proceedings; appeals from the Admiralty Court were determined by the 3 & 4 Vict. c. 65, and further amended by the 6 & 7 Vict. c. 38, and 7 & 8 Vict. c. 69.

Appeals in cases of capture, etc., lie in the Privy Council from the Admiralty Court, within fifteen days from the day of judgment, by a notarial act executed by a proctor. An inhibition can also be taken out, which ties the hands of the Judge of Admiralty Court, and consequently stops the sale of the vessel and other proceedings on the part of the Court of Admiralty.

From the final decision of the Privy Council there is no appeal, and they have the power of either reversing the judgment of the Admiralty Court, with or without costs, or confirming the same. The costs for an appeal to the Privy Council are about 300l.; for further information vide Capture.

PROPERTY OF BRITISH SUBJECTS DYING IN COUNTRY WHERE CONSUL IS ACCREDITED TO.-In many countries it has been stipulated in treaties that Consuls shall have the power to nominate curators to the estate of their deceased countrymen, and in many instances to administer the residue thereof for the benefit of the heirs of the deceased. The clause generally inscribed in the treaties is as follows: "If any subject or citizen of either of the two high contracting parties shall die without will or testament in any of the territories, dominions, or settlements of the other, the Consul-General or Consul of the nation to which the deceased belonged, or in his absence, the representative of such Consul-General or Consul, shall have the right to nominate curators to take charge of the property of the deceased, so far as the laws of the country will permit, for the benefit of the lawful heirs and creditors of the deceased; giving proper notice of such nomination to the authorities of the country."

The following is the list of the treaties having clauses to the above effect:

QUARANTINE is a certain time stipulated for the laying of a vessel in the roads, should she have any disease on board of a nature to cause apprehension of the same being infectious to any city. The word is taken evidently from "Quaranta" meaning a space of forty days, which, we are given to understand, was the time generally appointed for a vessel which had any infectious disease on board to lay in harbour.

The following Orders in Council regulate Quarantine; for the Act of Parliament, vide Section V.

Orders in Council, in pursuance of the foregoing Act, dated 19th July,

1825.

His Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, doth adjudge and declare it probable that the plague or some other infectious disease or distemper, highly dangerous to the health of His Majesty's subjects, may be brought into the United Kingdom, or the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, by vessels coming from the Mediterranean, or from the West Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean, with or without clean bills of health, and also by the importation into the United Kingdom, or the islands aforesaid, of certain goods, wares, and merchandises hereinafter enumerated, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of Turkey, or of any place in Africa within the Straits of Gibraltar, or in the West Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean, from any port or place in Europe without the Straits, or on the Continent of America, at which there is no regular establishment for the performance of quarantine, and therefore it is ordered:

I. That all vessels, as well His Majesty's ships of war as all others (not having the plague, or such other infectious disease or distemper as aforesaid actually on board), coming from the Mediterranean, or from the West Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean with clean bills of health; and all vessels and boats receiving any person or persons, or goods, wares, or merchandise, packets, packages, baggage, wearing apparel, books, letters, or any other articles, whatever, from or out of any such vessel, before such vessel shall have performed and shall be duly discharged from quarantine (whether such persons, goods, or other articles as aforesaid shall have come or been brought in such vessel, or such person or persons shall have gone, or articles have been put on board the same, either before or after the arrival of such vessel, and whether such vessel was or was not bound to any port or place in the

United Kingdom, or the islands aforesaid), shall, together with all persons (as well pilots as others*), goods, wares, and merchandise, and other articles as aforesaid, on board thereof, perform such quarantine for such time, in such manner, and at such places as are hereinafter directed. And all commanders, masters, and other persons on board any such vessel or boat so liable to quarantine as aforesaid, and all persons who shall have any intercourse or communication with them, or any of them, shall forthwith repair to such lazaret, vessel, or place as is herein appointed, or shall hereafter be appointed for the performance of quarantine; and shall there perform quarantine accordingly, under and subject to all the pains, penalties, fines, forfeitures, and punishments, as well pains of death as others, to which any such commander, master, or person is or may be by law subject for any refusal or neglect to repair to such lazaret, vessel, or place as aforesaid, or for any escape or attempt to escape therefrom, or for any other breach or disobedience of the provisions, rules, and regulations of the said hereinbefore recited Act, or of this Order, or of any Orders which may hereafter be made as aforesaid.

II. All such vessels so coming from the Mediterranean, or from the West Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean, as shall arrive with clean bills of health as aforesaid, and all such receiving vessels and boats as aforesaid, and all persons, goods, wares, and merchandises, and other articles on board the same, shall respectively perform quarantine in the places hereinafter appointed (except in the cases hereinafter otherwise provided for), that is to say:

Vessels bound to the following ports, or any creeks or places belonging to or within any or either of them, viz.:

* Pilots arriving on board of vessels liable to quarantine having enumerated goods on board, may be permitted to leave such vessel upon receipt of the Order in Council by the superintendent, directing what quarantine is to be performed by the vessel and cargo, before the hatches are opened, unless directions to the contrary be given in such Order.- Council Office, 1st Sept., 1841.

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shall perform (The Motherbank,

quarantine

at

near Portsmouth.

St. Just's Pool, within the mouth of the harbour of Falmouth.

SKing Road and
Portshute Pile.

Ditto at

Vessels bound to ports in Scotland, or any harbours, creeks, etc., viz.:

On the Eastern coast:

Ditto at

[Order dated 30th Sept., 1825.]

Stations for performing quarantine in Ireland, viz.:

1st. Not having on board any enumerated articles:

Dublin Harbour.

And lastly, such of them as are or shall be bound to any place on the coasts of the United Kingdom, not within any of the ports or limits hereinbefore mentioned or described, shall perform quarantine at such place hereinbefore appointed for performance of quarantine, as shall be nearest to the port or place to which such vessel respectively shall be so bound.

III. All goods, wares, and merchandises imported in any such vessels as aforesaid, shall be opened and aired at the several places hereinbefore respectively appointed for the performance of quarantine by such vessels respectively, in the manner and for the time hereinafter directed.

IV. All vessels not having the plague, or such other infectious disease or distemper as aforesaid, actually on board (except any ship of war, transport, or other vessel in the actual service of Government, under the command of a commissioned officer of His Majesty's navy), arriving in the United Kingdom, and coming from the Mediterranean, or from the West Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean, which shall not be furnished with clean bills of health, shall perform quarantine either in Standgate Creek or Milford Haven, and nowhere else. And in case

any such merchant or other ship or vessel as aforesaid, coming from any of the places before described, and not furnished with a clean bill of health, shall come or attempt to enter into any of the outports of the United Kingdom, or any of the islands aforesaid, the principal and other officer of the customs at such port, or in such islands, or the governor or chief magistrate thereof, shall cause such vessel to depart from thence immediately, and proceed to Standgate Creek or Milford Haven, to perform quarantine; and all ships of war, transports, and other vessels in the actual service of Government, under the command of commissioned officers of His Majesty's navy, coming from any of the said places, and not being furnished with clean bills of health, shall perform quarantine at the Motherbank, in a separate and distinct place, to be appointed and marked out with yellow buoys for that purpose, in the centre of which place a floating lazaret, moored with chains, shall be stationed, with a yellow flag constantly flying at the mast-head; and all vessels and boats receiving any person, goods, wares, or merchandise, packets, packages, baggage, wearing apparel, books, letters, or any other articles whatever, from or out of any vessel so coming from any of the said places without clean bills of health as aforesaid, shall perform the like quarantine at Milford