Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts - Expenses of Quarantine Warrants, 1793-1806, 1818

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888

Summary

Extent:
.45 cu. ft. (1 box)
Creator:
Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

Warrants, 1793-1806, 1818, paying officials supervising quarantines. Includes payments to the hiring of boats to lookout for fever from the West Indies, guards on vessels, payments for food, gun powder, and alcohol for guards on vessels, payments to doctors, hiring of vessels to act as hospitals for quarantined persons, building of coffins, printing of handbills concerning the quarantine laws, and salaries for superintendents of quarantine. Some documents are signed by Governors James Wood, John Page, and William H. Cabell.

Biographical / historical:

On 26 December 1792 the General Assembly passed an act prescribing quarantine for ships believed to carry infectious diseases. The auditor issued warrants to pay the expenses of officials supervising the quarantine and for conveying the Governors proclamation to port towns. In 1793 the General Assembly expanded the provisions of the quarantine law to those who entered the state by land as well.

Acquisition information:
Accession 13211 was transferred from the Auditor of Public Accounts 26 September 1915.
Arrangement:

This collection is arranged chronologically.