686413-1879-Order-by-Her-Majesty-in-Council-relating-to-Quarantine- — Page 2

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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, IT JUNE, 1879.

AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR,

The 22nd day of March 1879.

PRESENT.

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, entitled An Act to repeal the several Laws relating to the performance of Quarantine, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof," it was enacted that all vessels, as well His Majesty's Ships of War as others, coming from or having touched at any place from whence Ilis Majesty, His heirs or successors, by and with the advice of His or their Privy Council, shall have adjudged and declared it probable that the plague, or other infectious disease or distemper highly dangerous to the health of His Majesty's subjects, may be brought. And all vessels and boats receiving any person, goods, wares, and mer- chandize, packets, packages, baggage, wearing apparel, books, letters, or any other article whatsoever from or out of any vessel so coming from or having touched at such infected place as aforesaid, whether such persons, goods, wares, and merchandize, packets, packages, baggage, wearing apparel, books, letters, or other articles shall have come or been brought in such vessels, or such persons shall have gone, or articles have been put on board the same, either before or after the arrival of such vessels at any port or place in the United Kingdom, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man. and whether such vessels were or were bound to any port or place in the United Kingdom, or the Islands aforesaid, and all persons, goods, wares. ? chandize, packets, packages, baggage, wearing apparel, books, letters, or any other article whatsoever on board of any vessels so coming from or having touched at such infected place as aforesaid, or on board of any such receiving vessels or boats as aforesaid, shall be and be considered to be liable to quarantine win the meaning of this said Act and of any Order or Orders which shall be made by His Majesty, liis heirs and successors, by and with the advice of His or their Privy Council, concerning quarantine and the prevention of infection from the time of the departure of such vessels from such infected place as aforesaid, or from the time when su a persons, goods, wares, merchandize, packets, packages, baggage, wearing apparel, books; letters, or other articles shall have been received on board respectively; and all such vessels and boats as afore- said, and all persons (as well pilots as others), goods, wares, and merchandize, and all other articles as aforesaid, whether coming or brought in such vessels or boats from such infected place as aforesaid, or going or being put on board the same either before or after the arrival of such vessels or boats at any port or place in the United Kingdom, or the Islands aforesaid, and all persons, goods, wares, and merchandize, and other articles as aforesaid, on board such receiving vessel or boat as aforesaid. shall, upon their arrival at such port or place, be pbliged to perform quarantine in such place or places, for such time and in such manner as shall from time to time be directed by His Majesty, His heirs or successors, by His or their Order or Orders in Council, notified by proclamation or published in the London Gazette:

And by the said Act it was also enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for the Lords and others of His Majesty's Privy Council, or any two or more of them, to make such Order as they shall see necessary and expedient upon any unforeseen emergency, or in any particular case or cases, with respect to any vessel arriving and having any infectious disease or distemper on board, or on board of which any infectious disease or distemper may have appeared in the course of the voyage, or arriving under any other alarming or suspicious circumstances as to infection, although such vessel shall not have come from any place from which His Majesty, His heirs or successors, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, may have adjudged and declared it probable that the Plague, or any such infectious disease or distemper, may be brought, and also with respect to the persons, goods, wares, and mer- chandize, and other articles, as aforesaid, on board the same :

And by the said Act it was also enacted that all persons liable to perform quarantine, and all persons having had any intercourse or communication with them, 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 Superintendent of Quarantine, or his assistant, or from the Principal Officer of Customs at any port or place where there is no such superintendent or assistant, or from any other officer of the Custom authorized to act in that behalf:

And whereas His Majesty, under the authority of the said above recited Act, by and with the add- vice of His Privy Council, on the 19th day of July 1825, made an Order declaring it probable that the Plague, or some other infectious disease or distemper, might be brought into the United Kingdom, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, by vessels coming from the Mediterranean and certain other places, with or without clean bills of health :