Night-watch,

&c.

Centinels.

Necessaries

to be provided, &c.

Nothing to be delivered

from certain vessels, &c.

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; nor, in cases where such persons shall perform quarantine on board any vessel, unless from the boat of the superintendant, or his assistant, one of whom shall always, and in all cases, be present during such communication and conference; and such communication and conference shall be had at the distance observed by the superintendant or his assistant in their usual communication with ships and persons under quarantine.

XVII. A night-watch shall be regularly kept, and a sufficient number of guard-boats and officers shall be appointed, for the purpose of preventing clandestine communication between persons in the lazaret and those in the hospital, or pest-house at Chetney-hill, or other place that may be there provided for the reception of persons afflicted with any infectious disease, or between persons in the floating lazaret either at Standgate-creek, or elsewhere, and persons in any hospital ship, or any place that may be provided for the reception of persons afflicted with any infectious disease as aforesaid; or between persons in such floating lazaret, hospital ship, or place so provided, and those in vessels under quarantine; or between persons in vessels under quarantine, and those in any other vessel, or boat, or on shore; and such guard-boats shall row guard all night; and centinels, with loaded muskets, and small pieces of ordnance, loaded with grape or canister-shot, shall be constantly stationed on the most commanding parts of the lazaret on Chetney-hill, or of the floating lazaret at Standgatecreek, or elsewhere; and no houses or other buildings shall be erected at or near the beach near Chetney-hill, other than those belonging to the said lazaret; and all boats belonging to any floating lazaret, when not on necessary duty, shall be always either on board the same, or fastened thereto by chains, with strong padlocks, the keys of which shall be lodged in the custody of a person to be appointed for that purpose by the superintendant; and all the boats belonging to vessels under quarantine, either at Standgate-creek or at the out-ports, 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 masters of such vessels until the expiration of the quarantine to be respectively performed by them.

XVIII. The superintendant of quarantine, or his assistant, or some proper person appointed by the superintendant, shall, as often as required, afford assistance, and provide necessaries for the persons in the lazaret at Chetney-hill, or in any floating lazaret, or hospital ship, and also for those on board the vessels 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.

XIX. The quarantine guardians, who shall be placed on board vessels not furnished with clean bills of health, shall be instructed to take especial care that nothing whatever be delivered from on board such vessels when under quarantine, without an order in writing from the superintendant or his assistant; every such order to be entered in a book by one of the said guardians, and the original to be delivered back to the superintendant or his assistant; and nothing, however little susceptible it may be thought to be of infection, shall be conveyed from one vessel under quarantine to another, nor any personal intercourse be permitted from any such vessel to another; and one of the quarantine guardians, when thereto required by the superintendant of quarantine, or his assistant, shall accompany the lighters and boats which shall be employed in passing to or from the vessel on board of which such guardians are placed, during the passage of such lighters and boats to and from such vessel, in order to prevent any communication in the transit of the cargo from the ship to any floating lazaret, or to the lazaret at Chetney-hill, and shall take care, after every removal of goods, that no remnants of cotton, or of any other article enumerated in either of the said two classes hereinafter stated, remain in the lighters or the boats, but shall, before leaving off work, collect and deliver such remnants into the lazaret with the last package which they shall then carry from the said vessel.

XX. The said guardians shall take care that after the discharge of the cargoes Holds, decks, into the lazaret, the holds and between decks of the ships shall be completely swept, &c. to be and the sweepings burnt. swept.

XXI. The said guardians shall diligently search the lockers, chests, and other Packages, repositories of the officers, passengers, and crews, and every part of the vessels, &c. to be so that no article enumerated in either of the said two classes, nor any matter or searched. thing considered as susceptible of infection, remain undelivered to the lazaret, unless what shall be declared by the said superintendant or medical attendant to be requisite for daily use, and shall see that all the said chests, lockers, and other repositories, and all the clothes and bedding in the vessel, be daily opened and aired in such manner as shall be directed by the superintendant of quarantine, and shall also make the like diligent search in vessels laden with other goods not enumerated in either of the said classes, so as to be able the better to ascertain that nothing enumerated or considered as susceptible has been left on board. XXII. One of the said guardians shall make a daily report to the superin- Daily report. tendant of quarantine, or his assistant, and to the medical attendant, of the state of health of every person on board, and whether the regulations of quarantine have been properly complied with; and in case any impediment shall occur in the execution of the duties required of the said guardians, they shall give notice immediately to the master of the vessel in the first instance, and if thereupon such impediment be not instantly removed, they shall then give notice thereof to the superintendant of quarantine, or his assistant, who shall take care to use effectual means for the removal of the same.

XXIII. If any person on board fall sick, and any medical person shall be on Persons on board the vessel, such medical person shall confer with the medical attendant board falling along-side the vessel, the medical attendant keeping to windward, at a distance sick. of not less than 10 feet; and in case there be no medical person on board, and it be necessary for the medical attendant to inspect the sick, the visit shall be made at the ship's boat by the medical attendant in his own boat, keeping to windward, at the like distance of not less than 10 feet; and if any patient, after being examined in the manner before-mentioned, be found to require such medical or chirur gical aid as cannot properly be administered, except in the pest-house or hospital ship, he shall be removed either to such pest-house or hospital ship, as the case may require.

XXIV. Patients under circumstances which shal! induce suspicion that they Patients may be infected with any pestilential disorder, whether such person shall be in under suspithe lazaret at Chetney-hill, or in a floating lazaret, or in any of the vessels per- cious circum. forming quarantine, shall be sent to the pest-house or other place which may be stances. provided for the reception of persons afflicted with any infectious disease, or to the hospital ship, according to the discretion of the superintendant of quarantine, with the advice of the medical attendant; and when it shall be proved that the disease is not the plague, nor infectious, the patient shall be removed to a more commodious apartment in the lazaret, there to complete the remainder of his quarantine.

XXV. In case any pestilential disorder shall actually discover itself on board Disorder disany vessel, or among any of the persons under quarantine, whether in any vessel covering performing quarantine, or in the lazaret at Chetney-hill, or in a floating lazaret, itself. the persons affected with such disorder shall be removed with all possible care and dispatch, under the special direction of the superintendant of quarantine and medical attendant, to the pest-house, or other place which may be provided for the reception of persons afflicted with any infectious disease, and a proper attendant shall be assigned to such patients by the superintendant of quarantine, with the advice of the medical assistant, and such patients shall be visited at a due distance by the said medical attendant; and in case near approach shall be required, some person shall be specially appointed by the medical attendant for that purpose.

XXVI. The passengers and crew of any vessel under quarantine may have the Medical asassistance of any medical persons they may desire from the shore, subject to the sistance. official visits of the medical attendant, and to such regulations and restrictions as the superintendant of quarantine, with the advice of such medical attendant, shall judge necessary; but all such medical persons, as well as others, if they communicate by contact with the sick, shall perform the same quarantine as the sick persons themselves.

XXVII. After the quarantine guardians shall have been placed on board any Pilots, ressel, the pilot may quit such vessel, and be removed to an apartment in the

lazaret at Chetney-hill, or in the hospital ship, provided he comes from a vessel having no suspicious sickness on board; but if otherwise, such pilot shall be sent to the pest-house, or other place which may be provided for the reception of persons afflicted with any infectious disease, at the discretion of the superintendant of quarantine, with the advice of the medical attendant, and such pilot shall in both cases continue under quarantine until the probationary airing of the goods as hereinafter directed shall be finished; and at the expiration of such probationary airing, such pilot, if he continue free from infection, shall be fumigated and discharged from quarantine; provided always, that during the performance of such quarantine, either on board the hospital ship, or at the pest-house, or other place which may be provided for the reception of persons afflicted with any infectious disease, such pilot shall not have communication with any other person, except under similar restrictions to those herein directed with regard to other persons under quarantine.

XXVIII. Until the lazaret at Chetney-hill shall be erected, such of the passengers and crew of any vessel arriving as above-mentioned, not furnished with clean bills of health, as may be desirous of performing quarantine in a separate vessel, to be hired at their own expense, shall, in case the superintendant of quarantine, with the advice of the medical attendant, shall see no objection thereto, be permitted to quit the vessel in which they shall have arrived before the hatches are opened, and to go on board any other vessel to perform quarantine (in which other vessel a quarantine guardian shall be placed at the expense of the persons so performing quarantine), and such persons shall there perform a quarantine of 30 days; and such of the passengers and crew as shall remain on board the ship in which they shall have arrived shall continue under quarantine until the ship shall be discharged therefrom.

XXIX. In case any pestilential accident shall occur among the ship's crew or passengers during the probationary airing of the goods, at whatever stage of the quarantine such accident may happen, the quarantine of all the officers, passengers, and crew, and of the pilot (if there be a pilot at that time liable to quarantine in respect of his having been on board such vessel), as well as of the goods, shall recommence; and the sick persons shall be sent to the hospital ship, or to the pest-house, or other place which may be provided for the reception of persons afflicted with any infectious disease; the external guard shall be immediately doubled, and the notice of such accident shall be given with all possible dispatch to the lords of the privy council, that they may give such orders thereupon as may appear to them to be necessary.

XXX. All persons who shall have to perform quarantine in the lazaret at Chetney-hill shall perform such quarantine for the same time, and under the same regulations, as those who are permitted to perform quarantine in separate vessels as hereinbefore directed.

XXXI. The baggage, wearing apparel, books, and every other article belonging to any person on board any vessel arriving as above-mentioned, and not furnished with a clean bill of health, for which they shall have no immediate occasion, shall be sent to the lazaret at Chetney-hill, or to a floating lazaret, for the purpose of being aired in like manner as other goods of the same description; and before any of the passengers or crew shall be discharged from quarantine, they, their clothes, and other effects which have remained with them, shall be fumigated.

XXXII. Immediately after the pilot, and such of the passengers and crew of the vessels so arriving without clean bills of health, as may be permitted or directed to perform quarantine in any of the modes hereinbefore mentioned, shall have quitted the vessel in which they shall have arrived, the hatches of such vessel shall be opened, and the probationary airing of the cargo shall commence, which probationary airing shall be in the following manner, viz.

Such a number of bales of the enumerated goods of the first class, hereinafter stated, as can be ranged upon deck, shall be taken from the hold, and the seams at one or both ends being ripped open, the contents shall be handled as much as possible by the sailors, in the presence of one of the guardians; and under this process of handling and turning such bales shall remain exposed to the air for six days, and on the subsequent day shall be put into a condition to be, and shall accordingly be, delivered to the lighter appointed to transport them to the floating lazaret, or to the lazaret at Chetney-hill; and as soon as the deck is cleared of the first parcel of goods, a second parcel shall be hoisted up and treated in like manner for three days, and on the subsequent day shall in like manner be put into such

condition, and shall be delivered as aforesaid; after which a third parcel shall be hoisted up and treated in the same manner also for three days, and on the subsequent day shall in like manner be put into such condition, and shall be so delivered; but in case of any suspicious circumstances arising, the probationary airings shall be extended to eight, six, and four days, making, with the three intermediate days, 21 days in the whole, or even to a greater length of time, if circumstances shall require.

XXXIII. Of the goods which shall arrive in vessels without clean bills of Certain arhealth, the articles hereinafter enumerated in class the first shall be carried to the ticles to be floating lazaret in Standgate-creek, or to the lazaret at Chetney-hill, there to be removed, unpacked, opened, and aired for forty days, viz.

opened, &c.

Down,

Feathers,

and all other goods whatever, if they shall have arrived in or with packages consisting wholly or in part of any of the articles above enumerated in this class, unless such goods shall be removed from such packages as hereinafter mentioned.

XXXIV. The expurgation of the goods enumerated in class the first, as before Expurgation. mentioned, after they have been removed to the floating lazaret, or to the lazaret

at Chetney-hill, shall proceed in the following manner: that is to say,

All bales of cotton shall be opened from one end to the other, and so much taken out as to leave room for handling daily the interior of the bale.

shall be taken out of the bags or bales, and shall be ranged in low heaps, not above four feet high, and successively handled and rummaged.

Bales of raw silk, silk stracee (or refuse) and silk thrown, shall be opened on one side from end to end, the cords loosened, and way made, by removing a number of skeins, for the porters to handle the interior of the bales; and at the expiration of 20 days, that side of the bale which has been opened being resewed, the other side shall be ripped open, and the contents handled and aired in the like manner, till the 35th day, when the bales shall be put in order for delivery.

Packages of cotton, of yarn, of thread, of silk stuffs, of cotton stuffs or burdetts,

Certain articles to be removed, opened, &c.

of cambletts, and of linen, shall be opened, and the piece goods, piled in rows, of lattice fashion, or in pyramids, turned every four days, and completely spread out and suspended on cords for several days.

Cases of paper, books, parchment, cases of sponges, and silk and thread stockings, shall be entirely unpacked, and the smaller parcels separated from each other, and so disposed as to admit of thorough airing.

Feathers,

Straw hats,

Artificial flowers,
Coral beads in strings,

Furs,

shall be spread out in the same manner.

Carpets,

Brushes,

Hides and skins,

shall be unbaled, and each piece shall be spread and suspended on cords, sometimes in the open air, and frequently turned.

Goods packed in or with straw, cotton, or any other article enumerated in the said first class, or considered as susceptible, shall be entirely taken out of or separated from the same, and carefully aired.

Goods enumerated in the said first class, concerning the expurgation of which no particular directions have been hereinbefore given, shall be unpacked, opened, aired, and handled in like manner, so far as may be, as is hereinbefore directed with regard to goods of a similar description.

XXXV. Of the goods which shall be imported in any vessel arriving as abovementioned, and not furnished with clean bills of health, the articles hereinafter enumerated, in class the second, shall in like manner be carried to a floating lazaret, or to the lazaret at Chetney-hill, there to be unpacked, opened, or treated according to the nature thereof, and aired for the space of 30 days, viz.

CLASS THE SECOND,

Consisting of those articles which are considered as liable to infection, but in a less

Expurgation.

When vessel shall commence quarantine, and how long it shall last.

Dried fruit, &c.

Oil, grain, &c.

Antimony,

XXXVI. The expurgation of the goods, enumerated in the said second class, shall be performed by exposing them to the air as much as possible, and by moving them from time to time so as to admit of free ventilation.

XXXVII. After the delivery of all the goods enumerated in the two classes before-mentioned into a floating lazaret, or into the lazaret at Chetney-bill, the vessel, with the rest of the cargo, shall thence commence and perform a quarantine of 30 days, during which the packages of the goods not enumerated in either of the classes before-mentioned, remaining on board such vessel, shall be frequently swept and shifted, and moved from time to time as much as possible, according to the nature thereof, so as to admit of free ventilation; and at the expiration of the said 30 days, if all persons on board, and also all those on shore, employed in the expurgation of that part of the ship's cargo in the lazaret, continue free from every appearance of infection, the vessel, and such part of the crew, passengers, and cargo, as shall have remained on board, shall be finally fumigated and discharged.

XXXVIII. But if all the persons on board remain in health, dried fruits having been shifted from baskets or other packages made of articles enumerated in the said first class, or considered as susceptible, when such dried fruits shall have been imported in such packages, may be delivered in 20 days; dried fruits in packages of wood, in 10 days; barrels of oil, the bungs being first tarred, and the barrels brushed and then thoroughly washed in sea-water, in 10 days; grain, pulse, and other seed in bulk, on the 11th day, after having been passed through an iron grating, in order to detect any susceptible matter that may be mixed therewith; grain, pulse, and other seeds in sacks, or in casks or baskets of rush mat, being shifted into fresh sacks or packages, in like manner on the 11th day, being likewise passed through an iron grating. But in all cases where any goods shall have been shifted from such susceptible packages as aforesaid into fresh packages, the susceptible packages shall be sent to the lazaret to perform quarantine, according to the nature thereof, or shall be destroyed, at the option of the importer.