Having succinctly related the Duties of the _Prior_, which principally consist in seeing the Rules kept up to, and good Order observed; in which is comprehended the Care of keeping the Peace in the _Lazarettos_; of taking all Arms from Passengers, and having them separated from what they were lapt up in, and kept to be restored them at their going out; in forbidding all noisy Sports, and especially such as might occasion any Mixture amongst the People in Quarantine; in seeing that the Guardians, _Bastazis_, and Victuallers, do their Duty, without using Extortion, _&c._ That all Animals, whether Quadrupeds or Fowls, be shut up, which might straggle, and occasion Disorder. It remains to say something of the Quality of the Purifications used in the _Lazarettos_; that being a Point not to be by any Means omitted, and may not be a little tedious, as the Detail of them cannot be concise. Resuming therefore the Idea already mentioned, of deducing the general Conduct from a particular one, and returning to where the Merchandize was left, when brought out of the suspected Ship, _viz._ to the Gates of the _Lazarettos_, with all the Precautions aforesaid; they are by the _Fante_, who escorts them, delivered up to the _Prior_ of the _Lazaretto_, with the Order that directs him to receive them. He directs a Place for their Purification; directs the _Bastazi_, appointed for that Work, to take them out of the Boat, and the Guardian to keep them in his Custody; then causing the _Peata_ that brings them, to carry them to the Shore most convenient for their Landing at the Place where they are to be purified; they are unloaded by the _Bastazi_, who, from that Moment, together with the Guardian, are looked upon as unclean, and can have no Communication of any Sort. As many as are unloaded, a Note is taken of, and so successively till the Ship is quite cleared. It has been said, that generally the Clerk of the Ship, or the Super-Cargo, or always one of the Ship, passes with the Merchandize to the _Lazaretto_, to make the Delivery of them; and the Reason of it is, to take back a Receipt from the _Bastazi_ for all that was delivered to them, that the Whole may be restored, out of Regard to the Rules of the Health-Office, and for the Sake of Punctuality.