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verforming quarantine within the limits marked out by the '
said yellow buoys.
V. And it is hereby further ordered, that all vessels coming
fsom any. port or place in Europe, without the Streights, or on
the Continent of America, at which there is not a regular esta-
blishment for the performance of quarantine, declared sufficient
by his Majesty in Council as aforesaid, and having on board
any of the articles hereinafter enumerated, being the growth,
produce, or manufacture of Turkey, or of any place in Africa,
within the Streights of Gibraltar, or in the West Barbary, on
the Atlantic Ocean ; and all vessels and boats receiving any of
the said goods, wares, or merchandize,or other articles as afore-
said, from or out of the said vessels, shall, together with all
persons (as well Pilots as others), goods, wares, and merchan-
dize, and all articles on board thereof, perform the same qua-
rantine, for such time, in such manner, and at such places re-
spectively as is herein directed with respect to vessels coming
from the Mediterranean, or from the West Barbary, on the
Atlantic Ocean, with clean bills of health
VI. Provided always, that in case it shall happen that any
vessel being `liable to quarantine, and having a clean bill of
health on board, and bound to any of the ports or places afore-
said, shall have passed the port or place hereby appointed .for
such vessel to perform quarantine, either from the Commander
or Master, being ignorant of his liability to perform the same,
or from the said vessel having been carried past the said port or
place by stress of weather, or any other unavoidable circum-
stance, the said Commander or Master, upon proof thereof being
made by the oath of such Commander or Master, and likewise
of the. pilot (if any on board), to the satisfaction of the -Super-
intendant of Quarantine or his assistant, or of the principal or
other officer of the Customs authorized to act in that behalf,
and that the said passing such port or place was not done inten-
tionally, and with a view of evading the regulations of qua-
rantine, may be permitted to proceed and repair to any other
port or place appointed for the performance of quarantine in
the discretion of such Superintendant or his assistant or the
principal or other Officer of the Customs authorised as aforesaid
keeping the proper quarantine signal hoisted during the whole
time, and such Commander or Master shall there perform qua-
rantine with such vessel, and all persons, goods, wares, and
merchandizes, and other articles on board, in the same manner
as if he had been bound to such port or place.

VII. And it is hereby further ordered, that no vessel liable
to quarantine, not bound to any port or place in the United
Kingdom or the Islands aforesaid, shall touch at or attempt to
enter any port or place in the United Kingdom, or the Islands
aforesaid (whether such port or-place shall have been appoint-
ed for the performance of quarantine or not), except for orders,
or in consequence of stress of weather, or any damage, loss, or
accidents of the seas, the circumstances and necessity of which
Shall be proved upon oath as aforesaid to the satisfaction of the
Superintendent of quarantine or his assistant, or of the prin-
cipal or other Officer of the Customs authorized to act in that
behalf, and that the Commanders and Masters of all such yes-
sells, by whom and with respect to which such satisfactory proof
shall have been made as aforesaid, shall be examined, by such
superintendent or his assistant, or the principal or other officer
of the Customs, and shall give .true answers upon oath to the
preliminary quarantine questions hereinafter directed to be
put to the Commanders and Masters of all vessels liable to.
perform quarantine, and shall likewise strictly. conform in all
respects to all such directions as they shall receive from such
Superintendent or his assistant, or the principal or other Offi-
cer of the Customs as aforesaid, as well with respect to their
stay or continuance at such port, and their departure from
thence, and repairing to any other port or place for that pur-
pose, as also with respect to all other orders, regulations, and
restrictions, touching or concerning quarantine, and in default '
of making such satisfactory proof, or giving true answers to
such questions, or of obeying and complying with such di-
rections, orders, regulations, and restrictions as aforesaid,
the said Commanders, Masters, or other persons having the
charge of such vessels, shall be compelled forthwith to pro-
ceed to sea with such vessels; and the said Superintendent
or his assistant, or the principal or other Officers of the Cus-
toms, shall use all necessary means for that purpose, call?ng
to his aid the Commanders or other Officers of any of his
Majesty's ships of war, if their assistance shall appear to be
necessary.
VII!. And it is hereby further ordered, that .where any ves-
sel shall attempt to enter into any port or place in the United
Kingdom, or the Islands aforesaid, whether such port or place
shall have ,been appointed for the performance of quarantine
or not, the Superintendent of Quarantine or his assistant (if
there shall be such 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 Cus-
rems as shall be authorised• by the Commissioners of the
Customs, or any four or more of them, to act in that be-
half shall go off to such vessel, and shall, at a convenient
distance from such ship or vessel, keeping to windward, de-
mand of the Commander, Master, or other person having
charge of such vessel, answers to the following preliminary
questions :
. Ist. What is the name of the vessel, and the name of the
Commander or Master ?
2d. Are you the Commander, or Master ? Where. does she
belong ?
3d. From whence do you come ?
4th. To what place are you bound ?
. sth. At what ports have you touched since you left the port
of your lading on your homeward voyage ?
6th. What vessels have you had intercourse or commu-
nication with on your passage, and from whence did they
come ?
7th. Did the plague or any other infectious disease or dis-
temper prevail in any degree at the place from whence you
sailed on your homeward voyage, or at any or the places at
which you have touched ? If at any, say at which, and when ?
Are any persons on board your ship suffering under any infec-
tious disease, or have any persons died or been ill of a disease
of that nature in the homeward passage ? And if any, what
number ? And if any have died or been ill of such disease,
were their bedding and clothes destroyed ?
(If the vessel shall have sailed from any port in Europe,
without the Streights, or on the Continent of America.)
6th. Have you on board any goods enumerated in this list ?
(Handing up a list of articles enumerated) if you have spe-
cified the same, and whether they are of the growth, produce,
or manufacture of Turkey, or any place in Africa within the
Streights cf Gibraltar, or in the Nest Barbary on the Atlantic
Ocean, or what other place ? Have you any declaration to
prove of what place they are the growth, produce, or manu-
facture ?
(If the vessel comes from the 'Mediterranean, or from any
other place respecting which there is any Order in Council in
force concerning quarantine.)
9th. 'lave you any, and what bill of health ?
10th. What number of officers, mariner, and passengers,
have you on board ?
(And in cases of vessels coming from or having touched at any
port or place on the Continent of America, or the islands ad-
jacent thereto, or coming from or having touched at any ports
in the West Indies, the tbilowing questions are to be put in
addition to the aforesaid questions) :---
11th. In the course of your voyage have any persons on board
saffere,l from sickness of any kind ? what was the nature of
such sickness, and when did itprevail ? How many versons
were affected by it, and have any of them died in the course of
the voyage ?
12th. How tong after sailing from-your, port of lading, cr
having touched at any port on the Continent of America.; or the
islands adjacent thereto, or any of the ports in the West Indies,
was the first appearance of disease observed ?
13th. • How had the persons attacked been employed before
- they came on board ?
14th. if:x(l they-beer. employed in loading or unloading the
vessel before she left the port ?,
15th. Had the place which inhabited before they sailed
the reputation of being healthier or was it subject particularly
to the fever incident to the coitus ry ?
16 Hatt the fever been frequent in the place before the ves-
sel sailed ?
17th. Did the persons who were ill on boatel your vessel fall
sick nearly abcut the same time, or within a few days of each
other ? lid the disorder spread successively from one to an-
other and increase considerably or did it abate gradually and
cease to multiply as the distanci'69lll the ports you sailed from
07 touched at as aforesaid increased ?
18th. What was the greateel, number .of persons ill at the
most sickly period of your voy4e ?
19th. What were the whole number of persons on board your
vessel when you sailed ?
20th. What is the whole numbe'r of persons now ill on board
your vessel ?
21st. Can you state what were, the symptoms of illness with
,which your crew was first attacked, and what was the daily
succession and changes in them till death ?
22d. Whether any wed what medicines have been used, and
what methods have been adopted to prevent its spreading
among the erew ?
23d. Whether attention has been paid to cleanliness and
ventilation on board your vessel ?
24th. When did you sail from the port or place from whence
you took on board your outward. cargo, and at what place did
you touch before you arrived at the port or place where you
took in your present cargo ?
25:h. Did you carry any bill of health with you to the port
An/place where you took in the cargo you have now on board ?
Prom what place ? Were the said bills of health clean, unclean,
or suspected?
A nd such Cornmander, Master, or other person having charge
of such vessel shall, upon such demand, give a true answer to
.such questions in writing or otherwise, and upon oath, or !tot
upon oath, according as he shall be required by such Superin-
tendent or his Assistant, or principal Officer or other Officer of

the Customs, authorised as aforesaid, under such pains and
penalties as are inflicted by the said hereinbetbre-recited Act.
And if it shall appear by the answers so given to the said
questions, that the said vessel is liable to quarantine, the
said Commander, Master, or other person having the charge or
command thereof, shall be directed to repair, and shall repair
forthwith, with such vessel to the proper place appointed in
that behalf, for the performance of quarantine, and shall not
be permitted to remain in or enter into any port or place,
other than the port or place so appointed as aforesaid, unless
compelled by stress of weather, damage, loss, or other injury,
unavoidably occasioned to the vessel by the perils of the seas ;
which stress of weather, damage, loss, or other injury, and
that the said damage, loss, or other injury was unavoidable,
and not wilfully or intentionally done or occasioned, shall be
made appear by the oath and examination of such Comman-
der or Master, and the Pilot (if any) on board, to the satis-
faction of The Superintendent or his Assistant, or the principal
or other Officer of the -Customs, authorised as aforesaid, at
the port or place in which he shall be so detained, or into
which he shall be compelled to enter as aforesaid ; in de-
fault of which satisfactory proof, or when the cause of such
vessel so coming in as aforesaid shall no longer exist, such
Superintendent, Assistant, principal or other Officer of the
-Customs, authorised as aforesaid, shall direct, and (if neces-
sary) compel such vessel to repair to the proper place appointed
in that behalf for the performance of quarantine, and shall use
all necessary means for that purpose.
IX. And it is hereby further ordered, that on the arrival
of any vessel liable to quarantine, in . any port or place hereby
appointed for the performance of quarantine, the Superintend-
ent .of Quarantine or his Assistant, or, in case of such Super-
intendent and his Assistant being otherwise necessarily en-
gaged, the principal-Officer of his Majesty's Customs at such
port or place, or such Officer of the-Customs as shall be duly
authorised to act in that behalf (together with the Medical
Attendant), in such cases as shall be thought to require his
assistance, shall go alongside such vessel in a boat (keeping
to windward), and shall see the Officers, crew, and all other
persofii belonging to or being on board such vessel mustered
on the gangway, and the Superintendent of Quarantine, or
his Assistant, or such principal or other Officer of the
Customs authorised- as aforesaid, shall then and there, in
the presence of the crew, put the following questions to the
Commander, Master, or other person having charge of the
vessel :-
Ist. What is the name of the vessel, and the name of her
Commander or Master ?
2d. Are you the Commander or Master ?
3d. To what port or place does she belong ?
4th. When did you sail from the Port or place from whence
you took on board your outward cargo, arid at what places did
you touch before you arrived at . the port or place where you
took in your present cargo ?
sth. Did you carry any bill or bills of health with you to the
port or place where you took in the cargo you have now on
board ? From what places ? Were the said bills of health clean,
unclean, or suspected ?
6th. From what port or place does she now come ? When
did you sail from such port or place, and at what place or
places have you touched in the course of the voyage ?
7th. Have you any bill or bills of health on board ? From
what place or places ? Are the same clean, unclean, or sus-
pected ? Produce them.
(If the vessel shall have sailed from any. port or place in
Europe without the Streights, or on the Continent of America.)
Bth. Of what articles does your cargo consist? Have you on
board any goods enumerated in this list ?
(Handing up a list of articles enumerates)).
If you have, specify the same, and whether they :Arcot the
growth, produce, or manufacture of Turkey,. or of any-nlace in
Africa within the Streights of Gibraltar, or
_in , the We'st Bar-
bary, on the Atlantic Ocean, or of what oilier place ? Have you
any declaration to prove.ofewhat place they are the growth, pro.
duce, or manufacture ?
9th. At what place or places was the cargo, or any part
thereof, taken on board ? On what day did you arrive at the
place orplaces where you took in the whole or any, and what
part of the cargo ? And on what day did you sail from such
place or places, and what part of your cargo was taken in at
each place, and when ?
10th. Did the plague or any other infectious disease or dis-
temper prevail in any degree at the places from whence you
sailed, or at any of the places at which your cargo was taken
on board, or at which you touched ? If at any, say at which,
and when.
I I th. Did you hear of any report, or are you aware of any
suspicion having existed at the time of your sailing, that the
plague or any other infectious disease prevailed at the place
from whence you sailed, or at any other place in the Mediter-
ranean (or in America or the West Indies, as the case may be.)
12th. What number of officers, mariners, passengers, or other
persons, have vou on board ? describe the number of each.
13th. At what port did you take on board your passengers ?
14th. Were they residents at that place, or had they been
embarked as passengers on board any other vessels from any
other places, and from what places, and-at what time ?
15th. Do the said Officers, mariners, passengers, and other
persons consist of the same individuals as were on board at the
port from which you sailed upon your homeward voyage? If
an/ other persons have been taken on board, or if any of your
Officers, crew, or passengers have quitted your vessel since you
sailed from such port, or before your arrival at this place, or if
any other alterations in that respect have taken place, specify
the same, the causes, and the time or times of such alterations.
16th. What number of persons (if any) have died on board
during the voyage ? Outwards or homewards, or at any part
at which you have touched ; When and in what part of the
voyage did such person or persons die ? Of what disease or
distemper ?
17th. Have any of your Officers, mariners, or other persons
of your crew who sailed with you on your outward voyage died
or left the vessel?
18th. In the course of your voyage outward or homeward, or
at any port at which you have touched, have any persons on
board suffered from sickness of any kind ? What was the
nature of such sickness ? When did it prevail ? How many
persons were affected by it? Are there any convalescents on
board? Or are all persons on board at present in good health?
19th. Were any of those who died, or who have been sick in
the course of the voyage, or at any port at which you have
touched, affected, or suspected to have been affected, by any
infectious disease or distemper?
Were the bedding and clothes of such deceased and sick
persons destroyed ? If so when and in what manner ? Were
any of the persons immediately employed about the sick after-
wards taken ill ? If so, of what disease, and in how many days
after having been so employed ?
20th. At what precise time did such deaths happen ? In how
many days after being indisposed did the sick die ? What
were the most obvious appearances of the disease ?
21st. Have you spoken to or otherwise had any communica-
tion with any vessels at sea during the voyage ? What were
the names of such vessels, and to what country, port, or place
did they belong ? From what ports or places were they coming,
or at what port or places had they touched
.on their voyage, and
to what country, ports, or places, were they bound ? What was
the nature of the communication held ? Nirhat do you know re-
specting the state of health on board such vessel ?
22. Have there been any letters, parcels, or other articles
delivered out of or received into your vessel from any vessel
or boat met with on the voyage, or before or since your arrival
at this place, and what were such letters, parcels, or articles,
and where were the same delivered or received, and little or out
of what-vessel or boat ?
23. Have you any packages or parcels which you have taken
charge of ? If so, what are their contents, and when and where
did you take them on board ?
24th. What Pilots or other persons from the shores of the
United Kingdom, or from the Islands of Scilly, Guernsey, Jer-
sey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, have been or are now on board
your vessel, or have had any communication whatever with the
ship's company, or any of the passengers during the voyage
homewards, or before or since your arrival at this place ? If
any such Pilots or other persons have come on board, and have
afterwards quitted your vessel : specify the names of such
persons, and the time, manner, and circumstances of their so
quitting your vessel ?
.25th. Did you leave any. British vessels at .any of the ports
you sailed from ? If you did, mention their names, and the
names of the Commanders.
20th. Were such vessels loading, were they near their depar-
ture, and whither were they bound ?
27th. Did you meet with any British vessels at any of the
places you touched at ? If you did, say when, where, and
what were the names and destinations of such vessels, and to
what ports or places did they belong ?
28th Do you know whether any foreign vessels, loading at
the port from which you sailed, were bound beyond the
Streights of Gibraltar ? and if so, what were they, and whither
were they bound ?
29th. Do you know whether any person whatever, employed
in loading your vessel, or in bringing any articles into it, or
having any communication on board thereof, was taken ill
during such employment or communication ? or whether, by
the absence of such person or persons in the course of such em-
ployment, any suspicion was entertained of their having been
taken ill ? If so, of what disease ?
30th. Do you know whether or not your cargo, or any part
thereof, had been long in warehouse, before its being taken on
board ? If you do, say how lona°. Have you any knowledge
of its being packed or handled on shore, or conveyed from
shore, or stowed on board by persons affected with the plague,
or any other infectious disease or distemper ?
X. And it is further ordered, that the answers to the afore-
said questions shall be taken down in writing, and the Com..
mander, Master, or other person having the charge of such
vessel shall solemnly make oath to the truth thereof before the

Superintendant ofQuarantine, or his Assistant, or the principal
or other Officer of the Customs authorised as aforesaid (as the
case may be), and such Superintendant of Quarantine, or his
assistant, or such principal or other Officer of the Customs as
aforesaid (with the advice of the Medical Attendant, if such ad-
vice shall be judged necessary), shall, according to the answers
returned to the questions herein before set forth, then appoint a
proper place or station for such Commander, Master, or other
person having the charge of such vessel, to repair to with such
vessel, who thereupon shall, as 'soon as possible, after having
answered the foregoing questions, repair with such vessel to
such place or station where the said vessel shall be forthwith
placed, and shall there perform quarantine accordingly ; the
said Commander, or Master, or other person having the carge
of such vessel carrying with him the log-book, manifest, and
all ship's papers, all of which he shall there deliver to the Su-
perintendant of Quarantine, or his assistant, or to the principal
or other Officer of the Customs authorised as aforesaid (as
the case may be), the said log-boot, manifest, and papers
having been first immersed invinegar and fumigated ; and such
Commander, Master, or other person having the charge of such
vessel, shall there solemnly make oath to the truth of the con-
tents of such log-book, to the best of his recollection and be-
lief, or shall state and specify upon oath in what particulars
alone the same, or any part thereof, is false and incorrect, and
whether every particular entry therein was made as soon after
the fact as possible ; and if not, for what reason it was delayed,
and when it was made; and also to the truth of all other ship's
papers, before such Superintendant, or his Assistant, or the
principal or other Officer of the Customs authorised as afore-
said, and shall obey or conform to all such directions as he shall
then receive, touching the performance of Quarantine, from
such Superintendant, or his Assistant, or the principal or other
Officer of .the Customs authorized as aforesaid.
XI. And it is hereby further,ordered, that in the case of
vessels liable to quarantine arriving at any of the ports of the
United Kingdom or Islands aforesaid, if any suspicious circum-
stances shall appear in the answers returned to the said ques-
tions by the Commander or Master, or other person having
charge of any such vessel, or from any other circumstance,
the proper Officer of the Customs at such port or island shall
immediately transmit such answers, and give notice of the
cause of such suspicion to the Lords of his Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, and the Commissioners of his Ma-
jesty's Customs, and shall, without regard to the bill of health
whether clean or otherwise, order such vessel to a station dis-
tant from all other vessels in the same port or place, and put
her under special guard, in order the more effectually to pre-
vent all communication therewith.

XII. And it is hereby further ordered, that vessels liable
to quarantine as aforesaid, and being furnished with clean bills
of health, as well as the crews and passengers on board the
sameihall perform a quarantine of fifteen days, in the manner
heretofore practised, which quarantine shall commence from
the time when such part of the,c,argo, if any, as is hereinafter
enumerated, shall have been delivered into a floating lazaret in
Sandgate Creek or Milford ,Haven, in case the ship or vessel
shall perform quarantine in Standgate Creek or Milford Ha-
ven; or .into the lighters, or other proper vessels appointed
for that purpose., in case the vessel shall perform quarantine
at any of the places hereinbefore appointed for the perform-
ance thereof by vessels-bound to any of the out-ports or islands
aforesaid; but- in cases where no part of the cargo shall consist
of such enumerated goods, then such quarantine of fifteen days
shall commence on the day on which the Master or other person
having charge of such vessel shall have arrived with such-yeesel
at the station so appointed as aforesaid.
XIII. And it is hereby further ordered, with respect to all
goods, wares, and merchandizes coming from the Mediterra-
nean,. or -from the West Barbary, on the Atlantic Ocean, in
vessels furnished with clean bhlik of health, that all goods,
wares, and merchandizes, other than such as are hereinafter
enumerated, shall he aired and treated on board the vessel in
which they shall arrive according to the manner heretofore prac-
tietti respecting such goods imported in vessels furnished with
clean bills of health, and shall continue to be so treated for and
during the space of one week ; and all such goods, wares, and
merchandizes as are hereinafter enumerated, so coming in
vessels with clean bills of health, shall be removed from the
vessel to the place appointed for that purpose, and shall be
aired anti treated in the manner heretofore practised with regard
to such goods, wares, and merchandizes, and shall continue to
be so treated for and during the space of 15 days.
XIV. And it is hereby further ordered, with respect to all
goods, wares, and merchandizes, and other articles as afore-
said, irought or imported in vessels not having the plague or
other infectious disease or distemper as aforesaid actually on
board, and which may arrive in any of the ports of the United
Kingdom or the Islands aforesaid, coming from the Mediterra-
nean, or from the West Barbary, on the Atlantic Ocean, not
being furnished with clean bills of health, that such goods,
wares, and merchandize, and other articles as aforesaid (such
vessel having first repaired to Standgate Creek or Milford
Haven, as herein before directed) shall perform quarantine in
a floating lazaret, either at Standgate Creek or Milford Haven,
and no where else, in the manner and for the time hereinafter
mentioned.
XV. And it is hereby further ordered, that immediately after
the Commander, Master, or other persons having charge of
every such vessel so arriving with a foul bill of health, or on
board of which infection shall have appeared, shall have under-
gone the examination hereinbefore directed, and shall have ar-
rived with his vessel at the station so appointed as aforesaid, two
Quarantine Guardians shall be placed on board such vessel by
the Superintendent of Quarantine or his assistant.
XVI. And it is hereby further ordered, that all persons on
board any vessel under quarantine may be permitted to have
communication with others by letter's under the following regu-
lations and restrictions, viz.:—
An Officer appointed by the Superintendent of Quarantine
shall daily, at a fixed hour, go round the different lazarets and
vessels in quarantine to receive letters, the usual precaution of
dipping such letters in vinegar, and putting them into the fumi-
gating box, being always first observed ; and such letters shall
remain in thel fumigating box until such time as the Super-
intendant shall give directions for taking them out to be for-
warded, and no person, except the said Superintendent of
Quarantine, or his Assistant, or one of the guardians on board
the vessel, shall be permitted to deliver such letters from such
fumigating box ; and the said persons so hereby authorized to
deliver the same shall take care, where several letters or papers
are inclosed together; to slit open the covers in manner prac-
tised in the lazarets of the Mediterranean. And all letters to
such persons so under quarantine shall be delivered to the Su-
perintendent or his Assistant, and shall be distributed by him,
or according to his directions; and no communication or con-
ference shall he had by persons not under quarantine with per-
sons so under quarantine, except by permission, or in the pre-
sence of the Superintendent or his Assistant, and under such
regulations and restrictions as shall be directed by the said
Superintendent.
Provided always that the Medical Attendant and Superin.
tendant, or his Assistant, or any other person duly authorised
by an .Order in Council, may go en board any vessel under
quarantine, without such Medical Attendant or Superinten-
dent, or his Assistant, being in any way subject to the restraint
of quarantine.
XVII. And his hereby further ordered, that a night watch
shall be regularly kept, and a sufficient number of guard boats
and Officers shall be appointed, for the purpose of preventing
all clandestine communications with persons under quarantine;
and all the boats belonging to vessels under quarantine, either
at Standgate Creek, Milford Haven, or at the other out-ports,
shall be taken from, them, and no use made of such boats, ex-
cept 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 de-
livered up to the Coinmanders or Masters of such vessels, until
the expiration of the quarantine to be respectively performed
by them.
XVIII. And it. is hereby further ordered, that the Superin-
tendant of Quarantine, or his Assistant, or some other proper
person appointed by the Superintendent, shall, as 'often as re-
quired, afford assistance and provide necessaries for the per.
sons 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. And it is hereby further ordered, that the quarantine
guardians who shall be placed on board vessels, shall be in-
structed to take especial care that nothing whatever be deli-
vered from on board such vessels when under quarantine, with-
out an order, in writing, from the Superintendent, or his Assist-
ant, every such order to be entered in a book by one of the
said guardians, and the original to be delivered back to the
Superintendent, or his Assistant and nothing, however little
susceptible it may be thought to he of infection, shall he con-
veyed 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 there-
to required by. the Superintendent of Quarantine, or his Assist-
ant, 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, chain,. the passage of such lighters
and boats to and from such vessel,' in order to prevent any com-
munication in the transit of the cargo from the vessels to any
floating lazaret, and shall take care, after every removal of
goods, that no remnants of cotton, or of any other enumerated
article, 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. it
[The remainder to-morrow.]

QUEBEC, JULY 4.—The John Barry is off here from Cork ;
she has been on shore at Bestamite's Point.