GEO. 11, 26, c. 6, POLICE, PLAGUE. it fhall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty, His Heirs, and Succeffors, by His or Their Proclamation, to prohibit and restrain all Small Boats and Veffels, under the Burden of Twenty Tons, from failing or paffing out of any Port or Place of Great Britain or Ireland, or the Iles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Mann, or any of them, until Security be firft given by the Mafter of every fuch Boat or Veffel respectively, to the Satisfaction of the principal Officer of the Customs, or the chief Magiftrate of the Port or Place from whence fuch Boat or Veffel fhall fail, by Bond taken to the King, His Heirs, or Succeffors, with fufficient Sureties, in the Penalty of Three hundred Pounds, with Condition, that if fuch Boat or Veffel fhall not go to, or touch at, any Country, Port, or Place, to be mentioned for that Purpose in fuch Proclamation; and if the Master, or other Person having Charge of fuch Boat or Veffel, and all and every Mariner and Mariners, Paffenger and Paffengers, going in fuch Boat or Veffel, fhall, during the Time aforefaid, not go on Board any other Ship or Veffel at Sea; and if such Mafter, or other Perfon having Charge of fuch Boat or Veffel, shall not permit or fuffer any Person or Persons to come on Board fuch Boat or Veffel at Sea from any other Ship or Veffel, and thall not, during the Time aforefaid, receive any Goods and Merchandizes whatsoever out of any other Ship or Veffel, then fuch Bond fhall be void, or to fuch Effect; for the making of which Bond, no Fee or Reward whatsoever shall be taken; and in cafe any Boat or Veffel, Veffels fail- for which fuch Security fhall be required by fuch Proclaing without mation, shall set fail or pass out of any Port or Place of giving fuch fecurity, to Great Britain or Ireland, or the Ilands of Guernsey, Jer be forfeited, fey, Alderney, Sark, or Mann, or any of them refpectively, before fuch Security be given as aforefaid, every fuch Boat or Veffel fo failing or paffing out of any Port or Place, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, together with her Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, fhall be forfeited to the King, His Heirs, and Succeffors, and fhall and may be feized, fued for, and recovered in His Majefty's Court of Exchequer, at Westminster, Edinburgh, or crew to for- Dublin, or in the proper Courts of the Iles of Guernsey, Ferfey, Alderney, Sark, or Mann, refpectively, to the Ufe and the master and felt zol. 26, c. 6, -PLAGUE of His Majefty, His Heirs, and Succeffors; and the Maf- GO. 11, ter of, and every Mariner failing in, any fuch Boat or Vef- POLICE, fel, being thereof lawfully convicted upon his or their Appearance or Default, upon the Oath or Oaths of One or more credible Witness or Witneffes, by One or more Juftice or Juftices of the Peace where fuch Offender fhall be found (which Oath fuch Juftice or Juftices of the Peace are hereby impowered and required to adminifter), fhall forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds; One Moiety thereof to the Informer, the other Moiety to the Poor of the Parish where fuch Offender fhall be found; the fame to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods, by Warrant under the Hand and Seal, or the Hands and Seals of fuch Juftice or Juftices before whom fuch Offender shall be convicted, as aforefaid; and for want of fufficient Diftrefs, every such Offender shall, by fuch Justice or Juftices, be committed to Prifon, there to remain without Bail or Mainprize, for the Space of Three Months; and in cafe any fuch Offender shall be found in any of the said Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Mann, and shall be lawfully convicted of fuch Offence in any Action or Suit to be founded on this Act, in the proper Court of any of the faid Ifles where he fhall be fo found, fuch Offender shall forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds; One Moiety thereof to the Informer, and the other Moiety to the Poor of the Parish or Place where fuch Offender fhall be found; and, in Default of paying fuch Penalty, fhall fuffer Imprifonment, without Bail or Mainprize, for the Space of Three Months. quarantine 20, AND to the end that all Perfons may know how to demean themselves in the Premifes, be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That when, and as often as, Orders conHis Majefty, His Heirs, or Succeffors, fhall make any Or- cerning der or Orders concerning Quarantine, and the Prevention to be read of Infection, and notify the fame by Proclamation, or in all cause the fame to be published in the London Gazette, as churches. aforefaid; fuch Proclamation, or Order or Orders in Council, as aforefaid, fhall be publicly read upon the next Sunday on which Divine Service fhall be performed after the Receipt of the fame, and the first Sunday in every Month afterwards (during the Time fuch Orders fhall continue П 2 GEO. II, 6, c. 26, POLICE, in Force) immediately after the Prayers, in all Parish Churches, and other Places fet apart for Divine Wor -PLAGUE. fhip, within fuch Counties and Places as shall be specified for that Purpose in fuch Proclamation or Orders respectively. fue. 21, AND be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Action or Suit fhall be commenced against any Perfon or Perfons for any Thing done in purfuance of this prefent Act, the Defendant or Defendants General if in fuch Action or Suit may plead the General Iffue, and give this Act, and the Special Matter in Evidence, at any Trial to be had thereupon; and that the fame was done in pursuance, and by the Authority of the said A&t; and if it shall appear fo to have been done, then the Jary fhall find for the Defendant or Defendants; and if the Plaintiff fhall be Nonfuited, or discontinue his Action, after the Defendant or Defendants fhall have appeared; or if Judgment shall have been given upon any Verdict or Demurrer against the Plaintiff, the Defendant or Defendants shall and may recover Treble Cofts, and have the like Remedy for the fame, as the Defendant or Defendants hath or have in other Cafes by Law. Treble cofts. Limitation 22, PROVIDED always, and it is hereby enacted, That of attainder no Attainder of Felony, by virtue of this Act, fhall exof felony on tend to work any Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture of any Goods, Chattels, Lands, Tenements, or Heredita this act. Commence ment of this act. ments. 23, AND it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That this Act, and the several Claufes and Provifions therein contained, fhall commence and take Effect from and after the First Day of March, One thousand seven hundred and fifty-four. No. LVII. GEO. III, 39 and 4ò, c. 80. An Act for erecting a Lazaret on Chetney Hill, in the County of Kent; and for reducing into One Act the Laws relating to Quarantine, and for making further Provifion therein. ry may con lazaret upcn Chetney Hill, and the ex pence out of [HERE follows a narrative of the ftatutes, 39 Geo. III, Preamble. c. 99; 26 Geo. II, c. 6; 12 Géo. III, c. 37.] Be it therefore enacted, &c. That it fhall and may be lawful for the The treafuLords Commiffioners of His. Majefty's Treafury, or any tract for Three or more of them, or the Lord High Treasurer for erecting a the Time being, from and after the paffing of this Act, to give Directions, and make any Contract or Contracts for erecting or caufing to be erected a Lazaret upon the faid may defray Lands fo purchased on Chetney Hill, in the County of Kent, with all neceffary and convenient Accommodations the confolifor the Purpose of performing Quarantine, according to dated fund. fuch Plan as His Majefty, by and with the Advice of His Privy Council, may from Time to Time approve and direct; and for defraying the Expences attending the fame, to cause any Sum of Money to be iffued out of the Confolidated Fund, not exceeding in the Whole the Sum of Sixty-five thousand Pounds, of which a Part, not exceeding Thirty thousand Pounds, may be iffued within the Space of Twelve Months from the paffing of this Act; be under and the faid Lazaret when completed, and all the Buildings the manand Accommodations thereto belonging, and until the fame agement of fhall be completed, the faid Floating Lazaret fhall be under officers appointed by the Management, Order, and Direction, of fuch Officers as the treafufhall be appointed by the Lords Commiffioners of His Ma- ry, &c. jefty's Treafury, or any Three or more of them, or the Lord High Treasurer for the Time being, for keeping the fame fit and ready for the Reception of Perfons and Goods, and for their due Performance of Quarantine; and fuch Officers refpectively fhall have fuch Salaries as fhall from Time to Time be appointed by His Majefty, by and with the Advice of His Privy Council; and the Salaries of the Lazaret to GEO. 111, 39, 40, c.80, POLICE, faid Officers, and all contingent Expences, fhall be defrayed out of the Funds, and in the Manner in which the -PLAGUE. Charges and Expences of performing Quarantine are at prefent defrayed, until fuch Time as a Revenue fhall be raifed fufficient for those Purposes, in the Manner herein after mentioned. From O&. owners of fhips performing quarantine to pay the duties of customs herein fpecified. 2, AND whereas it is reasonable that the Owners of Ships, Veffels, and Cargoes, which in future shall have to perform Quarantine, fhould defray the Charge incurred thereby; be it further enacted, That from and after the First Day of October One thoufand eight hundred, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid, to His Majefty, His Heirs, and Succeffors, the several and respective Duties of Customs herein after mentioned; that is to fay, for every Ton Burthen of every Ship or Veffel, the Cargo of which, or any Part thereof, fhall have performed Quaran tine in this Kingdom, and which shall have arrived from any Part of Turkey, or from any Port or Place in Africa within the Streights of Gibraltar, or in the Weft Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean, with a clean Bill of Health, Seven Shillings and Sixpence; for every Ton Burthen of every fuch Ship or Veffel, which fhall have fo arrived without a clean Bill of Health, Fifteen Shillings; for every Ton Burthen of every Ship or Veffel, the Cargo of which, or any Port thereof, shall have performed Quarantine in this Kingdom, and which fhall have arrived from any Port or Place whatever, except from any Part of Turkey, or from any Port or Place in Africa within the Streights of Gibraltar, or in the Weft Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean, with a clean Bill of Health, Three Shillings; for every Ton Burthen of every fuch Ship or Veffel, which shall have fo arrived without a clean Bill of Health, Ten Shillings; for every Ton Burthen of every Ship or Veffel arriving in this Kingdom, with a Cargo, which in Whole or in Part fhall confift of Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture, of Turkey, or of any Port or Place in Africa within the Streights of Gibraltar, or in the Weft Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean, and which shall have performed Quarantine in this Kingdom, and which fhall have arrived from any Port or Place in Holland, or from any Port or Place whatever at which there is not a |