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of quarantine) immediately proceed to the 
harbour of St. Helen’s, Tean and North 
Withel, being two of the iflands of Scilly, 
or to fuch other place as his Majefty, in 
council, fhaildirest.. And the maiier, and 
every other perfon on board fhall obey 
fuch direStions as he fhall receive from the 
privy council, &c. or otherwife, be ad- 
aa guilty of felony, without benefit of 
ergy. ; 
Every commander of any veffel liable to 
quarantine, fhall, when fuch vefiel thail 
meet with any other veffel at fea, or fhall 
be within four leagues of the coat, hoift a 
fignal to denote that his veffel is liable to 
quarantine; and fhall keep fuch fignals 
hoifted until fuch veffel thal! have arrived 
at the place where it is to perform quaran- 
tine, and until it fhall have been legally 
difcharged from the performance thereof; 
en pain to forfeit two hundred. pounds. 
If any commander, knowing that the 
veffc] is not liable to the performance of 
quarantine, fhall hoift fuch fignals, he 
tha} forfeit two hundred pounds. 
Matters of veflels, on their arrival from 
foreign parts, are to give to the pilots an 
account of the places at which they fhall 
have leaded and touched at, on penalty of 
two hundred pounds, &c. 
A penalty of ove hundred pounds is in- 
fied on pilots bringing fhips liable to 
quarantine into places not appointed for 
their reception. 
And, that js may be the better known 
whether any veiiel be aétually infected with 
the plague, er other infectious difeafe or 
diftemper, or whether fuch veflel, or the 
mariners or paflengers coming, or the car-. 
go imported in the fame, are liable to any 
orders touching quarantine ; it 13 ena&ed, 
that when any country or place fhall he 
known to be, er fufpeéted to be, infected 
with the plague, or other fuch infectious 
difeafe or diftemper as aforefaid, or when 
aay orders fhall be made by his Majefty in 
council concerning. quarantine, and the 
prevention of infection as aforefaid, then 
as any fhic fhall attempt to enter into any 
port in Great-Britain, or the ifles of 
Guernfey, Jerfey, Alderney, Sark, or 
Man, whether fuch port fhail have been | 
appointed ‘or the performance of quaran- 
tine or not, the fuperintendant.of quaran- 
tine, or his affiftant, if there fhall be fuch 
at fuch place, or if nof, the principal offi- 
cer of cuftoms, hall go off to fuch veffel, . 
and fhall, at a convenient diftance, de- 
mand of the commander, in writing, and 
upon oath or not, as he fhall by fuch fuper- 
intendantor ofncer be required, to all fuch © 
queftions as fail be put to him; and in 
New Aas of the Britifp Legiflature: 
[July 1, 
cafe fuch commander fhall refufe to make 
a true difcovery, or in cafe he fhall not be 
required to anfwer fuch queftions upon 
oath fhall give a falfe anfwer, fuch come 
mander hall forfeit two hundred pounds. 
Ships fubject to quarantine arriving at 
any port than that at which it ought to be 
performed may be forced to repair to the 
appointed place. 
In cafe any veffel thall come from or fhall 
have touched at any place.infetted by 
the plague; or fuch other infectious difeafe 
or diftemper as aforefaid, or fhall have any 
perfon on board atually infected, and the 
commander, knowing that the place from 
whence he. came, or at whieh he -had 
touched, was infected, or knowing fome 
perfon on board to be aétually infected, 
fhall refufe or omit to difclofe the fame 
upon fuch examination, or fhall wilfully 
omit to hoift the fignal, fuch commander 
fhall be guilty of felony, and fuffer death, 
as in cafes of felony without benefit of 
clergy. 
Commanders are alfo to deliver up bills 
of health, manifefts, and log-bocks, fo 
the fuperintendant of quarantine, on pe- 
nalty ofene hundred pounds. stale 
It any commander fhall himfelf quit, 
or fhall knowingly permit any feaman or 
-paffenger to quit fuch fhip, by going on 
fhore, or by going on board any other 
fhip, boat, or veffel, before fuch quaran- 
tine fhall be fully performed, unlefs in 
fuch cafes and by fuch proper licence as 
fhall be granted by virtue of fuch orders 
to be made concerning quarantine,as afore- 
faid ; or, m cafe any commander fhall not, 
withjn a convenient time after notice, caufe 
fuch yeffel, and the lading, to be conveyed 
into the places appointed to perform qua- 
rantine, then fuch commander fhall forfeit: 
five hundred pounds; and if any perfon 
coming in any veflel liable’ to perform 
guarantine (or any pilot or other perfon 
going on board the fame, before or after 
arrival) fhall either before or after arrival 
quit fuch veffel, by going on fhore, or by 
going on board any other fhip, veffel, or 
boat, before fuch veflel fhall be regularly 
difcharged from the performance thereof, 
all perfons whatfoever, by any kind of 
neceflary force, may compel fuch pilot or _ 
other perfon fo quitting firch veffel, to re-” 
turn on'beard the fame; and fuch pilot _ 
or other perfon fhall fuffer imprifonment _ 
for fix months, and forfeit two hundred _ 
pounds. dee 
No goods are to be landed from veffels 
having performed quarantine in a foreign — 
lazaret, without notice to the officer of the “ 
cuftoms, nor before directions from the 
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