That whenever the Board of Health shall receive information that any malignant or contagious disease (the small pox and measles excepted,) prevails in any port or place within the United States, or on the continent of America, they shall make diligent inquiry concerning the same, and if it shall appear that the disease prevails as aforesaid, all communication with such infected port or place, shall be subject to such controul and regulations as the Board of Health may from time to time think proper, to direct and publish in one or more newspapers published in the city of Philadelphia, and thereupon every person or persons, and all goods, wares and merchandises, bedding and clothing, from such infected port or place, and having entered and brought into the city and county of Philadelphia, contrary to such regulations shall be subject to the penalties and forfeitures provided by the next preceding section of this act; and all vessels from such port or place, and bound to the port of Philadelphia, shall stop at the Lazaretto, and be proceeded with in the same manner, and under the same penalties and forfeitures, as are provided in cases of vessels coming from foreign ports; and every person or persons having entered or been brought into the city or county of Philadelphia, from such infected port or place aforesaid, shall also be conveyed by any person authorized by the Board, to such place for purification, as the said Board may appoint or direct for that purpose, and be there detained at the pleasure of the Board any time not exceeding twenty days, and at the expense of such person or persons; and if the said Board shall have cause to suspect that any person or persons at the time, within the city and county of Philadelphia, have been at such infected port or place within fifteen days since such disease prevailed at such port or place next preceding, the said Board may lawfully require such person or persons to render satisfactory proof of their place or places of abode during the said period; and if such person or persons neglect or refuse to render such proof, or fail in proving their residence other than at such infected port or place, every such person shall be dealt with, by purification and detention, as persons coming from such infected port or place.

SECT. 10. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no Lazaretto physician, quarantine master, or other offcer, or servant of the said Lazaretto, shall absent himself from the place of his duty between the first day of June and the first day of October on any pretence whatsoever, for any time, without leave first obtained in writing from the Board of Health, under the hand of the president or chairman for the time, at tested by the secretary and entered on the minutes, under the penalty of forfeiting his office and a fine of any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SECT. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Lazaretto physician, immediately on the arrival of any ship or vessel liable to be detained at the Lazaretto in order to be cleansed and purified as aforesaid, to cause the sick, if any on board, to be removed to the building which shall be appointed by the Board of Health for their reception, and diligently and impartially with his best skill to attend upon and administer medical assistance to each and every sick person that shall be therein lodged, and generally to superintend and cause to be executed such orders and regulations as the said Board shall from time to time ordain for the government and management of the Lazaretto, and of the vessels cargoes, and persons, under quarantine.

SECT. 12. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the quarantine master, immediately after the arrival and examination as aforesaid, of any ship or vessel liable to be detained at the Lazaretto for purification as aforesaid, to direct and cause such ship or vessel to be properly moored near the Lazaretto at such distance from any vessel or vessels under quarantine as may prevent the communication of any infectious disease to or from the same. And the cargo, bedding, and clothing, or any part thereof contained in such ship or vessel to be landed, cleansed, and purified, under the direction of the Lazaretto physician; and it shall be the particular duty of the said quarantine master to prevent any personal intercourse between the persons on board different vessels under quarantine, and for that purpose to take possession of and secure the boats of such vessels from sunset to sunrise of the succeeding day, until their respective terms of quarantine shall be completed. To preserve and enforce order and obedience to this act, and all such orders and regulations as the Board of Health shall from time to time ordain for the government of the Lazaretto, and the persons, vessels, and cargoes, under quarantine.

SECT. 13. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the port physician, upon receiving information from the Health Officer or other person whomsoever, that any person or persons on board of any ship or vessel in the port of Philadelphia is or are afflicted, or suspected to be afflicted, with any pestilential or contagious disease, or that there is just cause to suspect that the cargo or any part thereof, contained in any such ship, or vessel, is infected with any such disease, the said physician, in either of the foregoing cases, shall visit and carefully examine such ship or vessel, and if he shall discover any sick person or persons on board any such ship or vessel, he shall thereupon have and exercise the authority to direct such sick person or persons to be removed to the

said Lazaretto, or to some other safe place which may be specified by the Board of Health. And the said physician shall without delay report the state of said vessel, cargo, and crew, to the Board of Health, who shall direct and determine how the crew, passengers, vessel, and cargo, shall be disposed of and managed for the restoration of their health and purification. And on the arrival of any ship or vessel in the port of Philadelphia, from any foreign port or place, from the first day of October in any year to the first day of June in the next succeeding year, it shall be the duty of the said physician, provided such ship or vessel shall not have been previously visited and examined by the physician resident at the Lazaretto, and quarantine master, and before any of the passengers, crew, cargo, or baggage are landed, to visit and carefully examine such ship or vessel in manner and form as the said Lazaretto physician and quarantine master are bound to do, and to demand answers under oath or affirmation to be administered by the said port physician, who is hereby empowered to administer the same in conformity with this act. And if the crew, passengers, vessel, and cargo, be in a healthy state, and if there shall be no ground ts suspect that any of the crew or passengers have died in the voyage of any dangerous contagious disease, (the small pox and measles excepted) or that the cargo, bedding, or clothing, is infected, then and in such case the said physician shall give to the master or commander a certificate of the facts, which the said master or commander shall present at the Health Office within twenty-four hours after such examination; and if he shall neglect so to do, being thereof legally convicted under this act, he shall be sentenced to pay a fine of two hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as is herein provided and directed. And if on examination, any suspicion shall arise in the mind of the said physician touching the health of the crew or passengers, or the infectious state of the vessel, cargo, bedding, or clothing, on board, no part thereof shall be landed, but the said physician shall immediately report the same to the Board of Health, who shall direct and determine what measures shall be pursued relative thereto. And the said physician upon request of the Health Officer, or Board of Health, shall, from time to time, visit and examine such houses and persons as the said Board, or the Health Officer, shall have reason to suspect are infected with any dangerous contagious disease, and make report thereof to the said Health Officer. And every ship or vessel, so as aforesaid, arriving at the port of Philadelphia, shall be visited by the port physician previously to her being hauled to any wharf within the city or district aforesaid, or Wind Mill island; and every captain or other person so hauling such ship or vessel to any wharf as aforesaid, shall for each and every

offence forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred dollars, to be sued for and recovered as herein provided, unless it shall be made appear by such captain or other person that there was at the time imminent danger of the loss of such ship or vessel, or of the passengers or crew thereof.

SECT. 14. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Health Officer at seasonable and proper hours on each day (Sundays excepted) to open and keep a public office at such convenient place in the city of Philadelphia as shall be directed by the Board of Health, whereat all masters or captains of ships or vessels shall deliver the cer-. tificates of bills of health to them granted by the Lazaretto physician and quarantine master, or port physician as aforesaid. And the Board of Health shall there assemble and meet, as often as they deem needful, for the purpose of executing the duties and trust of their appointment. And the said Health Officer shall file and preserve in good order all the certificates or bills of health so delivered, and shall keep a register of the ships or vessels, and the names of the captains or masters, owners or consignees, for which the same were respectively granted, the port or ports from which the ship or vessel respectively sailed, or at which they touched during their respective voyages, and the number of persons on board thereof respectively at the time of their leaving their respective ports of departure, and also at the time of their arrival respectively at the port of Philadelphia. And the said Health Officer shall attend the Health Office at the meeting of the Board of Health, and at such other times as shall be required for discharging the duties of his appointment, and generally enforce and execute the regulations and instructions of the Board of Health. And it shall be the duty of the said Health Officer to collect, recover, and receive all forfeitures and penalties imposed, and sums of money directed to be paid by this act. And the said Health Offcer shall, before he enters on the duties of his office, give bond with sureties to the satisfaction of the Board of Health, conditioned for the faithful execution of the duties of his office, and to account for all monies which may come into his hands in pursuance thereof. And the said bond shall be a lien on the estates of the said Health Officer and his securities respectively.

SECT. 15. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the letter mail shall during the quarantine season, leave the Lazaretto for the Health Office, in the city of Philadelphia, and return twice in each juridical day, at such hours as the Board of Health shall determine, and shall be free for the transmission of letters to and from persons who may be within the bounds of the Lazaretto, or on board of vessels which may be de

tained there; and it shall be the duty of the Health Office immediately after the arrival of the Lazaretto mail, to deposit in the post office the letters received thereby, excepting those which shall be addressed to the Board of Health and the officers connected therewith.

SECT. 16. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every diseased person duly landed or sent to the Lazaretto, by either of the aforesaid physicians, quarantine master, or Health Officer, shall be there kept and maintained until the Lazaretto physician shall grant him or her a discharge in writing, and if before obtaining a discharge as aforesaid, any such person shall elope or otherwise absent himself or herself from the Lazaretto, it shall be lawful for the Health Officer, or any constable or other person whom he shall call to his assistance, and they are hereby enjoined and required to lend such assistance, to pursue and apprehend the person so escaping or absenting himself or herself from the Lazaretto, and there again deliver him or her to be detained until he or she be duly discharged as aforesaid; and moreover the person so eloping and absenting himself or herself shall for each and every offence suffer such temporary confinement in the Lazaretto, not exceeding three months, as the Board of Health shall ordain and award; and if any master or captain shall knowingly receive or employ on board of his ship or vessel, or if any housekeeper or other inhabitant of this commonwealth shall knowingly receive, harbour, or in any way entertain any person so eloping or absenting from the Lazaretto, each and every master and captain, and each and every housekeeper or inhabitant so respectively offending shall, on being thereof legally convicted, forfeit and pay a sum of two hundred dollars; and if any person, arriving in or belonging to any ship or vessel detained at the Lazaretto as aforesaid, shall elope or absent himself or herself, without having first obtained a discharge, signed by the Lazaretto physician and quarantine master, or if any person other than those detained at the Lazaretto as aforesaid, shall go on board or along side of any ship or vessel whilst under quarantine as aforesaid, or if any person not authorized by the Board of Health shall go within the limits of the Lazaretto, such person or persons shall perform such quarantine as the Board of Health may direct, the person so offending, upon legal conviction of such offence, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as hereinafter directed; and if any diseased or other person landed and sent to the Lazaretto by any officer having authority to do the same, or any person so arriving in or belonging to any ship or vessel detained at the Lazaretto as aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect to obey the directions of the Lazaretto physician or quarantine master respec