1822 - Edocs

without leave.
Officers, seamen or
passengers, escaping
quarantine.
Quarantine colours
Persons g"oing* on
board vessel in
quarantine.
Seaman or officer
disobeying- orders
of H. officer.
Captain landing* a
passenger before.
Penalty to passenger.
Pilot to deliver a
copv to Captain.
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ground and proceed towards the city before the said
quarantine is completed, may be seized and sent back by
order of the board of health, or the health officer, and
the master or person having charge of her at t;>e time of
such departure shall forfeit one thousand dollars, to be
sued for, and recovered by the said board.
Art. 4. Every officer, seaman, or passenger, who shall
be liable to perform quarantine by the tenor of this code.
who shall escape the said quarantine ground, shall for
every offence, be liable to be arrested by a warrant issued
by the board of health or any justice of the peace, on affidavit
of the fact, and returned to ,th,e said quarantine
ground, and shall also forfeit five hundred dollars for the
use of the board of health, or suffer imprisonment for not
less than six months, at
court.
the discretion of any competent
Art. 5. The master of every vessel under quarantine,
shall hoist his colours in the shrouds in such a manner as
shall be directed by the health officer, and shall not suffer
them to be taken down during the continuance of the said
quarantine,
offence.
under the penalty of fifty dollars for every
Art. 6. Every person who shall go on board of any
vessel while performing quarantine, without the permission
of the health officer or his assistant, shall forfeit the
sum of fifty dollars.
Art. 7. Any seaman or officer, refusing to assist in
cleaning the vessel to which he belongs, or to perform
any other duty of his station in relation to said ship,
which shall be ordered by the master under the direction
of the health officer, shall forfeit ten dollars; to be deducted
from his pay, by the master, if so much be due him,
and may be imprisoned three days; and every master of
a vessel refusing to give the order to his men, for any
operation under this code which may be directed by the
health officer, shall forfeit on£ hundred dollars.
Art. 8 If any master of a vessel, arriving from sea,
shall, in order to evade the provisions of this act, land
any passenger or person, before he comes to the quaran-
tine ground, he shall, for every offence, forfeit the sum oi
one thousand dollars; and such passenger or other person,
who shall be so landed and arrived in the city, without
the permit of the health officer, shall forfeit three
hundred dollars, and may be arrested and sent down to
the quarantine ground, if thought necessary by the board
of health.
Art. 9. Every pilot, or any person acting as such,
shall deliver to the master of every vessel he may board,
inward bound, one copy of the printed extracts from this