PROCLAMATIONS.
POLITICAL. UNIONS.
I' Wrzs.ram R.—Whereas certain of our subjects, in different parts of our King- dom, have recently promulgated plans fur voluntary associations, under the deno- mination of Political Unions, to be composed of separate bodies, with various divi- sions and subdivisions, under leaders with a gradation of ranks and authority, and distinguished by certain badges, and subject to the general control and direction of a superior Committee or Council, for which associations no warrant has been given by us, or by any appointed by us on that behalf; and whereas, according to the plans so promulgated as aforesaid, a power appears to he assumed of acting in- dependently of the Civil Magistrates, to whose requisition, calling upon them to be enrolled as constables, the individuals composing such associations are bound, in common with the rest of our subjects, to yield obedience ;:.and whereas such asso- ciations so constituted and appointed, under such separate direction and command, are obviously incompatible with the faithful performance of this duty, at variance with the acknowledged principles of the Constitution, and subversive of the autho- rity with which we are invested, as the Supreme Head of the State, for the protec- tion of the public peace; and whereas we are determined to maintain, against all encroachments on our royal power, those just prerogatives of the Crown which have been given to us for the preservation of the peace and order of society, and for the general advantage and security of our loyal subjects : We have, therefore, thought it our bounden duty, with and by the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our royal proclamation, declaring all such associations, so constituted and appoiutecl as aforesaid, to be unconstitutional and illegal, and earnestly warning and enjoining all our loving subjects to abstain from enterivg into such unauthorized combina- tions, whereby they may draw upon themselves the penalties attending a violation of the laws, and the peace and security of our dominions may be endangered. " Given at our Court- at St. James's, this 21st day of November 1831, and in the second year of our reign. GOD SAVE TILE
CHOLERA.
" At the Council-Chamber, Whitehall, the 21st day of November 1831, by the Lords of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.
" Whereas by an Act of Parliament, passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late M;:jesty King George the Fourth, intituled ' An Act to repeal the several laws re- lating to the performance of quarantine, and to make other provisions in lieu- thereof.' it is, amongst other things, enacted, ' That it shall and may be lawful for the Lords and others of his Majesty's Privy Council, or any two or more of them, to make such order as they shall see necessary and expedient upon any unforeseen emergency; or in any particular case or cases with respect to any vessel arriving and having any infections disease or distemper on board, or on board of which any infectious disease or distemper may have appeared in the course of the voyage, or arriving under any other alarming or suspicious circumstarices as to infection, al- though such vessels shall not have come from any place from which his Majesty, his heirs and successors, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, may have ad- judged and declared it probable that the plague, or any such infectious disease or distemper, may be brought ; and also with respect to the persons, goods, wares, and merchandize, and other articles aforesaid, on board the same; and in case of any infectious disease or distemper appearing or breaking out in the United King- dom, or the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, to snake such orders and give such directions, in order to cut off all communication between any persons infected with any such disease or distemper and the rest of his Majesty's subjects, as shall appear to the said Lords, or others of his Majesty's Privy Council, or any two or more of them, to be necessary and expedient for that purpose.' And whereas the infectious disease or distemper called the spasmodic cholera hath appeared and broken out within the United Kingdom; and whereas, in order to cut off all communication between any persons infected with the said disease or distemper and the rest of his hiajesty's subjects, it doth appear to the Lords and others of his Majesty's Privy Council necessary and expedient that Boards of Health, to be constituted as hereinafter-mentioned, should be established within such cities, towns, and other places within the United King- dom as may be affected with, or as may be in danger of becoming affected with, the said disease, and that proper measures be taken for securing the communication to such Medical Boards of authentic intelligence respecting the actual state of the pub- lic health within any such city, town, or place, and the condition of all persons therein labouring under the said disease, or any other disease highly dangerous to the health of his Majesty's subjects:
" Now, therefore, it is hereby ordered by the Lords and others of his Majesty's Privy Council, in pursuance and exercise of the powers so vested in them as afore- said by the said Act of Parliament, and in pursuance of any other powers enabling them in that behalf, that Boards of Health shall forthwith be established in every city, town, or place within the United Kingdom to which an order for that pur- pose shall be transmitted by the Lords and others of his Majesty's Privy Council, such order being certified by the signature of one of the Clerks in Ordinary of the Privy Council ; and that such Boards shall he constituted in such manner, and shall proceed in the execution of the duties committed to them in such form, and according to such regulations, as shall he directed and prescribed by any order so to be issued and certified as aforesaid : and it is further ordered, that every practi- tioner of medicine within every city, town, or place, in which every such Board shall be .so constituted, shalt and is hereby commanded and required to make to such Beard a daily report, under his hand, containing a full, true, and parti- cular account of the condition of every person attended by such medical practitioner who may be affected with she said disease, or with any other diseasehighly dangerous to the health of his gajesty's subjects ; and all medical practitioners who shall neg- lect or omit to make any such return by the time, or at the place, or in the manner
or form so to he required, or who shall in any such return wilfully make any false statement, are hereby warned and admonished that the several penalties consequent upon any such disobedience to the provisions of the before-mentioned Act of Parliament will forthwith be enforced against them ; and all Mayors, Magistrates, Justices of the Peace, and others, his Majesty's officers, civil and military, and subjects whomsoever, are hereby commanded to be aiding and assisting, to the utmost of their several abilities, in enforcing prompt obedience to this present order, and in punishing by all lawful ways and means any neglect or violation thereof.
"C. C. GREVILLE."
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