The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-16
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

WAsHINGToN, September l5 lS45.
BY the following sanitary DEGREES of the Portu-
guese government will be seen that the vessels OF
the United States, Brazil, Denmark, Great Britain,
Prussia, Sweden, and Turkey, are to be treated as
Portuguese vessels.
Translation from The Lisbon Diario do Goveno Of July
81, 1915.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE FOR FoREIGN AFFAIRS,
PALACE OF CMTRA, July 10, lS45.
Her Majesty the Queen, in consequence Of the
representations made her royal presence, and in
order that the sanitary precautions with regard to
arrivals from the United States Of America should
not, by opposing unnecessary embarrassments, be
made more rigorous than is required for the health
OF the public;conslderng the great diminution, of
late years in the diseases endemic IN those countries,
as regards their frequency and their intensity; and
that other states of Europe had determined to mod
iy their sanitary regulations has thought proper to
order, that, until the publication of the quarantine
regulation which the Council of State is to propose
agreeaby to paragraph 70 of the 9Th article Of the
decree of September Is, 1874, the following rules
should be observed Professionally:
i. All the ports Of North America north Of Cape
Haueras, in North Carolina are declared habiiuaiiy
clean
g Vessels arriving from these ports ,ohaiepsr may
hare been the date Of their departure, shall be admitted
to free praiique Immediately upon their presenting
clean bill of health and proving that they have not
nor had not, any one sick on board, and that they
have had no communication of suspected nature.
8. Cotton and flax brought in those vessels, ac-
companied by certificates Of their origin and produc
ton, showing that they do not come from places
situated south of Cape Hatteras, shall be freed from
the necessity Of any publication.
4. In case there should have been any epidemic
in the place from which they come and there should
be, or have been any sickness board, the vessels
shall be subjected to the requisite quarantine, and
their cargoes to publication.
5. In cases in which the vessels are subjected to
quarantine, the last ten days Of their voyage shall
be included in the time required, provided they
period; and, if they have, the days shall be allowed,
which have passed since such communication.
PALACE OF CMTRA, July 10, l645.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
PALACE OF CINTRA, July 49, 1S45.
Her Majesty, understanding that American yes
sells employed in the whale fishery, and other for
eign vessels on entering the ports of the adjacent
islands, have been required to pay higher health
duties than are exacted on Portuguese vessels,
though the following poria,ia [decreel of October
IL, 1874, defines the modification of the duties as
specified in the decree of September 10, lS44 and,
having reason to believe that the terms of the said
poriaria have not been communicated to the admin
istrave and sanitary authorities of those islands
orders that copies of the said portaria be dellv-
cred to the civil governor Of the district of
Horta that he may cause it TO be executed in all the
health-ofices Of his district and moreover, that res
tituiion be made from the receipts of the same
health-ofices, to the owners or consignees of the
foreign vessels, to which reference is made in the
said portaria of all excess of duties which they
may have paid in consequence of its non observ-
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