Rules to be observed by masters and pilots of vessels, arriving at the port of Philadelphia,: established by the health law, and regulations of the Board of Health, to which is annexed, a supplement to the health law, passed on the 2d day of April, 1821.Philadelphia. Board of health
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Rules to be observed by masters and pilots of vessels, arriving at the port of Philadelphia,: established by the health law, and regulations of the Board of Health, to which is annexed, a supplement to the health law, passed on the 2d day of April, 1821.
Philadelphia. Board of health
Public health laws -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
II. From the first of October in every year, to the first of June in the
succeeding year, every vessel arriving at the port of Philadelphia,
either directly or indirectly from any foreign port or place, shall come
to anchor in the stream, opposite the city; and before any of the
passengers, crew, cargo, or baggage are landed, shall receive the visit
and submit to the examination of the Port Physician; and as a signal for
the visit of the said physician, shall hoist a whiff at the
foretopgallant mast head; vessels that arrive in the day time, will
hoist the signal before they arrive at the lower part of the city, and
those that come up in the night, will hoist the signal before sunrise
next morning. _Every captain, pilot, or other person, hauling any vessel
to the wharf, on her arrival as above, and before she is visited by the
port physician, shall for each and every offence forfeit and pay the sum
of two hundred dollars_, unless it shall be made to appear, that there
was at the time, imminent danger of the loss of such vessel, or of the
passengers or crew thereof.
III. Any master, or other person, on board any vessel, who shall
knowingly deceive, or attempt to deceive the Lazaretto or Port
Physician, or shall make false answers to their official inquiries, will
be liable to a fine of two hundred dollars, and imprisonment at hard
labour for five years.
IV. The certificates of health, granted by the Lazaretto or Port
Physician, are to be presented at the health office, within twenty-four
hours after the arrival and safe mooring of the vessel at the city under
a penalty not exceeding three hundred dollars.
V. Masters of vessels, on presenting their certificates at the health
office, shall pay to the health officer, the following sums, viz:
All coasting vessels, from any port or place in the United $2 50
States, between the river St. Croix, and the river St. Mary,
(except from between Sandy Hook and Cape Charles) for each
arrival, during quarantine months,
All coasting vessels, from between Sandy Hook and Cape Charles, 2 50
including the Bay and river Delaware, having on board foreign
goods, for each arrival, during quarantine months,
All American vessels, from any port or place in New Brunswick, 5 00
Nova Scotia, Canada, or the islands or ports adjacent; the
river St. Mary; the coast of Florida, bay of Mexico, including
New Orleans, and parts adjacent, and from thence along the bay
of Honduras, and coast of Terra Firma, as far as the river
Amazon, including all the islands, generally denominated West
India, Bahamas, or Bermudas, shall pay on arrival,
All American vessels arriving from any place in Europe, Western, 10 00
Canary, or Cape de Verd Islands, and west coast of Africa as
far as latitude 34 deg. S. and from any place in the
Mediterranean, or from any place, from the river Amazon,
inclusive, and round the coast of Brazil, as far as latitude 34
deg. S.
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