One hundred Pounds for any Neglect therein, and such Commander or other Person shall thereupon hoist a Signal, according to the Provisions and under the respective Penalties in this Act contained, for any Neglect or Refusal in respect of hoisting such Signals; and in case any Pilot shall bring or cause to be brought or conducted any Vessel liable to the Performance of Quarantine into any Place which is not or shall not be specially appointed for the Reception of Vessels so liable, after receiving such Paper as aforesaid, whereby it shall have been made appear that such Vessel was liable to the Performance of Quarantine, or without requiring and receiving such Paper as aforesaid, unless compelled thereto by Stress of Weather, adverse Winds, or Accidents of the Sea, such Pilot shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of Two hundred Pounds. Sect. 13. AND be it further enacted, That if any Pilot being on board, or any Commander, Master, or other Person having the Charge of any Vessel coming from Foreign Parts, whether such Vessel shall be liable to Quarantine or not, shall be required by any Officer of the Customs authorized to act in the Service of Quarantine, to bring to such Vessel, to the end that the Commander, Master, or other Person having the Charge thereof, may be interrogated, according to the Provision of this Act, and shall neglect or refuse to bring to such Vessel, as soon as it can be done with Safety, in obedience to such Requisition, every such Pilot, Commander, Master, or other Person having the Charge of any such Vessel, shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of One hundred Pounds. Sect. 14. AND to the end that it may be better known whether any Vessel be actually infected with the Plague or other infectious Disease or Distemper as aforesaid, or whether such Vessel, or the Mariners or Passengers coming, or the Cargo imported in the same, are liable to any Orders touching Quarantine; be it further enacted, That when any Country or Place shall be known or suspected to be infected with the Plague or other infectious Disease or Distemper as aforesaid, or when any Order or Orders shall be made by His Majesty in Council concerning Quarantine and the Prevention of Infection as aforesaid, then and in such Case, as often as any Vessel shall attempt to enter into any Port or Place in the United Kingdom, or of the Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, whether such Port shall have been appointed for the Performance of Quarantine or not, the Superintendent 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 to act in that Behalf, shall go off to such Vessel, and shall, at a convenient Distance from such Vessel, demand of the Commander, Master, or other Person having Charge of such Vessel, and such Commander, QUARAN- Penalty on Pilots conducting Vessels to any other Place than that appointed for their Reception, 2007. Pilot to bring to at Request of Officer of Cusnalty of 100%. toms, on Pe For better ascertaining whether Vessels be actually infected, or the Persons on board liable to Orders touching Quarantine. Master, or other Person shall, upon such Demand, give a true Answer in Writing or otherwise, and upon Oath or not upon Oath, according as he shall by such Superintendent or his Assistant, or other Officer of the Customs authorized as aforesaid, be required, to all such Questions or Interrogatories as shall be put to him by virtue and in pursuance of such Regu lations and Directions as His Majesty by Order in Council shall be pleased to prescribe (1); and in case such Commander or Master or other Person having Charge of such 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 Vessel, for every such Offence shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Two hundred Pounds. Sect. 15. AND be it further enacted, That in case it shall appear upon such Examination or otherwise, that such Vessel is under such Circumstances as shall render it liable to perform Quarantine, and that the Port or Place where it so arrived, or at which it attempts to enter as aforesaid, is not the Port or Place where it ought to perform Quarantine (2), in which 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 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 Vessel, or by any other Kind of necessary Force whatsoever; and in case any such 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 other such infectious Disease or Distemper as aforesaid, and the Commander, Master, or other Person having Charge of such 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 (3), or shall wilfully omit to hoist the Signal herein-before directed (4), to (1) See Questions, &c. Order in Council, § 8. 9. and 10. denote that his 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 Vessel, shall forfeit the Sum of Three hundred Pounds. QUARAN- Manifests, and Sect. 16. AND be it further enacted, That every Commander, Commanders to Master, or other Person having Charge of any Vessel which deliver up Bills shall be ordered to perform Quarantine as aforesaid, shall forth- of Health, with, after his Arrival at the Place appointed for the Perform- Log Book, to ance of Quarantine, deliver on Demand to the Superintendent the Superintenof Quarantine or his Assistant, or other Officer of the Customs, dent of Quaranauthorized to act in that Behalf, and which Superintendent, tine, on Penalty Assistant, or other Officer as aforesaid is hereby required to of 1007. make such Demand, his Bill of Health and Manifest, together with his Log Book and Journal, under pain of forfeiting the Sum of One hundred Pounds if he shall wilfully refuse or neglect so to do. Penalty on Masters, &c. quitting Vessels, or permitting Persons to quit Places, 4001. Sect. 17. AND be it further enacted, That if any Commander, Master, or other Person having Charge of any Vessel liable to perform Quarantine, and on board of which the Plague or other infectious Disease or Distemper shall not then have appeared, shall himself quit, or shall knowingly permit or suffer them, or not any Seaman or Passenger coming in such Vessel to quit such conveying same Vessel by going on shore, or by going on board any other Ves- to the appointed sel or Boat, before such Quarantine shall be fully performed, unless by such Licence as shall be granted by virtue of any Order in Council to be made concerning Quarantine as aforesaid; or in case any Commander or other Person having Charge of such Vessel shall not, within a convenient Time after due Notice given for that Purpose, cause such Vessel and the Lading thereof to be conveyed into the Place or Places appointed for such Vessel and Lading to perform Quarantine; 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 Four hundred Pounds; and if any such Person coming in any such Vessel liable to Quarantine (or any Pilot or other Person going on board the same, either before or after the Arrival of such Vessel at any Port or Place in the United Kingdom, or the Islands aforesaid), shall, either before or after quitting them such Arrival, quit such Vessel, unless by such Licence as before disaforesaid, by going on shore in any Port or Place in the United charged from Kingdom, or the Islands aforesaid, or by going on board Quarantine, other Vessel or Boat, with Intent to go on shore as aforesaid, before such Vessel so liable to Quarantine as aforesaid shall be regularly discharged from the Performance thereof, it shall and may be lawful for any Person whatsoever, by any Kind of necessary Force, to compel such Pilot or other Person so quitting such Vessel so liable to Quarantine to return on board the same; and every such Pilot or other Person so quitting such any Penalty on Persons coming in such Vessels, or going on board, and to suffer Imprisonment for Six Months, and forfeit 3001, QUARAN TINE. For punishing Intercourse Persons re fusing to repair to the Lazaret or Vessel, to forfeit 2001. Vessel so liable to Quarantine shall for every such Offence suffer Imprisonment for the Space of Six Months, and shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Three hundred Pounds. Sect. 18. 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 Vessels 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 Superintendent of Quarantine, or his Assistant, or from the Principal Officer of the Customs at any Port or Place where there is no such Superintendent or Assistant, or from any other Officer of the Customs authorized 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, 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, 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 or others of the Privy Council, or of any Two 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 Officers as aforesaid, to the said Lazaret, Vessel, or Place duly appointed in that behalf, or having been placed in the said Lazaret, 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, Vessel, or Place so appointed as aforesaid; and every Person so refusing or neglecting to repair forthwith as aforesaid to the said Lazaret, Vessel, or Place, and also every 13 Person actually escaping as aforesaid, shall forfeit the Penalty QUARAN of Two hundred Pounds. TINE. Persons quitting Vessels liable to perform Quarantine, &c. may Sect. 19. AND be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Constable, Headborough, Tithingman, or other Peace Officer, or any other Person, to seize and apprehend any Person that shall, contrary to the Provisions of this Act, have quitted or come on shore from any Vessel liable to perform be seized. Quarantine, or who shall have escaped from or quitted any Vessel under Quarantine, or from any Lazaret, Vessel, or Place appointed in that behalf, for the Purpose of carrying such Person before any Justice of the Peace or Magistrate; and it shall be lawful for any such Justice of the Peace or Magistrate to grant his Warrant for the apprehending and conveying of any such Person to the Vessel from which he or she shall have come on Shore, or to any 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 a public Gaol,) 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. with Stations allotted for Quarantine of Vessels, may be prohibited by Order in Council. Sect. 20. AND whereas it may be necessary for the public Intercourse Security to prevent all Communication whatever with Vessels performing Quarantine; be it therefore further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by His or Their Order or Orders in Council, notified by Proclamation or published in the London Gazette, to prohibit all Persons, Vessels, and Boats whatsoever, from going, under any Pretence whatsoever, within the Limits of any Station which by any Order or Orders in Council as aforesaid has been or may be assigned for the Performance of Quarantine; and if any Person whatsoever, after such Notification or Publication of any such Order or Orders in Council, shall presume, under any Pretence whatsoever, to go with any Vessel or Boat within the Limits of any such Station, he or she shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of Two hundred Pounds. Sect. 21. AND be it further enacted, That if any Officer of Penalty on His Majesty's Customs, or any other Officer or Person what- Persons embezzling Goods soever, to whom it doth or shall appertain to execute any Order or Orders made or to be made concerning Quarantine, Quarantine, performing or the Prevention of Infection, and notified as aforesaid, or to neglecting or |