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
All American vessels, from any place beyond latitude 34 deg. S. 20 00
or round cape Horn, or the Cape of Good Hope,
Foreign vessels shall pay twenty-five per cent. additional,
unless otherwise regulated by any treaty.
Prize vessels, taken by foreign armed vessels, 12 50
Prize vessels, taken by American vessels, 10 00
Public armed vessels, and privateers, each 6 00
Vessels that are visited in the outer channel at the Lazaretto, 5 00
shall pay an additional sum of
For every passenger, not a citizen of the United States, 1 00
(reckoning two children between the age of five and twelve
years, as equal to one full passenger,)
VI. No master of a vessel, or other person whatsoever, shall remove any
sick person, from any vessel, lying in the river Delaware, before the
city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, or the township of the
Northern Liberties, before such sick person has been visited by the Port
Physician, and a written permit, granted by him for the purpose of such
removal.
Any person neglecting or refusing to comply with the same, shall be
subject to a fine of fifty dollars, and imprisonment for three months.
VII. Any master of a vessel, who shall knowingly receive, or employ, on
board his vessel, any person eloping from the Lazaretto during
quarantine, for every such offence, shall be liable to pay a fine of two
hundred dollars.
VIII. No pilot, bringing a vessel to the Lazaretto in a healthy state,
shall be obliged to perform quarantine, but the Lazaretto Physician
shall grant such pilot a certificate, permitting him to proceed to the
capes of Delaware, in order that he may prosecute his profession, but
such pilot shall not, on any pretence, come into the city or adjacent
districts, for twenty days from the date of such certificate, under the
penalty of one hundred dollars, and one year's imprisonment.
IX. To prevent unnecessary delay, the commanding officer of every vessel
will have prepared muster rolls of his crew and passengers, for the
examination of the boarding officer.
X. Pilots are requested to keep a copy of the foregoing rules, and offer
them for the perusal of the commanding officer of every vessel they
bring up, and also to inform them, that every refusal or neglect to
comply with the same, will be punished to the utmost extent of the law.
A SUPPLEMENT
_To an Act, entitled "An act for establishing a Health Office, and
to secure the City and Port of Philadelphia from the introduction
of pestilential and contagious diseases, and for other purposes."_
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