removed as admit the hanllin7and re! 



they are to perform ten days lefs quarantine. Order, fed. moving the remainder. Rags, raw wool, goats' wooiclr- 



''"'j-i-jf •. I. • u sv-c.As: u /, , "^;^"'^ wool, and hair, are to be taken out ai?d ranged in 'heaDs 



Dned fruits having been fliifted from bafl.cts and packages of four feet high, and often rummaged. Bales of fik to b^ 



made of articles in Clafs I., or conhdered fufceptible, if all opened on one fid., from end to fnd, the cords loof ned 



tv^en.y days. Uidei, lect. 3«- be opened m hke manner for five days more. Cottons. 



Dried fruits in wood, may be dehvered ,n ten days, yarn, thread, ftuffs, and linen, are to be piled in rows o^ 



Urder, lect. 3"- pyramids, and turned every four days, and completelv 



u ^ j" barrels, the bungs being tarred, and the barrels fpread out and fufpended on cords for feveral days. Paper 



brujhed and dipped in fea-water, may be dehvered in ten days, books, parchment, fponges, and ilockings, ar^ to be un' 



Order, ledt. 3»- packed and feparated, fo as to admit thorough airing-. 



Grain, pulle, and feed m bulk, or m facks, or caflvs, or Feathers, ftraw-hats, artificial flowers, coral beads in ftrin^ 



mats, when fliitted, and palled through a fieve, may be and bruflies, fpread out in the fame manner Carpets' 



dehvered in ten days. Order, fed. 38 furs, hides, and il<ins to be unbaled, and each piece fpread 



And the packages, when made of fufceptible articles, and fufpended on cords in the open air, and frequently 



are to be fent to the lazaret to perform quarantine, according turned ; and all goods packed with ftraw, cotton, or articles 



to the nature of them, or be deftroyed at the option of the ftated in Clafs I., Ihall be entirely taken out of the fame, 



owMier. Seft. 38. opened, and handled, and carefully aired, as well as all other 



Formerly the 42d clauie in the order in council required goods in that clafs, for which no diredions are given. 



" the produftion of a declaration on oath for goods of the Order, fed. 34. 



ift Clafs," when brought from places without the ftreights Goods of the 2d Clafs, unaccompanied with clean biUs of 



of Gibraltar, or on the continent of America, &c. to afcer- heahh, though lefs liable to infedion, are to be carried 



tain their growth, and that they were not the produce of to the lazaret, and be unpacked, opened, and aired as much 



Turkey, &c., but that claufe has been fufpended by order as poffible ; and by moving them as much as practicable 



of 8th Aug. 1810 ; andthey may be admitted without per from time to tir.ie,'fo as to admit free ventilation for thirty 



forming quarantine, on the mafter making oath that no in- days. Order, fed. 35 and 36. 



fedious diforder prevailed at the place from whence they Goods not mentioned in thofe clafi'es, and remainino- on 



failed, or on oath of the importer that they are not the board the importing Ihip, are to perform quarantine'' for 



produce of Turkey, or of any place in Africa within the thirty days, by being frequently fwept and ftiifted, fo as to 



ftreights, or Weft Barbary : but whenever that declaration admit a free ventilation ; at the end of which time, if all the 



is produced, the oath of the mafter or of the importer is not perfons on board, and thofe employed in the expurgation 



required. Order in Council, 27th Od. 1818. on Ihore, are well, the ftiip, goods, crew, and paftengers, are 



Veflcls having performed quarantine at any of the foreign to be fumigated and difcharged. Order, fed. 37. 



lazarets, and producing proper documents to prove that There are other regulations and enadments on this fub- 



fad, are not required to do fo again : neverthelefs, fuch part jed which it is neceffary to notice, and though they relate 



of the cargo as confifts of articles in Clafs I. are to be taken to the firft arrival of the (hips, and take effed from that 



out and perform quarantine in the ufua! manner for fifteen days time, yet being rather regulations to afcertain the nature of 



{ Order, fed. 43. ) But no goods are to be landed or removed the voyages, and the ftate of the crews, and the goods com- 



therefrom until the mafter has given notice to the quaran- pofing the cargo, than any part of the performance of 



tine fuperintendent, or officer of cuftoms, in order to be quarantine, this is conceived a proper place to introduce 



laid before the privy council. Landing or removing them, them. 



before diredions are given, or contrary thereto, fubjeds the It is manifeft, that without the earlieft information of the 



mafter to the penalty of 200/. 45 Geo. III. fed. 22. arrival of velfels from countries infedled with the plague. 



Having thus ftated what fhips and goods are liable and &c. and of the kind of goods of which their cargoes are 



required to perform quarantine, and the time for which they compofed, many of the above-mentioned falutary regulations 



are to perform it, we fhall proceed to ftate the manner of would be ufelefs, either by perfons quitting veffels imme- 



VoL. XXXIX. 4 K diately 



