1822 - Edocs

Penalties how re- Art. 4. All penalties imposed by this code, may be
coverable. SUPC] for ana; recovered in the name of I'm board of health,
and recovered for their use in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Monies collected Art. 5. The monies collected for fines and penalties,
from penalties &.c. an(j from the vessel, captains, crews, and passengers, oy
priated.
Inn-keepers &c.to
furnish a list of
boarders.
Boarder falling
sick.
Practising' physicians
to report to
Board of Health.
Health office.
Extracts printed
for Pilots.
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LPPro v i rtue of the several articles of this code, shall be appropriated
to the purposes thereof, and a regular account
of receipts and expenditures shall be kept and submitted
to the Legislative Council of this Territory, within ten
days after their regular annual meeting.
CHAP, V.
General Provisions.
Art. 1. All keepers of inns, taverns, boarding houses'
or other places where there are lodgings for hire, shall
once in every week furnish to the mayor of the city, at his
office, a list of the persons lodging or boarding at their
houses; and every person offending against this article,
shall forfeit one hundred dollars, or if knowingly furnishing
a false account or list, shall forfeit a sum of five hundred
dollars.
Art. 2. If any seafaring man or sojourner, shall at any
such house, as is described in the foregoing article, fall
sick at any time between the first day of May, and first
day of November in any year, the master of such house
shall, within twelve hours report the name of such sick
person to the board of health, and describe the place at
which he is sick, unless such sick person is attended by
a physician duly admitted to practice; and for every neglect
to make such report, every keeper of such house
shall forfeit twenty dollars.
Art. 3. Every person practising in the city who shall
have a patient sick of the yellow or bilious, malignant or
pestilential, or infectious fever, between the first day of
May and the first day of November in every year, shall
forthwith or at least in twenty four hours, make a report
in writing to the board of health, at their office; and for
neglecting so to do, he shall forfeit for every offence r
three hundred dollars.
Art. 4. The board of health shall have an office to be
called " health office,*' and which shall have those words
painted conspicuously over the outer door; which office
shall be kept open at least six hours in every day, by the
secretary or his deputy.
Art. 5. The board of health shall cause such extracts
to be made from this code, as they may deem necessary,
for the information of the masters of the vessels arriving