Acts for making provision for the effectual performance of quarantine; with orders in council, &c.

Date:
1817
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Acts for making provision for the effectual performance of quarantine; with orders in council, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    declared it probable that the Plague, or any other infedious Difeafe or Diftemper, highly dangerous to the Health of His Majefty’s Subjects, may be brought; and all Ships, Veffels, and Boats receiving any Perfon, Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wear- ing Apparel, Books, Letters, or any other Articles whatever, from or out of any Ships or Veffels fo coming from or having touched at fuch infeded Place as aforefaid, whether fuch Perfons, Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wearing Apparel, Books, Letters, or other Articles {hall have come or been brought in fuch Ships or Veffels, or fuch Perfons (hall have gone or Articles have been put on board the fame, either before or after the Arrival of fuch Ships or Veffels at any Port or Place in Great Britain, or the Iflands of Guernfey, Jerfey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, and whether fuch Ships or Veffels were or were not bound to any Port or Place in Great Britain or the Iflands afore- faid ; and all Perfons, Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wearing Apparel, Books, Letters, or any other Articles whatever, on board of any fuch Ships or Veffels fo coming from or having touched at fuch infeded Place as aforefaid, or on board of any fuch Receiving Ships, Veffels, or Boats as aforefaid, (hall be and be con- fidered to be liable to Quarantine within the Meaning of this Ad, and of any Order or Orders which (hall be made by His Majefty, His Heirs or Succeffors, by and with the Advice of His or their Privy Council, con- cerning Quarantine and the Prevention of Infedion, from the Time of the Departure of fuch Ships or Veffels from fuch infeded Place as afore- faid, or from the Time when fuch Perfons, Goods, Wares, Merchandize, Packets, Packages, Baggage, Wearing Apparel, Books, Letters, or other Articles (hall have been received on board refpedively ; and all fuch Ships, Veffels, and Boats as aforefaid, and all Perfons (as well Pilots as others), Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, and other Articles as afore- faid, whether coming or brought in fuch Ships, Veffels, or Boats from fuch infeded Place as aforefaid, or going or being put on board the fame either before or after the Arrival of fuch Ships, Veffels, or Boats at