QUARAN- 17th. Have any of your Officers, Mariners, or other Persons of your Crew who sailed with you on your Outward Voyage died or left the Vessel? 18th. In the Course of your Voyage Outward or Homeward, or at any Port at which you have touched, have any Persons on board suffered from Sickness of any Kind? What was the Nature of such Sickness? When did it prevail? How many Persons were affected by it? Are there any Convalescents on board? Or are all Persons on board at present in good Health? 19th. Were any of those who died, or who have been sick in the Course of the Voyage, or at any Port at which you have touched, affected, or suspected to have been affected, by any infectious Disease or Distemper? Were the Bedding and Clothes of such deceased and sick Persons destroyed? If so, when and in what Manner? Were any of the Persons immediately employed about the Sick afterwards taken ill? If so, of what Disease, and in how many Days after having been so employed? 20th. At what precise Time did such Deaths happen? In how many Days after being indisposed did the Sick die? What were the most obvious Appearances of the Disease. 21st. Have you spoken to or otherwise had any Communication with any Vessels at Sea during the Voyage? What were the Names of such Vessels, and to what Country, Port, or Place did they belong? From what Ports or Places were they coming, or at what Ports or Places had they touched on their Voyage, and to what Country, Ports or Places were they bound? What was the Nature of the Communication held? What do you know respecting the State of Health on board such Vessel ? 22d. Have there been any Letters, Parcels, or other Articles delivered out of or received into your Vessel from any Vessel or Boat met with on the Voyage, or before or since your Arrival at this Place, and what were such Letters, Parcels or Articles, and where were the same delivered or received, and into or out of what Vessel or Boat? 23d. Have you any Packages or Parcels which you have taken Charge of? If so, what are their Contents, and when and where did you take them on board? 24th. What Pilots or other Persons from the Shores of the United Kingdom, or from the Islands of Scilly, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, have been or are now on board your Vessel, or have had any Communication whatever with the Ship's Company, or any of the Passengers during the Voyage Homewards, or before or since your Arrival at this Place? If any such Pilots or other Persons have come on board, and have afterwards quitted your Vessel, specify the Names of such Persons, and the Time, Manner, and Circumstances of their so quitting your Vessel ? 25th. Did you leave any British Vessels at any of the Ports you sailed from? If you did, mention their Names, and the Names of the Commanders. 26th. Were such Vessels loading, were they near their Departure, and whither were they bound? 27th. Did you meet with any British Vessels at any of the Places you touched at? If you did, say when, where, and what were the Names and Destinations of such Vessels, and to what Ports or Places did they belong? 28th. Do you know whether any Foreign Vessels, loading at the Port from which you sailed, were bound beyond the Streights of Gibraltar ? and if so, what were they, and whither were they bound? 29th. Do you know whether any Person whatever employed in loading your Vessel, or in bringing any Articles into it, or having any Communication on board thereof, was taken ill during such Employment or Communication? or whether, by the Absence of such Person or Persons in the Course of such Employment, any Suspicion was entertained of their having been taken ill? If so, of what Disease? 30th. Do you know whether or not your Cargo, or any Part thereof, had been long in Warehouse before its being taken on board? If you do, say how long. Have you any Knowledge of its being packed or handled on Shore, or conveyed from Shore, or stowed on board by Persons affected with the Plague or any other infectious Disease or Distemper? Sect. 10. AND it is further ordered, That the Answers to the aforesaid Questions shall be taken down in Writing, and the Commander, Master, or other Person having the Charge of such Vessel shall solemnly make Oath to the Truth thereof before the Superintendant of Quarantine or his Assistant, or the principal or other Officer of the Customs authorized as aforesaid (as the Case may be), and such Superintendant of Quarantine or his Assistant, or such principal or other Officer of the Customs as aforesaid (with the Advice of the Medical Attendant, if such Advice shall be judged necessary), shall, according to the Answers returned to the Questions hereinbefore set forth, then appoint a proper Place or Station for such Commander, Master, or other Person having the Charge of such Vessel, to repair to with such Vessel, who thereupon shall, as soon as possible, after having answered the foregoing Questions, repair with such Vessel to such Place or Station where the said Vessel shall be forthwith placed, and shall there perform Quarantine accordingly; the said Commander, or Master, or other Person having the Charge of such Vessel carrying with him the Log Book, Manifest, and all the Ship's Papers, all of which he shall there deliver to the Superintendant of Quarantine or his Assistant, or to the principal or other Officer of the Customs authorized as aforesaid (as the Case may be), the said Log Book, Manifest, and Papers having been first immersed in Vinegar and fumigated; and such Commander, Master, or other Person having the Charge of such Vessel, shall there solemnly make Oath to the Truth of the QUARAN- QUARAN- Contents of such Log Book, to the best of his Recollection and Belief, or shall state and specify upon Oath in what Particulars alone the same, or any Part thereof, is false and incorrect, and whether every particular Entry therein was made as soon after the Fact as possible; and if not, for what Reason it was delayed, and when it was made; and also to the Truth of all the other Ship's Papers, before such Superintendant or his Assistant, or the principal or other Officer of the Customs authorized as aforesaid, and shall obey and conform to all such Directions as he shall then receive, touching the Performance of Quarantine, from such Superintendant or his Assistant, or the principal or other Officer of the Customs authorized as aforesaid. Sect.11. AND it is hereby further ordered, That in the Case of Vessels liable to Quarantine arriving at any of the Ports of the United Kingdom or Islands aforesaid, if any suspicious Circumstances shall appear in the Answers returned to the said Questions by the Commander or Master, or other Person having Charge of any such Vessel, or from any other Circumstance, the proper Officer of the Customs at such Port of Island shall immediately transmit such Answers, and give Notice of the Cause of such Suspicion to the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, and shall, without regard to the Bill of Health, whether clean or otherwise, order such Vessel to a Station distant from all other Vessels in the same Port or Place, and put her under special Guard, in order the more ef fectually to prevent all Communication therewith. Sect. 12. AND it is hereby further ordered, That all Vessels liable to Quarantine as aforesaid, and being furnished with Clean Bills of Health, as well as the Crews and Passengers on board the same, shall perform a Quarantine of Fifteen Days, in the Manner heretofore practised, which Quarantine shall › commence from the Time when such Part of the Cargo, if any,' as is herein-after enumerated, shall have been delivered into a floating Lazaret in Standgate Creek or Milford Haven, in case the Ship or Vessel shall perform Quarantine in Standgate Creek or Milford Haven; or into the Lighters, or other proper Vessels appointed for that Purpose, in case the Vessel shall perform Quarantine at any of the Places herein-before appointed for the Performance thereof by Vessels bound to any of the Outports or Islands aforesaid; but in Cases where no Part of the Cargo shall consist of such enumerated Goods, then such Quarantine of Fifteen Days shall commence on the Day on which the Master or other Person having Charge of such Vessel shall have arrived with such Vessel at the Station so appointed as aforesaid. Sect. 13. AND it is hereby further ordered, with respect to all Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes coming from the Mediterranean, or from the West Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean, in Vessels furnished with Clean Bills of Health, That all such Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes, other than such as are herein-after enumerated, shall be aired and treated on board the Vessel in which they shall arrive according to the Manner heretofore practised respecting such Goods imported in Vessels furnished with Clean Bills of Health, and shall continue to be so treated for and during the Space of One Week; and all such Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes as are herein-after enumerated, so coming in Vessels with Clean Bills of Health, shall be removed from the Vessel to the Place appointed for that Purpose, and shall be aired and treated in the Manner heretofore practised with regard to such Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes, and shall continue to be so treated for and during the Space of Fifteen Days. Sect. 14. AND it is hereby further ordered, with respect to all Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes, and other Articles as aforesaid, brought or imported in Vessels not having the Plague or other infectious Disease or Distemper as aforesaid actually on board, and which may arrive in any of the Ports of the United Kingdom or the Islands aforesaid, coming from the Mediterranean, or from the West Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean, not being furnished with Clean Bills of Health, That such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, and other Articles as aforesaid (such Vessel having first repaired to Standgate Creek or Milford Haven as herein-before directed) shall perform Quarantine in a floating Lazaret, either at Standgate Creek or Milford Haven, and no where else, in the Manner and for the Time herein-after mentioned. Sect. 15. AND it is hereby further ordered, That immediately after the Commander, Master, or other Person having Charge of every such Vessel so arriving with a Foul Bill of Health, or on board of which Infection shall have appeared, shall have undergone the Examination herein-before directed, and shall have arrived with his Vessel at the Station so appointed as aforesaid, Two Quarantine Guardians shall be placed on board such Vessel by the Superintendant of Quarantine or his Assistant. Sect. 16. AND it is hereby further ordered, That all Persons on board any Vessel under Quarantine may be permitted to have Communication with others by Letters, under the following Regulations and Restrictions, viz. An Officer appointed by the Superintendent of Quarantine shall daily, at a fixed Hour, go round the different Lazarets and Vessels in Quarantine to receive Letters, the usual Precaution of dipping such Letters in Vinegar, and putting them into the fumigating Box, being always first observed; and QUARAN TINE. TINE. QUARAN such Letters shall remain in the fumigating Box until such Time as the Superintendant shail give Directions for taking them out to be forwarded, and no Person, except the said Superintendant of Quarantine or his Assistant, or One of the Guardians on board the Vessel, shall be permitted to deliver such Letters from such fumigating Box; and the said Persons so hereby authorized to deliver the same shall take care, where several Letters or Papers are inclosed together, to slit open the Covers in manner practised in the Lazarets of the Mediterranean. And all Letters to such Persons so under Quarantine shall be delivered to the Superintendant or his Assistant, and shall be distributed by him, or according to his Directions; and no Communication or Conference shall be had by Persons not under Quarantine, with Persons so under Quarantine, except by Permission, or in the Presence of the Superintendant or his Assistant, and under such Regulations and Restrictions as shall be directed by the said Superintendant. Provided always, That the Medical Attendant and Superintendant or his Assistant, or any other Person duly authorized by an Order in Council, may go on board any Vessel under Quarantine without such Medical Attendant or Superintendant, or his Assistant, being in any way subject to the Restraint of Quarantine. Sect. 17. AND it is hereby further ordered, That a Night Watch shall be regularly kept, and a sufficient Number of Guard Boats and Officers shall be appointed, for the Purpose of preventing all clandestine Communications with Persons under Quarantine; and all the Boats belonging to Vessels under Quarantine, either at Standgate Creek, Milford Haven, or at the other Outports, shall be taken from them, and no Use made of such Boats, except for the Purpose of carrying Goods to the Lazaret, or, upon Occasions of Necessity, such Necessity to be determined by the Superintendant of Quarantine, and such Boats shall not be delivered up to the Commanders or Masters of such Vessels, until the Expiration of the Quarantine to be respectively performed by them. Sect. 18. AND it is hereby further ordered, That the Superintendant of Quarantine or his Assistant, or some other proper Person appointed by the Superintendant, shall, as often as required, afford Assistance and provide Necessaries for the Persons under Quarantine, taking care to allow of no improper Communication with the Persons employed for that Purpose; which Persons shall always place their Boats to Windward, and shall deliver, by Means of Buckets, the Articles supplied by them. Sect. 19. AND it is hereby further ordered, That the Quarantine Guardians who shall be placed on board Vessels, shall |