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
SECT. 1. _Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the same_, That from and after the
passing of this act, between the first day of June and the first day of
October, every ship or vessel coming from any port or place southward of
Cape Fear, bound to Philadelphia, shall be subject to the examination
directed by the fourth section of the act to which this is a supplement;
for every ship or vessel coming from any foreign port or place, and the
master, commander or pilot of every such ship or vessel coming from any
port or place southward of Cape Fear shall be subject to the same
restrictions, and liable to the same indictment, prosecution and
penalties, as by the said fourth section of the said act is prescribed
for the master, commander or pilot of any ship or vessel coming from any
foreign port or place. And the same duties shall be performed by the
Lazaretto Physician and Quarantine Master, and the same oaths or
affirmations shall be by them administered, first making known to the
person interrogated the penalty imposed by the said act to which this is
a supplement, which penalty is hereby extended to every person who shall
give false answers, under oath or affirmation, to the questions proposed
under the authority of this act. And the said Physician and Quarantine
Master, and the master or captain of such ship or vessel, shall proceed
in the same manner in all respects as is directed by the said fourth
section of the act to which this is a supplement; and the Board of
Health shall have the same power to determine and direct what measures
shall be pursued, and the same shall be carried in like manner into
execution.
SECT. 2. _And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid_, That
from and after the passing of this act, between the first day of June
and the first day of October, every ship or vessel coming from a port or
place in the United States, bound to the port of Philadelphia, and from
which ship or vessel shall have been, within thirty days then next
preceding, unladen, the whole or a part of the cargo or baggage, brought
in the said ship or vessel from some foreign port or place, every such
ship or vessel shall be liable and subject to all the rules, regulations
and restrictions of the said fourth section of the said act to which
this is a supplement, and shall be examined and treated as well the
vessel itself, as the cargo, crew, passengers and baggage on board, in
the same manner as if such ship or vessel had brought the same cargo,
crew, passengers or baggage, directly from such foreign port or place,
and had the same then on board at the Lazaretto.
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