[Orders concerning quarantine, by the Grand Duke of Tuscany]; translated from the Italian, by order of the Commissioners of H.M. Customs.

  • Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Date:
1800
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Orders concerning quarantine, by the Grand Duke of Tuscany]; translated from the Italian, by order of the Commissioners of H.M. Customs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    [ ® ] XXVI. At one hour before the Evening Angelus, all work in the Lazarettoes relative to goods under Prattique fhall ceafe, in order that they may not be mixed, and that any other inconvenience, which might very eafily arife, may be avoided. And if, by the negligence of the owners, the goods already difpatched fhould remain after that time upon the flairs, they fhall immediately, at their proper coft, be conveyed to the Guards under the Pent-houfes. XXVII. Twelve days fhall be allowed to the proprietors or confignees of goods admitted to Prattique for putting them into condition; at the expiration of which they muft, without fail, be taken from the Lazarettoes, and under no pretext or reafon whatever mull this be difpenfed with. XXVIII. But if the owners or confignees fhould confider it their intereft to retain them beyond that term, they may do it, with the exception of Tobaccoes : but they muft pay, under the head of warehoufe-hire, one foldo per day for every load indifcriminately, to be exacted in the fame manner as the Purification-duties, and they fhall only be obliged to take them away when there fhall not remain the neceflary room required for the reception of goods which are to perform Quarantine. XXIX. Defirous of favouring the trade of fkins admitted to Prattique, or under Quarantine, which are left to be alforted, they may be kept in the Lazaretto, even until their total fale, without being fubjedt to the faid warehoufe-hire. XXX. Goods, admitted to Prattique in the Lazaretto of St. Leopoldo, tannot be withdrawn by the owners or confignees when the flairs of the Wet-