Two hundred Pounds for any Neglect or Refusal to give such Paper, or for any false Representation or wilful Omission therein; and if by any Proclamation or Order of His Majesty in Council, made after the Departure of any such Ship or Vessel from Great Britain, and then in force, Ships and Vessels coming from any Place mentioned in any such Paper shall be liable to the Performance of Quarantine, such Pilot shall immediately give Notice thereof to the Commander or other Person aforesaid of such Ship or Vessel, on Pain of forfeiting the Sum of Fifty Pounds for any Neglect therein; and such Commander or other Person shall thereupon hoist a proper Signal according to the Provisions of this Act, and under the Penalties in this Act contained, for any Neglect or Refusal in respect of hoisting such Signals. [Master to deliver Account of Cargo to Pilot, 46 G. 3. c. 98. § 2.- Commissioners of Customs to transmit to Officers at Ports, Names, &c. of Pilots residing within Limits thereof, 52 G. 3. c. 39. §65.]

Pilots bringing
Ships liable to
Quarantine into

Places not

appointed for their Reception.

XVII. And be it further enacted, That in case any Pilot shall bring or conduct, or cause to be brought or conducted, any Ship or Vessel liable to the Performance of Quarantine, into any Place which is not, or which shall not be specially appointed for the Reception of Ships and Vessels so liable after receiving such Paper as aforesaid, whereby it shall have been made appear that such Ship or Vessel was liable to the Performance of Quarantine, or without requiring and receiving such Paper as aforesaid of and from every such Commander, Master or other Person having the Charge of any Ship or Vessel coming from foreign Parts, unless compelled by Stress of Weather, adverse Winds or Accidents of the Sea, such Pilots shall for each and every such Offence forfeit Penalty 1001. and pay the Sum of One hundred Pounds.

XVIII. And, to the End that it may be the better known whether

For better ascertaining whether Ships be

actually in

Masters shall

answer In

any Ship or Vessel be actually infected with the Plague, or other ' infectious Disease or Distemper as aforesaid, or whether such Ship or Vessel, or the Mariners or Passengers coming, or the Cargo imported in the same, are liable to any Orders touching Quaran'tine;' Be it further enacted, That when any Country or Place shall be known to be, or suspected to be infected with the Plague, or other such infectious Disease or Distemper as aforesaid, or when fected, or the any Order or Orders shall be made by His Majesty in Council Persons on concerning Quarantine, and the Prevention of Infection as afore- board liable to said, then and in such Case, as often as any Ship or Vessel shall Orders touchattempt to enter into any Port or Place in Great Britain, or of ing Quarantine, the Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark or Man, whether such Port shall have been appointed for the Performance of Qua- quiries truly. rantine or not, the Superintendant of Quarantine, or his Assistant, if there shall be such Superintendant or Assistant at such Port or Place, or if not, the principal Officer of His Majesty's Customs at such Port or Place, or such Officer of the Customs as shall be authorized by the Commissioners of the Customs, or any Four or more of them, to act in that Behalf, shall go off to such Ship or Vessel, and shall, at a convenient Distance from such Ship or Vessel, demand of the Commander, Master or other Person having Charge of such Ship or Vessel, and such Commander, Master or other Person having Charge of such Ship or Vessel shall upon such Demand give a true Answer in Writing or otherwise, and upon

C 2

Oath

Penalty 2001.

Ships subject to Quarantine arriving at any Port (Exception) may be forced to repair to appointed Place.

Masters of Ves
sels having
touched at in-
fected Places,
&c. omitting
to disclose
same, or to
hoist Signals.

Death.

Commanders to deliver up Bills of Health, &c. to Superintendant of Quarantine.

Oath or not upon Oath, according as he shall by such Superintendant or his Assistant, or other Officer of the Customs authorised as aforesaid, be required, to all such Questions or Interrogatories. as shall be put to him, by virtue and in pursuance of such Regulations and Directions as His Majesty, by Order in Council, shall be pleased to prescribe; and in case such Commander, Master or other Person having Charge of such Ship or Vessel, shall upon such Demand made as aforesaid, refuse to make a true Discovery in any of the Particulars concerning which he shall be interrogated in Manner aforesaid, or in case he shall not be required to answer such Questions or Interrogatories upon Oath, shall give a false Answer to any such Question or Interrogatory as aforesaid, such Commander, Master or other Person having Charge of such Ship or Vessel, for every such Offence shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Two hundred Pounds. [Pilot or Master to bring to on request of Officer of Quarantine, 46 G. 3. c. 98. § 3.]

XIX. And be it further enacted, That in case it shall appear upon such Examination or otherwise, that such Ship or Vessel is under such Circumstances as shall render it liable to perform Quarantine, and that the Port or Place where it so arrives, or at which it attempts to enter as aforesaid, is not the Port or Place where it ought so to perform Quarantine, in such Case it shall and may be lawful to and for the Officers of any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or of any of His Majesty's Forts or Garrisons, and all other His Majesty's Officers, upon Notice thereof given to them or any of them respectively, and to and for any other Person or Persons whom they shall call to their Aid and Assistance, and such Officers and other Persons are hereby required, to oblige such Ship or Vessel to go and repair to such Place as hath been or shall be appointed for Performance of Quarantine, and to use all necessary Means for that Purpose, either by firing of Guns upon such Ship or Vessel, or by any other Kind of necessary Force whatsoever; and in case any such Ship or Vessel shall come from or shall have touched at any Place infected by the Plague, or such other infectious Disease or Distemper as aforesaid, or shall have any Person on board actually infected with the Plague, or such other infectious Disease or Distemper as aforesaid, and the Commander, Master or other Person having Charge of such Ship or Vessel, knowing that the Place from whence he came, or at which he had touched as aforesaid, was infected with the Plague, or such other infectious Disease or Distemper, or knowing some Person on board to be actually infected with the Plague, or such other infectious Disease or Distemper as aforesaid, shall refuse or omit to disclose the same upon such Examination as aforesaid, or shall wilfully omit to hoist the Signal hereinbefore directed, to denote that his Ship or Vessel is liable to the Performance of Quarantine, at the Times and on the Occasions herein directed with respect to the same, such Commander, Master or other Person having Charge of such Ship or Vessel, shall be adjudged guilty of Felony, and shall suffer Death as in Cases of Felony without Benefit of Clergy.

XX. And be it further enacted, That every Commander, Master or other Person having Charge of any Ship or Vessel which shall be ordered to perform Quarantine as aforesaid, shall forthwith, after his Arrival at the Place appointed for the Performance of his Quarantine, deliver, on Demand, to the Superintendant of Quaran

tine,

Masters, &c. quitting Vessels, or permitting Persons to quit, or not conveying Ships to appointed Places.

tine, or his Assistant, or other Officer of the Customs authorized as aforesaid to act in that Behalf, and which Superintendant, Assistant or other Officer as aforesaid, is hereby required to make such Demand, his Bill of Health and Manifest, together with his Log Book and Journal, under Pain of forfeiting the Sum of One Penalty 1001. hundred Pounds, if he shall wilfully refuse and neglect so to do. XXI. And be it further enacted, That if any Commander, Master or other Person having Charge of any Ship or Vessel liable to perform Quarantine, and on board of which the Plague, or other such infectious Disease or Distemper shall not then have appeared, shall himself quit, or shall knowingly permit or suffer any Seaman or Passenger coming in such Ship or Vessel to quit such Ship or Vessel by going on Shore, or by going on board any other Ship, Boat or Vessel, before such Quarantine shall be fully performed, unless in such Cases and by such proper Licence as shall be directed and granted, and by virtue of such Order or Orders to be made concerning Quarantine, and the Prevention of Infection as aforesaid; or in case any Commander, Master or other Person having Charge of such Ship or Vessel shall not, within a convenient Time after due Notice given for that Purpose, cause such Ship or Vessel, and the Lading thereof, to be conveyed into the Place or Places appointed for such Ship, Vessel and Lading, to perform their Quarantine respectively, then and in every such Case every such Commander, Master or other Person as aforesaid, for every such Offence shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Five hundred Penalty 5001. Pounds; and if any Person coming in any Ship or Vessel liable to Persons coming perform Quarantine (or any Pilot or other Person going on board in such Vessels, the same, either before or after the Arrival of such Ship or Vessel or going on at any Port or Place in Great Britain, or the Islands aforesaid) board, quitting shall, either before or after such Arrival, quit such Ship or Vessel by going on Shore in any Port or Place in Great Britain or the Islands aforesaid, or by going on board any other Ship, Vessel or Boat, with Intent to go on Shore as aforesaid, before such Ship Vessel, so liable to Quarantine as aforesaid, shall be regularly discharged from the Performance thereof, it shall and may be lawful for all Persons whatsoever, by any Kind of necessary Force, to compel such Pilot or other Person so quitting such Ship or Vessel so liable to Quarantine, to return on board the same; and Imprisonment every such Pilot or other Person so quitting such Ship or Vessel and Penalty so liable to Quarantine, shall for every such Offence suffer Im- 2001. prisonment for the Space of Six Months, and shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Two hundred Pounds.

them before

discharged.

No Goods

landed from Vessels having performed Quarantine in a fo

reign Lazaret, without Notice to Officer of Customs, nor

XXII. And be it further enacted, That when any Ship or Vessel which has performed Quarantine in any foreign Lazaret shall arrive in any of the Ports of Great Britain, or the Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark or Man, with a clean Bill of Health, no Goods or Merchandize shall be permitted to be landed or unshipped, unloaded or moved, in order to be landed out of such Ship or Vessel; but the Commander, Master or other Person having the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, shall immediately upon his Arrival give Notice thereof, and of the foreign Port or Ports in which such Ship or Vessel hath performed Qua- Council, rantine, to the principal Officer of His Majesty's Customs at the Port where he shall arrive, or at the Port nearest thereto, in order

before Direc

tions from Privy

Penalty 2001.

Disobedience or refractory Behaviour in

Persons under

or liable to Quarantine, and Persons having Intercourse with thens;

and such Persons escaping or attempting to escape, or refusing to go to Lazaret.

that the same may be forthwith laid before His Majesty's Privy Council; and if the Commander, Master or other Person as aforesaid, or any Person whatsoever, shall land, or shall unship, unload or move, in order to land any Goods or Merchandize out of the said Ship or Vessel, before an Order of His Majesty's Privy Council shall be made, giving Directions therein, or otherwise than shall be directed in the said Order, every such Person shall, for every such Offence, forfeit and pay the Sum of Two hundred Pounds.

'

· XXIII. And Whereas Disobedience or refractory Behaviour in Persons under Quarantine, or liable to the Performance of Quarantine, or in other Persons who may have had any Intercourse or Communication with them, may be attended with very great Danger to His Majesty's Subjects;' Be it further enacted, That all Persons liable to perform Quarantine, and all Persons having had any Intercourse or Communication with them, whether in Ships or in a Lazaret, or elsewhere, shall be subject, during the said Quarantine, or during the Time they shall be liable to Quarantine, to such Orders as they shall receive from the Superintendant of Quarantine or his Assistant, or from the principal Officer of the Customs at any Port or Place where there is no such Superintendant or Assistant, or from any other Officer of the Customs authorized as aforesaid to act in that Behalf; and the said Officers are hereby empowered and required to enforce all necessary Obedience to the said Orders, and in case of Necessity to call in others to their Assistance, and all Persons so called in are hereby required to assist accordingly; and such Officers shall, and they are hereby empowered and required to compel all Persons liable to perform Quarantine as aforesaid, and Persons having had any Intercourse or Communication with them, to repair to such Lazaret, Ship, Vessel or Place, and to cause all Goods, Wares and Merchandize, and other Articles comprized within any such Orders to be made as last aforesaid, to be conveyed to such Lazaret, Ship, Vessel or Place duly appointed in that Behalf, in such Manner and according to such Directions as shall be made by Order of His Majesty in Council as aforesaid, or of the Lords and others of the Privy Council, or of any Three or more of them; and if any Person or Persons liable to perform Quarantine as aforesaid, or any Person or Persons having had any Intercourse or Communication with him, her or them, shall wilfully refuse or neglect to repair forthwith, when required and directed so to do by such Officer as aforesaid, to the said Lazaret, Ship, Vessel or Place duly appointed in that Behalf, or having been placed in the said Lazaret, Ship, Vessel or Place, shall escape or attempt to escape out of the same before Quarantine duly performed, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Quarantine Officers, and also the Watchmen and other Persons appointed to see Quarantine performed, and each of them, and they are hereby respectively required, by such necessary Force as the Case shall require, to compel every such Person, so refusing or neglecting as aforesaid, and every such Person so escaping or attempting to escape as aforesaid, to repair or return to such Lazaret, Ship, Vessel or Place so appointed as aforesaid; and every Person so refusing or neglecting to repair forthwith, as aforesaid, to the said Lazaret, Ship, Vessel or Place, and also every Person actually escaping as aforesaid, shall be ad

judged

judged guilty of Felony, and suffer Death as in Cases of Felony Death. without Benefit of Clergy.

carried to place

XXIV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for Persons quitany Constable, Headborough, Tythingman or other Peace Officer, ting Ships or any other Person, to seize and apprehend any Person that shall, liable to perform Quarancontrary to the Provisions of this Act, have quitted or come on tine, &c. may Shore from any Ship or Vessel liable to perform Quarantine, or be seized and who shall have escaped from or quitted any Ship or Vessel under Quarantine, or from any Lazaret, Ship, Vessel or Place, appointed appointed for in that Behalf; for the Purpose of carrying such Person before Performance any Justice of the Peace or Magistrate, and it shall be lawful for of Quarantine. any such Justice of the Peace or Magistrate to grant his Warrant for the apprehending and conveying of any such Person to the Ship or Vessel from which he or she shall have come on Shore, or to any Ship or Vessel performing Quarantine, or Lazaret, from which he or she shall have escaped, or for the confining of any such Person in any such Place of safe Custody, (not being any public Jail), and under such Restrictions as to having any Communication with any other Persons, as may, in the Discretion of any Justice of the Peace or Magistrate, (calling to his Aid, if he shall see fit, any medical Person), appear to be proper, until such Person can be safely and securely conveyed to some Place appointed for the Performance of Quarantine, or until Directions can be obtained from the Privy Council, as to the Disposal of any such Person, and to make any further Order or grant any further Warrant that may be necessary in that Behalf.

Indemnity for
Orders in

XXV. And Whereas Orders have been given by the Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council for Persons on Shore, who had Intercourse with the Crew and Passengers of a vessel coming from a Place from whence it was judged that there was Danger of Infection being brought, to be sent afloat for the Performance of Quarantine, in like Manner with such Crew and Passengers;' Be it enacted, That such Orders so issued as aforesaid by the Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council for the Prevention of Infection, shall be taken and considered to have been, and are hereby declared to be good and valid in Law; and all Persons who may to perform have been concerned in advising, issuing or carrying into Execution Quarantine the said Orders or any of them, shall be and are hereby indemni- Persons who fied for the same, and shall be and are hereby freed and discharged had Intercourse from all Actions, Suits or other Proceedings, which have been or shall be brought and commenced against them, for or on Account or by reason of the said Orders or any of them, or of any other Matter or Thing done in pursuance thereof.

Council for sending afloat

with a Vessel from which Danger was apprehended.

Officers em

Quarantine, or neglecting Duty.

XXVI. And be it further enacted, That if any Officer of His Majesty's Customs, or any other Officer or Person whatsoever to bezzling Goods whom it doth or shall appertain to execute any Order or Orders performing made or to be made concerning Quarantine, or the Prevention of Infection, and notified as aforesaid, or to see the same put in Execution, shall knowingly and wilfully embezzle any Goods or Articles performing Quarantine, or be guilty of any other wilful Breach or Neglect of his Duty in respect of the Ships, Persons, Goods or Articles performing Quarantine, every such Officer and Person so offending shall forfeit such Office or Employment as he Penalty 1001. may be possessed of, and shall become from thenceforth incapable and Incapacity.