and also save and except as to any Offence or Offences done or committed before the passing of this Act, by any Person or Persons, against any Law concerning Quarantine; and as to any Fine, Penalty, Forfeiture or Punishment, Fines, Penalties, Forfeitures or Punishments, to which any such Person or Persons may be liable by reason of the same; and also as to any Action, Suit, Prosecution or other Proceeding brought or commenced, or which shall hereafter be brought or commenced, for or on account of any such Offence or Offences so done or committed as aforesaid.

X. And be it further enacted, That all Ships and Vessels, as well His Majesty's Ships of War as all others, coming from or having touched at any Place from whence His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by and with the Advice of his or their Privy Council, shall have adjudged and declared it probable that the Plague, or any other infectious Disease or Distemper, highly dangerous to the Health of His Majesty's Subjects, may be brought; and all Ships, Vessels and Boats receiving any Person, Goods, Wares and Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wearing Apparel, Books, Letters or any other Articles whatever, from or out of any Ships or Vessels 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 Articles, shall have come or been brought in such Ships or Vessels, or such Persons shall have gone, or Articles have been put on board the same, either before or after the Arrival of such Ships or Vessels at any Port or Place in Great Britain, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark or Man, and whether such Ships or Vessels were or were not bound to any Port or Place in Great Britain or the Islands aforesaid; and all Persons, Goods, Wares and Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wearing Apparel, Books, Letters or any other Articles whatever, on board of any such Ships or Vessels so coming from or having touched at such infected Place as aforesaid, or on board of any such Receiving Ships, 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 His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by and with the Advice of his or their Privy Council concerning Quarantine, and the Prevention of Infection from the Time of the Departure of such Ships or Vessels from such infected 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 Ships, Vessels and Boats as aforesaid, and all Persons, (as well Pilots as others,) Goods, Wares and Merchandize, and other Articles as aforesaid, whether coming or brought in such Ships, 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 Ships, Vessels or Boats, at any Port or Place in Great Britain, or the Islands aforesaid; and all Persons, Goods, Wares and Merchandize, and other Articles as aforesaid, on board any such Receiving Ship, Vessel or Boat, as aforesaid, shall, upon their Arrival at any such Port or Place, be obliged to perform Quarantine in such Place or Places, for such

Time

And not in the

&c.

Time and in such Manner as shall from time to time be directed by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by his or their Order or Orders in Council, notified by Proclamation, or published in the London Gazette; and that until such Ships, Vessels and Boats Persons, Goods, Wares and Merchandize, and other Articles as aforesaid, shall have respectively performed and shall be duly discharged from such Quarantine, no such Person, Goods Wares or Merchandize, or other Articles as aforesaid, or any of them, shall, mean time to either before or after the Arrival of such Ships, Vessels or Boats, come on Shore, at any Port or Place in Great Britain or the Islands aforesaid, come or be brought on Shore, or go and be put on board any other Ship, Vessel or Boat, in order to come or be brought on Shore, in any such Port or Place, although such Ships or Vessels so coming from such infected Place as aforesaid may not be bound to any Port or Place in Great Britain, or the Islands aforesaid, unless in such Manner and in such Cases, and by such Licence as shall be directed or permitted by such Order or Orders made by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in Council as aforesaid; and all such Ships, Vessels and Boats, whether coming from such infected Place as aforesaid, or being otherwise liable to Quarantine as aforesaid, and all Persons, (as well Pilots as others), Goods, Wares and Merchandize, and other Articles as aforesaid, whether coming or brought in such Ships, Vessels or Boats, or going or being put on board the same, either before or after the Arrival of such Ships, Vessels or Boats, at any Port or Place in Great Britain or the Islands aforesaid, and although such Ships, Vessels or Boats, shall not be bound to any Port or Place in Great Britain, or the Islands aforesaid, and all Commanders, Masters or other Persons having the Charge or Command of any such Ships, Vessels or Boats, whether coming from any infected Place, or being otherwise iable to Quarantine, as aforesaid, shall be subject to all the Provisions, Rules, Regulations and Restrictions contained in this Act, or in any Order or Orders which shall be made by His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in Council as aforesaid, concerning Quarantine and the Prevention of Infection; and to all the Pains, Penalties, Forfeitures and Punishments, contained in this Act, for any Breach or Disobedience thereof, or of any Order or Orders of His Majesty in Council, made under the Authority thereof.

And subject to
Regulations of
Orders in
Council.

this Act or of

XI. And Whereas certain Sorts of Goods and Merchandize are more especially liable to retain Infection, and may be brought from Places infected into other Countries, and from thence im'ported into Great Britain, or the Islands aforesaid;' Be it enacted, That all such Goods and Merchandize as shall be particularly Goods or Ships specified for that Purpose in any Order or Orders made by His specified in any Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in Council, concerning Quaran- Order of Countine and the Prevention of Infection as aforesaid, which shall be cil, made subject to brought or imported into any Port or Place in Great Britain or Quarantine. the Islands aforesaid, from any foreign Country or Place, in any Ship or Vessel whatever, and the Ships or Vessels in which the same shall be brought, and also all Ships and Vessels which shall arrive from any Port or Place whatever under any alarming or suspicious Circumstances as to Infection, shall be subject and liable to such Regulations and Restrictions as shall be made by such Order or Orders of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in Council as aforesaid, respecting the same.

XII. And

Privy Council may make such Orders as they

shall think necessary upon

Emergencies, respecting Ships or Goods;

and in case of infectious

Disease appearing in Great Britain;

XII. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lords and others of His Majesty's Privy Council, or any Three or more of them, to make such Order as they shall see and expedient upon any unforeseen Emergency, or in necessary any particular Case or Cases with respect to any Ship or Ships, Vessel or Vessels, arriving and having any infectious Disease or Distemper on board, or on board of which any infectious Disease or Distemper may have appeared in the Course of the Voyage, or arriving under any other alarming or suspicious Circumstances as to Infection, although such Ship or Ships, Vessel or Vessels, shall not have come from any Place or Places from which His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by and with the Advice of his or their Privy Council, may have adjudged and declared it probable that the Plague, or any such infectious Disease or Distemper may be brought, and also with respect to the Persons, Goods, Wares and Merchandize, and other Articles as aforesaid, on board the same; and in case of any infectious Disease or Distemper appearing or breaking out in Great Britain or the Islands aforesaid, to make such Orders, and give such Directions, in order to cut off all Communication between any Persons infected with any such Disease or Distemper and the rest of His Majesty's Subjects, as shall appear to the said Lords or others of His Majesty's Privy Council, or any Three or more of them, to be necessary and exand for mitigat- pedient for that Purpose; and likewise to make such Orders as ing Quarantine. they shall see fit for shortening the Time of Quarantine to be performed by particular Ships or Vessels, or particular Persons, Goods, Wares, Merchandize or any other Articles, or for wholly releasing particular Ships or Vessels, or particular Persons, Goods, Wares, Merchandize or other Articles from Quarantine, absolutely or conditionally; and generally to mitigate the strict Performance of Quarantine in particular Cases, as special Circumstances shall appear, in their Judgment, to require; and all such Orders so made by the Lords or others of the Privy Council, or any Three or more of them as aforesaid, shall be as good, valid and effectual, to all Intents and Purposes, (as well with respect to the Commander, Master or other Person having the Charge of any such Ship or Vessel, and all other Persons on board the same, as with respect to any other Persons having any Intercourse or Communication with them, and to the Penalties, Forfeitures and Punishments, to which they may respectively become liable), as any Order or Orders made by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by and with the Advice of his or their Privy Council, concerning Quarantine, and the Prevention of Infection as aforesaid, and notified by Proclamation or published in the London Gazette.

Regulations for
Vessels in

which Infection

shall appear, within or with

out the Streights

of Gibraltar,

previous to the

Lazaret at Chetney Hill being com

pleted,

XIII. And be it further enacted, That if the Plague, or such other infectious Disease or Distemper as aforesaid, shall appear on board any Ship or Vessel within the Streights of Gibraltar, the Commander, Master or other Person having Charge thereof, shall immediately proceed to some one of the [foreign+] Lazarets, and there perform Quarantine, until such Time as the Land Lazaret to be erected as aforesaid shall, by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by and with the Advice of his or their Privy Council, and by Order of the same, notified by Proclamation, or published in + Sic. [See § 22. post.]

the

the London Gazette, have been declared to be fit for the due Performance of Quarantine therein; but if such Plague, or other such infectious Disease or Distemper as aforesaid, shall appear on board any Ship or Vessel without the Streights of Gibraltar, then the Commander, Master or other Person having the Charge or Command thereof, shall (unless such Land Lazaret shall have been so declared to be fit for the due Performance of Quarantine therein) immediately proceed to the Harbour of Saint Helen's, Tean and North Withel, being Two of the Islands commonly called The Islands of Scilly, or to such other Place as His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by and with the Advice of his or their Privy Council, shall from time to time direct and appoint; where being arrived he shall make known his Case to some Officer of the Customs there, who shall immediately acquaint the Governor, Deputy Governor or other principal Magistrate thereof, and also the principal Officer of the Customs at some Port in England near thereunto; and the said principal Officer of the Customs at such near Port in England shall with all possible Speed send Intelligence thereof to the Commissioners of the Customs in the Port of London; and the said Governor, Deputy Governor or other principal Magistrate shall, in like Manner, with all possible Speed, send Intelligence thereof to the Privy Council, to the End that such Measures may be taken for the Comfort and Support of the Crew and Passengers on board such Ship so infected, and such Precautions used to prevent the spreading of the Infection, as the Case shall require; and the said Ship or Vessel shall there remain until Directions shall be given relative thereto by the Lords or others of His Majesty's Privy Council, or any Three or more of them; nor shall any of the Crew or Passengers on board thereof go on Shore; but in case the said Commander, Master or other Person having Charge of the said Ship or Vessel so infected, shall not be able to make the said Islands of Scilly, or other Place so appointed by His Majesty as aforesaid, or shall be forced by Stress of Weather or otherwise to go up either of the Channels, it shall not be lawful for him to enter with such Ship or Vessel into any other Port or Place in Great Britain, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark or Man, but he shall remain in some open Road till he receives Directions relative thereto from the Privy Council, and he shall use every necessary Means in his Power to prevent any of the Ship's Company or Passengers from going out of his Ship, and to avoid all Intercourse with other Ships, Vessels or Persons; and such Ship's Company or Passengers shall, until such Commander, Master or other Person shall have received such Directions, remain in such Ship, and shall avoid all Intercourse with other Ships, Vessels or Persons; and such Master, and every other Person on board such Ship or Vessel, shall obey such Directions as he shall receive from the Lords or others of His Majesty's Privy Council, or any Three or more of them as aforesaid; and the said Commander, Master or any other Person on board such Ship or Vessel as aforesaid, who shall not act con- other Ships, &c. formably to the Provisions and Regulations herein directed, or shall act in Disobedience to such Directions as shall be received on board such Ship or Vessel from the Lords or others of the Privy Council, or any Three or more of them as aforesaid, shall 45 GEO. III. C

be

Until Masters of Ships liable to Quarantine receive Directions from the Privy Council, Crew and Passengers are to

avoid intercourse with

Death.

Masters of Ships liable to Quarantine to make Signals on meeting other Ships at Sea, or being within Four Leagues of the United King

dom or Guern. sey, &c.

Penalty 2001.

Hoisting Sig

nals when not liable.

Penalty 2001.

Masters of Ves

sels, on Arrival from foreign Parts, to give to Pilots an

be adjudged guilty of Felony, and shall suffer Death as in Cases of Felony, without Benefit of Clergy.

XIV. And be it further enacted, That every Commander, Master or other Person having the Charge of any Ship or Vessel liable to the Performance of Quarantine, shall be and is hereby required at all Times when such Ship or Vessel shall meet with any other Ship or Vessel at Sea, or shall be within Four Leagues of the Coast of Great Britain or Ireland, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark or Man, to hoist a Signal to denote that his Ship or Vessel is liable to the Performance of Quarantine; which Signal shall be, in the Day Time, if the said Ship or Vessel shall have a clean Bill of Health, a large yellow Flag of Six Breadths of Bunting at the Main Topmast Head; and if such Ship or Vessel shall not have a clean Bill of Health, then a like yellow Flag, with a circular Mark or Ball entirely Black in the Middle thereof, whose Diameter shall be equal to Two Breadths of Bunting; and in the Night Time the Signal shall in both Cases be a large Signal Lanthorn, with a Light therein, (such as is commonly used on Board His Majesty's Ships of War), at the same Mast Head; and such Commander, Master or other Person, shall keep such Signals respectively, as the Case shall be, hoisted during such Time as the said Ship shall continue within Sight of such other Ship or Vessel, or within Four Leagues of the said Coasts or Islands, and while so in Sight, or within such Distance, until such Ship or Vessel so liable to Quarantine as aforesaid shall have arrived at the Port or Place where it is to perform Quarantine, and until it shall have been legally discharged from the Performance thereof; on Failure whereof such Commander, Master or other Person having Charge of such Ship or Vessel so liable to the Performance of Quarantine, shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence the Sum of Two hundred Pounds. [See further Directions as to using Signals, 46 G. 3. c. 98. § 1.]

XV. And be it further enacted, That if any Commander, Master or other Person having the Charge or Command of any Ship or Vessel, and knowing that the same is not liable to the Performance of Quarantine, shall hoist such Signals as aforesaid, or either of them, by Day or Night respectively, such Commander, Master or other Person as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Two hundred Pounds.

XVI. And be it further enacted, That from and after the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and six, as to all Ships or Vessels arriving from any Places beyond the Cape of Good Hope, or Cape Horn, in South America; and after the First Day Account of the of August One thousand eight hundred and five, as to all Ships or Places at which Vessels arriving from any Parts of Africa or America, not beyond they shall have those Capes, and from the West Indies and Mediterranean; and laden and from and after the First Day of May One thousand eight hundred touched. and five, as to all Ships and Vessels arriving from any other Places; every Commander, Master or other Person having the Charge of any Ship or Vessel coming from foreign Parts, shall give to the Pilot who shall go on board such Ship or Vessel a written Paper, containing a true Account of the Names of the Place and Country at which such Ship or Vessel shall have loaded, and also of all the Places at which any such Ship or Vessel shall have touched on the homeward Voyage, on Pain of forfeiting the Sum of

Penalty 2001.

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