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THE
LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA UuiKshlu
IN RELATION TO
THE  BOARD  OF HEALTH,


                AND THE



         HEALTH  LAWS



                OK THE



   CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA:




      THE ACTS OF  CONGRESS


               RELATING TO



 QUARANTINES, HEALTH LAWS, AN© PASSENGER VESSELS.






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             ALSO THE SEVERAL



      RULES  AND REGULATIONS


               ADOPTED BY



     THE BOARD OF  HEALTH.



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     PHILADELPHIA:

CRISSV & MARKLEY, PRINTERS, NO. 1 MINOR STREET.

          1*48, 
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BOARD   OF   HEALTH,
                1848-49.
                MEMBERS.
                     CITY.
John Lindsay,                  Edward DufF,
Joseph M. Thomas,              John C. Martin,
John A. Elkinton, M. D.,         Samuel W. VVeer.
              NORTHERN LIBERTIES.
William F. Ireland,          Benjamin E. Carpenter.
               SPRING GARDEN,
Amos Phillips,             '   Wilson Jewell, M. D.
                 KENSINGTON.
Joshua Bethell,               Jeremiah E. Eldridge.
                 SOUTHWARK.
Benjamin Martin,              William Henry, M. D.
         Moyamensing,—James Eneu, Jr.
            Richmond.—Oliver Evans.
              Penn.—Joseph Wood.
    OFFICERS OF  THE BOARD.
President.—John Lindsay.
Secretary.—Benjamin E. Carpenter.
Treasurer.—Samuel W. Weer,
Solicitor,—J. Altamont Phillips.
Clerk.—Samuel P. Marks.
Steivard of Lazaretto.—John J. Garvin.
Physician of City Hospital.—John P, Bethell, M. D.
Matron of City Hospital.—P. Altemus.
       EXECUTIVE  OFFICERS.
Health Officer.—William Loughlin.
Port Physician.—Henry D. Dietrich, M. D.
Lazaretto Physician.—Joshua Y. Jones, M. D.
Quarantine Master.—John H. Cheyney.

    Messenger.—Charles F. Thiesen.
    Assistant Messenger.—Thomas Bedford.
    Runner.—David Brown. 
 
TABLE   OF  CONTENTS.
                                                    Page
Laws of Pennsylvania,      „...--    1
Laws of the United States,      -      -      -      -      61
Rules for  the Government of the Board of Health, its  Officers
      and Committees,      -      -      -      -       -  73
Rules of Order,  ------      87
Rules of the Sanatary Committee and City Hospital,   -       -  91
Rules of the Lazaretto,   -----      97
Rules and  Regulations in relation to Privies,   -      -       - 109
General Index,  -      -     -      -      -      -     ! 13 
 
          ACTS  OF   ASSEMBLY

                    RELATING TO THE

BOARD  OF  HEALTH.
      ACT OF ASSEMBLY, Passed 19th February, 1801.

               [3d Smith's Laws of Pennsylvania, 464.]
                 [6th Carey and Bioren's Laws, p. 182.]

  JSsPCtfOU IV.   [Vessels, goods and passengers, with their bedding
and  clothing,  coming from any port in  the State of Delaware, were
subject to the same  regulations, restrictions and penalties, as if they
had  not stopped or been landed  at any port or place in the United
States.]
  This proviso was repealed by the following law, and other enactments substituted in
its place.


To alter and amend the Health Laws of this State, so far as respects
  Vessels, Goods and Passengers coming from any  port or place in
  the State of Delaware.  Passed January 27, 1802.*
          [3d Smith's Laws of Pennsylvania, 481.—Pamphlets p. 25.]
  Whereas the proviso contained in the fourth section of an Act of the
General Assembly of this Commonwealth, passed the nineteenth day
of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
  * This law does not appear to have ever been repealed; all the different laws and
parts of laws on the subject, that were repealed, are set out in detail in the last sec-
tion of the General Health Law of January 29, 1818. 
2
ACT  OF JANUARY 27,  1802.
one, entitled " An Act to incorporate a Company for the purpose of
cutting and making a  Canal between the river  Delaware and  the
Chesapeake bay; and to authorize the clearing of obstructions in the
river Susquehanna, down to the Maryland line, and for other purposes
therein mentioned," has  been deemed  by some of the citizens of the
State of Delaware, susceptible of a construction injurious to their inte-
rests ;  and it is the wish  of the  Legislature  of this Commonwealth to
remove every reasonable cause of complaint on the part of the citizens
of a sister State, Therefore,
   SCCtfolt I.  Re it  enacted, Src.  That the proviso contained in
the fourth  section  of the act entitled " An Act to incorporate a Com-
pany for the purpose of cutting and making a  Canal between the river
Delaware and the Chesapeake bay; and to  authorize the clearing of
obstructions in the  river Susquehanna down to the Maryland line, and
for other purposes therein mentioned ;"  and  every matter and thing
therein contained,  be, and the same  is hereby repealed.   And that in
future, such vessels and crews, goods and  passengers, beds, bedding
and apparel, as shall appear by the certificate of the Board of Health,
or Health Officer,  or  (where there is  no Board of Health, or Health
Officer,)  by that of any  regular Physician and  three Justices of the
Peace,  at any port or district  in the  State of Delaware (reciting the
quantity  and quality, and if any, the marks  and  numbers of such
goods,  beds, bedding and apparel, and the names of the crew and pas-
sengers,) to have been landed at least fifteen days within the said State
or District;  and the said  crew and passengers  to be in a healthy state ;
and  the said goods, beds, bedding and apparel,  to  be well  aired and
purified;  and to the best  of their knowledge and belief, to be free from
contagion and infection,  shall, upon  due examination of such  certifi-
cate, by the resident physician, or other proper officer at the Lazaretto
of the Port of Philadelphia, be permitted to  proceed  to Philadelphia or
the port or place of their  destination, in the same manner as if the said
landing, airing and purification had taken place at the said Lazaretto:
Provided, That nothing herein before contained,  shall prevent the pro-
per officers at the Lazaretto aforesaid, in cases where after any bill of
health  as aforesaid  has been granted at any port or place in the State
of Delaware, any  infectious or  contagious disease  shall exist,  or be
suspected to exist  on board any such vessel, from directing  such fur-
ther quarantine  or detention,  cleansing, airing and purification, as in 
GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.
3
the judgment of the said officers and  Board of Health, shall be  requi-
site and necessary for the preservation of the  people of the City and
Port of Philadelphia from pestilential and contagious diseases.
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.   Passed January 29, 1818.

         [7th Smith's Laws of Pennsylvania, p. 5—Pamphlets  page 38.]

   SCCttOtl I.   From  and after the first Monday in March  next, a
Board of Health  shall be established in the manner hereinafter directed,
which shall be and hereby is erected into a body corporate, in deed and
in law, by the name, style, and title of " The Board of Health," who
shall  have perpetual  succession, and enjoy all  and every the rights,
liberties and privileges, powers, authorities  and immunities, incident or
belonging to  a  corporation  or body politic; and by that  name may
take and hold all the estate, real and personal, now vested in the pre-
sent Board  of Health,  and  shall  moreover  have and  exercise  the
powers and authorities hereinafter mentioned, that is to say :
   The  members of the Board of Health shall be eleven,* who shall
serve without compensation or emolument, and shall be appointed in
the manner following to wit:
   The Select  and Common Councils  of the City of Philadelphia, in a
joint  meeting to be held  on the afternoon of the second  Monday in
  * The Board of Health now consists of seventeen members, and the six not pro-
vided for in this act, are chosen as follows: viz.  One by Kensington, by the 33d
section of the Act of  March 6,  1820, incorporating the District.  By Act of
April 30, 1814, Section 8, Kensington, Spring Garden and Southwark, each elect
an additional member, and by Act of February 3, 1848, Section 9, the Districts of
Penn and Richmond, each elect a member. 
4              GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.
 March,* annually, between the hours of two and six o'clock, shall elect
 by ballot, six citizens, who shall be taxable inhabitants of the said city;
 and the Commissioners of the incorporated part of the Northern Liber-
 ties shall, annually, on the same  day, and between  the same hours,
 elect by ballot two  citizens, who shall be taxable inhabitants of the
 said district; and the Commissioners  of Penn Townshipf shall,  an-
 nually, on the same day, and between the  same hours, elect by ballot
 one citizen, who shall be a  taxable inhabitant of the said district; and
 the Commissioners of the district of Southwark shall, annually, on the
 same  day, and between the same hours, elect by ballot  one citizen,
 who shall be a  taxable inhabitant of the said district; and the  Com-
 missioners of Moyamensing shall,  annually,  on the same day, and
 between the same hours, elect  by ballot one citizen,  who shall be a
 taxable inhabitant of the said township, who shall constitute the Board
 of Health, of which a majority shall be a quorum.
   And in case the appointments hereby directed should not take place
 on the day specified, they may be made on any other subsequent day
 prior to the third Monday in March, between the same hours.
   And the number of years for which any  individual  may be  eligible
 as a member of the Board of Health, shall not be limited ;  and in case
 of the removal, death, sickness,  resignation,  inability or refusal to
 serve,  of any of the said Board, their places shall be supplied by other
 appointments to be made by the same authority which appointed the
 individuals by whose delinquency the vacancies shall be occasioned.
   And the said Board, out of their own body, shall choose a President,
 who shall preside at the meetings of the Board, and whose place shall
 be supplied in his absence  by the appointment of a chairman  for the
 time;  a Secretary, whose duty it shall  be to  keep fair minutes of all
 the proceedings, rules and regulations of the Board; and a Treasurer,
 who shall  give  bond with sureties  as is  required of the county trea-
surer,  who shall receive all  moneys  belonging to the Corporation, and
pay and disburse the same upon the order of the Board, signed by the
President, and attested by the Secretary,  who shall keep fair and just
  * By Act of April 14,1840, Section 81, the City Councils may elect members of the
Board of Health, at their stated meeting next preceding the second Monday of March.
  t By the term " Commissioners of Penn Township," is meant Commissioners  of
Spring Garden, which was, at the time of the passage of the law, carved out of Penn
Township, and was the only part of Penn Township that elected Commissioners. 
GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.
5
 accounts of his receipts and expenditures,  and make extracts thereof
 whenever the Board  shall require the same; and shall once in every
 year, his accounts having  been allowed by the Board, publish the
 same in one or more newspapers of the city of Philadelphia.
    And the said Board  shall sit upon their own adjournment as they
 shall find necessary, but shall meet  at least once in every day, between
 the first day of June and first day of October, in every year; and also
 when the Board shall  be specially convened by order of the President,
 or any two of the members.
    And the said Board  shall have, and hereby is  vested with  full
 power and authority to make general rules, orders and regulations for
 the government and management of  the Lazaretto, and the vessels,
 cargoes,  and persons there  detained,  or under quarantine, and of the
 Health Office  and Public Hospitals, and for the mode of visiting and
 examining vessels, persons, goods and houses.
    And shall  also have  power to appoint such officers and servants as
 may be necessary to  attend the Health Office, the Lazaretto, and the
 City Hospital, and  convey communications  and supplies to the said
 Lazaretto and  Hospital, and such other officers and servants as may
 be necessary  for the preservation of the health of the district; together
 with all temporary officers and  servants that may be rendered neces-
 sary by the existence  of any dangerous contagious  disease in the city
 of Philadelphia, or  in any other place within the United States:  Pro-
 vided, that such officers  and  servants shall not hold any offices of pro-
 fit or trust under the United States ;  and to remove  any of the officers
 or servants by them appointed,  and to  appoint others in their places,
 and to allow and pay the said officers and servants so appointed, such
 compensation for their respective services as the said Board shall deem
 just and proper.
   And the  governor is  hereby authorized and required to appoint one
 physician, who shall reside  at the Lazaretto, and be denominated the
 Lazaretto Physician, and one physician who shall reside in the city of
 Philadelphia, and shall be denominated the Port Physician, one Health
 Officer, and one Quarantine  Master, all of whom shall be under the
 direction  and control  of the Board of Health, {and shall be removed
from office by  the Governor at the request of the majority of the mem-
 bers of the Board of Health ;)* and the  said Lazaretto physician shall

       * Part in brackets repealed by 3d Section of  Act of 7th April, 1830. 
6
GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.
be entitled to occupy the house hitherto occupied by the resident phy-
sician, and shall also be provided by the Board of Health with ground
for a garden  within the bounds of the Lazaretto, of such extent as the
Board  may think proper; and  the Quarantine Master shall be entitled
to occupy the house hitherto occupied by the Quarantine Master, and
shall also be provided by the Board of Health with ground for a gar-
den, within the bounds  of the  Lazaretto, of such extent as the Board
shall think proper.
   JSbCCttOil  II.  The Health Officer, on receiving from the captain or
master of any ship or  vessel, the certificate as directed by this act, or
where  no certificate is to be given on the arrival of the vessel, shall be
entitled to  receive from the captain or master, the  following sums and
no  more, and to pay the same over from  time to time as  the Board
may direct to the Treasurer of the Board  of Health, to wit:
  All  American  vessels  sailing under coasting documents,  arriving at
the port of Philadelphia, from  any port or place in the United States,
between  the  river St. Croix, and the river St. Mary, (except ports or
places  between Sandy Hook and Cape Charles) shall pay two dollars
and  fifty cents for each  arrival, during quarantine months, and the
said  vessels during that time shall (if  having goods capable of contain-
ing contagion, persons, baggage, or clothing, from  any foreign port or
place, or any diseased person)  stop at the Lazaretto, and there be ex-
amined by the Lazaretto  physician and Quarantine master, under the
rules, regulations, and penalties in this act contained.
  And all American vessels from any port in the United States where
they may have touched or traded from a foreign  port or place, shall
pay the same sum as  if they  had arrived direct from such port  or
place.
  And  all American vessels with coasting  documents, arriving from
any port or place between Sandy Hook and Cape  Charles, including
the bay and  river Delaware, during quarantine months, having on
board merchandize of foreign growth or manufacture, or persons, bag-
gage, or clothing, from any foreign port or place, or from any place to
the northward or eastward of Sandy  Hook,  or westward  of  Cape
Charles, shall stop at the Lazaretto for examination, under the  rules,
regulations, and penalties in this act contained, and  shall pay for each
arrival during quarantine months two dollars and fifty cents.
  All American vessels arriving from any port or place in New Bruns-
wick, Nova Scotia, Canada, or the islands or ports adjacent the river 
GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.
7
St.  Mary's, the coast  of Florida, Bay of Mexico, including New Or-
leans and parts adjacent, and from thence along the Bay of Honduras
and coast of Terra Firma, as far as the river Amazon, including all
the islands generally denominated West India, Bahamas, or Bermudas,
shall pay on arrival five dollars.
  All American vessels arriving from  any place in  Europe, in  the
Western, Madeira, Canary, or  Cape  Verd Islands, the west coast of
Africa as far as latitude thirty-four degrees south, and  from any place
in  the Mediterranean  or straits  thereof, or from any place from the
river Amazon inclusive, and round the coast of Brazils, as far as lati-
tude thirty-four degrees south, shall pay  ten dollars each.
  And all American vessels arriving from any place beyond latitude
thirty-four degrees  south, or round Cape Horn, or the Cape of Good
Hope, shall pay twenty dollars each.
   And all foreign vessels arriving as  aforesaid, (except prizes to Ame-
rican vessels,) shall pay twenty-five  per cent, each, additional, unless
otherwise regulated by any treaty.
   And prize vessels taken by foreign armed vessels, shall pay twenty-
five per cent, each, more than is paid by American vessels.
   And prize  vessels taken  by American vessels, shall pay on arrival
ten dollars each.  And public  armed vessels and privateers, shall pay
six dollars each.
   And any vessel of the burthen of one hundred and fifty tons and up-
wards, arriving  at  the Lazaretto, from  any foreign port or coastwise,
may come to in  the outer channel, as  near to the west end of the island
of  Little Tinicum, opposite the Lazaretto, as her draft of  water, wind,
and weather will permit, for the purpose  of receiving the visit from the
Lazaretto physician and Quarantine master.
   And if the said  vessel does not receive her visit in the inner chan-
nel, she shall pay an additional sum of  five dollars, of which two dol-
lars shall  be paid to the Lazaretto physician, and one dollar to the
Quarantine master, as a compensation for their extraordinary services,
and two  dollars shall be paid into the treasury of the Board.
   SCCtfott HI.   The building  now called the  Lazaretto, and  the
ground therewith reserved  and  occupied, and  all the  property and
estate of every  kind whatsoever  now vested in the present Board of
Health, shall  become and be fully vested in the Board of Health con-
stituted by this act, immediately,  and  as soon as the same shall be or- 
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 ganized, for the uses  and purposes for which the said Board is insti-
 tuted and  established, and the same  shall be fully and entirely under
 the direction and management of the said Board ; and the said Board
 shall have power to erect such buildings, and to make such enclosures
 on the  lot or tract adjoining the Lazaretto, as to them may seem pro-
 per and necessary.
   JsCCtfOU IV.  From and after the passing of this act, every ship or
 vessel coming from any foreign port or place bound to the port of Phil-
 adelphia, between the  first day  of June, and the first day of October,
 in every year, shall come to  anchor in the river Delaware as near the
 Lazaretto,  as the draught  of water and the weather will allow, before
 any part of the cargo or baggage be landed, or any person who came
 in such ship or vessel shall leave her, or any person be permitted to go
 on  board, and shall submit to the examination  hereinafter directed.
  And if any master, commander, or pilot, shall leave  his station  be-
 fore the said Lazaretto, or if any master  or commander shall permit
 or  suffer any part of the cargo  or baggage, or any person or persons
 arriving in such ship or vessel from any port  beyond the limits of  the
 United  States, to be landed on  either shore of the Delaware bay, or
 river, or suffer any person, except the pilot, to  come on board before
 such examination be duly  had, and a certificate obtained as is herein-
 after  specified, the person  or persons so permitting, and the person or
 persons so landed, or going on board (unless imminent danger of  the
 loss of  the vessel or lives of the crew shall render assistance neces-
 sary,) being thereof convicted, upon indictment or  prosecution under
 this act, by verdict, confession, or standing mute in any court having
jurisdiction of the offence, shall pay a fine not exceeding five hundred
 dollars,  to be recovered and appropriated as is herein directed.
  And it shall be the duty of the Lazaretto physician and Quarantine
 master,  so soon as any ship or vessel shall be anchored near the Laza-
 retto,  between  sun rise and sun set,  immediately, wind and weather
 permitting,  to go on board the same, and there thoroughly examine, in
 such form and manner as shall be prescribed by the Board of Health,
 the  said ship or vessel, the crew, passengers, cargo, and baggage on
 board the same, and to demand answers under oath or affirmation to
 be  administered by either the said  physician or Quarantine master,
 who are hereby severally empowered to administer  the  same, to  all
 such questions as shall be put to  any person on board such ship or ves- 
GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.
9
sel touching the health of the crew and passengers during the voyage,
and the nature and state of the cargo, as the Board of Health by their
rules shall from time to time direct to be asked ; but it shall be the duty
of the person so examining on oath or affirmation, before he shall pro-
ceed therein, to make known to the person interrogated the penalty im-
posed  by this act upon the person who shall give false answers under
oath or affirmation to the questions proposed in such examination.
   And if upon such examination it shall appear to the said physician
and Quarantine master, that the  said ship or vessel came from a port
or  place at which  no malignant or contagious disease prevailed at the
time of her  departure, that  the persons on board such ship or vessel
are free from  every pestilential or contagious disease, (the small pox
and* measles excepted,) and that  the said vessel has  had no malignant
disease on board either during the homeward bound voyage, or during
her continuance in a foreign port, and they shall see no cause to sus-
pect that the cargo or any part  thereof is infected, they shall forth-
with deliver to the master or captain of such ship or vessel a certificate
of the facts in such form as shall be directed by the Board of Health.
   And the said captain or  master  may, thereupon, proceed according
to  his destination, and  shall  present such certificate  at the Health
Office  in  Philadelphia, within twenty-four hours  after his arrival and
safely mooring there.
   But if it shall appear, upon such examination,  that the ship or ves-
sel came from a port or place at which a malignant or contagious dis-
ease prevailed, such vessel shall be detained at the Lazaretto for such
time as the  Board of Health shall deem  necessary,  not  exceeding
twenty days.
  And the letter bag of the vessel, when purified, and such letters as
the master, commander or passengers shall  think proper to write to
their owners, consignees or friends, shall be transmitted to the Health
Officer in Philadelphia,  who shall safely deposit the  same in the post
office.
  And thereupon  the Board of Health shall determine and direct what
measures  shall  be pursued to cleanse the vessel and cargo, purify the
  * By Act of March 29, 1821, cases of small pox are no longer excepted, but treated
in all respects like other pestilential or contagious disease.
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clothing and baggage, and  restore the health  of diseased persons on
board, which  directions  shall be  carried  into execution  under  the
inspection of the Lazaretto Physician and  Quarantine Master, at the
expense of the master, owners or consignees of the vessel and goods,
respectively, in such manner as by the said orders shall be directed.
  Provided always,  That wine, rum,  salt, sugar,  spirits,  molasses,
mahogany, manufactured tobacco, dye  woods, preserved fruits, and
such other articles as the Board of Health shall, by their general regu-
lations specify and permit, may be conveyed  immediately to the city,
in lighters.
  And at the expiration of  the said time, if it  shall appear to the said
Physician and Quarantine Master, that  no  person has been sick with
a malignant  or contagious disease,  (the  [small pox and*] measles
excepted,) on  board said ship  or vessel, either  during  the  voyage
homeward, or during  her  continuance  in a  foreign  port,  nor any
of the crew or passengers,  or  other persons from  on  board  such
vessel during the performance of quarantine,  and the said Physician
and  Quarantine Master  shall certify the  said facts to the Board of
Health, and that, in  their opinion, the vessel,  crew, cargo and passen-
gers, may be safely suffered to proceed  to the  city, the said captain or
master may proceed with the same according to his destination, unless
the Board of Health shall deem  it necessary to cause a further deten-
tion of the said vessel or  cargo, or of the crew or passengers, or of any
baggage  on board said  vessel, in  which case  the  same  shall  be
detained until the Board of Health shall authorize the same to proceed
and enter the city.
  And upon the arrival of  the said captain or  master at  Philadelphia,
he shall  present the said certificate  of the Physician and Quarantine
Master at the Health Office, within twenty-four hours after his arrival.
  But if upon  examination of any vessel  by  the  said Physician and
Quarantine Master, as aforesaid, or during the performance of quaran-
tine by any vessel, it shall  appear to the said Physician and Quaran-
tine Master that there has been any person sick on board the said ves-
sel with any malignant or contagious disease, either during the voyage
homeward, or during the continuance of the vessel  in a foreign port,
or during the performance of quarantine at the Lazaretto,  (or that any
* Repealed. 
GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.
11
person on board such vessel has been affected with such disease,) then
in such case, the vessel shall  be detained such  further time as the
Board of Health may deem necessary.
   And the  cargo and baggage,  except  such part thereof as in the
opinion of the Board of Health, may be supposed  incapable of retain-
ing infection, which said part may be transported to the city in lighters,
shall,  unless otherwise ordered and directed by the Board of Health,
be unladened and thoroughly cleansed and  purified, and the crew and
passengers which were on board  the said vessel,  and the cargo and
baggage on board the same, or  any part thereof, except as before
excepted, shall not be suffered to enter the city before the first day of
October then next ensuing,  without  the license and permission of the
Board of Health, to that effect,  first had and obtained.
   Provided nevertheless,  That such ship or vessel, after she shall have
been thoroughly cleansed and purified, if no malignant disease appear
on board, may be allowed to take in freight at the Lazaretto by means
of lighters, and proceed to sea.
   And if any master or captain, or other person, on board any vessel
which shall be examined agreeably to this  law, shall  not true answers
make to all such questions as the Lazaretto Physician and Quarantine
Master, or the said Health Officer or Port Physician shall ask, agreea-
bly to this act, or the  rules heretofore established, or which shall, from
time to time, be established by  the Board of Health in conformity with
this act, or  shall knowingly  deceive, or attempt to deceive,  the proper
officers, as aforesaid, in his answers to their official inquiries, he having
been duly informed and apprised of the penalties imposed  by this act,
on the person  so offending, previous to his said  examination, by the
person making  such  examination,  such  person for  each and  every
offence,  being  thereof legally  convicted,  shall forfeit and  pay  a
sum not exceeding five hundred  dollars,  to be recovered and appro-
priated as hereinafter provided and directed, and moreover  shall be
sentenced to imprisonment  at  hard labor, for any term not less than
one year, and not exceeding five years.
   And if any captain or master of any ship or vessel, shall neglect to
present his certificate at the Health Office, in any case in which he is
hereinbefore directed so to do,  within the time directed by this act, he
shall forfeit and  pay the sum of three hundred dollars, to be recovered
and appropriated as hereinafter directed. 
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   And  if any captain  or master of any ship or vessel, or  any other
person on board the same, shall refuse  or neglect to comply with the
directions of the Lazaretto  Physician and Quarantine Master, which
shall  be made agreeably to this act, or the regulations of the Board of
Health, with respect to the detention of any ship or vessel,  or the land-
ing from on board the same, of any person or persons, or of any goods,
merchandize, bedding,  baggage or  clothing, or shall refuse to carry
the same into effect, such person,  for  each  and  every such  offence,
shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars,  nor less
than two hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as  is here-
inafter provided and directed.
   Sf CttOU  V.  Any ship or vessel coming from any port or place
within the United States, at which port or place the said ship or vessel
had only called in or touched, upon her arrival from a foreign port or
place,  shall be liable  and subject  to all the rules, regulations and
restrictions of the preceding sections of this act,  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 directly arrived at  the Lazaretto from a foreign port or place with-
out having first touched at a port or place within the United  States.
   And  all ships or vessels, as well vessels of war, as  merchant ves-
sels, coming  from any port or place within the  United  States, and
bound to the  port of Philadelphia, between the  first day of June, and
the first day of October in every year, and having on board any goods
or merchandize, the growth  or produce of any foreign  place or coun-
try, or  any person or persons,  bedding or clothing,  from  any foreign
port or place,  shall come to anchor opposite the said  Lazaretto, and
shall  be examined by the said Lazaretto Physician and  Quarantine
Master.
   And  if the captain or master of  any  such ship or vessel shall pro-
duce such satisfactory proof as the Board of Health shall,  in that case,
direct to be required,  that the said goods or merchandize shall have
been landed in the United States,  more than twenty days,  and  are free
from  damage, and that the said vessel, bedding, clothing and persons,
are free from the infection of any dangerous contagious disease, (the
[smallpox and*] measles excepted,) then,  and in that case,  the said
* Repealed. 
GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.
13
Physician and Quarantine Master shall give to the captain or master
of such ship or vessel a certificate of the facts, permitting such ship or
vessel to proceed to the city, which certificate the said captain or mas-
ter shall present at the Health Office, in Philadelphia, within twenty-
four hours after his arrival, and safely mooring there.
   And  if he should neglect so to do, being thereof legally convicted
under this act, he shall be sentenced to pay a fine of two hundred dol-
lars, to be recovered  and appropriated, as is hereinafter directed and
provided.
   And if the said captain or  master shall fail to produce such satisfac-
tory proof as aforesaid,  of  the  wholesome state of the said vessel,
goods, merchandize,  bedding,  clothing and persons, the said vessel,
goods, merchandize,  bedding,  clothing and persons  shall be detained
at the Lazaretto, and  shall  be  proceeded  with in  the same  manner,
and subject to  the same orders and  regulations as are hereinbefore
provided  and directed in the case of vessels  coming directly from a
foreign port or place.
   And if the captain or master of any such ship or vessel coming from
any port  or  place within the United States, and bound to the port of
Philadelphia,  having on  board any goods  or  merchandize,  bedding,
clothing or persons,  as aforesaid, shall  refuse or neglect to come to
anchor opposite the Lazaretto, and shall pass the  same with intent to
proceed  to the  city without  examination by, and  certificate  obtained
from the said Physician and Quarantine Master as aforesaid, he shall,
on conviction,  forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, to be
recovered and  appropriated  as is  hereinafter  provided and  directed,
and the said vessels,  goods,  merchandize,  bedding, clothing and per-
sons, shall be sent back to the Lazaretto, there to  be  proceeded with
in such manner as the Board of  Health, agreeably  to this act, shall, in
that case, devise and direct.
   SCCtfOtl VI.   Every ship or vessel coming from  the Mediterra-
nean, shall be subject  to a strict  examination, under similar  regulations
and penalties, as are provided in the fourth section  of this act.
   And if it appears that the  said ship or vessel came from any place
where the plague  existed at the time of her departure, or has spoken
with any vessel on board of which any person was affected with the
plague, or if any person is affected with the said disease on his arrival
at the Lazaretto, or has been affected during the voyage, the said ves- 
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GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.
 sel shall  not be suffered to proceed to the city, the cargo and baggage
 shall be  unloaded and thoroughly cleansed and purified, and no part
 shall be suffered  to enter the city without the permission of the Board
 of Health first obtained; and the crew and passengers shall perform a
 quarantine of not less than  twenty days, nor more than forty, at the
 discretion of the Board  of Health: Provided nevertheless, That such
 ship or vessel after she shall have been thoroughly cleansed  and puri-
 fied, may be allowed to take in  freight  at the Lazaretto by  means of
 lighters, and proceed to sea.
   SCCttOU VII.  Any person or persons, and all  goods, merchan-
 dize, bedding, and clothing, arriving at any port or place, within the
 United States, from any foreign port or place at which any malignant
 or contagious disease, (the [small pox and*] measles excepted) pre-
 vailed  at  the time of their  departure, or in any  vessel in which any
 such  disease existed while they were  on board the same, are hereby
 prohibited from entering the city or county of Philadelphia, or the
 county of Delaware, (except  the  township of Tinicum,) at  any time
 between  the first day of June, and the first day of October  in any
 year, either by land  or water, without  permission of the Board of
 Health  first had  and obtained, under the penalty of five hundred dol-
 lars  for each  and every offence,  and the forfeiture of all such goods,
 merchandize, bedding, or clothing, to be recovered and appropriated as
 is  hereinafter directed.
   And that all goods, wares,  bedding, clothing, and merchandize, sea-
 men or passengers, landed  from on board any ship or vessel belonging
to  the port of Philadelphia,  at any other port of the United States, shall
be subject to perform  twenty days quarantine, previously to entering
the city or county of Philadelphia, under the same penalty as  in the
fifth section, without permission first obtained from the Board of Health.
   S0CtfOtt VIII.  No person or persons, goods, wares,  merchandize,
bedding, or clothing, from any port or place at which any malignant or
contagious disease, (the  [smallpox or*] measles excepted) prevailed at
the time of their departure, or from on board any vessel  in which any
such disease existed, while they were on board, shall enter or be brought
into  the city or  county of  Philadelphia, at any time between the first
* Repealed. 
GENERAL HEALTH LAW  OF 1818.
15
day of June, and  the  first  day of October in any year, by land or
water, without  the  permission  of the Board of Health first had  and
obtained, under the penalty of any sum  not  exceeding  five hundred
dollars  for each and every  such offence, and  the forfeiture of all such
goods, wares, merchandize,  bedding, and clothing, to be recovered and
appropriated, as directed by  the twenty-ninth section of this act.
   S^CtfOtt IX.  Whenever the Board of Health  shall receive infor-
mation 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 control 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, mer-
chandizes, 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 for-
feitures 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  pro-
vided 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
* Repealed. 
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 lawfully require such person or persons to render satisfactory proof of
 their place or places of abode during the same 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 deten-
 tion, as persons coming from such infected port or place.
   SfCtfolt X.   No Lazaretto physician, Quarantine master or other
 officer, 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, attested by the secretary and en-
 tered on the  minutes, under the  penalty of forfeiting his office, and a
 fine of any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.
  SfCttOtl XI.   It shall be the  duty of the Lazaretto physician, im-
 mediately 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 medi-
 cal 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 ves-
 sels, cargoes, and persons under quarantine.
  «S0CtfOtt XII.   It shall be the duty of the Quarantine master, im-
 mediately after the arrival and examination as aforesaid, of any ship
or vessel liable to be detained at the Lazaretto for purification as  afore-
said, 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 dis-
ease 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 differ-
ent vessels under quarantine, and  for that purpose to take possession of 
GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.
17
and secure the boats of such vessels from sunset to sunrise of the suc-
ceeding  day, until their respective terms of quarantine shall be com-
pleted) 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 and management of the Lazaretto, and
the persons,  vessels, and cargoes, under quarantine.
   J3s£Ctfoll XIII.  It  shall be  the duty of the Port physician, upon
receiving information from the Health Officer or other person whomso-
ever, 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 sus-
pect  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 au-
thority 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 dis-
posed of and managed  for the restoration of their health and purifica-
tion.
   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 passen-
gers, crew, cargo,  or baggage are landed, to visit and carefully exam-
ine such  ship or vessel in  manner and form  as the said Lazaretto phy-
sician 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 to suspect that any of the crew or pas-
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GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.
sengers have died on the voyage of any dangerous contagious disease,
(the [smallpox 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 sen-
tenced to pay a fine of two hundred dollars, to be recovered and appro-
priated 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 the
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.
   SectfOU  XIV.   It shall be the duty of the  Health Officer at sea-
sonable and proper hours, on each day, (Sundays excepted) to open
and keep a public office,  at such convenient place in the city of Phila-
delphia  as shall be  directed by the Board of Health, whereat all mas-
ters or captains of ships or vessels shall deliver the certificates or bills
* Repealed. 
GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.
19
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 trusts
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
meetings 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, reco-
ver, and receive all  forfeitures and penalties  imposed, and  sums of
money directed to be paid by  this act.
   And the said Health Officer 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 moneys which may come  into his hands in pur-
suance thereof.  And the said bond shall be a  lien on the estates of
the said Health Officer and his sureties, respectively.
   isbCCttOlt XV.   The letter  mail shall, during the quarantine sea-
son, leave the Lazaretto for the Health Office in the city of Philadel-
phia,  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 detained there.*
  * By Act of June 11, 1832, section 1, the Board of Health may send letters, pack-
ages, &c, to and from the Lazaretto or Fort Mifflin,  once or twice a day, at their
option. 
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   And it shall be the duty of the Health Officer 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.
   SCCtfOU XVI.  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 Laza-
 retto 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 per-
 son  whom he shall call to his assistance, and they are hereby enjoined
 and  required to lend such assistance, to pursue  and apprehend the per-
 son  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 her-
 self  shall,  for each and every offence, suffer such temporary confine-
 ment 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 inhabi-
tant  of this Commonwealth shall knowingly receive, harbor, or in any
way entertain  any person so eloping or absenting  from the Laza-
retto, each and every master and captain, and  each and every house-
keeper 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 and 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 Laza-
retto 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 offend-
ing,  upon legal conviction of such offence, shall forfeit and pay the 
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21
sum of two hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as here-
inafter directed.
   And  if any diseased or other person landed and sent to the Laza-
retto  by any officer having authority to do the same,  or  any person
arriving in or belonging to any ship or vessel detained at the Laza-
retto  as aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect to obey the directions of the
Lazaretto Physician or Quarantine Master, respectively, agreeably to
this act, and the order and regulations by the Board of Health, which
shall, from time to time, be ordained and  established for  the govern-
ment  and management of the Lazaretto, and the persons,  vessels and
cargoes under quarantine, the person so refusing or neglecting, shall,
for each and every offence,  on being thereof legally convicted, forfeit
and pay the sum of two hundred dollars, to  be recovered  and appro-
priated as hereinafter directed.
   And  the expense and charge of boarding,  lodging, nursing, medi-
cine,  maintenance, and other necessaries, which shall have been pro-
vided for the  diseased persons landed and  sent  to the Lazaretto  as
aforesaid, and also of burying them in case of their death, shall be paid
and discharged by the importer,  master,  or captain, owner or con-
signee of the ships  or  vessels,  respectively,  in which such diseased
persons  were  respectively  imported, agreeably  to  the rates in that
behalf by the Board of Health, to be ordained and established :  Pro-
vided always, nevertheless, That when  the diseased  persons are  pas-
sengers and not servants, the said expense and charges shall be repaid
by them,  their executors or administrators,  to the captain or master,
owner or consignee, who shall pay and satisfy, or be bound to pay and
satisfy the same as aforesaid.
   JSCCtfOtt XVII.  When any vessel shall come  up to  the city of
Philadelphia, or the shores of Southwark or the Northern Liberties,
although the said vessel may have obtained a certificate of  health  from
the Lazaretto Physician and Quarantine Master, or the Port Physician,
if the said vessel shall  appear to  the Board of Health to  be infected
with any contagious disorder, dangerous to  the  community, the said
Board are hereby authorized to order the said vessel to the  Lazaretto,
there  to  undergo the necessary purification before she will  be permit-
ted to return to the city or the shores aforesaid.
   And the said Board are hereby authorized and empowered to remove
any vessel or vessels from any part of the city or shore aforesaid,  as 
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 shall be infected with such disorders as aforesaid, to such convenient
 distance as they may deem proper, although such vessel  may not be
 infected.
   ,S£CtiOtl XVIII.   Whenever by means aforesaid, or by the report
 of the Port Physician, or any other physician appointed by the Board of
 Health, (whom the said Board are hereby authorized to send to places
 or houses suspected to be infected) it shall come to the knowledge of
 the  said Board,  that any person within the city of Philadelphia,  the
 district of Southwark, the townships of the Northern Liberties, Moya-
 mensing or Penn, is  afflicted  with  any contagious disease, dangerous
 to the community, it shall  and may be lawful for the  said  Board to
 take orders for preventing the spreading of the contagion, by forbid-
 ding and  preventing  all communication with  the  infected house  or
 family, except  by means of physicians, nurses or messengers,  to con-
 vey the necessary advice, medicines  and provisions, to the afflicted,
 and shall  exercise all such other powers as the circumstances of the
 case shall require, and as shall, in their judgment, be most conducive
 to the public good with the least private injury.
  StfCtfOtt XIX.  No pilot, bringing a ship or vessel to the Laza-
 retto in an apparent  state of good health, shall be obliged to perform
 quarantine, but the Lazaretto physician shall grant such pilot a certifi-
 cate  permitting him to proceed to the Capes of Delaware, in order that
 he may prosecute his  profession, but such pilot shall not on any pre-
 tence come  into  the city  of Philadelphia, the Northern  Liberties, the
 district of Southwark, or the townships of Moyamensing or Penn,  for
 twenty days from the date of such certificate, under the  penalty of one
 hundred dollars, or one year's imprisonment, which penalty shall  be
 recovered  and  applied in the manner hereinafter directed.
  And any pilot bringing to the said Lazaretto a ship or vessel infected
or supposed to be infected, with any pestilential or contagious disease,
 may be permitted to go and remain on shore  within the  bounds of the
Lazaretto  during the  time the ship or vessel brought thither shall be
detained under quarantine: Provided always, That if the said pilot
shall be infected with any disease as aforesaid, he shall be detained and
treated in the  like manner as  seamen or  passengers so infected are
 herein directed to be detained and treated : And provided further, That
if he shall go without the  bounds of the Lazaretto, he shall be liable to 
GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.
23
the same penalties as are by this act imposed on seamen or passengers
escaping therefrom.
  SeCtfOtt  XX.   (Repealed*)
   SsCCtfOtt  XXI.   [No  master or  captain of any ship or  vessel,
bound to any port or  place within this  commonwealth, shall bring
within the Capes of the bay and river Delaware, or into any  port or
place within  this commonwealth, any greater  number of passengers,
servants, or other persons whatsoever, than can and shall be well sup-
plied with sufficient good and wholesome drink and meat, and other ne-
cessaries, particularly vinegar, as well to  wash  and cleanse the vessel
as for the use of the persons on board during the voyage.  And every
ship or vessel  so arriving  at any port or place within this common-
wealth, shall  be allowed to bring one passenger, and no more, for every
two tons custom-house measurement, and in such estimate two children
between  the  ages of five and twelve years shall be taken and consi-
dered as equal to one full passenger, f]
   And before any such ship or vessel shall obtain a certificate from the
Health Office, the master, owner, or consignee, of such ship or vessel,
shall pay to the Health Officer, for the use of the Board of Health, the
sum of one  dollar  for each and every passenger not citizens of the
United States, reckoning  two children between the ages aforesaid as
one passenger.
   And in case it should be made to appear satisfactorily to the Board
of Health that such passengers are  unable to pay the said sum of one
dollar, then, and in such case the Board of Health shall make out a list
of such passengers, together with the names of the captain and vessel
in which they were  imported, and forward  the same, under their offi-
cial seal, to  the  governor, who  shall  draw his warrant on the state
treasurer, in  the usual manner, for the amount so certified.:}:
  JaCCtfOtt  XXII.   The buildings  and  lot of ground  situate to the
north-west of Bush  Hill, in  the  county of Philadelphia, shall  be and
continue  a public hospital for the  city of Philadelphia, the township of
  * By 3d Section of Act of April 7, 1830.
  t The parts of this Section between brackets are obsolete, being superseded by the
Acts of Congress on the same subject.
  % The rest of this Section is likewise obsolete, and is therefore omitted. 
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 the Northern Liberties, and the districts of Southwark, Moyamensing,
 and Penn ; and all persons other than persons on board of any ship or
 vessel, and  liable to  be sent as aforesaid  to  the  Lazaretto, residing
 within the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, the townships
 of  the  Northern Liberties,  Moyamensing  and  Penn, who shall  be
 afflicted with  any pestilential or contagious disease, (the [small pox
 and*] measles excepted,) may, upon the advice and order of  the Port
 physician, or any other physician or person authorized by the Board of
 Health to grant such order, be removed by the Health Officer, and such
 assistance as he shall for that purpose employ, to the said public hospi-
 tal, or to such other place  as the physician or Board of  Health shall
 approve, if the person afflicted with any contagious or pestilential dis-
 ease,  cannot be properly and sufficiently attended at home, there to be
 lodged, nursed, and maintained, and kept until duly  discharged  by a
 permit in writing, signed by a physician of the  said public hospital.
  Provided always, nevertheless, That each and every patient, and his
 and her estate, real  and personal, shall be liable to pay, satisfy, and re-
 imburse all  the  charges and expenses on his or her account incurred
 in the said  public hospital, unless the Board of Health award that he
 or she shall  be exonerated and exempt therefrom.
  And  the  Board of Health is hereby directed to lease  out the said
 public hospital and lot of ground belonging to  it, except when wanted
 for the sick, on the best terms that can be obtained.
  SeCtfott  XXIII.  Whenever the said Board  of Health shall  re-
 ceive  information that any contagious disease rages in any port or place
 within the United States, or on the continent  of America, they shall
 make diligent inquiry concerning the same; and it shall  and may be
 lawful for the said Board to prohibit and to prevent  all communication
 by land and water with such infected ports or  places, by stopping all
vessels coming into  the port of Philadelphia, and at and before the La-
 zaretto, in the same manner  and under the same penalties and forfeit-
 ures as are hereby provided in cases of vessels  coming from foreign
ports, and by stopping all persons coming from  said infected places, in
such manner as the  circumstances and exigencies of the case shall re-
 quire.
* Repealed. 
GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.
25
  And the said Board  of Health are hereby authorized and required,
whenever a fever of a contagious nature shall appear in any part of the
city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, or the townships of the
Northern Liberties,  Moyamensing, or Penn, to  adopt, without delay,
such prompt measures  as will effectually prevent all  communication
between  the  part or parts so infected, and any other part of the city,
district, or townships.
  And all judges, justices, sheriffs, constables, and other civil officers
and citizens  of this state, are hereby authorized and empowered, en-
joined and required, to  aid and assist the said Board and their officers
to the utmost of their power, in carrying into effect such rules, orders,
and regulations, touching the stopping  of such intercourse, or the re-
moval of the infected when they cannot properly be  attended to  at
home, as the Board shall order and publish.
  SbtftttOtt XXIV.  Every  person keeping a  boarding  or lodging
house in the city of Philadelphia, the  district of Southwark, or  the
townships  of the Northern  Liberties, Moyamensing or Penn, between
the  first day of  June, and the fifteenth day of October in any year,
shall, within twelve hours after any seafaring man or sojourner shall
become sick in such boarding or lodging house, report in writing the
name of such diseased person to the Health Officer.
  And 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 townships 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.
  And any person neglecting or refusing to  comply with the provisions
of this section, shall, on  legal conviction thereof, be  subject to a fine
not  exceeding  fifty dollars, or to  imprisonment  for any term not ex-
ceeding three  months;  and  no  person shall hereafter be subject to be
punished by imprisonment by virtue of this act, without a  previous con-
viction in due course of law :  Provided, That nothing herein  contained
shall be construed to prevent the Board of Health from temporarily
confining any person within the Lazaretto bounds, for such time as the
said Board may deem necessary for the safety of the public.
  StfCtfott XXV.  Every  person  practising physic  in the city, dis-
tricts, and townships aforesaid, who shall have a patient laboring under
                     4 
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a pestilential or contagious  disease, ([small pox  and*] measles ex-
cepted) shall forthwith make a  report in writing to the Health Officer,
and  for neglecting so to do he shall be considered guilty of  a misde-
meanor, and subject to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
  SeCtfott XXVI.   Whenever any person shall die in the city, dis-
trict, or townships aforesaid, the physician or surgeon who shall have
attended such person, as a physician or surgeon, during his or her last
sickness, shall leave a note in writing signed with his name, with some
one  of the  family in the house where such  person shall have died,
specifying the name and apparent age of the  deceased, and the disease
of which he or she shall have died.
  And every physician or surgeon refusing or neglecting to make and
deliver such note, shall forfeit the sum of five dollars.   And that no
sexton of any church, or other person having charge of any cemetery,
vault, or burial  ground,f in  the city, districts, or townships aforesaid,
shall permit any dead body to be interred therein, until he has received
such note in writing so signed as aforesaid, or in case no physician or
surgeon shall have attended  such deceased person, or the physician or
surgeon who did attend shall have neglected or refused to  leave such
note, then a like note signed by some of the family in which such per-
son shall have died.
  The contents of which note in writing shall be entered by such sex-
ton on a  blank schedule to be furnished by the clerk of  the Health
Office, or such  other person as the Board of Health shall  direct, and
delivered together with the said schedule, on  the  Saturday of every
week, to the Health Officer for publication, in such form as may be de-
signated by  the Board of Health.
  And that  every sexton or  other person, having charge  of any place
of interment, neglecting or  refusing to perform any of the duties re-
quired by this act, shall forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars.
  SCCtfOtt XXVII.   The Board of Health or a committee of them
shall have power, having first obtained a warrant from a justice of the
peace in due form of  law, founded on a complaint of two householders
under oath or affirmation, directed to the sheriff of the county of Phil-

  * Repealed.
  t By  Section Sixth of Act of March  19, 1838, the provisions of this Section are
extended to all burial grounds and cemeteries, in the city and county of Philadel-
phia. 
GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF  1818.
27
adelphia, or his deputy, to enter and search all houses, stores, cellars,
and  other  inclosures, between  sunrise  and sunset, where  they may
have just cause to suspect any nuisance to exist:  Provided however,
That no sheriff or deputy sheriff shall execute any civil process either
by arresting the body, or attaching the goods and chattels of any per-
son  or persons under color of any entry made for the purposes afore-
said, unless such service could  by law have been made without such
entry;  and all services so made under color of such entry shall be ut-
terly void, and the officer making such service shall be considered a
trespasser.
   And it shall be the duty of  the said  Board to cause all offensive or
putrid substances, and all nuisances* which may have  a tendency in
their opinion to endanger the health of the  citizens, to be removed
from the streets, lanes, alleys, highways, wharves, docks, or any other
part or parts of the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and
the  townships of the Northern Liberties, Moyamensing, and Penn, and
to cause such of the privies within the limits aforesaid, to be emptied
or corrected with  lime or otherwise at the expense of the individuals
who are the owners of the houses to which the said privies  are appur-
tenant, as the said  Board shall from time to time  deem necessary for
the  health of the inhabitants thereof.
   And if the  owners  or occupiers of the premises on which any nui-
sance may be found, and the  owners of the houses to which the said
 privies are appurtenant, shall,  on due notice thereof, refuse or neglect
 to have the same immediately removed,  emptied, or corrected as afore-
 said, he, she, or they, so refusing or neglecting, shall forfeit and pay
 for  every such offence, any sum not less  than twenty,  nor more than
 two  hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as by this act
 directed.
   And the expense attending the removal of such nuisance shall be re-
 covered by the Board in any court having lawful jurisdiction,  from all
 corporate bodies  and  individuals, in case  due notice has been  given to
  * In the case of Kennedy vs. The Board of Health, 2d Barr's Pennsylvania State
Reports p 3G6, the Supreme Court decided that the first part of this Section re-
quiring 'a Justice's warrant, only applies to cases of houses and enclosures where the
Board have  cause to suspect a nuisance exists, and wish to obtain an entrance by
force and had no reference as in that case to the removal of a  nuisance from a va-
cant lot. 
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remove  the same, and a refusal or a neglect to do so within the time
prescribed by the Board.
  JglCttOtt XXVIII.   If any person shall wilfully or knowingly ob-
struct or resist the Board of Health, or any of the members thereof,
or any persons by them appointed, in the execution of the powers to
them given, or in performance of duties  enjoined On them by this act,
and the rules and regulations of  the said Board, such person shall, on
being thereof legally convicted,  forfeit and pay a  sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as is hereinafter
directed.
  And if after the expiration of the quarantine, any mariner or other
person who shall have complied  with the regulations hereby establish-
ed, shall commit any violence on the person of a member of the Board
of Health,  or  any of the officers attached  to  the same, for any thing
done in the execution of his duty, such person shall be subject, on con-
viction thereof, to a fine of two hundred dollars, and shall also be sen-
tenced to imprisonment  at hard labor for any term  not exceeding three
years.
  J&fCttOU  XXIX.  For payment and satisfaction of all forfeitures
and penalties, which are imposed  by  this act, and all sums of money
directed by this act to be paid, it  shall  be the duty of the Health Officer
to sue and  prosecute, and the same to  collect, recover, and receive, and
the same shall be recoverable before any alderman, justice of the peace,
or court of justice, having lawful  jurisdiction, to  the amount of such
forfeitures, penalties, and sums  of money respectively,  or in the case,
or upon the  offence upon which the  proceeding shall be had, and the
same when recovered and  received,  shall  be appropriated, and shall
inure to the use of the institution, under the management and direction
of the Board of Health.*
   And  no  citizen or inhabitant of  the city  of Philadelphia, the district
of Southwark, or the townships  of the Northern Liberties, Moyamen-
sing, or Penn, shall be disqualified from sitting as judges or jurors, or
from giving testimony respecting any  of the offences mentioned in this
act, by  reason of his, her, or their common  interest in the appropria-
tion of the sum or  penalties imposed for  such offence, nor shall  any
member of the Board of Health, or any officer entrusted with the exe-
  * For the different modes of recovering penalties, see Act of 11 March, 1846, Sect.
10, and Act of 3d February, 1848, Sect 2. 
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29
cution of this act, or any part thereof, be disqualified from giving testi-
mony respecting any of  the said offences.
   And  the  said  members of the  Board of Health shall, during their
continuance in office, be  exempted  from the duties of jurors, and from
militia duty.
   JSjCCttOU XXX.  The  Lazaretto physician,  Quarantine  master,
Port physician, and Health Officer, shall, from and after the passing of
this act, receive annually, the following salaries, as a compensation for
their  services, that is  to say: The Lazaretto physician, the sum of
twelve  hundred dollars; the  Quarantine  master, the sum of seven
hundred dollars; the Port physician, the sum of five hundred dollars;
and  the Health  Officer, the sum  of six*  hundred dollars, to be paid
quarterly, by an  order drawn by  the Board of Health on their Trea-
surer.
   And the Quarantine  master  shall accompany the Lazaretto physi-
cian, on the arrival of  vessels at the Lazaretto, and shall have them
moored, and when necessary, well cleansed and  white washed, for
which he shall be paid in addition to his salary, by the master, owner,
or consignee, and shall be allowed to charge for lime and brushes, the
usual prices  at which such articles are retailed  in the city of Philadel-
phia.
   He shall  also be authorized to receive all letters and papers to be
forwarded to Philadelphia by the Lazaretto mail,  and by any other
conveyance  he may think  proper.
   And no person shall  be permitted to go on board any vessel under
quarantine,  except the  Lazaretto physician and  Quarantine master,
unless  at  the  request of either of  them to perform some necessary
service.
   And the  Quarantine  master shall be furnished with such boats and
crews  as  the  Board of Health may judge necessary, for having the
duties  of the Lazaretto  physician and Quarantine master carried into
complete effect, and shall also be furnished with a good spy-glass.
   J£lCt(Ott XXXI.  All  actions or prosecutions  to be commenced
 against any master, captain,  owner, or  consignee of any ship or ves-
 sel,  or other  person, by  virtue of this act, shall be brought within
  * By the 3d Section of the  Act of June 11, 1832, the Health Officer's salary is
fixed at eight hundred dollars, 
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twelve months  next  after the commission of the offence wherewith he
is charged, and if any action or suit shall be commenced against any
person or persons, for  any matter or thing committed in violation of
this act, the defendant  or defendants may plead the general issue, and
give this  act and special matter in evidence, at  any trial  to be had
thereupon.
  And for the payment and satisfaction of all forfeitures and penalties
which are imposed, and  all sums of money directed by this act to be
paid by the masters, captains, owners, or consignees, as well the ships
or vessels respectively, as the captains, masters, owners, or consignees
thereof, shall be and  are hereby declared liable.
  SCCtfott  XXXII.   (Repealed.*)
  StttiOtt  XXXIII.  It shall  be the duty of  the  said  Board of
Health, and they  are hereby authorized to invest all sums of money,
which may at any time  be  in the hands of their Treasurer, over and
above the amount which may be necessary to meet their current ex-
penses, in the funded debt of the United States, the  stock of the Bank
of the  United States, or  in  the stock of any other incorporated Bank
in the city of Philadelphia, and to  sell and transfer the same at such
times, and in such portions as necessity may require.
  SCCtlOtt  XXXIV.   The said Board of Health shall, on the first
Monday in January, in  every year, exhibit their accounts to the audi-
tors of the county of Philadelphia, and it shall be the duty of the said
auditors  to settle and  adjust the account of all moneys received and
expended by  the said Board of Health, and the said auditors shall have
like power and authority in settling such accounts, as they have in
other cases, and on filing a copy of such settlement in the Prothonota-
ry's office, it shall be under the same laws, rules, and regulations, and
shall have the same operation and effect upon every of the members of
the  said  Board of Health, and  in  all other respects as the report of
auditors against county treasurers.
   SCCtiOll  XXXV.  The act entitled " An  Act for establishing  a
Health Office, for otherwise securing the city and port of Philadelphia
from the introduction  of pestilential and  contagious diseases, and for
regulating the  importation of German  and other  passengers," passed
* By 5th Section of the Act of February 10, 1832. 
GENERAL HEALTH LAW OF 1818.             31
the twenty-second day of April, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, be
and the  same is hereby repealed, except the 21st and 22d sections of
the said  act;  and the act entitled " A Supplement to the act entitled
' An Act for establishing a Health Office, for otherwise securing the
city and  port of Philadelphia from the introduction of pestilential and
contagious diseases, and for regulating the importation of German and
other passengers,'" passed the twenty-third day of September, seven-
teen hundred  and ninety-four; and the  act entitled " An Act supple-
mentary  to  the  several acts establishing  a Health Office," passed the
seventeenth day of April, seventeen hundred and ninety-five; and the
act entitled " A further Supplement to the act entitled < An Act for es-
tablishing a Health  Office, for otherwise securing the city and port of
Philadelphia from the introduction of pestilential  and contagious  dis-
eases, and for regulating the importation  of German and other passen-
gers,' " passed  the seventeenth day of April, seventeen hundred and
ninety-five; and the  act  entitled  " An Act to amend and repeal cer-
tain provisions in the Health Laws of this commonwealth," passed the
fourth day of April,  one thousand seven  hundred and ninety-six;  and
the act entitled  " An Act to alter and amend the Health Laws of  this
commonwealth,  and to incorporate a board of managers of the marine
and city hospitals of the  port  of Philadelphia, and for other purposes
therein mentioned," passed the fourth day of April, seventeen hundred
and ninety-eight; and  the act entitled  " An  Act  for establishing a
Health Office, for securing the city and port of Philadelphia from the
introduction of pestilential and  contagious diseases," passed the eleventh
day of April, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine ;  and the act entitled
" An Act  for establishing a Health Office, and to secure the city  and
port of Philadelphia  from the introduction of pestilential and conta-
gious diseases," passed the seventeenth day of March, eighteen hun-
dred  and  six;  and  the  act entitled " An Act to  continue in force 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  supplementary thereto,'" passed the thirty-
first day of March, eighteen hundred and twelve;  and the act entitled
" An Act to  amend and continue ' An Act for establishing a Health
Office, and to secure the city and port of Philadelphia from the intro-
duction  of pestilential and contagious diseases, and  the supplement
thereto,'" passed the twenty-fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and 
32
ACT  OF MARCH 27,  1819.
thirteen; and the act entitled " An Act to amend and continue  ' An
Act  for  establishing a Health  Office, and to secure the city and port
of Philadelphia from the introduction of pestilential and contagious dis-
eases,' " and the supplement thereto, passed  the thirteenth day of
March, eighteen  hundred and seventeen, be and the same are hereby
repealed: Provided nevertheless, That all actions, prosecutions, or other
proceedings begun, all rights accruing, and all penalties incurred under
the said acts, shall  be carried on, prosecuted, vested in, sued for, and
recovered,  by the Board of Health established  by this  act,  in all re-
spects as if the said acts had not been repealed and appropriated,  as is
directed by this act.
To vest a certain burying ground in the  Board of Health, and to
  provide for registering  the births of children in the city of Phila-
  delphia and its vicinity.  Passed 27th March, 1819.

    [7th Smith's Laws of Pennsylvania, p. 460, in note.—Pamphlets, p. 197.]

   Whereas the religious society of Friends of Philadelphia, having had
possession, under an equitable title, of a lot of ground in the  township
of Blockley,  in the county of Philadelphia, containing one hundred and
twenty-six perches and an  half, adjoining lands of Elizabeth Powel and
the Corporation of the city of Philadelphia, the legal  title to which, if
it existed, has been lost or  mislaid; and whereas, the said lot of ground
was used by them  as a place of interment, but for the want of a full
right thereto, its enclosures have been forcibly broken  through and in-
terments of the dead have been made therein in a reproachful manner;
and whereas, for the reasons mentioned being unable to correct those
abuses, the said religious  society did  by a formal act under the direc-
tion of their  monthly meeting, cede  and  relinquish to the  Board of
Health, all their  right to  the said lot of ground on condition that the
Board  of Health  shall procure  from the Legislature of the Common- 
ACT OF MARCH 27, 1819.
33
wealth, an Act to invest them and their successors with the legal title
and  estate in the same, and when obtained, to be limited to the use of
a place of interment of the dead forever; and whereas, the Board of
Health  have by  their  memorial prayed to be invested with the legal
title to the said lot of ground on the condition mentioned:  Therefore,
  SCCtiOtt L   Be it enacted, fyc.  That the lot of ground, situate in
the township of Blockley, and county of Philadelphia, beginning at a
post  for a corner  in the line of land belonging to the City Corporation,
it being also a corner of land of Elizabeth Powel,  thence by the land
belonging to the City Corporation, the three next following courses and
distances  to wit:  South seventy-eight degrees east  eight perches and
seven-tenths to a post, south forty degrees east twelve perches to a
post, and north eight  degrees east  thirteen perches and twenty-five
hundredths  of a  perch to  a post, for a corner in the line of Elizabeth
PowePs land, thence by the  same the two next following courses and
distances to wit: North  eighty degrees and  forty-five minutes west
seventeen perches to a corner post, and south sixteen degrees west five
perches to the place of beginning, containing one hundred and twenty-
six perches  and an half, be and the same is hereby vested in the Board
of Health, to and for  the  use of the said Board of Health, and their
successors in fee  simple to  be held by them and their successors to the
use of a burial ground or a  place of interment of the dead forever:
Provided, that no more than the  right of this  Commonwealth shall
pass by this act, nor that the rights of individuals shall be in anywise
affected or impaired thereby.
  SeCtiOll H.  It shall  be the duty of all persons who may pursue
or practice  Midwifery in the city of Philadelphia, in the incorporated
part  of the  Northern Liberties, in the township  of Penn, and the dis-
tricts of Southwark and Moyamensing, between the first day of March
and the first day of April,  annually, hereafter, to leave their names in
writing, and the places of their residence, at the office of  the Board of
Health.
  And when so left it shall  be the duty of the Clerk to receive and
enter the same alphabetically in  a book  to be kept for that purpose,
which shall  be open at all times during office hours to persons desirous
to inspect the same.
  And all persons pursuing or practising Midwifery as aforesaid, shall
keep a true  and exact register of the births that take place under their
                      5 
34
ACT OF MARCH 6, 1820.
care and superintendence, and shall from time to time as they may
happen, enter  the same, with the sex of the child so born,  on a blank
schedule to be  furnished to them  by the Clerk of the Health Office,
which schedule shall be signed with the name of such person, and de-
livered on the  last Saturday of each month to the  Clerk of  the Health
Office, or other person calling for the same.
  And every person pursuing or practising Midwifery, neglecting or
refusing  to  leave their names and  places of residence at  the Health
Office as aforesaid, or  to  perform any other of the duties required by
this Act, shall  forfeit and  pay for each offence the sum of twenty-five
dollars, to be  recovered in the manner and for the uses prescribed in
" 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."
 To Incorporate the  Kensington District of the Northern  Liberties.
                      Passed March 6, 1820.

         [7 Smith's Laws of Pennsylvania, p. 268.—Pamphlets, p. 66.]

   Section  XXXIII.   That  the said  Commissioners* be, and  they
are hereby authorized and empowered on every third Monday of May,
and every third Monday of November, annually, to appoint three citi-
zens to be Guardians of the Poor, for the said  District, subject to the
same rules that the  Select and Common Councils  and the Commis-
sioners of the District of Southwark are subjected to, in the choice of the
Guardians  of the  Poor;  and  also,  annually, on the afternoon of the
second Monday of March, between the hours of two  and six o'clock,
to appoint one citizen to be a  member of the Board of Health, for the
said  District, and the said three Guardians  of  the Poor, and member
of the  Board of Health,  so appointed, shall be respectively subject to
* Viz., of Kensington. 
ACT OF APRIL 2, 1821.
35
the like duties, fines, penalties and forfeitures as the other Guardians of
the Poor  and the other members of the  Board of Health, respectively,
now  are, or hereafter may be by law, entitled  or subject to.
To an Act entitled  " An Act for establishing a Health Office," fyc.
                      Passed April 2, 1821.

       [7 Smith's Laws of Pennsylvania, p. 458, &c—Pamphlets, p. 210.]

   SCCtfOn L  Between the first day of June and the first day of
October, every ship  or vessel coming  from any port or place south-
ward 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 sub-
ject to the same restrictions, and liable to the same indictment, prose-
cution 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. 
36
ACT OF APRIL 2, 1821.
  Section IL  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, un-
laden 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.
  Section HI-  Between the first day of June and the first day of
October, no ship  or vessel  which shall be  laden with, or have  on
board  any vegetables, fish  or hides,  shall be unladen at  the port of
Philadelphia, until  a permit shall be applied for and obtained from the
Board of Health.
  And  if  any  master,  captain, owner or owners, consignee or con-
signees, or other persons,  shall presume to unlade from on board of
any such  ship  or  vessel, any vegetables, fish or hides,  without first
having applied  for  and obtained a permit from the Board of Health,
every such master, captain, owner or owners, consignee or consignees
or other person, so offending, shall pay a fine not exceeding five hun-
dred dollars, to  be  recovered and appropriated as is directed in the Act
to which this is a Supplement.
  SCCtiOlt IV.  Between the first day  of June and the first day of
October, within forty-eight hours  after the  discharge of  the cargo of
every ship or vessel at the port of Philadelphia, it shall be the duty of
the captain or master, owner or owners, consignee or consignees, and
other person, having the direction of the discharge  of the same, under
the penalty of one hundred dollars, to be recovered and  appropriated
as by the  Act  to which this is  a  Supplement, is directed, to give or
cause to be given, to the Board of Health,  notice that the same cargo
is discharged, and to permit and suffer the Board of Health, by them-
selves or  by their lawful agent  by them  for that purpose  appointed, to
examine the condition of the  hold, ballast and limbers of such ship or
vessel. 
ACT OF MARCH 29, 1824.
37
  And if the Board of Health shall deem it for the safety and health of
the city of Philadelphia, they are hereby authorized and empowered to
designate a proper place to which the said ship or vessel shall be taken,
and that her hold, ballast and limbers shall there be cleansed and puri-
fied, or at the expense of such  captain or master,  owner or owners,
consignee or consignees, or other person, having the direction of the
discharge of the cargo, to send or cause to be sent, such ship or vessel
to a proper place, and have her hold, ballast and limbers  cleansed and
purified.
  Section V.   Between the first day of June  and the first  day of
October, no person or persons shall, under the penalty of fifty dollars,
to be recovered and appropriated as is directed by the Act to which this
is a Supplement, be permitted to store or keep in any one house, store,
cellar or other enclosure, a greater quantity than one hundred  bushels
of vegetables which are in themselves of a perishable  nature, without
a permit from the Board of Health, which permit shall be granted for
a limited  time therein expressed, and may be renewed,  from time to
time, by the Board of Health.
                    ft  Sbuggltmrot
To an Act entitled " An  Act for establishing a Health Office," fyc.
                     Passed March 29, 1824.
        [8 Smith's Laws of Pennsylvania, p. 274.—Pamphlets, p. 125.]

  Section I.  All ships and vessels arriving  at the  port of Phila-
delphia, with small-pox on  board, shall be subject to the  same rules,
restrictions and regulations, as are provided and directed in the Act to
which this is a Supplement, in relation to ships or vessels arriving with
other malignant or contagious diseases.
  Section IL  No practising physician, or other person or persons,
shall be allowed to communicate the infection of small-pox,  by inocu-
lation or otherwise, within  the jurisdiction of the Board  of Health, un-
less by special permission of said Board, and any practising physician,
or other person or persons so transgressing, shall be liable to a penalty 
38
ACT OF APRIL 1, 1826.
not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than seventy, for each per-
son so inoculated or infected as aforesaid,  to be recovered and appro-
priated as directed by the Act to which this is a Supplement.
  Section  HI.  The Board  of Health shall  be  invested  with  the
same  authority to make such general rules, orders  or  regulations, for
the  preservation  of the District from the contagion of small-pox  as
they already  possess in relation to other contagious diseases,  danger-
ous to the health of the community.
                            fttt  ftct

 To empower the Board  of Health to purchase and hold certain Real
       Estate, and for other purposes.   Passed April 1, 1826.

         [9 Smith's Laws of Pennsylvania, p. 118.—Pamphlets, p. 171.]

   Section I.   It shall and may be lawful for the Board of Health
to purchase and hold  in fee simple, or for any lesser estate or term of
years, one or more lot or lots of ground, not exceeding four in  num-
ber, and each lot not to contain more than four acres in extent,* and
therein to receive and deposit, or cause to be deposited, the contents of
all privies within the  city of Philadelphia, the  District of Southwark,
and the  incorporated Districts of the  Northern Liberties and Spring
Garden,  that part of the Township of Moyamensing north of Federal
street, and between the Passyunk road and Broad street, and that part
of the incorporated District of Kensington lying south of a line running
due west from the mouth of Palmer's creek, as they shall, from time
to time,  be  cleansed and emptied, and all other offensive substances
found upon the public streets  and highways, and by the proper process
to convert the same into a state fitted to be applied as manure, and the
manure thus prepared to sell and dispose of, the proceeds  thereof to
be applied to the general objects and purposes of the institution, as now
authorized  by law, and to employ,  at such compensation as they may
  *  By Act of February 10, 1832, section 1, the number cf lots is not to exceed three,
and  each lot not to contain more than ten acres in extent. 
ACT OF APRIL 1, 1826.
39
 think  proper,  the agents,  servants, and  workmen necessary  to the
 prosecution and conducting of such process.   Provided, That no such
 deposit as aforesaid shall be made in any such  lot, unless the same
 shall have been previously enclosed.
   Section H.  So  soon  as the Board of Health have taken upon
 lease, or purchased as  aforesaid, a lot or lots for the purposes  afore-
 said, and are  prepared  to  receive therein the contents of privies and
 other offensive substances, it shall  be lawful for them to make procla-
 mation thereof, by advertisement in the daily newspapers of the city of
 Philadelphia, to be continued  at least thirty days.
   And from and after  the expiration of the said thirty days,  during
 which said advertisement has been made, it shall not be lawful for any
 person or persons, employed  in cleansing any privy or privies within
 the bounds aforesaid, to  deposit, or cause to be deposited, the contents
 or any part of the contents thereof, in any other place or places than
such as shall be designated by the said Board of Health in  their said
 proclamation.
   And if any person or  persons shall  deposit, or cause to be deposited,
 such contents,  or any  part thereof, in any other place or places than
 as aforesaid, without the consent of the said Board of Health, such per-
 son or persons shall forfeit and pay, for every such  offence, a sum not
 exceeding  fifty dollars,  one half  to the use of the  informer, and the
other half to the use of the said Board of  Health.*
   And said penalty may be  recovered by action of debt, as sums of
 like amount are by law  recoverable, or the offender may be proceeded
 against by indictment  in the Mayor's court, of the city of Philadelphia,
 or Quarter Sessions of the county, as the  case may be.
   And in case of conviction,  the court shall sentence and adjudge the
person so convicted, to pay said penalty  of fifty dollars,  (determining
at the same time who is  to be considered  as informer) and to remain
in custody until the same be paid.
  SCCtiOn  HI.  It  shall  be the  duty  of all persons  employed  in
cleansingf  privies within the  bounds aforesaid, to convey the contents
  * The penalties given by the 2d, 3d and 4th sections of this Act, are generally
repealed or supplied by the more comprehensive provisions of subsequent Laws, parti-
cularly of the Resolutions of May 29, 1840, and the Act of February 3, 1848.
  t See note to Section 2d. 
40
ACT OF APRIL 1, 1826.
 thereof from the said privies to the said places of deposit as aforesaid,
 in  carts or other vehicles, the bodies of which shall be so constructed
 as  to be capable of holding water, and to be closed on the top, and not
 otherwise, which carts or other vehicles shall be submitted to the in-
 spection of the Health Officer or some other person  to be appointed by
 the Board of Health, and approved of, previous to their being used for
 the purposes as  aforesaid.
   And any person or persons offending against  the provisions of this
 section, shall forfeit and  pay for every such offence, the sum of twenty
 dollars, one half to the use of the informer, the other half to the use of
 the Board of Health, the mode of recovering said penalty and prose-
 cuting said offender to be the same as in the preceding section.*
  Section IV.  From and after the first day of May next, it shall
 not be lawful for any person  or persons to follow  or be engaged or con-
 cerned in the business of cleansing  privies, within the bounds aforesaid,
 unless such person or persons  shall have previously had their names
 and residences  registered in a book to be kept for that purpose, at the
 office of the said Board of Health.
  In which book it  shall be the duty of the Health  Officer to insert
 forthwith, without fee or  reward, the name and residence of every per-
 son who shall apply  to be so registered.
  And if any person or  persons shall,* after the  said first day of May
 next, cleanse or  be concerned or engaged in cleansing any privy within
 the bounds  aforesaid, or in  hauling away the contents thereof, whose
names shall not have been so as aforesaid registered, and whose carts
 or other vehicles shall not  have been so  as  aforesaid approved, or if
 any person shall, when applying to be so registered, give a false name
 or  place of residence to the Health Officer, such  person  or persons
shall, upon conviction of any or  either of said  offences, forfeit and pay
a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, nor less than twenty, one half to the
use of the informer, and  the  other half to the  use of the said Board of
Health, the mode of recovering said penalty and prosecuting said
offence to be the same as hereinbefore provided.
  SCCtiOn  V.   All the right, title, and interest, which this common-
wealth may have or claim, or be supposed to have or claim, by virtue
of any forfeiture  or supposed  forfeiture in a certain undivided third part
* See note to Section 2d. 
                   ACT OF JANUARY 29, 1827.                41

of four messuages or tenements and lots of ground, situate at the south-
west corner of Front street and Norris's alley, in the city of Philadel-
phia, containing on Front street twenty-nine feet or thereabouts, and
on Norris's alley seventy-two feet six inches or thereabouts, be and the
same is hereby released to the said Board of Health, to whom the said
estate has been lately struck off at  Sheriff's sale, and that the deed to
be made by the  Sheriff to  the said Board  of Health shall convey as
good and perfect  a title to the said Board as it would do if made to any
natural person.   Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall in
any wise prejudice the rights of individuals,  or impair any other title to
the said real estate than that which the commonwealth might have or
claim, by reason of the sale thereof, to the said Board of Health.
 To an Act entitled " An Act for establishing a Health Office," Sfc.
                     Passed January 29, 1827.

               [9th Smith's Laws, p. 263.—Pamphlets, p. 28.]

  Section  I.   A  free an(I unrestricted communication  is  hereby
permitted, between the officers and crews of national vessels which
may be detained at quarantine at the Lazaretto, in the port of Philadel-
phia, and the Naval Asylum on the river Schuylkill, any  provisions in
the act to which this is a supplement to the contrary notwithstanding.
Provided, That nothing herein contained shall  prohibit  the Board of
Health from interdicting communication between  the said Asylum and
the citizens of the city and county of Philadelphia, whenever  in their
opinion such interdiction may be  necessary.
6 
42                   ACT OF APRIL 7,  1830.
             ft ffuxtytx 3supvltmMt

  To an Act entitled " An Act for establishing a Health Office" fyc.
                      Passed April 7, 1830.

                     [Pamphlet Laws, p. 348, &c]

  Section L  It  shall be  the duty of the Board of Health, in all
cases where the owner or owners of unoccupied property, upon which
a nuisance, in  the opinion of the said Board, exists, reside out of the
city, districts, and townships  subjected to  the  operation of the act to
which this is a supplement, or cannot be found by the messenger of the
said Board, after diligent search made, to cause the said nuisance to be
at once removed, and the expense attending the removal of the same
shall be recovered by the said Board in any court, or before any court,
alderman, or justice of the peace, having lawful jurisdiction as in and
by the said act is provided.
  SCCtiOn H.   The expenses attending the removal of any nuisance
shall be and remain a lien upon the premises from which such nuisance
has been removed, and it shall be the duty of the said Board of Health
to file  the  claim therefor against the owner or reputed owner in the
office  of the Clerk  of the District Court* for  the City and County of
Philadelphia, which said court shall in all cases have jurisdiction of the
same, and the said claims may be filed, recorded and  proceeded on by
scire facias to recover the same, in like manner as mechanics' liensf are
recoverable, upon the trial of which,  the fact of the nuisance shall not
be inquired into, and the defendant or defendants shall only be permit-
ted to  give evidence of payment, or  that  unnecessary expenses were
incurred by the Board in the removal of the nuisance.
  * By Act of April 10, 1845, the provisions of this Section are declared and con-
strued to be extended to the District Court  created by Act of March 28, 1835, con-
tinued by Act of March 28, 1845, and all former proceedings are confirmed.
  t The forms of the claim and proceedings thereon are regulated by the then exist-
ing Mechanics' Lien Law of 1808.—Kennedy v. The Board of Health, 2d Barr,
366. 
ACT OF FEBRUARY 10, 1832.
43
  SCCtiOn  HI.  The twentieth section of the act to which this is a
further supplement, and so much of the first section of the act to which
this is a supplement as requires the request of a majority of the mem-
bers of said  Board before  the  Governor can remove certain officers;
and also such parts of said act as may be inconsistent with the provi-
sions of this supplement, be and the same are hereby repealed.
                     ft Supplement

To an Act entitled " An Act to empower the Board of Health to pur-
  chase and hold certain real estate, and for other purposes."  Passed
  February 10, 1832.

                         [Pamphlets 63, &c]

  SCCtiOn L  It shall and may be lawful for the said Board of
Health to purchase and hold in fee simple, or for any lesser estate or
term of years, one or more lot or lots of ground, not exceeding three
in number, and each lot not to contain more than ten acres in  extent,*
for the purposes mentioned in the first section of the  act to which this
is a supplement.
  Section IL  It  shall  and may be lawful for  the said Board of
Health to sell, let upon ground rent, or lease the whole or any part or
portion  of  the  lot or  lots heretofore purchased and now held  by them
under the first section of the act to which this is a supplement, as  also
the whole  or  any part  or portion  of any lot or lots which  the  said
Board  may hereafter  purchase in pursuance of the provisions of this
act, and upon such sale, letting upon ground rent, or otherwise, to make
good and sufficient deeds of conveyance and assurance in the law, to
the purchaser  or purchasers, lessee or lessees thereof.
  Section HI.   All and every purchase heretofore made by the said
Board of Health of a lot or lots of ground for the purposes aforesaid,
  * By Act of March 17, 1842, Sections 10 and 11, the Southern Poudrette Pit was
removed, and the Board of Health prohibited from locating any other in Moyamen-
sing,  north of the Buck  Lane, without the consent of the Commissioners of the
Township. 
44
ACT  OF JUNE 11, 1832.
shall  be deemed  and taken, and are hereby declared to be good and
available in law, any thing in the act herein referred to, to the contra-
ry notwithstanding.
  Section  IV.  So much of the first section of the said  act of As-
sembly, entitled " An Act to empower the Board of Health to purchase
and  hold certain real estate, and  for other purposes,"  as  is hereby
altered and supplied, be and the same is hereby repealed.
  Section  V.  If the fees paid into the Office are inadequate to de-
fray the expenses of carrying into complete effect the provisions of the
different acts for establishing a  Health  Office,  the said  Board of
Health are hereby authorized, by and with  the consent of the Mayor's
Court of the  city  of Philadelphia,  and the Court of Quarter Sessions of
the county of Philadelphia, to draw a warrant on the Commissioners of
the county of Philadelphia for the amount required ; and it shall be the
duty of the  Commissioners of the  said county to  pay over to the said
Board the amount of said warrant, and they are hereby authorized and
required to raise the money in any mode  or manner in which money
for the ordinary purposes and expenses of said county may by law be
raised or obtained,*
                           fttt  ftct
Relating to tlie Board of Health of the Port of Philadelphia, and for
               other purposes.   Passed June 11, 1832.
                       [Pamphlet Laws, p. 620.]
  Section L   Under the provisions of the fifteenth section of the act
entitled " An  Act to establish a Health Office, and to secure the city
and port of Philadelphia from the  introduction of pestilential  and con-
  * By  Act of April 5,  1842,  Section  6th,  the previous sanction of the  County
Board to any appropriation is required,  and  by other laws the Mayor's Court is
abolished and all its powers, jurisdiction, and authority are vested in the Court of
Gtuarter Sessions. 
ACT OF APRIL 10, 1834,                   45
tagious diseases, and for other purposes," passed the twenty-ninth day
of January, eighteen  hundred and  eighteen, the Board of Health of
Philadelphia are hereby authorized to send  letters and other packages
to the Lazaretto and to Fort Mifflin, and to receive letters and packages
sent from either of said places, to  the Health Office of the said city
once or twice a day, as they may deem expedient.
   SCCtiOn II.  From and after the first day of July next, no health
fee or half pilotage shall be charged on any American vessel engaged
in the Pennsylvania coal trade.
   SCCtiOn HL  The Health Officer shall receive  annually, as com-
pensation for his services, the  sum of eight hundred dollars,  to be paid
quarterly, by an order drawn by the Board of Health on their Trea-
surer, any thing in  the thirtieth section of the act entitled " An Act for
establishing a Health Office,  and to secure the city and port of Phila-
delphia from the introduction of pestilential and contagious diseases,
and for other purposes," passed twenty-ninth January,  eighteen  hun-
dred and eighteen, to the contrary  notwithstanding; and so much of
said act as fixes the salary of the  Health  Officer, be and the  same is
hereby repealed.
                           fttt  ftct

For erecting the  County Board, and concerning tlie Commissioners
  and Auditors  of the County of Philadelphia, and for other pur-
  poses.   Passed April 10, 1834.

                         [Pamphlets, p. 267.]

  SCCtiOn V.  From and after the passage of this act, the mem-
bers, for the time being,  of the Senate and House of Representatives,
from the city and county of Philadelphia, shall form the County Board,
whereof a quorum shall  consist of a  majority of the whole  number,
who shall have free access  to  the books, papers  and accounts of said
office,* and without whose consent and approbation, in writing, it shall
Viz., County Commissioners' Office. 
46         ACTS OF MARCH 19, AND APRIL 16, 1838.
not be lawful for the Commissioners of the said county of Philadelphia,
to  lay any tax or county rate and levy, or to borrow any money, ex-
cept as is hereinbefore authorized and provided for.
                          ftn  ftct

To Incorporate the Monument Cemetery of Philadelphia, and for other
               purposes.  Passed March 19, 1838.

                      [Pamphlet Laws, p. 127.]

  Section VI.  That the twenty-sixth  section of an Act, passed the
twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,
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," be, and the same  is
hereby extended to all  burial  grounds  and cemeteries in the  city and
county of Philadelphia.
                    ft  Supplement

To  the Act, entitled " An Act to erect Sldrleysburg, in the county of
  Huntingdon, New Hope, in  the county of Bucks, and Hamburg,
  in the  county  of Berks, into  boroughs, and for other  purposes"
  Passed April 16, 1838.

                      [Pamphlets, p. 570, &c]

  SCCtiOn XXV.  The  Board of Health of Philadelphia,  be,  and
they are hereby authorized, if, under all the circumstances of the case,
they shall consider it equitable and  proper, to refund to Tristram B.
Freeman, the sum without  interest,  paid by him  in the  year  eighteen 
ACT  OF APRIL 14, 1840.
47
hundred, for amount of security, entered by James Philips for appear-
ance of Robert Hard wick, forfeited.
   SCCtiOn XXVI.  [No ship or vessel arriving from any port in the
United States, at the port of Philadelphia, shall be subject to detention
at the Lazaretto, unless the Board of Health and Board of Wardens in
joint meeting shall  have determined that the port or place is infected
with malignant contagious disease.*]
   Provided further, That the Board of Wardens of the port of Phila-
delphia shall, from time to time,  regulate  the fees  to be paid to the
Health Officer and Harbor Master.
   Provided further, That the  boats  and vessels passing through the
Raritan Canal, and Delaware and Chesapeake Canal, shall not be sub-
jected to any fee, whatever, any law to the contrary  notwithstanding."}-
                            fttt  ftct

Regulating  Election Districts,  and for  other purposes.    Passed
                          April 14, 1840.

                          [Pamphlets, p. 347.]

   SeCtfOn LXXXI.   That,  hereafter, the appointment of members
of the Board of Health, by the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Philadelphia, shall be made at the stated meetings of Councils,
next preceding the second Monday in March, annually, and in case the
appointments should not take place at said stated meeting, they may be
made as heretofore.
  * Part in brackets, repealed by forty-first section Act of June 13,1840.
  t This provision was made in consequence of a decision by the Supreme Court in
the case of the Board of Health vs. Hand, 4th Wharton, p. 217, that vessels arriving
at the Port of Philadelphia through those Canals during Quarantine months were
subject to the Health fees. 
48
RESOLUTIONS OF MAY 29, 1840.
                       Mtsolutiom

             Of the Legislature.   Passed May 29, 1840.

                       [Pamphlet Laws, p. 750.]

  1. Resolved,  That, hereafter no person shall remove or cause to be
removed, the contents or any part thereof of any privy well within the
limits of the jurisdiction of the Board of Health,  until he shall have
first obtained a  permit from  the said Eoard of Health, which permit
shall specify the time within which the contents of the privy may be
removed, and the place to which the said contents shall be conveyed
and deposited.  And  if any person shall remove, cause, or allow, or
assist in removing the contents or any part thereof, of any privy well
before  he  has obtained such permit, or  at  any other time  than that
specified in the said permit, or shall convey to and deposit, or assist in
conveying and  depositing the same in any other place than  that de-
scribed in the said permit, he shall, for any of the aforesaid acts, forfeit
and  pay to the Board of Health, the sum of one hundred dollars, and
also be liable to  an indictment in the Court of Criminal Sessions for
the  city and county of Philadelphia,* and on conviction shall  be sen-
tenced to undergo a confinement in the jail of the county of Philadel-
phia, not exceeding ninety days, or at the discretion of the court, shall
forfeit and pay for the use of the said Board of Health, the further sum
of fifty dollars.   And the person or persons upon whose property,  the
same being enclosed, occupied, or in a state of cultivation, the contents
or any portion of the contents of any privy, unless by the special per-
mission of the Board of Health, shall  be deposited, shall forfeit and pay
for every such deposit, the sum of fifty dollars for the useof the Board
aforesaid, and shall remain in custody until the same be paid.
  2. That, hereafter  no person shall be  permitted to remove or cause
to be removed, any portion of the contents of a privy well  within the
limits aforesaid,  excepting  in carts or vehicles  so constructed as to be
  * This Court has been abolished, and its jurisdiction vested in the Court of Quar-
ter Sessions. 
ACT OF JUNE  13,  1840.
49
water-tight, and securely covered on the top, and capable of containing
twenty-four cubic feet.   And if any person shall remove,  cause, or
permit to be removed, the contents or any part thereof of any privy,
excepting in carts or vehicles constructed as above, he shall forfeit and
pay to the  Board of Health, a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.
   3. That, hereafter, the charge of removing the contents of privy
wells within the limits aforesaid, shall be made by the load of twenty-
four cubic  feet;  and  the number  of loads  removed from each privy
shall be determined by the certificate of the Clerk of the Board  of
Health, of  the number of loads  received at the public pit, which certi-
ficate shall be received as conclusive evidence of the number of loads
removed in all  suits  instituted for  the  recovery of debts  incurred for
the conveying  away of the contents of privies within the limits afore-
said.   And all contracts for  removing the contents of privies within
said limits  which shall be made  hereafter, contrary to the meaning and
intent of this section, is hereby declared to be null and void.
   4. That so much of the act entitled " An Act to empower the Board
of Health  to purchase and hold certain real estate,  and for other pur-
poses," passed during the session of 1825-26, and all existing acts of
Assembly which are inconsistent with the provisions of the present act,
is hereby repealed.   And in  addition the powers with which the said
Board of Health are  invested, in relation to their holding real estate,
that they be also authorized to purchase and hold so much real estate,
within the  city of Philadelphia,  as  may be  necessary for the transac-
tion of their business.
                           fttt ftct
Regulating Election Districts, and for other purposes.  Passed June
                             13,  1840.
                          [Pamphlets, p. 671.]
  SCCtiOn XLI.   That  so  much  of the twenty-sixth section of an
act passed the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred  and
thirty-eight, a supplement  to  the  act entitled an act to erect Shirleys-
                      7 
50
ACT OF MAY 7, 1841.
burg, in the county of Huntingdon, New Hope, in the county  of
Bucks, and Hamburg, in the county of Berks, into boroughs, and for
other purposes, as provides that no ship or vessel arriving from any
port  in the United States at the port of Philadelphia, shall be subject to
detention at the Lazaretto, unless  the Board of Health and  Board of
Wardens, in joint meeting, shall have determined that the port or place
is  infected with malignant and  contagious disease, be and the same is
hereby repealed.
                          fttt  ftct

To confer  on  Elizabeth, John, and Henry  M^Guire,  Augustus
   Boyle, and Maria Mayberry, the rights and benefits of children
   born in  lawful wedlock, and for other  purposes.   Passed May 7,
   1841.

                        [Pamphlets, p. 364.]

   Section  II.  That the several provisions of the second section of
an act entitled "An Act to establish the District Court of the city and
county of Philadelphia," passed twenty-eighth day of March, eighteen
hundred  and  thirty-five,  and of the  first  section of the supplement
thereto, passed  eleventh day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-
six, be and they are hereby  deemed and construed to extend to all ac-
tions of scire facias on  claims, filed, or to be filed by the Board of
Health,  for removing  nuisances under  the laws of the  Common-
wealth. 
ACTS OF MARCH 17 AND APRIL 5, 1842.          51
                       ^uppletnewt

 To the Act entitled " An Act to incorporate the Toivnship of Moya-
   mensing, in Philadelphia county," passed March twenty fourth,
   one  thousand eight  hundred and twelve, and for other purposes.
   Passed March 17, 1842.

                         [Pamphlets, p. 97.]

   Section  X.  That the " Board of Health" of the city and county
of Philadelphia, shall within six  months after the passage of this act,
remove or  cause to be removed the Poudrette Pit, situate at the inter-
section of Fifth Street  and Moyamensing Road in said township, and
they shall not after the passage of this act, permit any privy filth to be
deposited therein, without  first obtaining the permission of the Com-
missioners aforesaid.*
   Section  XI.   That hereafter it shall not be lawful for the " Board
of Health"  aforesaid, to locate, or  cause to be located, any Poudrette
pit or  pits  (or  any other place for the deposite of privy filth,) within
said township, north of the north side of Buck Lane, without first ob-
taining the  consent of the Commissioners aforesaid.*
                           fttt  ftct

  In relation to tlie county of Philadelphia.   Passed April 5, 1842.
                      [Pamphlets, pp. 236, 238.]

  Section  L  1° addition to the powers now conferred by law on
the County  Board of the city  and county of Philadelphia, the said
Board  shall have  the power of specifically appropriating such of the
* Viz.: The Commissioners of Lnoyamensing. 
52
ACT OF APRIL 30, 1844.
proceeds of the county rates and levies as shall not be appropriated by
law*; and the County Board may require statements from the Board of
Health touching their receipts and expenditures.*
  Section  VI.   That from and after the passage of this act, it shall
not be lawful for the Comptrollers of the Public Schools, or  the Board
of Health, or the Inspectors of the County Prison, to draw warrants
for  a larger or other sum of money than shall be specifically appro-
priated for the same, by the said County Board ;  and all  laws authoriz-
ing the  said Comptrollers and Board of Health, and Inspectors of the
County Prison to  draw money from the County Treasury, are hereby
repealed.*
             ft  jfnvtf)tv  Supplement

 To an Act passed  the eighteenth of April, one thousand seven hun-
   dred and ninety-four, incorporating the District of Southwark, in
   the county of Philadelphia.  Passed April 30, 1844.

                       [Pamphlet Laws, p. 535 ]

   Section VIII.   That within thirty days after the passage of this
act, there shall be elected (in addition to  those already elected) by the
Commissioners  of the district  of Spring Garden, one member of the
Board of Health; by the Commissioners of the district of Southwark,
one member of said Board; and by the Commissioners of the district
of Kensington,  one   member  of said Board;  and the members  thus
chosen shall form part of the  same Board with those elected under the
provisions of the  act of the twenty-ninth  of January, one thousand
eight  hundred and eighteen, entitled " An act for establishing a Health
Office, and to  secure the city and port of Philadelphia from the intro-
duction of pestilential and contagious diseases, and for other purposes ;"
  * Only so much of these sections is inserted as applies to the Board of Health, as
other matters are embraced in the same sections. 
ACT OF APRIL 10, 1845.
53
and each of the said districts shall at the same time and place provided
for electing members of the Board of Health, annually elect two mem-
bers of the Board  of Health, who  shall perform all the duties and be
subject to all the restrictions and limitations now imposed by the laws
of this Commonwealth; and  the members whose election is hereby
provided for shall continue to hold their offices as members of the said
Board  until their successors are duly elected and qualified : Provided,
however, that  the additional members hereby provided for, shall only
continue  in office until the time for electing members of the  Board of
Health, in one  thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and until their
successors are elected.
             ft  iFutt&er  Supplement
 To an  Act entitled " Jin Act to establish the District  Court for the
   City and County of Philadelphia" passed the Twenty-eighth day
   of March, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-five.  Pass-
   ed April 10, 1845.
                         [Pamphlets, p. 351.]

   Section I.  The  authority, power and jurisdiction  given to  the
District Court for the city  and county of Philadelphia,  by an  act
passed on the Seventh day of April, One Thousand  Eight  Hundred
and Thirty, entitled " A further Supplement to an  Act entitled ' An
Act for estabishing a Health Office, and to relieve the City and Port of
Philadelphia, from the  introduction of pestilential and contagious dis-
eases, and for other purposes,' " are  hereby declared to be vested in
the court established by the Act to which this is a further Supplement,
and that all former proceedings under said Act, passed on the Seventh
day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty, be,  and  the
same are hereby confirmed. 
54
ACTS OF APRIL 12 AND 16, 1845.
                          ftu  ftet
 To divide the Wards of the District of Spring Garden into Election
               Divisions.  Passed April 12,  1845.

                        [Pamphlets, p. 385.]

  Section VIII.  From and after the  passage of this Act, it shall
not be lawful for any Commissioner of any of the incorporated Dis-
tricts in the county of Philadelphia,  to be elected to any office by the
Board of Commissioners.
  SCCtiOn IX.  That  all laws inconsistent  with the provisions of
this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.
                    ft  Supplement

 To an Act passed the Sixth of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred
   and Thirty, entitled " A Supplement to An Act entitled ' An Act
  for taking Lands in execution for the payment of Debts,' passed in
   One Thousa?id Seven Hundred and Five."  Passed April 16,1845.

                        [Pamphlets p. 488.]

   SCCtiOn IL  No debt, charge, or assessment,  for work hereafter
done, or materials furnished by or  under the authority of the Board of
Health, or any municipal corporation, shall be a lien on real estate for
more than  six months from the time of doing  such work, unless a
claim for the same  shall be filed in the office of the Prothonotary of
the proper court within that time, nor shall the same continue a lien
longer than five years from the time of filing the claim,  unless revived
by scire facias, in the manner provided by law, in the case of mecha-
nics' claims; and no lien for such debts, charges  or assessments now
existing, shall  continue longer than  six months  from the first day of
April, in this year, unless a claim for the same  be filed as aforesaid
within that time,  in which case it shall continue, and may be revived
in the same manner as in the cases above provided for. 
ACT OF MARCH 11, 1846.
55
                          ftu  fttt

Relating to Registered Taxes and Municipal Claims in the County
            of Philadelphia.  Passed March 11, 1846.

                       [Pamphlet Laws, p. 115.]

  SeCttOJt HI.  That in the city  and county of Philadelphia, all
writs of scire facias on claims for taxes, municipal charges and assess-
ments, and for expenses of removing nuisances, shall be served by the
Sheriff of the said county,  by posting a true and attested copy of the
writ on a conspicuous  part of the premises therein described, and by
publishing  a brief notice thereof in a  daily newspaper in said county,
twice  a week for two weeks, before the return day;  on  which service
being made, the plaintiffs, in such suits may proceed to  recover judg-
ments as in suits on mechanics' liens.
  SCCtiOn IV.  Such claims may,  in suits thereon, be read as evi-
dence of the facts therein set forth ; and no plea alledging non-joinder
or misjoinder  of parties, no plea averring want of notice to  remove
nuisances,  no plea touching the rates or proportions of contribution
among parties jointly interested, nor  any plea  touching the question
of ownership, shall be  allowed in any  such action.
  Section V-   In  all writs of levari facias on  such claims,  the
Sheriff's handbills and advertisements shall contain, at the foot thereof,
a memorandum setting forth the name of the party plaintiff, and the
nature and character of the claim; in default whereof, the sale under
such writ may be set aside by the court.
  Section VI.  The lien of such  claims shall  not be divested by
any judicial sale as respects so much thereof as the proceeds of such
sale may be insufficient to discharge and pay.
  SCCtiOn VII.  So much of the Act  passed on the  Sixteenth day
of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred  and Forty-five, entitled " An
Act vacating part of old Master's street or  Master's  lane, in Penn
Township,  in the county of Philadelphia, and for other purposes," as
provides for the collection  of registered taxes by the Treasurer of the
county of  Philadelphia, shall be restrained in  its operation and effect
to the collection of State,  County,  Poor and Road Taxes, only ; and 
56
ACT OF FEBRUARY 17, 1847.
all  other taxes,  assessments and public claims, shall  be collected by,
and under the  authority of the  Corporations, respectively entitled to
receive the same.
  Section  VIII.   In all cases where the taxes on separate and dis-
tinct  properties, in the said city and county of Philadelphia, shall be
assessed  together as  one estate, it shall  and may be  lawful  for the
County Commissioners, at any time before the payment of the said
taxes so assessed, to apportion the same, rateably, upon the said seve-
ral  and distinct portions of the property so assessed together ;  and  no
law, now in force, shall be so taken or construed, as to require the city
of Philadelphia, or  any district of the county of Philadelphia, or the
Board of Health, to register in the office of the County Commissioners,
any claim for curbing, paving, grading, laying pipes or culverts, or the
expenses of removing nuisances.
  SCCtiOn  IX.  The fee to the Prothonotary, for filing,  docketing,
and indexing each claim for taxes or liens, and transcripts of judgments
therefor,  in the  city and county of Philadelphia, shall  be  twenty-five
cents.
  SecttOll  X.  All  specific penalties and forfeitures  inuring to the
use of the Board of Health, or any Municipal Corporation of the county
of Philadelphia, shall  be  recovered  by suits,  as  debts of like amount
are by law recoverable.
                           ftu ftct
Supplementary  to  the several Acts of Assembly,  incorporating the
  District of Penn, in the County of Philadelphia.   Passed Febru-
  ary 17, 1847.
                         [Pamphlets, p. 119]

  Section XVIII.  That the jurisdiction of the  Board  of Health,
shall be, and the same is hereby extended to said District:  Provided,*
* This proviso repealed by the third Section of the Act of February 3, 1848. 
ACT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1848.
57
That nothing in this Act, or any other Act of Assembly, shall  be con-
strued  to prohibit the citizens of the said incorporated district  (subject
to such rules, regulations and restrictions, as shall be established  by
the Commissioners thereof,) from using privy manure for farming and
agricultural purposes within the limits of the said District;  nor to pre-
vent the citizens of any other district from disposing and using of the
same for like purposes :  Provided, The same be removed in the same
manner and at the times as now ordained by the said Board of Health.
              ft  JFurtfter  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," passed
   January twenty-nine, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,
   and the several supplements thereto.  Passed February 3, 1848.

                          [Pamphlets, p. 18.]

   Section I.  The jurisdiction, powers, duties, and authority of the
 Board of  Health, shall extend to and over the city of Philadelphia, the
 incorporated districts of the Northern Liberties, Kensington, Richmond,
 Spring Garden, Penn and Southwark, and the township of Moyamen-
 sing ; and all violations  of health laws now punished, or hereafter to
 be punished by fine, forfeiture,  imprisonment, or otherwise, shall  be
 prosecuted and sued for, if committed within the jurisdiction of the
 Board, in  like manner, and  as fully, and to all intents and purposes, as
 if any of  the said places  had been especially named.
   SCCtiOn H.   Whenever any penalty given by law to the Board of
 Health, is not fixed and definite in amount, but varies at the discretion
 of the court, the same shall in  such cases be collected and recovered
 only by indictment.
   SCCtiOn HI-   The several provisions of the resolutions of May
twenty-nine, one thousand  eight hundred and forty, relative to privy
 wells, are  hereby declared  to be in all respects in full force, and any
                     8 
58
ACT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1848.
 constable, police officer, or watchman, is hereby authorized to seize and
 detain all carts, horses, and  implements and apparatus actually taken
 with  any person or persons  detected in any violation of said resolu-
 tions, and deliver the same  to the Board of Health for safe keeping,
 and as security for the payment of the penalties given by said resolu-
 tions, and all other laws on the same subject.
   Section IV.   If any privy filth  be spilled from a cart upon any
 street, lane, alley, road, or highway, within the limits of the jurisdic-
 tion of the  Board of Health, the same shall be adjudged to be an un-
 authorized deposit, and  punished as such.
   StCtiOn V.   From and after the passage of this act, it shall not
 be  lawful for any person  to remove the contents of any privy well,
 within the limits of the  jurisdiction of the Board of Health, unless first
 licensed  by the  Board  of Health to do so; and any person offending
 against the provisions of this section, shall for every such offence for-
 feit and  pay to  the Board of Health, the sum of fifty dollars:  Pro-
 vided, That the Board of Health  may from time to time by resolution
 or otherwise, exempt from the  operation  of this, or any other law on
 the subject  of nuisances, such portions of the territory under  their
jurisdiction,  being a rural district or  sparse in population, as in their
 opinion they may do with safety  to the health and comfort of the in-
 habitants thereof.
  SCCtiOn VI.  Any person  desirous of being licensed to empty or
 remove the  contents  of privy wells, shall make application in writing
 to the Board of Health, who on being satisfied with the character of
 the applicant  and the construction of his carts, shall, under the  rules
 and regulations  they make in relation thereto, grant him a license for
one year, and the  same may renew  from year to year as they may
 deem  proper, and  for every license so granted, and for every  renewal
thereof, the  Board  of Health shall receive from  the  party applying
 therefor the sum of one dollar, and for every permit for removing the
contents of any privy, he shall pay to the Board of Health, at the time
said  permit  is granted, fifty cents if between the first day of October
and first day of the  next June, and five dollars if between  the first
day of June and the first day of the next October, to be repaid to him
by the person or persons  employing  him  to  empty or cleanse such
privy  well:  Provided, nevertheless, That the price for a permit to clean 
ACT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1848.
59
a privy, declared  to  be a  nuisance by the Board of Health, shall be
one dollar, between the first day of October and the first day of the
next June, payable in like  manner:  And provided, also, That in the
case of permits granted by the Board for  removing the contents  of
privies, which are in the way of building or of improvements, which
cannot be effected without such removal, as also, for removing the con-
tents  of privies which  have become accidentally a  nuisance  to the
houses to which they  are attached or the neighborhood, the charge for
such  permits at all seasons of the year,  shall be but fifty cents; and
any person so  licensed offending against any of the provisions  of this
or any other law on the same subject, shall,  by the vote of a majority
of the Board, forfeit  his license, and be  disqualified to have the same
again granted to him  for such period not exceeding three years,  as they
may  determine, and he shall also be  subject to  all fines,  pains, and
penalties given by law  for any violation thereof.
   SCCtiOn VII.  It shall and may be lawful for the Board of Health
to sell and dispose of absolutely in fee simple, with or without reserva-
tion of a ground rent or ground rents, the buildings nnd lot of ground.
situate to the northwest of Bush Hill, in the district of Spring Garden,
in the county of Philadelphia, now used  by  them  as a  public hospital,
and to make and execute one or more good and sufficient deed or deeds
in fee simple to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, without any  liability
on  the part of such  purchaser  or purchasers,  to see the application of
the purchase money or any part thereof, and with the proceeds  of such
sales and dispositions  they shall purchase  a suitable tract or  piece of
land  within three miles of the city of Philadelphia, and shall forthwith
erect thereon suitable  buildings for a public hospital, and the same, when
finished, shall be taken and used as and for a public hospital, to all in-
tents and purposes, as the said hospital near Bush Hill is at present
taken and used: Provided, That the county of Philadelphia shall  not
be  called on to defray any portion  of the  expenses incurred in  the
purchase of the ground and erection  of the New Hospital.
   SCCttOll VIII.   No  vessel shall be  permitted to  leave the Laza-
retto, without  first giving  security, to be approved  by the Board  of
Health, for the payment of all expenses of said vessel, and of passen-
gers  and other persons imported therein, which said vessels, their cap-
tains, owners,  or consignees, are by law made liable. 
60                ACT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1848.

  SeCtiOtt IX.  From and after the passage of this act, the district
of Penn  be authorized to  elect one member, and the district of Rich-
mond one  member  of the  said Board of Health, in such manner and
at such times, as members of the Board of Health are elected by the
district of Spring Garden.
  Section X.  All laws or  parts of laws inconsistent with any of
the provisions of this act, or supplied thereby, are hereby repealed. 
ACTS   OF  CONGRESS
                       RELATING TO


QUARANTINES,  HEALTH  LAWS,  AND  PASSENGER  VESSELS.
                          ftu  ftct

Respecting Quarantines and Health Laws.  Passed Feb'y 25,1799.

   [1st Story's Laws United States, p. 564—1 U. S. Statutes at large, p. 619.]

  Section I.  That the quarantines and other restraints which shall
be required and  established by the health laws of any State, or pur-
suant thereto, respecting any vessels arriving in or bound to any port
or district thereof, whether from a  foreign  port or place, or from  an-
other district of the United States,  shall be duly observed  by  the Col-
lectors and all other officers of the revenue of the United States ap-
pointed and employed for the several collection districts of such State,
respectively, and by the masters  and  crews of the  several  revenue
cutters, and by the military officers who shall command in any fort or
station upon the sea coast, and all such officers of the United States
shall be,  and they hereby are authorized and required faithfully to aid
in the execution of such  quarantines  and health  laws, according to
their  respective powers and precincts,  and as they shall be  directed,
from  time to  time,  by the Secretary of the Treasury  of the United
States ; and the said Secretary shall be, and he is hereby authorized,
when a conformity to such quarantines and  health laws  shall require
it, and in respect to vessels which shall be subject thereto, to prolong 
62        ACT OF CONGRESS OF FEBRUARY 25, 1799.

the  terms limited for the entry of the same,  and the report or entry of
their cargoes,  and to vary or dispense with any other regulations ap-
plicable to such reports  or entries:  Provided, That nothing herein
shall enable any State to collect a duty of tonnage or impost  without
the  consent of the Congress of the  United States thereto ;  And pro-
vided,  That no part of the cargo of any vessel shall, in any case,  be
taken out or unladen therefrom,  otherwise than  as by law is allowed,
or according to the regulations hereinafter established.
  SCCtiOn  H.   That, when by the health laws of any State, or by
the  regulations  which shall be  made  pursuant thereto, any vessel
arriving within a collection district of such  State, shall be  prohibited
from coming to the port of entry or delivery, by law established for
such district, and it shall be required or permitted by such health laws,
that the cargo of such vessel shall, or may be unladen at some other
place within or near to such district, the Collector authorized  therein,
after due report  to him of the whole of such cargo, may grant his espe-
cial warrant or  permit for the unlading  and discharge thereof, under
the  care of the  Surveyor, or of one or more inspectors at some other
place,  where such health laws shall permit, and upon the  conditions
and restrictions  which shall  be directed  by the Secretary of the Trea-
sury,  or which  such Collecter  may, for the  time,  reasonably judge
expedient  for  the  security of the public  revenue: Provided,  That in
every such case, all the articles of the cargo,  so to  be unladen,  shall
be deposited at the risk of the parties concerned therein, in such public
or  other warehouses  or  enclosures  as the  Collector shall  designate,
there to remain  under the joint custody  of  such Collector, and of the
owner or  owners, or master or other person having charge of  such
vessel, until  the same shall be entirely unladen or  discharged, and
until  the goods, wares  or merchandize, which  shall be so deposited,
may be safely removed without contravening  such health laws ; and
when  such removal may be allowed, the Collector  having  charge of
such goods, wares or merchandize, may grant permits to the respec-
tive owners or consignees,  their factors or agents, to receive all goods,
wares or merchandize, which shall be entered, and whereof the duties
accruing,  shall be paid or secured according to law, upon the payment
by  them of a reasonable rate of storage, which shall be fixed by  the
Secretary of the Treasury, for all  public warehouses and enclosures. 
            ACT OP CONGRESS OF MARCH 2, 1819.           63

  Section HI.  That there shall be purchased or erected, under the
orders of the President of the United States,  suitable warehouses with
wharves and enclosures, where goods and merchandize  may be un-
laden and deposited from any vessel  which shall be subject to a quar-
antine or other restraint,  pursuant to the health laws of any State, as
aforesaid, at such convenient place  or  places  therein, as the safety
of the public revenue and  the observance of such health laws  may
require.
                           ftu  ftct

 Regulating passenger Ships and Vessels.   Passed March 2, 1819.

   [3d Story's Laws United States, p. 1722.—3d U. S. Statutes at large, p. 488.]

  SCCtiOn I.   That, if the master or other person on board of any
ship or vessel, owned in the whole or in part by a citizen or citizens of
the United States, or the territories thereof, or by a subject or subjects,
citizen or citizens of any foreign  country shall, after the  first day of
January  next, take on board of such vessel, at any foreign port  or
place, or shall bring or convey into the  United States or  the  territo-
ries  thereof, from any foreign port  or  place, or shall  carry, convey
or transport from the United [States,] or the territories thereof, to any
foreign port or place, a greater number of passengers  than two for
every five tons of such ship or vessel, according to custom-house mea-
surement, every  such  master or other  person so offending, and the
owner or owners of such ship or vessel shall, severally, forfeit and
pay to the United States, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars for
each and every passenger  so taken on board  of such ship or vessel,
over and above the aforesaid number of two to every five tons of such
ship or vessel, to be  recovered by suit in any circuit or district court
of the United States, where the said vessel may arrive, or where the
owner or owners, aforesaid,  may reside :  Provided, nevertheless,  That
nothing in this act  shall be  taken to apply to the complement of men
usually and ordinarily employed in navigating such ship or vessel. 
64          ACT OF CONGRESS OF MARCH 2, 1819.
   Section II.   That if the number of passengers so taken on board
 of any ship or vessel, as aforesaid, or conveyed  or  brought into the
 United States,  or transported therefrom, as aforesaid, shall exceed the
 said proportion of two to every five tons of such ship  or  vessel, by the
 number of twenty passengers in the whole, every such  ship or vessel
 shall be deemed and taken to be  forfeited to the United States, and
 shall be prosecuted  and distributed in  the same manner in which the
 forfeitures and penalties are recovered and distributed  under the provi-
 sions of the act, entitled " An Act  to  regulate the collection of duties
 on imports and tonnage."
   SCCtiOn IH.  That every ship or  vessel bound on a voyage from
 the United States to any port on the continent of Europe, at the  time
 of leaving the last port, whence such ship or vessel  shall sail, shall have
 on board,  well secured under deck,  at least sixty gallons  of water, one
 hundred pounds of salted provisions, one gallon of vinegar, and one hun-
 dred pounds of wholesome ship-bread, for each and  every passenger
 on board  such ship or vessel, over and above  such other  provisions,
 stores and live stock, as may be  put on board by such master or  pas-
 senger for their use,  or that of the crew of such ship  or vessel, and in
 like  proportion for a shorter  or longer voyage;  and if the passengers
 on board of such ship or vessel in which the proportion  of provisions,
herein  directed, shall not have been  provided, shall, at any time be put
on short allowance in water, flesh,  vinegar or bread,  during any voy-
age aforesaid, the master and owner of such ship or vessel, shall seve-
 rally pay to  each  and every passenger, who shall have been  put on
short allowance, as  aforesaid, the  sum of three dollars  for each and
every  day they may have been on such short allowance, to be reco-
vered in the same manner  as seamen's wages are, or may be reco-
 vered.
   Section  IV.   That  the captain or master of any ship or vessel
arriving in the United States or any of the territories thereof from any
foreign  place whatever, at the same  time that he delivers  a manifest of
the cargo, and if there be no cargo then at the time of making report
or entry of the ship  or  vessel, pursuant to the existing laws of the
United States, shall also deliver and report to the Collector of the Dis-
trict  in which such ship or vessel shall  arrive, a list or manifest of all
the passengers taken  on board of the said ship or vessel, at any foreign
port or place, in which list or manifest, it shall be the  duty of the said 
           ACT OF CONGRESS OF FEBRUARY 22, 1847.        65

master to designate, particularly the age,  sex and occupation of the
said passengers, respectively,  the  country to which  they severally
belong, and that of which it is their intention to become inhabitants,
and shall further set forth whether any, or what number have died on
the voyage, which report and manifest shall be sworn to by the said
master in the same manner as  is directed  by the existing laws of the
United States, in relation  to the manifest of the cargo;  and that the
refusal or neglect  of the master, aforesaid, to comply with the provi-
sions of this section, shall incur the same penalties, disabilities and for-
feitures as are at present provided for a refusal or neglect to report and
deliver a manifest  of the cargo, aforesaid.
   SCCtiOn V.   That  each  and  every  collector of the customs to
whom such manifest or  list of passengers, as aforesaid, shall be deli-
vered, shall quarter-yearly return copies thereof to the  Secretary of
State of  the United States, by whom statements of the same shall be
laid before Congress, at each and every session.*
                           ftu  ftet

     To regulate the Carriage of Passengers in merchant vessels.
                     Passed February 22, 1847.

                          [Pamphlets, p. 19.]

  Section I.  That if the master of any vessel owned, in whole or
in part, by a citizen of the  United States of America, or by a citizen of
any foreign country, shall take on board such vessel at any foreign
port or place, a greater number of passengers than in the following
proportion to the space occupied by them and appropriated for  their
use, and unoccupied  by stores or other goods, not being the personal
luggage of such passengers, that is to say, on the lower deck or  plat-
  * By 10th Section of Act of May 17, 1848, so much of the first Section of this
Law as limits the number to two for every five tons, is repealed.
                     9 
66        ACT OF CONGRESS OF FEBRUARY 22, 1847.

form,* one passenger for every fourteen clear superficial feet of deck, if
such vessel is not to  pass within the tropics during such voyage, but
if such vessel is  to pass within the  tropics during such voyage, then
one passenger for every twenty such clear superficial feet of deck, and
on the orlop deck, (if any.) one passenger for every thirty such super-
ficial  feet,  in  all cases, with intent to bring such  passengers to the
United States of America, and shall leave such port or place with the
same, and  bring the same, or any number thereof, within the  jurisdic-
tion of the United States, aforesaid,  or if any  such master of a vessel
shall take on board of his vessel, at any port or place, within the juris-
diction of the United States,  aforesaid, any greater number of passen-
gers than  the  proportions, aforesaid, admit, with intent  to carry the
same to any foreign port or place, every such master shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor,  and upon  conviction thereof, before any cir-
cuit or district court of the United States, aforesaid, shall, for each pas-
senger taken on board, beyond the  above proportions, be fined in the
sum of fifty dollars, and may also be imprisoned  for any term not ex-
ceeding one year: Provided, That this act shall not  be construed to
permit any ship or vessel  to carry more than  two passengers to five
tons of such ship or vessel.f
   SCCtiOn II.   That if the passengers  so taken on board of such
vessel, and  brought into or  transported  from the United States afore-
said, shall  exceed  the number limited by the last section, to the num-
ber of twenty in the whole, such vessel shall be forfeited to the United
States aforesaid, and  be  prosecuted  and distributed as forfeitures are,
under the act to regulate duties on imports and tonnage.
   SCCtiOn HI.  That if any such vessel as aforesaid,  shall have
more than two  tiers  of berths,  or in case, in such vessel, the interval
between the floor and the deck, or platform  beneath, shall  not be at
least six inches, and the berths well  constructed, or in case the dimen-
sions of such berths shall not be at least six  feet in length, and at least
eighteen inches in width for each passenger as  aforesaid, then the mas-
ter of said vessel, and the  owners  thereof, severally, shall forfeit and
pay the sum of five dollars, for each and every passenger on board of
» Amended by Act of May 17, 1848, Section 8.
t This proviso repealed by the 10th Section of the Act of May 17, 1818. 
             ACT OF CONGRESS OF MARCH 2,  1847.          67

said  vessel, on such voyage, to be recovered by the United States as
aforesaid, in any circuit  or  district court  of the United States, where
such vessel may arrive, or from which she sails.
  Section  IV.  That  for  the  purposes of this act, [it shall in all
cases be computed that two children,* each being under the age of eight
years, shall be equal to  one passenger, and that]  children under the
age of one year, shall not be included in the computation of the num-
ber of passengers.
  Section  V.  That the amount of the  several penalties imposed by
this act, shall  be liens on the vessel or vessels violating its provisions,
and  such  vessel may be libelled and sold therefor in the District Court
of the United States aforesaid, in which such vessel shall arrive.
                           ftu  ftet
To amend an act entitled " An Act to regulate the carriage of passen-
   gers in merchant vessels" and to determine the time when  said act
   shall take effect.  Passed March 2,  1847.
                         [Pamphlets, p. 54 ]
   SCCtiOn  H.  That so much of said act, as authorizes shippers to
estimate  two children  of eight years and under, as one passenger in
the assignment of room,  is hereby  repealed.
  * The words between brackets and in italics, are repealed by Section 2d of the
Act of March 2, 1847. 
68
ACT  OF CONGRESS OF MAY 17, 1848,
                           ftu  ftet

   To provide for the ventilation of passenger vessels, and for other
                purposes.  Passed May 17, 1848.

  Section I.  That all vessels, whether of the United States or any
other country, having sufficient capacity, according to law, for  fifty or
more passengers, (other than cabin passengers,) shall, when employed
in transporting such passengers between the United States and Europe,
have on the upper deck, for the use of such passengers, a house over
the passage way leading to  the  apartment allotted to such passengers
below deck, firmly secured to the deck, or combings of the hatch, with
two doors, the sills of which shall  be at least one foot above the deck,
so constructed that one door or window in such house may, at all
times, be left  open for  ventilation ; and all  vessels so  employed, and
having the capacity to carry one hundred and fifty such passengers, or
more, shall have  two  such  houses;  and the stairs or ladder leading
down to the aforesaid apartment shall be furnished with  a  hand rail of
wood or strong fope:  Provided, nevertheless, booby hatches  may be
substituted for  such houses in vessels  having  three permanent decks.
  SCCtiOn H.   That every such vessel so employed, and having the
legal capacity  for more than one hundred such passengers, shall have
at least two ventilators to purify the apartment or apartments occupied
by such passengers; one of which shall be inserted in the after part
of the  apartment  or apartments, and the  other shall be placed in the
forward portion  of the  apartment or apartments; and one of them
shall have an exhausting cap to carry off the foul air, and the other a
receiving cap to carry down  the fresh air;  which said ventilators shall
have a  capacity proportioned  to the size of the apartment or apart-
ments to be purified; namely, if the apartment or apartments will law-
fully authorize the reception of  two hundred such passengers,  the ca-
pacity of such ventilators shall  each  of them, be  equal  to a  tube of
twelve  inches  diameter in the clear, and in proportion  for larger or
smaller apartments; and all  said ventilators shall rise at least four feet 
ACT OF CONGRESS OF MAY 17,  1848.
69
and six inches above the upper deck of any such vessel, and be of the
most  approved form and construction;  Provided,  That if it shall ap-
pear,  from the report  to  be made and approved, as provided in the
seventh section of this act, that such vessel is equally well ventilated
by any other means, such other means of ventilation shall be deemed,
and held to be, a compliance with the provisions of this section.
  Section  HI.   That every vessel carrying more than fifty such
passengers, shall  have for their use on deck, housed  and conveniently
arranged, at least one camboose or cooking range, the dimensions of
which shall be equal to four feet long and  one foot six inches wide for
every two hundred passengers; and provision shall be made in the
manner aforesaid in this ratio for a  greater or less number of passen-
gers ;  Provided, however,  And nothing herein contained  shall  take
away the right to make such arrangements for cooking between decks,
if that shall be deemed desirable.
  Section  IV.   That all vessels  employed as aforesaid, shall  have
on  board, for the use of such passengers at the  time of leaving the
last port whence  such  vessel shall  sail, well  secured under deck, for
each passenger at least fifteen pounds of good  navy bread, ten pounds
of rice, ten pounds of oatmeal, ten pounds of wheat flour, ten pounds
peas  and beans,  thirty-five pounds  of  potatoes, one pint  of vinegar,
sixty  gallons  of fresh water, ten pounds  of salted pork, free of bone—
all  to  be  of  good  quality, and a sufficient supply of  fuel for cooking:
but at  places where neither rice, oatmeal, wheat  flour, or  peas and
beans  cannot be procured, of good quality, and on reasonable terms,
the quantity  of either  or any of the other last named articles may be
increased and substituted therefor; and in case potatoes cannot be pro-
cured  on reasonable terms, one pound of either of  said articles may
be substituted in  lieu of five pounds of potatoes;  and  the captains of
such  vessels  shall deliver  to each passenger at least one tenth part of
the aforesaid provisions weekly, commencing on  the day of sailing,
and daily at  least three quarts of water, and sufficient fuel for cook-
ing ; and  if the  passengers on board of any such  vessel in which the
provisions, fuel and water herein required shall not have been  provided
as aforesaid,  shall  at any time  be put  on short allowance during any
voyage, the master or owner of any  such vessel shall pay to each and
every passenger who shall  have been put on short allowance, the sum
of three dollars  for each and every  day they may have been on  such 
70           ACT OF CONGRESS OF MAY 17,  1848.
 short  allowance, to be recovered in the circuit or district court of the
 United States;  Provided, nevertheless, And nothing herein contained
 shall  prevent any passenger, with  the consent of the  captain, from
 furnishing for himself the articles of food  herein  specified, and, if put
 on board in good order, it shall fully satisfy the provisions of this act
 so far as regards food; And provided further,  That any passenger
 may, also, with the  consent  of the captain,  furnish for himself an
 equivalent for the articles of food required in other and different arti-
 cles ; and if, withoiit  waste or neglect on the part  of the passenger, or
 inevitable accident, they prove insufficient, and the captain shall furnish
 comfortable food to such passengers during the residue of the voyage,
 this in regard for food shall also be a compliance with the terms of this
 act.
   Section V.  That the captain of any such vessel so employed is
 hereby authorized to  maintain good discipline, and such habits of clean-
 liness among such passengers as will tend to the preservation and pro-
 motion of health;  and to that end,  he shall cause such regulations as
 he may adopt for this purpose to be  posted up before sailing, on board
 such vessel, in a place accessible to such  passengers, and shall  keep
 the same so posted up during the  voyage; and it is hereby made the
 duty of said captain to cause the apartment occupied by such passen-
 gers to be kept  at all times, in a clean, healthy state,  and the owners
 of every such vessel so employed are required to construct the decks,
 and all parts of  said apartment,  so that  it can be thoroughly cleansed;
 and they shall also provide a safe convenient privy or water-closet  for
 the exclusive use of every one  hundred such passengers.  And when
 the weather is such that said passengers cannot be mustered on deck
 with their bedding, it shall be the  duty of  the  captain of every  such
 vessel to cause the  deck occupied  by such passengers to be cleansed
 with chloride of  lime,  or some other equally efficient disinfecting agent,
 and also at such other times as said captain may deem necessary.
   Section VI.  That the master and owner or  owners of any such
vessel  so  employed, which shall not be  provided with  the  house  or
 houses over the passage ways, as prescribed in the first section of this
act, or with the  ventilators, as prescribed in the second section of this
act, or  with the  cambooses or cooking ranges with  the  houses  over
them, as prescribed in the third section of this act, shall severally for-
 feit and pay to  the United States  the sum of two  hundred dollars, for 
ACT OF CONGRESS OF MAY 17, 1848.
71
each and every violation of, or neglect to conform to the provisions of
each of said sections, and  fifty dollars for each and  every neglect or
violation of any of the provisions of the fifth section of this act, to be
recovered by suit in any circuit or district court of the United  States,
within the jurisdiction of which  the said vessel may  arrive, or from
which it may be about to depart, or at any place within the jurisdiction
of such courts, wherever the owner or owners,  or  captain of such ves-
sel, may be found.
   Section VII.  That the Collector of the Customs, at any port in
the United  States at which any  vessels so employed shall  arrive, or
from which any  such vessel shall be about to depart, shall  appoint and
direct  one of the inspectors of the customs for such port to examine
such vessel, and to report  in writing to  such Collector,  whether the
provisions of the first, second, third, and fifth sections of this act have
been  complied with in respect to  such vessel; and, if such report shall
state such compliance, and be approved by such Collector, it shall be
deemed and held as conclusive evidence thereof.
   SCCtiOn VIII.   That  the  first section  of the act  entitled  " An
Act to regulate the  carriage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels," ap-
proved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, be
so amended that when the height or distance between the decks of the
vessels referred  to  in the  said section  shall be less than six feet, and
not less than five feet, there shall be allowed to each passenger sixteen
clear  superficial  feet on the deck, instead of fourteen, as prescribed in
said section; and if the  height or distance between the decks shall be
less than five feet, there shall be allowed to each passenger twenty-two
clear  superficial  feet on the deck ; and if the master of any such vessel
shall  take on board  his vessel, in any port  of  the United States, a
greater number of passengers than  is allowed by this section, with the
intent specified in said first  section  of the act of eighteen hundred and
forty-seven, or if the master of any such vessel shall take on board, at
a foreign port, and  bring within the jurisdiction of the United States, a
greater number of passengers than  is allowed by this section, said mas-
ter shall be deemed  guilty of a misdemeanor, and  upon conviction
thereof shall  be punished  in the manner  provided for the punishment
of persons convicted of a violation  of the act aforesaid ; and in com-
puting the number  of passengers on board such  vessels,  all children 
72           ACT OF CONGRESS OF MAY 17, 1848,
under the age of one  year,  at the time of embarkation, shall  be ex-
cluded from such computation.
   Section IX.  That  this act shall take effect, in respect to such
vessels sailing from ports in  the United States, in thirty days from the
time of its approval; and in respect to every such vessel sailing from
ports in  Europe, in sixty days  after such approval; and it is hereby
made the duty of the Secretary of State to give notice, in the ports of
Europe, of this act, in such manner as he may deem proper.
   SCCtiOn X.   That  so much of the first section of the  act enti-
tled  " An act regulating passenger ships and vessels," approved March
second, eighteen  hundred and nineteen, or any other act that limits the
numbers of passengers to two for every five tons, is hereby repealed. 
       RULES





          FOR THE






     GOVERNMENT





          OF THE







BOARD  OF HEALTH,






    ITS OFFICERS





           AND






      COMMITTEES. 
 
                    RULES
                       OF THE

BOARD   OF  HEALTH.
  I.  The Board  shall be organized by  the election of a President,
Secretary, and Treasurer, and shall at the second meeting in October
annually, elect a Solicitor, Clerk, Messenger and Assistant Messenger,
Runner, Physician and Matron to the  City Hospital, and Steward of
the Lazaretto.
  II. The Board shall hold stated meetings  once  a week, from the
first day of  October  until the first day of June, and at least  once in
every day, Sundays  excepted,  between the first day of June  and the
first day of October,  in every year.
  III. The  Board may be specially convened by order of the Presi-
dent or any two of the members.

                     THE PRESIDENT.
  IV. The President shall preside at the meetings of the Board, pre-
serve order and decorum, sign all orders on the Treasurer, and appoint
the members of committees, unless otherwise directed.
  V. In the absence of the President a Chairman for the meeting shall
be appointed.

                     THE SECRETARY.
  VI. The Secretary shall keep  accurate minutes of the proceedings
of the Board in a book provided for that purpose;  attest all orders on
the Treasurer, and conduct such correspondence as the  Board may
direct and approve. 
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                      THE TREASURER.
  VII. The Treasurer shall give bond with sureties, as is required "of
the County Treasurer.
  VIII. Ho shall receive all monies belonging to the corporation, and
pay and disburse the same upon the order of the  Board, signed by the
President and attested by the Secretary.
  IX.  He shall  keep fair and just accounts of his receipts and  expen-
ditures, and furnish extracts thereof whenever the Board shall require
the same;  and  shall once in every year, his accounts  having  been
allowed by the Board, publish the same in one or more newspapers of
the city of Philadelphia.
  X.  He shall report to the Board, in writing, on the first Wednesday
in every month,  the amount of funds remaining in his hands.


                       THE SOLICITOR.

  XI.  The Solicitor shall give professional advice to the Board, attend
to all  suits in which the Board may be concerned, and draw up all
documents required by the Board.


                         THE CLERK.

  XII. The Clerk shall transcribe the minutes taken by the Secretary
into a fair Minute Book.
  XIII. He shall keep a record of all monies received by the Board
and of all orders drawn  on  the Treasurer.
  XIV. He shall keep a list of all coasting  vessels subject to health
fees, the arrival  of which is reported  in the marine lists of the daily
papers.
  XV. He shall make out  the weekly bills of mortality, every Satur-
day, for publication, under the direction of the committee on said  bills,
and register the same in a suitable book.
  XVI. He shall keep  a register of births, as returned by the different
practitioners of midwifery in the city and districts.
  XVII.   He shall  insert  in a letter book, copies of all  communi-
cations written  by the  Secretary to the  officers of the Lazaretto, and 
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also  keep copies of all agreements  and letters made  or written by
order of the Board, and  such other documents as the Board may
direct.
  XVIII. He shall copy, in a book to be  provided for the purpose, all
resolutions not of a temporary nature, that  may be hereafter  passed
by the Board,  with marginal notes.
  XIX. He shall notify the chairmen of all committees, of the business
referred to them by the Board.
  XX. He shall fill up notices to remove nuisances, and file copies of
the same.
  XXI. All notices for removing nuisances shall have appended  to
them that part of the 27th section of the General Health Law imposing
a penalty for neglect or refusal to remove such  nuisance.
  XXII.  He shall keep an account of the interments in  Blockley and
Cherry Hill Burial  Grounds, and pay over to the  Health Officer  all
monies received for such interments.
  XXIII.  He shall issue, agreeably to the form adopted by the Board,
permits for removing the contents of privies; and for every permit  he
shall issue between  the first day of October and the first day of June,
he shall  receive for the use of the Board,  from  the person applying
for the same, the sum of fifty cents, and for every permit issued  by
him  between  the first day of June and the first day of October, upon
application made to, and approved by the Board, or in consequence of
an order of the Board to abate a nuisance, he shall receive for  the use
of the Board, the sum of five dollars : but should any privy be declared
to be a  nuisance by the  Board,  between the first day of October and
the first  day of  June, the charge for such permit shall  be one dollar;
and  in the case  of permits granted by the Board for removing the con-
tents of  privies  which  are in the way of building, or of improvements
which cannot be effected without  such removal,  as also for removing
the  contents of privies which have become accidentally a nuisance to
the  house to  which they  are attached, or to  the  neighborhood,  the
charge for such permits at all seasons of the year, shall be fifty cents.
And whenever  this  Board  shall order  a privy well  or sink to be
cleansed, and it shall appear to the satisfaction of  the Board  that  the
same has become  full from accident, and  that all due attention has
been °iven by the owner to keep the same clean, then the same shall
be done under the winter regulations. 
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    XXIV. He shall give certificates of the number of loads received at
  the Poudrette lots upon each permit issued.
    XXV. He shall grant licenses under the rules of the Board, when
  the character of the  applicant and his ability to perform the duties
  required by law, shall have been approved by them, for each  of which
  he shall receive  for the use of the Board,  the  sum of one dollar, and
  he shall renew the said  licenses from time to time, as the Board may
  direct, upon the payment of the like sum.
   XXVI. The Health Officer shall have all privy carts numbered on
  the right side with the number of the license, in white figures at least
 one foot  long  by two  inches wide, on a black ground at least  eighteen
 inches square, and he  shall cause the number of the cart to be painted
 in like manner on the left side, which numbers shall always be kept
 clean  and legible;  and when the above regulations are  complied with,
 the Clerk shall issue a license to the applicant,  he being first approved
 of by the Board, and shall register and number the license.
   XXVII. The Clerk shall  grant orders for the admission of small-
 pox patients  into  the City Hospital, (he being first furnished  with the
 usual certificate of a physician,) upon satisfactory security being given
 to him for the payment of the board and  medical attendance of the
 said patients.
   XXVIII.  Whenever any bill is referred  to the Health Officer for
 collection, it  shall be the duty of the Clerk to enter the same  too-ether
 with a full description of the claim upon which the said bill is founded,
 upon a docket  kept  for that especial purpose, and to note opposite to
 the said entry such action as may be taken, from time to time, in rela-
 tion thereto, until the final settlement of said claim.  And it shall be
 the duty of the Committee of Accounts to examine monthly,  the said
 docket, in order to see that it is regularly kept, and that the recovery
 of no claim therein recorded is in any way impeded  or prevented by
 neglect on the part of the Board or of its officers.
  XXIX.  When application is made for a permit to land hides, the
Clerk shall direct the Inspector of Vessels  to examine said hides, and
if he reports  them to be sound, a permit is  forthwith to be issued;  but
if he reports them  to  be  unsound, the same shall be referred to the
Board for their action.
  XXX. He shall keep an accurate account of all carriages  ordered
for the use of the Board. 
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  XXXI.  He  shall perform  such other  services as the Board may
direct.


                        MESSENGERS.
  XXXII.  The Messenger or Assistant Messenger shall once, in each
and every year hereafter, leave with each practitioner of midwifery in
the city and districts, twelve  blank monthly schedules, on which they
shall return the number of births and the sex and colour of the children
born,  which reports signed by the said practitioners, shall be collected
monthly by the Messenger or Assistant Messenger.
  XXXIII. They shall examine all nuisances complained of, when of
an important nature,  or when directed so to do by the Board or any
member, and make an accurate report in writing, relating thereto, and
shall  take  such order on them as the Board may from time to time
direct.
  XXXIV. In all reports made by the Messenger or Assistant Messen-
ger upon  complaints  of nuisances, consisting of stagnant water upon
lots, he shall present an estimate of the probable expense of removing
the said nuisance.
  XXXV.  They shall serve notices on the persons directed to remove
nuisances; and at the expiration of the allotted time, they shall report
whether the same be complied with or not.
  XXXVI. They shall  serve notices on  the members to attend meet-
ings of the Board or of Committees, and perform such other services as
may be required of them, and when not engaged in any out-door duties,
they shall remain at the Health Office while it is open.
  XXXVII. Neither the Messenger, Assistant Messenger, nor Runner,
shall  leave the Office during business hours, without permission  or
direction of the Clerk or a member of the Board,  and in either case,
he shall make a memorandum upon a slate  or in a  book to  be kept for
that purpose, of the particular errand upon which he may leave the
office, also of the time at which he left.
  XXXVIII.  The  salary of  the Messenger shall be  forty  dollars  per
month, and the Assistant Messenger shall be  allowed for his services,
thirty-five dollars per  month, except the months of  June, July, August
and September, when  he shall be allowed forty dollars per month. 
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                           RUNNER.
  XXXIX. The Runner shall attend to keeping the office, rooms, fur-
niture, &c. of the Board, always in good and complete order, perform
errands  for the members and officers, and  such other  duties as the
Board may from time to time, direct:  He shall receive,  as a compen-
sation for his  services, the sum of twenty-five dollars  per month.

                        COMMITTEES.
  XL. The following Standing  Committees shall be appointed  an-
nually, at the first meeting after  the organization of the Board:
  1. Sanatary Committee, consisting of 7 members.
  2. Commitee on the Lazaretto,      7     "
  3.    "    of Accounts,          5     "
  4.    "    on Office,            3     "
  5.    "    on Poudrette,         7     "
  6.    "    on Burial Grounds,    5     "
  7.    "    on Bills of Mortality,  2     "
  8. Committees on Nuisances,  as follows :
  For the Northwest District, embracing Spring Garden and Penn
District, 4 members.
  For the Northeast District, embracing  Kensington, the Northern
Liberties and  Richmond, 4 members.
  For the  Northern City District, embracing the City north of Chest-
nut street, 3 members.
  For the Southern City District, embracing the City south of Chest-
nut street, 3 members.
  For the Southern District, embracing Southwark and Moyamensing,
3 members.
  XLI.  When any nuisance is  referred to a committee with power to
act thereon, the said committee shall report in writing what action they
have taken in relation to it.
  XLII. Each Standing Committee  shall  direct all expenditures thaft
may be  necessary to  carry out the object of  its appointment, provided
the same shall not exceed fifteen  dollars; but no contract  shall be made
for any amount over that sum,  unless first  approved  and directed by
the Board. 
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  XLIII. The minutes of all Committees shall be read at any meeting
of the Board, upon the call of a member.

                 COMMITTEE OF  ACCOUNTS.
  XLIV. All bills, being first certified as correct by a majority of the
Committee  by whose  order the bills were incurred, shall be presented
to the  Board, and by it referred to the Committee of Accounts for ex-
animation,  previously to an order being passed for their payment.
   XLV. The monthly  accounts  of the  Health Officer  shall, when
presented to the Board, be referred to the Committee of Accounts;
and in the adjustment and settlement of the same, the Committee shall
compare the said accounts for each month, from the first day of June
to  the  first day of October annually, with the bills of inquiry trans-
mitted to the Board by the Lazaretto Physician, with the monthly list
of vessels  permitted  up by the Board  without  bills of inquiry, and
with  the  monthly list of coasting vessels,  the health fees  of which
have been paid to the  agents of  the Board; and from the first day of
October to the first day of June annually, the Committee of Accounts
 shall compare  the accounts of the  Health Officer with  the  monthly
 list of vessels visited by the  Port Physician, and  the Clerk's list of
 vessels subject to health fees but not liable to a visit from the physician
 of the port.
    XLVI.  In  reporting the monthly  account of the Health Officer to
 the Board, the Committee of Accounts shall certify its  agreement with
 the above specified vouchers;  or  should it be found not to agree there-
 with they  shall  state  the particulars in which the discrepancy consists;
 and it shall  be the  duty of the  Board  to  take such order thereon as
 they may deem just and proper.

                    COMMITTEE ON OFFICE.

    XLVII.  The Committee on Office shall have the charge and gene-
 ral superintendence of the building occupied as the Health Office, and
 of the fixtures  and  furniture belonging thereto; and they shall direct
 to be procured all the  necessary supplies for the use of the said office,
 and for the accommodation of the Board at its meetings.
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               COMMITTEE  ON POUDRETTE.
  XLVIII. The  Poudrette Committee shall have the general care of
the Poudrette pit, so far as may be necessary to the carrying into effect
the rules  and regulations of the  Board for its government, and for
keeping in good order and repair the property of the Board.

          COMMITTEE ON BILLS  OF MORTALITY.
  XLIX. The duties of the  Committee on Bills of Mortality shall be
to assist the Clerk with their advice in the publication of the said bills,
and the annual statement of deaths, and generally to superintend the
preparation and publication of the same.
  L. The said committee shall  furnish the following form of certifi-
cate for deaths to the physicians of the city and liberties, with a request
that they would make use of the same in reporting the cases of deaths
which may occur among the patients under their care.

                        CERTIFICATE.
                            Philadelphia,               18
                                            residing at No.
                         Street, died                  this day of
                                   aged         years.
Color | Occupation | Married or Single | Native of | Has resided in Philadelphia.
                                                     M. D.

                      HEALTH OFFICER.
  LI. The Health Officer shall pay over to the Treasurer on the first
Wednesday in every month,  all monies received by him during the
preceding  month, and  render an account of the same to the Board at
its first meeting in the month.
  LII. He shall compare the monthly accounts of the Inspectors of
vessels with  the  list  kept  by the  Clerk of coasters  subject to health
fees, and shall report monthly to the Board any differences which exist
between the list  of the Clerk and the monthly list of said Inspectors,
and the Board may take such order in regard to the same as they shall
deem just and proper. 
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  LIII. He is  required to furnish to the Board, at its first meeting in
every month, a list of all accounts placed in his hands for collection,
stating what action has been had thereon individually, and communi-
cating such other information in relation thereto, as he may be in pos-
session of.
  LIV. He is required to enter daily, upon the office registers all ves-
sels to which he shall give certificates, upon the same days on which
the said certificates were granted.
  LV. A cash book shall be kept by the Health Officer, in which  en-
tries shall be made daily, as the receipts occur.
  LVI. In all  business referred to the Health Officer by this Board,
it is his duty to take legal proceedings in relation to the same, only in
conjunction with the Solicitor.
  LVII. Whenever the Board shall direct the Health Officer to have
a vessel sent down to the Lazaretto, he is required to see and be certain
that the  said order of the  Board  is immediately and strictly  complied
with.
  LVIII. The  Health  Officer shall receive from the captains, owners,
or consignees of such  vessels as are required by law to pay  the outer
channel  fee, the entire amount of the said fee, and pay the same over
to the Treasurer of the Board.
  LIX. Whenever this Board directs a nuisance to be removed under
the  supervision of the  Health Officer, or any agent of the Board,  the
said  agents or  Health Officer shall not employ any person who is or
may be under any prosecution for any violation of  the health laws.

                      PORT PHYSICIAN.
  LX. On the last Wednesday of every month, from the first day of
October to the  first day of June, the Port Physician shall file with  the
Clerk of the Board a list of all foreign vessels boarded by him during
the month.
  LXI. The  Board cannot permit the Port Physician, under any cir-
cumstances, to  perform his duty  by deputy,  unless by their express
vote and approval of the person to act as his deputy.

                  INSPECTORS OF VESSELS.
  LXII. At the first meeting of  the Board in the  month of May  an-
nually, "there  shall be  appointed an Inspector of Vessels for the Dela- 
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ware, and an  Inspector of Vessels for  the  Schuylkill, whose duty it
shall  be to  see that  no hides  or fish,  nor any sick person is landed
from any vessel in either river without the special permit of the Board
of Health.   They shall  likewise demand and collect from the  captain,
owner,  or consignee  of all  vessels arriving in either  river during
quarantine season, which are not required to stop at the Lazaretto, the
health fie with which  by law they are respectively chargeable, and pay
the same over  to the Health Officer.   Previous to entering upon his
duties, each Inspector shall give  security for their faithful performance,
in the sum of one thousand dollars.
   LXIII. Each Inspector shall  receive per month during the  quaran-
tine season, the sum  of thirty-five dollars, as a full compensation for
all his services.
                      BURIAL  GROUNDS.

   LXIV. There shall  be appointed, at the first meeting of the Board
in April of every year,  a  Superintendent  for  each of  the  Burial
Grounds under the charge of a Committee.
   LXV. The  Superintendents shall not  suffer any interment in their
respective grounds without a permit  for the same from the Clerk of the
Board.
   LXVI. The Superintendents shall make a return to the Clerk of the
Board,  on  the Saturday of each  week, before twelve o'clock, M., of
the interments which shall have been made in their respective grounds
during the week.
   LXVII. The Superintendent of the Blockley ground  shall receive
one dollar from the Clerk of the Board for each interment which shall
take  place in that ground.
   LXVIII. The Clerk of the Board shall receive for the use of the
Board, for each permit  granted by him, the sum of two dollars: Pro-
vided,  that permits shall be granted, without charge, for interments
from any hospital under charge of the Board.
   LX1X. No  grave  shall be  dug in the Blockley ground, except by
the person or persons appointed for that purpose by the Superintendent
of that ground; and not more than one dollar shall be charged for the
digging of any grave in said ground. 
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                     BILLS  OF  HEALTH.

  LXX.  It shall be the duty of the President and Secretary to furnish,
under their hands and the seal of the Board, bills  of health to vessels
sailing from the port of Philadelphia, whenever the same shall be ap-
plied for: Provided always, that no contagious or malignant disease is
prevailing at the time.
  LXXI.  For every bill of health so furnished, the  Clerk shall receive,
for the use of the Board, the sum of one dollar.

                 DISINTERMENT OF BODIES.

  LXXII. The  removal  of any body from its place of original inter-
ment is  declared  to  be a nuisance, and is prohibited, unless the same
be  done under  the  direction  and by permission of the Board.   For
every permission granted for such removal, the  Clerk  shall receive,
for the use of the Board, fifty cents.

                          HOG  PENS.

   LXXIII. The location of pens for hogs is declared to be a nuisance
within  the City of  Philadelphia, in the  Incorporated District of the
Northern Liberties,  in Spring Garden east of Broad Street, in Moy-
amensing north  of  Federal Street and east of Broad Street, and in
that portion  of the  District  lying west of Broad Street and east of
Long  Lane north of Christian Street, in  all that portion of the Dis-
trict of Southwark north of Federal Street, together with that portion
of the  District lying east of the Moyamensing Road between Federal
 and Reed Streets, in Kensington south of Master and Hanover Streets,
 and in Penn District east of Schuylkill Sixth Street and south of Mas-
 ter Street.

            EXPENSE OF  REMOVING NUISANCES.

   LXXIV. In  all cases  in which nuisances are removed under the
 superintendence of  the Health Officer, a  charge shall be  made for
 every incidental expense incurred in the removal of  said nuisance, in-
 cluding superintendence, &c. 
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                     COMMUNICATIONS.
  LXXV. No  communication  shall be received from the Officers or
servants of the Board, or any other person whatever, unless the same
be in writing and  directed to the Board, or through their President or
Secretary, officially.

      RULES OF BOARD TO BE READ QUARTERLY.
  LXXVI. It shall be the duty of the Secretary, at the first stated
meetings  of the Board held in the city of  Philadelphia, in the months
of January, April, July, and October to read all alterations and addi-
tions that may have been made  to .the printed rules and regulations for
the  government of the  Board, its Officers and Committees, during the
preceding three months. 
RULES   OF   ORDER.
  I.  The order of business shall be as follows:

  1. A quorum (i. e. nine members) being present, the President shall
take the chair, and call the Board to order.
  2. The minutes of the last meeting shall be read, and if necessary
corrected and adopted.
  3. Communications may be presented and  disposed of, provided,
however,  that from the first of June until the first of October, business
appertaining to the Lazaretto shall have the precedence.
  4. Reports of  committees may be made and considered.
  5. Resolutions may be offered and discussed.

  II. When a member is about to speak in debate, or to communicate
any matter to the Board, he shall rise and respectfully address him-
self to  " Mr. President," confining his remarks to the subject before
the Board.
  III.  The President shall not speak on any question before the Board
while in the chair; should he desire to engage in debate, he must call
another member  to the chair.
  IV.  If any member, in  debate  transgresses  the rules of the Board,
the  President  shall, or any member may, through the President,  call
him to  order; the member so called, shall immediately sit down, unless
permitted to explain.
  V. On questions of order there shall be no debate, except on an ap-
peal from the decision of the President, sustained by two members. 
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RULES OF ORDER.
   VI. No member, when speaking, shall be interrupted, unless by a
 call to order, or by a member to explain, or by a motion for the pre-
 vious question.
   VII. No member shall speak more than twice on the same question,
 without leave of the Board.
   VIII.  Every motion  made and  seconded, shall be distinctly  an-
 nounced from the chair, before any debate on it can take place; and
 when  the discussion is  closed, the President  shall put the question in
 the following form: " As many  as  are  in favour of the motion say
 Aye;" and after the  affirmative  is  expressed,  he shall  reverse the
 question  thus; " As many as are of the contrary opinion, say No."
 But the President or any member  may call for a division of the Board,
 when  the  President shall again  put the  question  distinctly  in the fol-
 lowing manner:  " As  many as are  in the affirmative will  rise," and
 when he has  announced the number in the affirmative, he shall put the
 opposite  side of the question: " As  many as are in the negative will
 rise."  Two  members may require the yeas and nays on any question,
 and have them entered on the minutes;  but the President shall always
 vote last.
   IX.  A motion  shall be committed to writing, at the request of any
 member.
   X.  A  motion  may be withdrawn by the mover and seconder before
 amendment or decision, and if withdrawn, the proceedings had thereon
 shall not appear on the minutes.
   XI.  A member may call for a division of the question, if it compre-
 hends distinct questions.
   XII. No business regularly before the Board shall be  interrupted,
 except by  motion for  adjournment, for the previous  question, viz:
 " Shall the main question be now put ?" and which shall be decided
 without debate;  or  for postponement, for  commitment, or for amend-
ment.
   XIII. A  motion for  the  previous  question must be sustained by at
least four members,  and shall be decided without debate.
   XIV. A  motion for postponement shall preclude commitment; that
for commitment  shall  preclude amendment or decision on the original
subject. 
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  XV. No motion  for reconsideration shall be received, unless made
and seconded by members who voted in the majority, nor unless offered
within two slated  meetings of the one at which the decision was had
on the original question.
  XVI. When  a blank  is to be filled, the question shall be taken on
the largest sum, greatest number, and remotest day.
  XVII. Corrections  to  the  minutes  may  be moved by any member
at the ensuing meeting, provided it shall be shown that the said cor-
rections are required in order to render the minutes an accurate detail
of the business transacted at the meeting.
  XVIII.  When cases occur not provided for in the above rules, the
practice and rules laid down in Matthias's Manual shall govern.
  XIX. No rule shall be  suspended, rescinded, or altered, except by
a vote of two-thirds  of the  members present, unless  the same shall
have been proposed at a previous stated meeting.
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                     RULES
               FOR THE GOVERNMENT OP THE

SANATARY  COMMITTEE AND  CITY HOSPITAL.
  I.  To the Sanatary Committee shall be entrusted,  subject  to the
general superintendence, orders and by-laws of the Board, the exercise
and performance of those powers and duties vested by law in the Board
of Health, so far as relates to the prevention and spread of contagious
diseases, (see Section 18th of the General Health Law,) and likewise
the management of the City Hospital, and such temporary hospitals as
the Board  shall at any time order to be opened, provided that  no im-
portant addition, alteration, or improvement be undertaken in relation
to the same without the sanction of the Board.
  II.  The said Committee shall hold stated meetings once every month,
and special meetings upon  the call  of the  Chairman,  or of any two
members of the Committee.   The Clerk  of the Board shall regularly
notify the members of the Committee of the said  meetings on the day
preceding.
  III. At  the first stated meeting subsequent to their appointment, the
Committee shall elect from among themselves, a Secretary, who shall
keep in a book provided for that purpose, fair minutes of all their pro-
ceedings, and present the sanne to the Board at its next meeting,
  IV. The Matron for the City Hospital shall be liahle  to removal  by
the Board, at any time, upon  the recommendation  of the Sanatnry
Committee; she shall have apartments in the Hospital  for the accom-
modation of herself and family, receive fifteen dollars per month for
her own services, two dollars per week for the board of servants and 
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nurses, and  one dollar and fifty cents per week for the board of each
patient.
   V. The Committee shall cause every reported case of malignant or
contagious disease existing within  the  limits of the jurisdiction of the
Board of Health, to be visited without delay,  and shall  be authorized
to take such other  measures  in relation  thereto,  as a majority of its
members shall deem proper.
   VI. Whenever a report shall be received at the Health Office, that
any case of  malignant  or contagious disease  has occurred within the
limits of the jurisdiction of the Board of Health, one of the members of
the Committee,  or  should no member be present, the  Clerk of the
Board shall forthwith give  notice thereof  to the Port Physician or any
other physician  appointed  to  inquire into the  nature of the case, who
shall  visit  the same and  send to  the  Health Office without delay, a
written report in relation thereto.  If the report  of the physician  be
such  as  to require  the  attention of the Committee, the Clerk  shall
notify the members  of the same immediately.
   VII. When necessary,  the  Board shall appoint one or more physi-
cians to perform the duties specified in the preceding section, and  shall
determine the compensation to be paid for  the services of the same.
   VIII.  Whenever  the Board, upon a representation from the Sanatary
Committee, shall determine  it to be expedient to provide and hold in
readiness any temporary hospital or  hospitals, the Committee  shall
select the location of the same, and put them in readiness to be opened
as soon as they shall be required.
   IX. As soon  as  practicable after the Board has determined to pro-
vide temporary hospitals, the Sanatary Committee shall arrange and
submit to the Board for its approbation, a  plan of Hospital operations,
so that every thing  may be  conducted  calmly, economically, and effi-
ciently, from the day the hospital shall be opened.
   X. The  Physician for  the City Hospital shall receive at the rate of
two  hundred dollars per annum for his services, so long as the same
shall be requisite.
   XI.  The Committee shall appoint one male  servant for the Hospital,
whose duty it shall  be to take care of the horses belonging to  the insti-
tution, to drive  the  carriage,  either for the conveyance of patients, or
for the burial of the dead, and to  perform such other services as may
be required of him by the Matron or Committee. 
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  XII. The Committee shall  appoint one female servant, whose duty
it shall be to wash, iron and scrub, and to perform such other domes-
tic services as may be required  of her  by the Matron; and also one
nurse for every five patients at any one period in the wards  of the
Hospital.  The Committee shall  determine what wages are  to be paid
to each of the nurses, and the male and female servants, in  addition to
their board in the Institution.
  XIII. All requisitions for medicines and hospital supplies shall be
made in writing,  upon the Chairman of the Committee,  by the  physi-
cian in attendance, and for all other articles necessary for  the  proper
conducting of the Institution, a requisition in writing shall be made by
the Matron.
  XIV. No patient shall be admitted into the City Hospital, under any
circumstances whatever, excepting upon an order signed by a member
of the Board, the Clerk, or the  Port Physician, excepting  pauper pa-
tients, who may be received upon an order of the Guardians  of the
Poor, endorsed by the Clerk or a member of the Board.  The  rate of
board to be paid  by the patients shall be fixed  by the Sanatary Com-
mittee, agreeably to the provisions of the health law.
   XV. At its first meeting in May and November annually, the Com-
mittee shall take an inventory  of all the household  goods and other
property belonging to  the Hospital, and shall present a copy  of said
inventory to the Board.

                            PHYSICIAN.
   XVI.  The Physician shall visit the  Hospital once every day,  or
oftener,  if the  circumstances of the patients  shall,  in  his opinion,
require it.
   XVII.  He shall have the entire  direction of .the medical treatment of
the patients.
   XVIII. He shall  record, in a book to be provided for the purpose,
the  name of every patient,  with  the date of admission, the age, sex,
color, disease, and such other  matters  as  he or  the Committee may
consider important or interesting.
   XIX.  He shall make a monthly report to the Sanatary  Committee,
 stating the number of patients admitted since the last report, with the
 deaths, recoveries,  and such other information as he or the Committee
 may think requisite. 
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                           MATRON.
   XX. The Matron  shall superintend the management of the Institu-
tion, and see that it  is conducted with the greatest possible regularity,
cleanliness and economy.
   XXI. She shall visit all the wards at least twice a day, and shall
ascertain  from the  patients, whether  their  medicines  are regularly
administered,  and whether they are properly attended and well used
by the nurses.  She shall also inquire into the conduct of the patients.
   XXII.  She shall take care that each patient has the diet  prescribed,
superintend its preparation, and have it served at a regular stated hour.
   XXIII.  She shall, in no instance, permit intoxicating liquors, or any
provisions  to be given to the patients, except by the direction of the
physician.
   XXIV.  She shall invariably treat the  patients with  kindness  and
civility; and never suffer any degree of cruelty, insolence,  neglect, or
unkindness in the nurses or  servants towards them to pass unnoticed.
   XXV.  She shall employ no patient in the work of the house without
the consent of the physician,  nor  in any case contrary to  the will  or
desire of the patient.
   XXVI.  In  case of the neglect or improper  behaviour  of nurses,
servants, or patients, she shall complain to the Physician, or Sanatary
Committee.
   XXVII.  She shall take charge of the effects of all patients who may
be admitted into  the  Institution, and return  them to the owner when
discharged; or, in the event of the decease of the  patient,  a report of
such effects shall  be made to the Sanatary Committee.
   XXVIII. She shall be required to make a  written report to the phy-
sician, every morning, of any deaths that may have occurred since his
last visit, and of any occurrence that may require his notice.

                         THE NURSES.
   XXIX.  The Nurses  shall suffer no foul linen or bed  clothes  to
remain in  the wards, but shall take  them to a  place to be designated by
the Matron.  Whenever  a patient  is discharged,  the bed clothes shall
immediately be cleansed, the bed exposed to the external air, and when
circumstances require it,  newly stuffed or  destroyed : the sheets shall
be changed twice  a week, and  the shirts three times a week, except in 
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cases where  more frequent changes are  deemed necessary  by the
Physician.
  XXX.  The Nurses shall scour their respective wards with soap and
warm water,  or  ley, every Friday,  before 8 o'clock, A.M. from the
first of March until the first of December, and before 9 o'clock, A. M.
from the first of December until the first of March; and they shall
mop  their respective wards once a week,  on an  intermediate day,
before the same hours, or oftener when necessary, and keep the wards
clean in the meantime, by sweeping.
  XXXI.  They must not, on  any account, neglect  to administer the
medicines punctually as prescribed,  and remove, as soon as possible,
all empty phials, boxes, &c.
  XXXII. The close-stool  pans are to be scalded every morning, and
scoured every Tuesday and Friday,  and kept out of the wards during
the day, except in cases of absolute necessity.
  XXXIII. The  most implicit obedience to the  orders of the Physi-
cian  and Matron will be exacted from the Nurses,  and they shall not
neglect, quarrel with, nor manifest any unkindness  to the  patients on
any pretence  whatever.

                          PATIENTS.
  XXXIV. Persons afflicted with  yellow fever, small pox, malignant
typhus, or malignant cholera, shall be received into the Hospital.
  XXXV. No patient shall be permitted to leave  the Hospital until
furnished with a  regular discharge from the physician. 
 
                    RULES
                        FOR  THE

GOVERNMENT  OF  THE  LAZARETTO.
  I. The Lazaretto shall be under the management of the Lazaretto
Committee.
  II. The Committee shall at its  first meeting, elect from among its
own number  a  Secretary, who shall keep a full and accurate record
of its proceedings.
  III. It shall hold stated meetings monthly, and special meetings as
often as occasion may require.
  IV. Previously to the first  of June, the Committee shall select six
Bargemen to serve at the Lazaretto during the ensuing quarantine
season, which selection shall be subject to the approval of the Board.
  V. The Committee shall take an inventory of the  effects of the
Board at  the Lazaretto, at its first meeting in June and October, or
whenever directed by the Board.

                LAZARETTO PHYSICIAN.
  VI. During the entire quarantine season, the Lazaretto Physician
is required to confine himself within the bounds of the Lazaretto.  On
any important occasion, however,  by application to the  Board, a war-
rant for  his  absence, during a limited period,  may be obtained.  But
the right will always be reserved by the Board to judge as to the pro-
priety of his  absence, and to refuse to permit it under any circum-
stances, should they consider that it would interfere with his official
duties.
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  VII.  He is required  to  hold himself in readiness to visit without
delay, all vessels that come to at the Lazaretto, between sunrise and
sunset,  whether in the inner  or  outer channel.  No visit is to be
delayed on any consideration whatever, provided the wind and weather
will permit it to be made without danger to the boat and its crew.
  VIII. On boarding a  vessel,  before administering to the captain the
oath or  affirmation required by law, he shall assemble the  crew and
passengers on deck,  and examine personally into  the state of their
health ;  such as  may  be sick,  to be visited below.  In this manner he
shall  ascertain that all  on  board  are free from sickness, and corres-
pond  in number with the captain's statement.
  IX. Such vessels as  upon a close examination made in conjunction
with the Quarantine Master, he shall ascertain to  have arrived from
healthy ports, with healthy crews, to be in a perfectly clean condition,
to have a sound cargo, not liable to produce infection, should it be
allowed to enter  the city, and that no person has died on board during
the  voyage, of any malignant,  contagious or otherwise suspicious dis-
ease, he shall at once permit up, giving to the master thereof a certificate
of the facts, directed to  the Health Officer.  In every case, previously
to permitting a vessel to pass up, he is  required to ascertain that the
bilge water has been changed by pouring in fresh water into the pumps,
and  continuing  to work them until  nothing but pure water is dis-
charged.  No vessel  whatever is  to  be permitted  up, until the bilge
water is rendered entirely pure.
  X. All vessels not answering to the  above description, he shall de-
tain  at  the  Lazaretto, and  await the orders of the Board in relation
to them.  Sick persons, however, are to be landed without delay ; ven-
tilation of the hold, cabin,  and forecastle, at once commenced, and all
articles  of an offensive nature taken from on board.
  XI. Whenever he  shall  have any doubt as to the propriety of per-
mitting  up a vessel, he  may detain her until he receives orders from
the  Board.
  Great discretion and  judgment  must be exercised by the  Lazaretto
Physician in deciding the question, as well of permitting up  as  of de-
tention ; for while it is important that  nothing be permitted  to enter the
city that may create  alarm or excite disease, as little interruption as
possible must be given to the commerce of the port. 
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   XII.  In his inspection of vessels, the Lazaretto Physician is required
to be perfectly minute, strict and accurate, as the Board will hold him
responsible  for all violations or evasions of the health  law, evidently
arising from his inattention or neglect.
   XIII.  All vessels coming  from ports in the United States, north of
Sandy Hook,  which  shall have  for their cargoes plaster, salt,  brim-
stone, and iron only, and no other articles of foreign produce or manu-
facture, shall be allowed to proceed to the city without being subjected
to a visit from the Lazaretto  Physician, as in the opinion of this Board
these articles are not capable of containing contagion.
   XIV.  He is required  to transmit daily to the Board,  the  bills  of
inquiry of all  vessels visited by him, and  also a letter containing a
list of the vessels visited, their masters' names, the ports from whence
they came, and the nature of their cargoes, together with such remarks
as he may deem necessary for the information of the Board.
   XV.  When vessels are detained under quarantine, or  for purifica-
tion,  or when sick persons are removed from on board into the Hos-
pital, he is required to transmit to the Board daily,  an account of
every thing done in relation to the said vessels, as well  as the state of
the several patients treated in the Hospital.
   XVI.  In  conjunction with  the Quarantine Master,  he  is required to
visit and  inspect, daily, every vessel under  quarantine,  or undergoing
purification.
   XVII.  So soon as vessels  have completed their quarantine, or have
been fully cleansed and  purified, and whenever any sick person in the
Hospital is entirely recovered, he shall inform the Board thereof, and
await their  orders before  the vessels are permitted  up,  or the patient
discharged from the Lazaretto.
   XVIII. Vessels sent down from the city by order  of the Board,
or for purification, are  to be  proceeded with in the same manner as
though they had  stopped at the Lazaretto in  their passage up.
   XIX.  The sick in the Hospital are to  be  carefully attended, to the
best of his skill and abilities, and  to be made as comfortable as circum-
stances will permit.
   XX.  He shall  register in  a book to be provided  for that purpose,
the names of all patients received into the  Hospital, with their ages,
sex and colour, the vessel  from whence landed, the name  of their dis-
ease, and the time of their admission, and of their discharge or death. 
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   XXI. His prescriptions are invariably to be entered at length, in the
prescription book, and his directions as to diet and regimen, in the diet
book, for the use of the Steward and Nurses.
   XXII. Whenever medicines,  hospital stores, or any thing else are
wanted, which may, in his opinion, be  necessary for the proper treat-
ment and comfort of the sick, or which may conduce to the advantage
of the Institution,  he will communicate the same  to the Board, or to
the Lazaretto Committee.
   XXIII.  So  often as  he  shall deem  the same  necessary, he shall
direct the Steward to have the Hospital cleansed and ventilated.
   XXIV.  All violations of the Health Law  which come  under his
notice, and any manifest neglect of duty he may detect on the part of
any officer or servant attached to the Lazaretto, he is required at once
to communicate to the  Secretary of the Board.
   XXV. At the termination of each month of the quarantine period,
he shall report to the Board a list of vessels passed up.
   XXVI.  He is not to permit  any person to enter  within the bounds
of the Lazaretto, or to leave the same  during the quarantine season,
nor  any person during the said period  to land at the wharf,  or United
States property attached to the  Institution, without a special permit of
the Board, communicated to him in writing.—And should any person
enter, leave or land as  aforesaid, without a permit as  above,  he  is
required to communicate the fact to the Board,  that the persons  so
offending may be dealt with  according to law.
   The United States stores, and the ground  and houses occupied by
the Inspector are  included within the quarantine bound, and subject to
the same rules and regulations as the Lazaretto proper.
   XXVII.  The Bargemen are placed under the direction of the Laza-
retto Physician and Quarantine Master conjointly, so far  as  regards
any  duties  appertaining  properly to  their station, or which may be
necessary for the preservation  of  the  Board's  property at the Laza-
retto ; but the Lazaretto Physician  is not  to require them to perform
any  services for himself, individually, or for his family.
   XXVIII.  The  Lazaretto  Physician  shall deliver to the Quarantine
Master daily, at  or before  the  hour for closing the mail,  the letters
and documents which he is required to  transmit to the Board, in order
that  they may be enclosed in the mail-bag; any letters  he may wish
to send to his friends, or others in the city, he will also deliver at the 
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same time.   In no case is any letter or note to be sent up by the mail
carrier;  small packages and  bundles  may however be sent by the
latter.
  XXIX. Whenever any doubt or difficulty may arise in his mind as
to the proper meaning  or operation of any part  of the said  law, he
shall state the same in a communication to the Board, and await their
decision.
  XXX. All letters  and communications  made by him to the Board,
are  to be sealed  up and addressed  to the Secretary,  in  his  official
capacity.
  XXXI. Such other orders and  regulations  as the Lazaretto Physi-
cian may be called upon to obey,  will be transmitted to him, from time
to time, by the Secretary of the Board.

                    QUARANTINE  MASTER.
   XXXII. The Quarantine Master is required, whenever the wind and
weather will permit, to visit without delay, in  conjunction with the
Lazaretto Physician, all vessels which shall come to at the Lazaretto,
between sunrise and sundown, whether in the outer or inner channel,
to examine carefully into the condition in regard to cleanliness of the
 hold,  cabin, and forecastle of such vessels, to have the bilge water
pumped out, and by the introduction of fresh water, to purify, com-
 pletely, the run and limbers of the said vessels, and also,  to ascertain
 whether any part of the cargo is in a damaged or infectious condition,
and to report the result of his examination to the  Lazaretto Physician.
   XXXIII. He shall take charge of the boats  belonging to the Laza-
 retto, together with their furniture and  tackling,  see that they are kept
 in  proper  order  and condition, and at all times  fit for immediate ser-
 vice ; have them properly moored when not  in use, so that they shall
 neither  be damaged nor lost, and at the termination of the quarantine
 season, have them carefully removed from the water to the storehouse,
 and there well secured.
   XXXIV. The Bargemen are placed under the  direction of the Qua-
 rantine Master and Lazaretto Physician conjointly, in all things relat-
 ing to their proper duties; but the Quarantine Master  is especially re-
 quired to ascertain whether they conduct themselves with decorum and
 sobriety, that they keep their persons and clothing clean, and that they
 are attentive and punctual in the performance of their duties.   He is 
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 not to require them  to perform any services for himself individually,
 or for his family.
   XXXV. He shall have the flag hoisted on the flag-staff daily, at sun-
 rise, and carefully taken down and deposited in its case at sunset.
   XXXVI. He shall  have a watch  set  in  front of the station during
 the night, and generally preserve order in and about the Lazaretto, and
 enforce  obedience to, and prevent, as  far as it  lies in his power, any
 neglect, evasion, or violation of the  health  law, or of the rules, reso-
 lutions and ordinances of the Board.
   XXXVII.  He is  required to remain within the bounds of the Laza-
 retto, during the whole quarantine season, unless by permission of the
 Board; and  he is to  be  always in readiness to accompany  the Laza-
 retto Physician in his official visits,  and to aid him, to the best of his
 abilities, in the performance of his duties.
   XXXVIII.  He  is not to permit any one to enter into,  or leave the
 bounds of  the Lazaretto or Quarantine station, or  to land  at  the
 wharf or United  States property attached  to the  institution, on  any
 pretext whatever, during the  Quarantine season, unless  by the special
 permission of the Board  communicated  to  the  Lazaretto Physician
 in writing.  And  if any person should  enter, leave, or  land as afore-
 said, withojt  such permit, he is required to communicate the  fact to
 the Board, that the person so offending may be dealt with according to
 Law.
   XXXIX. All  violations or  evasions  of the health law which come
 under  his notice, and any manifest neglect of duty he may  detect on
 the  part  of any officer or servant attached to the Lazaretto, he is at
 once to communicate to the Board.
   XL.  Whenever he  shall  find,  upon  examination, that any  vessel
 stopping at the Lazaretto is in a perfectly clean condition, and no part
 of her cargo is in a damaged or infected  state, and the  Lazaretto Phy-
sician  shall decide that the  said  vessel may be  permitted up, he will
 sign with him the permit to that effect.
   XLI. Whenever a vessel  is detained  at the Lazaretto, with  a sick
crew, for  purification or under quarantine, it will become the duty of
the Quarantine Master to have her properly and safely  moored at such
distance from  the Lazaretto and all other vessels at the station, as shall
prevent the communication of disease to or from  the same.  He shall
prevent any person from going on board vessels so detained, except for 
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the performance of some essential duty, and then only with the con-
sent of the Lazaretto Physician ;  and he  is required to take under his
charge, and effectually secure the boats of all such vessels detained as
above, every night, from sunset to sunrise.
   XLII.  The purification of vessels detained at the Lazaretto, by ven-
tilation, scrubbing  and white washing, is  to  be performed under the
direction and superintendence of the Quarantine Master, whenever the
same shall be directed by the Lazaretto Physician.
   XLIII. Whenever a  vessel is  detained  at  the Lazaretto, he is in
every instance, to  examine into the state of the men's clothing, and if
any is found to be foul or infected, to have  the same sent on shore, to
be washed by the Steward.   He shall in no  case whatever, charge for
lime  and brushes  used in cleansing vessels, more than the retail price
in Philadelphia of such  articles, agreeably  to the positive directions of
the  Health Law; the Board will  never countenance a deviation from
this injunction.
   XLIV. He is required, under the orders  and direction  of the Laza-
retto Physician, to have all the sick removed from on board ot vessels
stopping  at  the Lazaretto, also  such portions of the cargo, baggage,
and stores, as the said Physician may deem necessary, to be cleansed
and purified: the cleansing and purification of the same are also to be
superintended by him.
   XLV.  When a vessel has undergone purification, or has completed
her period of quarantine, he is  required to certify to the fact in con-
junction  with the  Lazaretto  Physician.   He is required to visit daily,
in company with  the latter  officer, every vessel  under quarantine or
undergoing purification, for  the  purpose of ascertaining the condition
of her crew, hold, and cargo.
   XLVI.  He shall take charge of the letter bags of all vessels  detain-
ed at the Lazaretto, and also of all letters and papers delivered to him
at any time by the captain, crew, or  other persons belonging to the
said  vessels, or by the  Lazaretto Physician,  Steward, or any person
or persons within the  Lazaretto, and  carefully  enclosing them in the
mail bag,  to  transmit  them by  the  Lazaretto mail  to the  Health
Office in  Philadelphia.   By inclosing  them in  the mail bag, he may
also convey letters to  his  friends and others in Philadelphia,  and he
is permitted to send and receive by the mail carrier any small package
or bundle. 
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   XLVII, The Lazaretto  mail is  to  be  made up by the Quarantine
 Master, and despatched every day at such hour as the Board shall di-
 rect, and  on its return  in  the evening, he is immediately and without
 fail to open the same and distribute the  letters and papers to the persons
 to whom the same are respectively directed.
   XLVIII.  Whenever any thing is required for the proper execution
 of his official duties, he is to inform the  Lazaretto Committee of the
 fact.
   XLIX.  Such other orders and regulations  as the Quarantine Master
 may be called upon to obey, will be transmitted to him, from time to
 time,  through the Lazaretto Physician.

                       THE  STEWARD.
   L.  The Steward shall reside permanently at the Lazaretto, and be
 allowed, for  himself and family, such apartments in the main building
 as the Lazaretto Committee shall designate.
  LI. He shall be allowed the use of so much of the beds and bedding,
 furniture,  and  cooking utensils, belonging to the  Lazaretto, as may be
 deemed proper by the Lazaretto Committee.
  LII. He shall be allowed the use of so much of the ground attached
 to the Lazaretto, not  appropriated for garden or  other purposes, as the
 Board may, from time to time permit; Provided, That no injury be
 done  by him to the  fruit and other trees planted  thereon, nor any of
 the straw or manure removed from the premises.
  LIII.  He  shall also be allowed the use of the barn, stabling, carts,
 &c, belonging  to  the Lazaretto, and so much of the produce of the
garden as  is  not otherwise appropriated  by resolutions of the Lazaretto
 Committee, or by the rules of the Board.
  LIV.  He  shall have  the general charge  of the buildings, grounds
and property of the Board at the Lazaretto, see that the same are  kept
in good order, and the  different apartments of the houses perfectly
clean.
  LV. He shall under the direction of the  Lazaretto Committee, keep
in good  order and condition the grounds appropriated by the Board as
a garden or gardens, for which he shall be allowed annually, the sum
of one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
  LVI. He  shall have  the general superintendence of the Hospital
Buildings,  and have the same kept clean and properly ventilated, and 
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scrubbed and white-washed as often as the Lazaretto  Physician  or
Committee shall consider proper and necessary.
   LVII.  He shall see that all persons under his charge are clean and
decent in their apparel, and that the beds of the sick are  supplied with
clean straw, and kept free from vermin, and the bed-clothing renewed
as often as the Lazaretto Physician or Committee shall consider neces-
sary.
   LVIII. He shall invariably  treat the patients  with kindness and
civility; and never suffer any degree of cruelty, insolence, neglect, or
unkindness  in  the nurses or servants towards them to pass unnoticed,
and he  shall see  that  the  nurses and attendants treat  the sick with
care and humanity, that the diet directed by the  physician is properly
prepared  and supplied,  and generally,  that the  orders of the  physi-
cian, in  relation to the treatment of the sick, are fully and regularly
executed.
   LIX.  He shall see that all fires and lights are  extinguished in every
apartment of the premises under his control, before 10 o'clock at night,
excepting such  as may be  absolutely necessary, and these he shall
leave under proper care.
   LX.  He shall supply  and have prepared, agreeably to  the orders of
the Physician, all such articles of diet as may be  required for the sick;
and shall be  allowed for the same, for each patient, the sum  of one
dollar  and  fifty cents per week, during the time the patient shall re-
main at the  Lazaretto.
   LXI. He shall  receive at the slip, all patients sent on  shore  by  the
Lazaretto Physician, and see that they are properly and carefully con-
ducted to the Hospital.
   LXII. He shall take charge of all clothing and effects of the patients
landed, have them well  ventilated, washed  and ironed, and safely and
carefully kept until the  patients are discharged;  and  shall be allowed
to charge for washing and ironing the sum of tbirty-seven and a half
cents per dozen.
  LXIII.  Whenever  a patient  dies in the Hospital, the Steward shall
have his or her body decently interred in the burial ground of the In-
stitution, and see  that such of  his or her  clothing as require it, are,
within  twenty-four hours  after the  decease of the patient, properly
washed,  ironed, and  put away, (or destroyed when  directed by the
Physician;) and for washing and  ironing  such  clothing, he shall be
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allowed to charge the sum of thirty-seven  and a half cents per dozen,
for the same.
   LXIV.  He  shall take a full and accurate inventory of the clothing
and other effects belonging to the persons who die at the Lazaretto, and
forthwith transmit a copy to the Board.
   LXV. So soon as a  patient is discharged from or dies at the Laza-
retto, the Steward shall  make out and transmit forthwith to the Board,
a  bill against the " owner, captain or consignee" of the vessel from
which the said patient was landed,  for his or her board and  attendance
at the rate  of seventy-five cents for each day the said patient has re-
mained at the Lazaretto,  counting the day of entrance and departure
each  one  day; and  in  case  of  his or  her death, an additional sum of
three dollars for funeral  expenses.
   LXVI.  He shall be allowed to furnish to the vessels and passengers
detained under quarantine, whatever supplies they may  require, for
which he shall make such  charges as  shall be allowed  by the  Laza-
retto Committee, and shall furnish  to the said Committee a list of the
articles so supplied.
   LXVII. Whenever a  vessel is  detained under quarantine, should the
Quarantine Master deem the same  necessary, the Steward shall  have
the clothing of the crew and  passengers well ventilated, washed, and
ironed, for which  he shall  be permitted to  charge the  sum of thirty-
seven and a half cents per dozen; Provided always, That the same
cannot,  in the opinion of the Quarantine Master, be done promptly by
the crew and passengers themselves.
   LXVIII. He shall  supply  the Lazaretto Bargemen, and  Nurses,
with fitting board, lodging and washing, for which he shall be allowed
by the Board of Health, the sum of two dollars  and  seventy-five cents
per week for each of the persons so supplied.
   LXIX.  He shall supply all necessary refreshments, with  the excep-
tion of liquors, to the members of the Board visiting the  Lazaretto, and
shall be allowed for each individual who shall partake of such refresh-
ments, as follows:  for dinner, including lunch  and tea, one dollar, for
dinner and lunch seventy-five cents, and for supper fifty cents.
   LXX. He shall receive, over and above the respective compensations
enumerated above, a further compensation at the rate of eight hundred
dollars per annum, and  shall  furnish at his own expense, all supplies
necessary for  himself and  family,  and such materials  and domestics 
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as may be necessary for the  due performanco of all the services re-
quired of him.
   LXXI. The charge  for  board of  patients, and  all  other charges
allowed to be made by the Steward for services rendered by him, shall
be transmitted by him to the Board, in the form of an account and the
amount of the same shall be paid to the Steward  by  an order upon the
Treasurer.
   LXXII. He  shall  be required  to communicate  in writing,  to  the
Board, or Lazaretto Committee, whatever alterations, improvements, or
observations he  may consider will have a  tendency to  promote  the
interests of the Board, preserve the grounds and property at the  Laza-
retto, or increase the  comforts of those under his  care.

                         BARGEMEN.
   LXXIII. The Bargemen shall man the boat for  the purpose of visiting
vessels either in the outer or inner channel,  and  convey the sick from
the boat  to the  Hospital.  If  any death occurs  in  the  Hospital, they
shall  attend to the interment  of the body  under the direction of the
Steward.
   LXXIV.  The Bargemen shall, immediately  on command  of the
Lazaretto Physician  or Quarantine Master, enter  the boat and obey
their directions.
   LXXV. The  Bargemen  shall keep watch during the night in such
manner as shall  be directed by the Lazaretto Committee, and  sound
the watch-bell every  hour, from nine o'clock in  the evening until sun-
rise; they shall  be prepared  and required at  any moment  during the
night to man the boat in case of accident or  alarm on  board of any
ship or vessel detained  at the  Lazaretto, and proceed with all  possible
expedition to the relief of the ship cr vessel,  passengers and crew.
   LXXVI.  The Bargemen who come off  from the morning watch?
shall  be exempted from all  employment during that  day, excepting
the boat duty in  visiting vessels.

             BOARDERS AT THE LAZARETTO.
   LXXVII. No boarders shall be allowed in any of the families con-
nected with  the  Lazaretto, that are immediately under  the control of
the Board, unless by the special permission of the latter. 
108
RULES OF THE LAZARETTO.
                  LAZARETTO PATIENTS.
  LXXVIII. All permits for entering or leaving the Lazaretto, shall
be directed to the Lazaretto Physician.
  LXXIX.  The owners or consignees of vessels from which passen-
gers have been landed at the Lazaretto, shall be notified, when the said
passengers are discharged in a debilitated state, to provide some con-
veyance to bring them to the city.

          PERMITS TO  VISIT THE LAZARETTO.
  LXXX. In all applications to visit the Lazaretto, the names of the
persons on  whose hehalf the application is made, must  be  given, as
well as the time at which they wish to enter, and the intended duration
of their stay, and the number of persons  must be stated.
  LXXXI.  No permit shall be given to any person to visit the families
of either of the officers of the Lazaretto, excepting upon a request made
through the said officers, and unless the application come from said
families.
  LXXXII.  No person  shall be permitted to enter or depart  from the
Lazaretto whilst there is a vessel undergoing  quarantine, or persons
sick in the Hospital.

                   OUTER CHANNEL FEE.
  LXXXIII. No additional fee shall be charged upon  vessels under
one hundred and fifty tons burthen, when attached to a steamboat, and
in consequence thereof receiving a visit in the outer channel.
  LXXXIV. In the opinion of the Board, no outer channel fee can be
legally charged on any vessel below one hundred and fifty tons. 
         RULES  AND  REGULATIONS

                         OF THE

   BOARD   OE   HEALTH

IN RELATION TO PRIVIES  WITHIN THEIR  JURISDICTION.
  I. Every person wishing to be licensed to clean Privies, shall make
a written application to the Board of Health, wherein he shall set forth
the  number of carts  and  horses owned  by him, which he intends to
employ in the business*  Such application being  read at a stated
meeting of the Board, shall be referred to the Health Officer, who shall
examine and report in writing to the  Board at its next stated meeting;
and should he report  the applicant to be of good character, to be the
owner of the number of carts and horses set forth in  his application,
and that said carts are securely covered  and  fastened at the top, and
perfectly water tight, the Board may, on such report, direct the Clerk
to issue to the applicant a license, to continue for one year from the
date thereof, which license shall bear date on the day on which it is
voted by the Board, and shall be in the following form, viz:

N0#           Health Office, Philadelphia,             184
                      of the                    of
being the owner of carts Nos.        is hereby licensed to empty  or
cleanse Privies within the  limits of the jurisdiction  of the Board of
Health, for one year from the date hereof, he conforming to and obey-
ing the laws of this  Commonwealth, and the rules and regulations of
the Board.
                      By Order of the Board.
                                                     Clerk. 
110
RULES IN RELATION TO
   II. Every application for renewal of license shall be made and pro-
 ceeded  with in all respects as if it were an original application.
   III. On every license being granted, the Health Officer shall register
 in a proper book the name and residence of the person so licensed, and
 shall give him the proper  number for each of his carts, which numbers
 he shall also register;  the Clerk  shall also  register and number the
 license, and the owner of each cart shall cause the number of his li-
 cense to be painted on  the  right side  of the cart in white  figures, at
 least one  foot  long by  two inches wide, on  a black ground  at least
 eighteen inches square,  and he shall cause the number of the cart to
 be painted in  like manner on the  left side, which numbers he shall
 always  keep clean and legible, and he  shall not receive his  license
 until such numbers are so  painted thereon, and inspected by the Health
 Officer, but the number  of the carts and of the license may  at the op-
 tion  of the owner remain unchanged on every renewal.
  IV. The Health Officer shall report to the Board at its next stated
 meeting all licenses previously issued and registered.
 V.  Every person so licensed  shall receive with  his license a printed
 copy of these rules and  regulations, and of extracts from the different
 laws of this Commonwealth on the subject, in^>rder that he may at no
 time set up the plea of ignorance of their existence.
  VI. All permits for emptying or cleansing Privies shall be issued  in
 the form heretofore used, but shall be issued to and in the name of the
 licensed person applying for the same:  they shall  be issued on  the day
 for which  they are intended to be used, shall specify one, two, or three
 successive  nights and mornings next after their  date as the time for
 removing the contents of such Privies, and  no greater or other time;
 and shall on or before twelve o'clock, noon, of the day succeeding the
 last date of said permit,  be returned to  the Health Office, with the pro-
 per Certificate from the  Poudrette Pit.
  VII.  From  the first day of May to the first day of the next Novem-
 ber, the contents of all  Privies shall  be removed only between the
 hours of half-past eleven o'clock at night and half-past three  o'clock
of the next morning, and from  the first day of November to the first
day of the next May, only  between eleven o'clock  at night and five
o'clock of the next morning.  And  the contents of all  Privies emptied
or cleansed shall be removed to and deposited upon the northern Pou-
drette lot,  and not elsewhere. 
THE CLEANING OF PRIVIES, &c.
Ill
  VIII. Every cart shall, except in very clear moonlight nights, carry
a lighted lamp, or lantern, so as to show the numbers.   It shall  only
start from its stable sufficiently early to arrive at its place of destina-
tion at the permitted time, and at the expiration thereof shall proceed
by the most direct route,  and without unnecessary delay, to the  Pou-
drette Pit, there deposit its contents, and return home, and not be seen
in the streets after  sunrise.   Every citizen  shall have free access to
the carts to look at  the numbers on them, without being  molested, in-
terrupted, or  insulted by the owner, or any  person  in his employ, all
of whom are  hereby enjoined and commanded to behave themselves
respectfully, and make no noise or disturbance.
  IX.  The tops or covers of all  carts shall be kept constantly  shut,
except when actually receiving the contents of the tubs.
  X.  All or any violation of law, or of these rules and regulations,
will, in addition to the punishment imposed by law, subject the offender
to a loss of his license.
  XI.  All carts,  horses,  implements and apparatus, taken  with  any
one found violating the law,  are liable by law to seizure by any Police
Officer, Constable or Watchman;  all such officers are hereby requested
to seize the  same, keep them  securely over night, and next morning
give notice of the same to the  Health Officer, Messenger, or Assistant
Messenger of the Board, and communicate in writing the name of the
offender, and nature of the offence; and the Board will, for every such
seizure and information, pay a reward of Ten Dollars to the person
making such seizure, and giving such information. 
 
GENERAL  INDEX.
 Accounts of Treasurer to be settled and published annually, 4, 5, 76.
          of the Board to be annually exhibited to County Auditors, 30.
          Committee of, and its duties, 78, 80, 81.
          of Health Officer to be rendered and examined monthly, 82,' 83.
          to be placed in Health Officer's hands for collection,  78, 82, 83.
 Actions and prosecutions to be brought within twelve months, 29,30.
 Africa, health fee on vessels from West coast of, 7.
 Agents and Officers of the Board, penalty for resisting, obstructing or assaulting, 28.
 Aldermen, See " Civil Officers."
 Amazon River,  health fee on vessels from the South of, 7.
 American Ports not within the U. S.,  health fees on, 7.
                Communication with,  may be prohibited, and when, 14, 15.
 American Vessels with coasting documents, health fees on, 6.
                 from Foreign ports  touching at American ports, to pay Foreign
                        fees, 6.
                 engaged in Pennsylvania Coal trade exempt  from health  fees, 45.
                 when to stop at Lazaretto, and  mode of examination, 7, 8, 11, 12,
                        13, 24, 35, 36.
 April, first meeting in, Superintendents of Burial Grounds appointed, 84.
       first meeting in, additions and amendments to Rules to be read, 86.
 Armed Vessels, health fees on, 7.
 Assistant Messenger, his election, duties and compensation, 75, 79.
 Auditors of  County to audit Accounts  of the Board annually, 30.
 Authority of the Board,  See " Board of Health."
 Bahama Islands, health fees on vessels from, 7.
 Bargemen of the Lazaretto, and their duties, 97, 100, 101, 107.
Bermuda Islands, health fees on vessels from, 7.
 Bills with Health Officer for collection,  a docket to be kept, 78.
    to be reported upon monthly, 83.
    against  the Board, proceedings in relation to, 81.
Bills of Health, vessels to which they may be granted, 9,10, 13,  13, 18.
                       15 
114                        GENERAL INDEX.
Bills of Health to be presented  at Health Office within 24 hours after arrival, 9, 10,
                        13, 18.
               penalties for neglecting to present, 11, 13, 18.
               form of, to be directed  by the Board, 8, 9, 17.
               to be filed and preserved by Health Officer, 6, 19.
               may be granted to vessels sailing from this port, 85.
               fee for the same, 85.
Bills of Mortality,,See "Mortality."
Births, register of to be kept by the Clerk, 33, 76.
       blanks for recording to be kept by the Clerk, 34.
       record of, to be filed in the Health Office, 34.
       penalty for  neglecting to record and report, 34.
       reports of, to be collected by Messengers monthly, 79.
Blockley Burial Ground, vested in the  Board of Health, 33.
                        interments in, and fee for same, 77, 84.
Board  of Health  incorporated and established, 3.
                  when and how organized, 75.
                  to hold all Estate and property of old Board of Health, 3, 7.
                  number of its members, and how  they  are elected, 3, 4,  34,  47,
                        52, 60.
                  vacancies occurring  in, how supplied, 4.
                  a majority of its members to constitute a quorum, 4.
                  its  officers, 4, 5, 75.
                 its meetings, when and where to be held, and how called, 5, 19.
                  to have direction  and  control of the Executive Officers appointed
                        by the Governor,  5.
                 its powers, jurisdiction and authorities, 5, 56, 57.
                 may appoint and remove Officers, Agents and Servants, 5.
                 and allow them a compensation, 5.
                 to direct  and  manage  Lazaretto, and City and other Hospitals, 5,
                        7, 8, 23, 24.
                 to make rules and regulations for government of same, ib.
                 to regulate the mode of visiting and examining vessels, 5.
                 to receive two dollars for  outer channel visit, 7.
                  may order detention of vessels, passengers and crews at Lazaretto,
                       9, 10, 13, 14,  24, 36.
                 may direct the mode of purifying vessels and cargoes, 9, 10, 17.
                 may permit vessels to be loaded at the Lazaretto by lighters, 11, 14.
                 may detain vessels after undergoing quarantine, 10.
                 may prohibit intercourse with  infected ports, 15, 24.
                 may direct purification of infected vessels in port, 17.
                  may remove persons coming to the city from infected ports, 15.
                  may detain persons  from infected ports for purification, 13, 14.
                 may demand proofs  from suspected persons, 15, 16.
                 may apprehend and  confine persons eloping from the Lazantto, 20.
                 may remove infected vessels from the port of Philadelphia, 13,  21,
                        22, 37. 
GENERAL  INDEX.
115
Board  of Health to take measures for preventing spread of contagion in Philadel-
                        phia, 22, 25.
                 may forbid communication with infected houses, 25.
                 may order suspected places or houses to be examined, 22.
                 may remove infected persons to City Hospital or elsewhere, 23, 24.
                 may lease the City  Hospital when not used, 24.
                 may remove sick persons on board vessels in port to the Lazaretto
                        or  elsewhere, 17.
                 may enter and search all places where  nuisances are suspected to
                        exist,  26, 27.
                 shall order nuisances to be removed and privies cleaned or correct-
                        ed, and recover expenses, 27, 42, 55, 56.
                 shall invest their surplus funds, 30.
                 shall exhibit their accounts annually to the County Auditors, 30.
                 may purchase and hold as much Real Estate as may be necessary
                        for<he transaction of their business, 49.
                 may remove  vessels and  cleanse  them after discharging  their
                        cargoes, 37.
                 may make regulations to  preserve the community from Small Pox,
                        38.
                 may purchase Lots for reception of Privy filth, 38, 43.
                 may confine  persons temporarily at the Lazaretto, 25.
                 shall at once remove nuisances from unoccupied property, or where
                        the owner resides out of the jurisdiction of the  Board, or
                        cannot be found after search, 42.
                 may draw for funds upon County Commissioners, with approbation
                        of Court of Quarter Sessions and County Board, 44,51, 52.
                 may manufacture and sell manure, 38.
                 orders and directions of,  or of  its  officers, penalties for neglecting
                        or  disobeying, 12,  21.
                 may, from time to time, exempt from laws  about nuisances,  rural
                        districts or those sparse  in  population, 58.
                 may license persons to clean privies, make rules in relation thereto,
                        &c., 58, 59.
                 may sell the City Hospital at  Bush Hill,  and with the proceeds
                        build a new  hospital, 59,
Board  of patients at City Hospital, 91, 93.
                 at Lazaretto, 105, 106, 107.
Boarders not allowed at Lazaretto, 107.
Boarding house-keepers to report cases of sickness, under penalty, 25.
Bodies not to be disinterred  without permit, 85.
       fee for permit for disinterment of, 85.
Brazil, health fee on vessels  from coast of, 7.
Brimstone excepted from quarantined goods, 99.
Buildings and improvements, privies in the way of, to pay but smallest pneo for per-
                        mit, 77. 
116                        GENERAL INDEX.

Burials not permitted without Physicians certificate under penalties, 26, 46.
        See " Interments."
Burial ground in Blockley, vested in the Board of Health, 33.
Burial grounds, Committee on, 80.
              rules in relation to, 77, 84.
              superintendents of, their duties and compensation, 84.
Bush Hill Hospital, See " City Hospital."
Canada, health fee on vessels from, 6.
Canals, Raritan and Chesapeake, vessels going through, exempt from health fees, 47.
Canary Islands, health fee on vessels from, 7.
Cape Fear, vessels from places south of, to be examined, 35.
Cape of Good Hope, ) fa  , h fees on vesse,s from roun(]  ~
Cape Horn,         J                                '
Cape Verd Islands, health fee on vessels from,  7.
Captains,  penalty  on for leaving station before Lazaretto, 8.
                 for permitting persons or goods to be landed before examination, 8.
                  for allowing persons to go on board before examination, 8.
                 for landing hides, fish or vegetables, without permit, 36.
                  for giving false answers under examination, 11.
                  for neglect to  present Certificate  or  Bill  of  Health at  Health
                        Office,  11,13, 18.
                 for refusal to  comply with  orders  and rules of the Board or its
                        Officers, 12.
                 for neglecting or refusing to stop at Lazaretto for examination, 13.
                  for coming to  wharf before examination by Port Physician, 18.
                  for receiving fugitives from Lazaretto, 20.
                  for removing sick from vessels in Port,  25.
          to  present Certificates or Bills of Health within  24 hours after arrival, 9,
                        10, 13, 18.
          to give notice of discharge of cargo, 36.
          liable for expenses of sick landed and sent to Lazaretto, 10, 21.
          liable for all penalties and sums due for Vessels or Passengers, 29.
          liable to penalty for putting passengers on short allowance, 64, 69.
                            not delivering manifest of passengers, 65.
          See " Penalties."
Cargoes of Vessels, when to be  examined, 8,17.
                   not to be landed before examination, 8, 17.
                   what part from infected vessels may enter the City, 10, 11  99.
                   when not to enter the City, 11.
                    when infected, to be purified, 11.
                    notice to be given of discharge in Port, 36.
Cash Book to be kept by  Health Officer, 83.
Carriages for use of the Board,  Clerk to keep an account of, 78.
Carts, Privy, rules and regulations in regard to, 78, 109, 110, 111.
Cemeteries, See " Burial Grounds."
Certificates of Health,  See  " Bills of Health." 
GENERAL INDEX.
117
Certificates of filth received at Poudrette Pits, 49, 78.
Certificates of Death, form of, 82.
Chairman of Board to be appointed in the absence of the President, 75.
Chairmen of Committees to be notified by the Clerk, 77.
Cherry Hill ground, interments in, 77.
Chesapeake  and  Delaware  Canal,  vessels passing through, exerfipt from Health
             fees, 47.
Cholera patients to be admitted in the City Hospital, 95.
Citizens called on and  enjoined to aid in maintaining and enforcing the Health
             Laws, 25.
Citizens of Philadelphia may give testimony or serve as Jurors in suits for penalties, 28.
City Councils of Philadelphia elect six members of the Board, and when, 3, 47.
City Hospital to be kept for patients with contagious and infectious diseases,  23,
                   24,  95.
             when not used  may be leased by the Board, 24.
             may be sold by  the Board, and a new one built with the proceeds, 59.
             Rules for the government of, 91 to 96.
             Matron of,  her election, tenure, duties and compensation, 75, 91,93, 94.
             Physician of, his election, duties and compensation, 75, 92, 93.
             Supplies to, 93.
             Patients, who to be admitted in, and how, 93, 95.
             Nurses of, and their duties, 94, 95.
Civil Officers of the State to  aid in enforcing Health Laws, 25.
Claims of the Board, a Docket of to be kept and  examined monthly, 78.
Claims for expenses of removing nuisances, to be sued for and recovered from parties
                        liable, 27, 42.
                   to be a lien on premises from  which the nuisance is removed, 42.
                   to be in all cases filed in the District Court, 42.
                   must be filed within six months and revived every five years, 54.
                   not to be  divested by a judicial sale if proceeds are insufficient, 55.
                   modes of proceeding to recover, 27, 42, 50, 55.
                   what may and what may not be set up as a defence against, 42,
                          55.
                   not to  be registered in the County Commissioners' Office, 56.
                   to be collected by and under the authority of the Board, 56.
                   Prothonotary's fee for filing, 56.
Clean vessels, what are, 9.
             may proceed to Philadelphia, 9.
Clerk of the Board, his election, 75.
                  his duties, 76, 77, 78, 79, 85, 91, 92.             ■
                  by law  to register Practitioners of midwifery, 33.
Coal Vessels, when exempt from Health fees, 45.
Coasting Vessels, health  fee on, 6.
                  when  to stop at Lazaretto, 6.
                  Clerk to keep a list of, 76.
Colombia,  See " Terra Firraa."
Commissioners  of  Districts ineligible to the Board of Health, 54. 
118
GENERAL INDEX.
 Commissioners of the County, »9ee " County Commissioners."
 Committees of the Board, appointed annually. 80.
            Chairmen of, to be notified by the Clerk, 77.
            all to be appointed by the President, 75.
            meetings of, messenger to serve notices of, 79.
 See  "Accounts*"  "Burial Grounds," "Lazaretto,"  "Mortality,"  "Nuisances,"
              " Office," " Poudrette," and " Sanatary."
 Communications to be addressed officially, 86.
 Consignees liable for expenses of sick and purification of vessels, 9, 10, 21.
            liable to penalties, and sums due for vessels or passengers, 30.
            to give notice of discharge of cargoes, 36.
 Constables to  aid in enforcing health laws, 25.
            to arrest violators of laws about privies, also their carts,  horses, &c, 58,
                    111.
            reward to,  for so doing, 111.
 Contagious diseases, the Board may prevent the spread of,  22, 24, 25.
                    proceedings in relation to, 92.
 Correspondence of the Board to be conducted by the Secretary, 75.
 Councils, See " City Councils."
 County Auditors, See " Auditors."
 County Board, no tax to be raised or money borrowed without their consent, 45.
              to have power of specifically appropriating County rates and levies, 52.
              may require statements of receipts and expenditures of the Board of
                    Health, 52.
 County Commissioners, warrants on for funds, 44, 45, 46, 52.
 County of Philadelphia not to defray any part of cost of new Hospital, 59.
 Court of Q-uarter Sessions to approve the  Board's drafts on the County Commis-
                    sioners, 44.
 Crews of vessels to be examined, 8.
                from infected vessels or ports to undergo quarantine, 11, 13, 14.
 Deaths, certificates of, to be given by Physician,  26.
        and filed weekly in Health Office, 26.
        statement of, to be published weekly, 26.
        form of certificates of, 82.
        Register of, to be kept by. Clerk, 76.
Debts due to the Board, register of, to be kept by the Clerk, 78.
Delaware and  Chesapeake Canal, ) vessels passing through exempt from Health fees,
Delaware and  Raritan Canal,     $       47.
Delaware State, vessels,   passengers,  &c, from Foreign ports arriving  at,  may be
                    landed in Philadelphia after being in Delaware fifteen days, 2.
Diseases, See " Contagious and Infectious diseases."
Disinterments  not allowed without permit, 85.
              fee for permit for, 85.
District Commissioners not eligible as members of the Board of Health, 54.
District Court, claims for expenses of removing nuisances to be filed in, 42.
              to have exclusive jurisdiction of such claims, 42.
              authorized in suits on such claims to give judgment by default, 50. 
GENERAL INDEX.
119
District Court, jurisdiction and powers of old District Court vested in present one, 53.
              former proceedings of, confirmed, 53.
Docket of claims to be kept by the  Clerk, 78.
                to be examined monthly, 78.
Dyewoods excepted from quarantined goods, 10.
Estate and property of former Board vested in the present Board, 3, 7.
Europe, health fee on vessels from, 7.
Evidence, members or officers may give, in suits for penalties, 29.
Executive Officers of the Board, 5.
                 to be under the direction  and control of the Board, 5.
Exempted goods not to be detained at quarantine, 10, 99.
Expenses of filling lots and removing nuisances, 79, 85.
         of removing nuisances to  be paid  by owners and occupiers of property,
                    27, 42.
          of removing nuisances to be a lien on premises whence removed, 42.
         modes of proceeding to recover, 27, 42, 55.
Expenses of vessels, passengers, &c, who to be liable for, 9,  10, 21, 59.
Expenditures  by any Committee of the Board not to exceed fifteen dollars, 80.
False answers, penalties for making, II.
Fines, See " Penalties."
Fish not to be landed without permit, under a penalty, 36.
      to be inspected before being landed, 84.
Florida, health fee on vessels from,  7.
Foreign ports on continent of America, health fee on vessels from, 6.
             vessels from, to stop at Lazaretto for visit, 8.
             and to receive Port Physician's  visit from Oct.  1st to J une 1st, 17.
Foreign vessels, health fee on, 7.
Foreign merchandize and persons on board vessels, to be visited at Lazaretto, 6.
Foreign Passengers, See " Passengers" and " Head money."
Forfeitures, See " Penalties."
Fort Mifflin, letters and packages may be sent to and from,  44, 45.
Freeman T. B., the Board authorized to refund certain moneys to,  46.
Front Street and Norris' Alley Real Estate,  title of the Commonwealth released to
                    the  Board, 40,41.
Fruits, preserved, excepted from quarantined  goods, 10.
Funds, surplus, how invested, 30.
       how raised, 44, 45, 46, 51, 52.
Guardians order for small pox patients, 93.
Good  Hope,  See " Capes."
Goods or persons from Foreign ports, vessels with,  to stop at  Lazaretto,  6.
       from infected vessels or ports, not to enter Philadelphia, unless permitted up,
                    11, 13, 14.
Goods exempted from quarantine,  articles enumerated, 10,99.
 Head money on Foreign passengers, 23.
 Health Certificates, form to be prescribed by  the Board, 9.
 Heath, bills of, Sec "Billsof Health."
 Health fees, amounts payable  by  American  vessels, 6, 7. 
120
GENERAL  INDEX.
Health fees, amounts payable by Foreign vessels,  7.
                               Prize      do.   7.
                               Armed    do.   7.
           none payable by American vessels engaged in Pennsylvania coal trade, 45.
           may be regulated by the Wardens of the Port, 47.
Health Laws to be respected and enforced by U. S. Officers, 61.
Health Officer to be appointed by the Governor, 5.
              to be under the control and direction of the Board, 5.
              to receive and file bills of Health, 6, 19.
              to collect Health fees  and other monies, and  pay amounts over to
                       Treasurer monthly, 6, 83.
              to deposit letter bag  and letters of detained vessels in Post Office, 9, 20-
                                                          except when address-
                                                            ed to the Board, 20,
              to keep open a Public Office, and attend it daily, except Sundays, 18.
              to attend the office at the  meetings of the Board, 19.
              to keep  register of vessels, their Captains, Owners and Consignees,
                       &c, 19, 83.
              to enforce and execute  orders of the Board, and his duties generally,
                       19, 78,  81, 82, 83.
              to collect and receive all penalties and other moneys, and  report and
                       pay over monthly,  19, 28, 83.
              Docket of claims to be  placed in his hands, 78.
              to give Bond with Sureties, 19.
              his Bond to be a lien on his Estate and that of his sureties, 19.
              to remove infected persons, 24.
              to report monthly on bills in his hands for collection, 83.
              to arrest persons eloping from quarantine, 20.
              to settle the accounts of Inspectors of vessels, 82.
              examine and approve privy carts, 40,109, 110.
              to keep a cash book, 83.
              to send infected vessels to Lazaretto, 83.
              register names of persons engaged in cleaning privies, and report  to
                       the Board licenses  issued, 40,110.
              to have privy carts numbered  and register the same, 78, 110.
              Salary of, 45.
              his accounts, how examined, 81.
Hides, not to be landed without inspection and permit, under a penalty, 36, 78, 84.
Hog pens a nuisance in certain parts of the  city and county, 85.
Honduras, Health fee on vessels from, 7.
Horn, See "Capes."
Hospitals,  the Board to make rules for government of, 5.
           the Board authorized to buy  and build a new one, and sell the old one, 59,
           See " City Hospital."
           temporary when to be opened, 92.
           government of, 92. 
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121
Hospital at Lazaretto, rules for its government, 99, 100.
House keepers, penalty on, for harbouring fugitives from Lazaretto, 20.
Houses in which nuisances are suspected to exist, may be entered and searched, 26, 27.
Importers of passengers, liable for their board and expenses at quarantine, 21, 30.
                        and also for the head money, 23, 30.
Improvements, privies in the way of, to pay but smallest price for permit, 77.
Infected Ports, vessels and goods from, liable to be detained for quarantine, 13,  14.
              persons and goods from, not to enter Philadelphia, 14, 15.
                                     liable to quarantine, 14.
                                     may be removed, 15, 16.
              communication with, may be prohibited, 15.
              vessels suspected to be from, may be examined, 17.
              in the U. S, communication with may be prohibited, 15.
              penalty on bringing goods from, into Philadelphia without permission,
                  14.
              penalty on persons from,  entering Philadelphia without permission, 14.
Infected persons may be sent to the city or other Hospitals, 23, 24.
Infected vessels coming up may be sent  back,  13, 21, 22,  37.
               to be examined by Port Physician, 17.
               and their cargo and baggage to be purified, 9, 11, 13, 14.
                                             and  at the expense of the  Master,
                                                Owner or Consignees, 9, 10.
               goods and persons from, not to enter Philadelphia, 11.
               penalty on bringing up  goods or persons from,  14, 15.
Infected houses, communication with, may be prohibited. 24, 25.
Infectious diseases, the Board authorized to prevent the spread of, 22, 24, 25.
                  proceedings in  relation to, 92.
Interments to be recorded by the Clerk,  and published weekly, 26, 46, 76.
           in grounds belonging to the  Board, 77.
           not to be made without  permit, 84.
           Clerk to issue permit and receive fee for, 84.
Inspectors of  vessels and their duties, 78, 83, 84.
                    to give security, 84.
                    their compensation, 84.
                    Health Officer to settle accounts of, 82.
Inventory of property at  City Hospital, to be taken half yearly, viz: in May  and
                          November, 93.
                        Lazaretto, to be taken half yearly, viz: in June and Octo-
                          ber, 97.
Iron, excepted from quarantined goods,  99.
Investments of surplus funds of the Board, how to be made, 30.
January, first meeting in, rules to be read, 86.
Judges to aid  in enforcing Health Laws, 25.
Judicial sale not to divest the Board's claims if proceeds are insufficient, 55.
July, rules of the Board to be read in, 86.
June  inventory of Lazaretto to be taken in, 97.
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GENERAL  INDEX.
Jurisdiction of the Board, 5, 26, 27, 56, 57.
Jurors, members of the Board exempt from serving as, 29.
      no citizen disqualified from serving in suits brought by the Board, 28.
Justices of the Peace to aid in enforcing  Health Laws, 25
Kensington, Commissioners of, elect two members of the Board, 34, 52.
Latitude 34 degrees South, health fee on  vessels from beyond, 7.
Lazaretto,  vested in the Board of Health, 7.
           under the control and  direction of the Board and  Lazaretto Committee,
               5, 7, 8, 97.
           Rules of the Board for the government of, 97.
           when vessels to stop at, for examination, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 24, 35, 36, 98, 99.
           vessels may take in freight at and proceed to sea, 11, 14.
           vessels sent down to, from this Port, under direction of Health Officer, 83.
           elopements from, punishable,  20.
           no person to enter or depart without leave of the Board, 20, 100, 102.
           vessels not permitted to leave without first giving approved security for
               expenses, 59.
           patients at, to be entered and discharged, 108.
           Boarders not permitted at, 107.
           permits to visit, 108.
           inventory of effects of,  to be taken twice a year, 97.
           visitors to, not admitted without permit, 108.
           Hospital, regulations of,  99, 100, 104, 105,  106.
           Steward of,  See " Steward."
           Committee, and their duties and powers, 80, 97, 104, 105, 107.'
           Officers of, not to  absent themselves without leave, under a penalty, 16,
                        97, 102.
                     form of leave of absence to, 16.
                    penalty for disobeying orders of, 21.
Lazaretto Mail, See "Mail."
Lazaretto Physician  to be appointed by the Governor, 5.
                    to reside at the Lazaretto, 5.
                    to be under the direction and control of the Board,  5.
                   to be allowed a house and garden at the Lazaretto, 5, 6.
                    to receive $2 for outer channel visit, 7.
                    to board and examine vessels between sunrise and sunset, 8,35,36,
                          98, 99, 100.
                    to  administer oaths  and affirmations, 8, 35, 36.
                    to notify persons examined of penalty for false answers, 9, 35, 36.
                    to give bills of health to clean vessels, 9, 35, 36.
                    to detain infected vessels, cargoes  and passengers,  9, 35, 36.
                    to  give certificate of the state of vessels after quarantine, 10.
                    to execute the orders of the Board in  regard to purification of
                         vessels, 9, 10, 35,36, 99.
                    not to absent himself without permission under fine and forfei-
                         ture of office, 16.
                    to remove the sick and cause infected vessels to be purified, 10.99. 
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Lazaretto Physician to cause the sick to be landed at Lazaretto, and attend them, 16, 99.
                    to superintend the execution of orders of the Board, 16.
                    his salary, 29.
                    his duties under the rules of the Board, 97, 98, 99, 100,101.
Letters, copies of, to be kept by the Clerk, 76.
Letters,     )     «, M ., „
Letter Bag, \see   iVlai1-
Licenses to persons to clean privies, to issue, 58,109,  110.
         form of, 109.
         penalty for cleaning without, 58.
         fee for, and for renewals, 58.
         may be taken away for misconduct, 59.
         to be issued by the Clerk when  approved, 78.
         Clerk to receive the fee for, 78.
         rules and regulations in regard  to,  109, 110,  111.
         See  "Permits."
Lien, See  " Claims."
Limitations, suits for penalties to be brought within twelve months, 29, 30.
            claims to be filed within six months, and  revived within five years, 54.
Lodging Houses, keepers of, to report cases of sickness under a penalty, 25.
Lots to receive privy filth, the  Board may purchase and enclose, 38, 43.
    when reported as nuisances, an estimate of expense of removing to be  made, 79.
Madeira,  health fee on vessels from, 7.
Mahogany excepted from quarantined goods, 10.
Mail,  leaves Lazaretto and returns once  or twice a day, 19, 44, 45, 100.
       to be made up and despatched from Lazaretto by the Quarantine Master,  100,
         103, 104.
       persons at Lazaretto may receive  and transmit  letters by, 19, 100.
       letters to be deposited in the Post Office, except to the Board or its officers, 20.
       letter-bag of detained vessels to be sent up and  deposited in the Post  Office, 9.
       letters and  packages may be sent to and from Fort Mifflin, 45.
Malignant diseases, proceedings in regard to, 92.
           Typhus, cases to be admitted into the City Hospital, 95.
Manufactured tobacco, excepted from quarantined goods, 10.
March, Board to be organized at first meeting in, 75.
Matron of City Hospital, her appointment, duties and compensation, 75, 91, 93, 94.
Masters of Vessels.  See " Captains."
May, inspectors of vessels to be elected in, 83.
     inventory of City Hospital to be taken in, 93.
Mediterranean,  health fee on vessels from, 7.
                vessels from, subject to examination and liable to detention, 13, 14.
                          may load at the Lazaretto by lighters and proceed  to  sea, 14.
Meetings of the Board, when and  where to be held and how called, 5, 19, 75.
Members of the Board, number of and mode of election, 3, 4, 34, 47, 52, 53,  60.
                       to  serve without compensation or emolument, 3.
                       may be re-elected, 4.
                       penalty for resisting, obstructing or assaulting, 28. 
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Members of the Board  may be witnesses or jurors in suits for penalties, 28.
                       exempt from militia and jury duty, 29.
                       no Commissioners of any of the Districts can be elected, 54.
Messengers, their election, 75.
            duties and compensation of, 79.
Mexico, Gulf of, health fee on vessels from vicinity of, 7.
Midwifery, practitioners of, to  record their names, 33.
                         to keep register of births, 33, 34.
                         to file register at Health Office, 34.
                         penalty on, for neglecting said duties, 34.
Militia duty, members of the Board exempted from,  29.
Minutes, Secretary to keep, 75.
         Clerk to transcribe, 76.
         Sanatary and Lazaretto Committees to keep,  91, 97.
         of Committees may be called for at Board meetings, 81.
Molasses excepted from quarantined goods, 10.
Moneys, surplus, to be invested by the  Board, 30.
         received and paid, Clerk to keep a record of, 76.
Mortality, bills of, Clerk to make out and publish weekly, 26, 76.
                 Committee on, and their duties, 80,  82.
Moyamensing, Commissioners of, elect a member of the Board, 4.
               Southern Poudrette removed from, 51.
               no Poudrette to be located north  of Buck Lane in, 51.
National vessels, health fees on, 7.
                at quarantine may communicate with Naval  Asylum on Schuyl-
                   kill, 41.
Naval Asylum, intercourse between it and Philadelphia may be prohibited, 41.
New Brunswick, health fee on vessels from, 6.
New Hospital may be purchased and built by the Board, 59.
New Orleans and ports adjacent, health fee on vessels from, 7.
Norris' alley.   See " Front street."
Northern Liberties, Commissioners of, elect two members of the Board of  Health, 4.
Notices to remove nuisances to be given by the Clerk, 27, 77.
                          to be served by the Messenger, 79.
                          to have penalty for non-compliance inserted, 77.
Nova Scotia, health fee on vessels from, 6.
November, inventory of City Hospital to be taken in, 93.
Nuisances may be searched for by the Board, 22, 26, 27.
          to be removed by order of the Board, 27, 42.
          penalty for not removing on notice, 27.
          owners and properties liable  for expenses of removing, 27, 42.
          expenses of removing, a lien on the premises, 42.
          expenses of removing, how recovered and modes of proceeding, 27,42, 50,55.
          fact of nuisance  not to be enquired into on suits for expenses, 42.
          Committee on, 80.
          Messenger and  Committees  to examine and make written report upon,
             with estimates, 79, 80. 
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Nuisances, persons under prosecution for penalties not to be employed to remove, 83.
           See " Board of Health"—" Claims"—" Notices "—" Rural Districts."
Nurses at City Hospital and their duties, 94, 95.
       at Lazaretto, 105, 106.
Obstetrics.  See  " Midwifery."
October, rules to  be read at first meeting in, 86.
         officers of the Board to be elected at second meeting in, 75.
         inventory of Lazaretto to be taken in, 97.
Office, Committee on, and their duties, 80, 81.
Officers of the Board, and their election, 4, 5, 75.
        and servants of the Board not to hold office under the United States, 5.
                                 may be witnesses and jurors in suits by the Board,
                                     28.
                                 penalty for resisting, obstructing or assaulting, 28.
                    of the  Lazaretto not to be absent from their post  without leave,
                         under fine and forfeiture of office,  16.
Officers of the State ordered to aid in enforcing quarantines and health laws, 25.
Officers  of the United States ordered to aid in enforcing quarantines and health laws,
     61.
Orders on  Treasurer (o be drawn by the President and attested by the Secretary, 76.
Order, rules of, 87,88, 89.
Organization of the Board annually, 75.
Outer channel, what vessels may come to in, 7.
               additional fee for visit in, 7.
               when fee not to be charged, 108.
Owners of property liable for expenses of removing nuisances, 27, 42.
Owners of vessels liable for  expenses of sick and purification of vessels, 9, 10.
                        for expenses of boarding, nursing, &c. of sick at Lazaretto, 21.
                        for head money of foreign passengers, 23.
                        to penalties for violations of health laws, 30.
                        to penalties for putting passengers on short allowance, 64, 69.
                       to give notice of discharge of cargo, 37.
Passengers from foreign ports arriving in Delaware  may be landed here, after being
                 there fifteen days, 2.
            to be examined at Lazaretto before being landed, 8.
            from infected vessels not to enter Philadelphia, 11.
            to pay head money if foreigners, 23.
            importers of, and owners, masters and consignees of vessels liable for ex-
                  penses of, 21,23,30.
           expenses of boarding, to be secured before vessels can leave the Lazaretto,
                   59.
Passenger ships and vessels to carry a certain quantity of provisions and water, 64,69.
                           penalty on masters and owner of for not so doing, 64, 69.
                           Captains  of,  to deliver manifest of passengers under pe-
                                nalty, 64, 65.
                           to have a certain allowance of deck-room for each passen-
                                ger, 66, 71. 
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Passenger ships and vessels, penalty on captains for taking too many passengers, 66.
                           how to be constructed, fitted up, kept pure and ventilated,
                              66, 68, 69 70, 71.
                          discipline on board of, 70.
Patients in City Hospital liable for expenses, 24.
         admission of, into City Hospital, 78, 93, 95.
         rules for government of, in  City  Hospital, 93, 94, 95.
         board of, at City Hospital, 91, 93.
                 at Lazaretto,  108.
         conveyance of, from Lazaretto,  108.
Pauper patients, admission and board of,  93.
Pens for hogs declared a nuisance in certain parts of the City and County,  85.
Penalties and forfeitures, how recovered, 28, 56,  57.
                       when specific, to  be recovered by civil suit, 56.
                       when not fixed, but varying, to be recovered by indictment, 57.
                       to be sued for within twelve months after offence, 30.
Penalties on captains for leaving station or  passing Lazaretto without examination,
             8, 13,  34.
         on Pilots for same offence, 8, 13, 31.
         on Persons landing or going on  board  vessels before examination, 8.
         on Captains or other persons making false answers to examining officers, 11.
         on Captains for not presenting certificates at the Health Office, 11, 13, 18.
         on Captains and others disobeying orders of the Board or its Officers, 12,
             21.
         on persons, goods, &c, from infected places coming to Philadelphia without
             leave,  14,  15.
         on officers and servants of Lazaretto being absent from duty without leave, 16.
         on Captains and others hauling vessels  to the wharf before receiving visit,
             18.
         on persons harbouring fugitives from the Lazaretto, 20.
         on persons eloping from the Lazaretto, 20.
         on persons for going on board or alongside of quarantined vessels, 20.
         on persons for going into th« Lazaretto limits without leave, 20.
         on Pilots coming to Philadelphia from vessels at quarantine, 22.
         on boarding-house keepers for not returning sick strangers, 25.
         on persons for removing sick from vessels before being visited, 25.
         on Physicians for not reporting cases of pestilential and contagious diseases,
             26.
         on Physicians for not giving certificate of death, 26.
         on Physicians for communicating Small Pox without permission, 37, 38.
         on Practitioners of Midwifery for not registering their names, 33, 34.
         on Practitioners of Midwifery for not returning births, 34.
         on Sextons and Superintendents  of burial grounds for burying without cer-
             tificate, 26, 46.
         on Sextons and Superintendents of burial grounds for not making weekly
             reports of interments, 26, 46.
         on persons neglecting or refusing to remove nuisances when directed, 27. 
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127
Penaltieson persons for resisting, obstructing or assaulting the Board, its members or
             officers, 28.
         on persons landing vegetables, hides or fish, without permit, 36.
         on persons storing more than 100 bushels of vegetables without permit, 37.
         on persons cleaning privies without a permit or contrary to its terms, 39, 40,
             48, 58.
         on persons emptying privies into leaky carts, or carts not holding 24 cubic
             feet, 48, 49.
         on persons depositing  contents  of privies at any  other time or place than
             that named in the permit, 48.
         on persons spilling filth along the highways, 58.
         on persons receiving illegal deposits of  privy filth, 48.
         on persons cleaning privies without being licensed, 58.
         on Captains and owners for putting passengers on short allowance, 64, 69.
         on Captains for not delivering manifest of passengers, 64, 65.
         on Captains for over-crowding passenger vessels beyond regulations, 66, 67i
             71.
         on Captains and owners for not  fitting up passenger vessels as directed by
             law, 70, 71.
Penn District Commissioners, elect one member of the Board of Health, 60.
Permits must be obtained to unload hides,  fish or vegetables, 36.
        to visit the Lazaretto, 108.
        must first issue to cleanse privies,  under penalties, 48;  49.
        can only issue to licensed persons, 58,  110.
        form of,  110.
        price of,  58, 59,  77.
        See " Privies" " Privy filth," and "License."
Permanent resolutions to be separately recorded, 77.
Pestilential diseases to be reported by Physicians, 25, 26.
Philadelphia, See " City Councils," and " County."
Physicians, special, may be appointed for  hospitals, 92.
Physician of Lazaretto,  See " Lazaretto Physician."
Physician of City Hospital, when elected, 75.
                          salary of,  92.
                           duties of,  93, 91.
Physicians to report pestilential and contagious diseases, under a penalty, 25, 26,
           to give certificates of deaths, under a penalty, 26.
           to record births, &c, under a  penalty, 33, 34.
            not to communicate Small Pox without leave, under a penalty, 37, 38.
            See Midwifery, " practitioners of."
Pilots liable to penalties, 8, 22.
            to quarantine, 22.
        when exempt from quarantine, 22.
        to receive a certificate to proceed to sea, 22.
        not to enter Philadelphia for 20 days, under penalty, 22.
        from infected vessels liable to quarantine, 22.
        when sick to be detained at the Lazaretto, 22. 
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GENERAL  INDEX.
Plague, quarantine ordered on vessels suspected of having, 13, 14.
Plaster excepted from quarantined goods, 99.
Police Officers, when authorized to seize privy carts, horses, &c,  57, 58, 111.
              reward to, for so doing, 111.
Port Physician appointed by the Governor, 5.
               to reside in the city of Philadelphia, 5.
               to be under the direction and control of the Board, 5.
               to visit and examine suspected vessels in Port, 17.
               to cause the sick to be removed from on board vessels in port, 17.
               to report the state of vessels examined, 17.
               to visit and examine all vessels from foreign ports after October 1st,
                    to June  1st, 17.
               to demand answers under oath or affirmation, 17.
               to notify persons of penalty for false  answers, 17.
               to grant bills of health to clean vessels, 18.
               to report to the Board vessels suspected of infection, 18.
               to visit and examine houses, &c ,  suspected of being infected, 18.
               to report monthly  the vessels visited  and boarded, 83.
               not to act by deputy without special  permission, 83.
               his salary, 29.
Poudrette Committee, and its duties, 80,  82.
Poudrette pit, certificates of filth received at, 78.
             not to be located in certain parts of  Moyamensing, 51.
Powers of the Board, See " Board of Health."
Preserved fruits excepted  from quarantined goods, 10.
President of the Board to be chosen, and his powers and duties, 4, 5, 75.
Privateers, health fees on, 7.
Privies may when foul be emptied or corrected by the Board, 27.
       owners of, liable for expenses of cleansing, 27, 42.
       to be emptied at times and places  designated in permit under penalty, 48.
       not to be emptied without permit, under a  penalty, 39, 40, 48.
       persons  engaged in cleaning to register their names, 40, 109, 110.
       not to be cleansed except by  licensed persons,  under a  penalty, 58,  109,
            110.
       contracts for cleaning to be  by load of 24 cubic feet, 49.
       all other contracts for cleaning, to be void, 49.
       loads removed from, Clerk's certificate to be conclusive evidence of,  49.
       of permits to empty, 77,110.
       fees for  permits to empty, 58, 77.
       in the way of building or improvement to  be cleansed for smallest fee for per-
            mit, 58,77.
       rules and regulations as to, 109, 110, 111.
Privy carts  to be water tight and hold 24 cubic feet,  40, 48, 49, 109.
            to be inspected and registered by the Health Officer, 78, 109,  110.
            to have numbers painted on them, 78, 110.
            to carry a light, except on moonlight nights, 111.
            not to start  too early, nor remain out  after sunrise, 111. 
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129
Privy carts, horses, &c, liable to seizure  if taken with any persons violating Health
    Laws, 57,  58,111.
Privy filth, the  Board may receive and sell,  38.
           to be deposited in places designated by the Board, 38,39,48.
           penalty for depositing elsewhere,  39, 48.
           penalty for receiving elsewhere, 48.
           to be removed in approved water tight carts, 40, 48, 49, 109.
           when spilled in the highways, the party so doing to be punished, 58.
Prize vessels, health fees on, 7.
Property of late Board vested in the present Board, 7.
Prosecutions for penalties to be commenced within twelve months, 29, 30.
Quarantine, period of, 8, 9, 13.
            when finished, vessels to receive bills of health, 10.
                                 may proceed to sea, 11,13, 14.
                                 or may be still detained if necessary, 10, 11.
            letter-bag of vessels under, to be sent to the Health Office, 9.
            on  persons from infected ports, 13,14.
            persons under, may write by Lazaretto mail,  9.
            vessels under, cargo and sick to be landed from, II, 16,
            expenses of, who are liable for, 9,10,21, 30.
            of pilots, 22.
            certain goods exempt from, 10, 99.
            vessels under, no one to  go on board or  alongside of, 20, 29.
 Quarantine laws  to  be respected and enforced by United States revenue, military
                and naval officers, 61.
 Quarantine Master to be appointed by the Governor, 5.
                     to be under direction and control of the Board, 5.
                    to be allowed use of house and garden at Lazaretto, 6.
                    to receive one dollar for outer channel visits, 7.
                     to board and  examine  vessels between sunrise  and sunset, 8.
                         29,  35, 101.
                     may administer oaths and affirmations, 8, 35.
                     to notify persons examined of penalty for false answers, 9,35.
                     to sign bills of health, 9, 35.
                    not to absent himself without leave under fine and forfeiture of
                         office, 16,  102.
                     to execute the Board's orders in regard to purification of vessels,
                         10,  29,101, 102, 103.
                     to have vessels moored at Lazaretto, 16, 29, 101.
                     to prevent communication with infected vessels, 16,  17.
                     to take charge of and preserve boats of the Lazaretto, 100.
                     to secure boats of vesssls under quarantine from sunset to  sun-
                         rise, 16, 17, 103.
                     to preserve order and  enforce obedience to  Health Laws and
                         Rules of the Board, 16,17.
                            17 
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GENERAL  INDEX.
Quarantine Master to be allowed his charges for cleaning vessels in addition to  his
                       salary, 29,103.
                   to be paid said charges by the master, owner or consignee, 29.
                   to be furnished with boats, crews and a spy-glass, 29.
                   authorized to receive and forward letters and papers by Lazaretto
                       mail, or otherwise, and make up the mail, 29,  103, 104.
                   his salary, 29.
                   his duties under the Rules of the Lazaretto, 101, 102, 103,104.
Raritan and Delaware Canal, vessels passing through exempt from health  fees, 47.
Real Estate, the Board may purchase and sell, 38, 43, 49.
            the Board may  purchase and  hold as much as may be  necessary for
                 transaction of business, 49.
            former purchases of, confirmed, 43, 44.
     See " Privies and Privy Filth."
Receipts of the  Board to be reported monthly, 82.
Register of births to be kept by the Clerk, 76.
        of deaths to be kept by the Clerk, 76.
        of arrivals, entries to be  daily made in, 19, 76, 83.
Repeal of former Acts of Assembly, 30, 31, 43, 44, 49, 50, 52, 60.
       of former  Acts of Congress, 67, 72.
Resolutions, permanent to be separately recorded by the Clerk,  77.
Reward to officers of justice arresting offenders against Health Laws, 111.
Richmond  District, Commissioners elect one member of the Board of Health, 60.
Rules of the Board, 73 to 87.
      additions to, to be read quarterly, 86.
      of Order of the Board,  87 to 90.
      of the Sanatary Committee, 91 to 96.
      of the Lazaretto, 97 to 109.
      as to privies, &c., 109 to 112.
Rum excepted from quarantined goods, 10.
Runner of the Board to be elected,  75.
                   his duties and compensation, 80.
Rural districts may be exempted from operation of laws about nuisances, 58.
Sailors taken sick at boarding-houses to be reported, 25.
Salaries and compensation of officers, 7, 29, 45, 79,80, 84,91, 92, 104,  105, 106.
Salt excepted from quarantined goods, 10, 99.
Sanatary Committee and its powers and duties, 80, 91, 92, 93.
Scire facias, writs of, on claims for removing nuisances, 12, 50, 55.
Secretary of the Board, his election and his duties, 4,5, 75,85,86.
Servants at the City Hospital, 92,93.
Sextons to return weekly certificates of death, 26, 46.
        not to inter without Physician's certificate, under penalty, 26.  46.
        to be furnished by the Clerk with blank schedules, 20. 46.
Sheriffs to aid  in enforcing Health Laws, 25.
Ships.  See " Vessels."
Short allowance,  penalty for putting passengers on, 61, 6'J 
GENERAL INDEX.
131
Sick persons to be removed from on board vessels at the Lazaretto, 16.
            to be removed from on board vessels at the Lazaretto, or in port, It.
    landed or sent to Lazaretto, how to be treated, 20.
                              who liable for their expenses, 9, 10,21.
    not to leave Lazaretto without leave, 20.
    eloping from Lazaretto  to be apprehended and sent back, and may be confined
         by the Board, 20.
    expenses of, who are liable for, when they are landed or sent to the Lazaretto, 21.
    sent to  City Hospital liable for expenses,  24.
    may be removed from the city, 24.
    not to be removed from on board vessels in port without a permit, 25.
Small-pox, vessels having it  on board, subject to same regulations as in case of other
               malignant or contagious diseases, 37.
           not to be communicated by Physicians, without permit, under a penalty,
               37, 38.
           orders for admission of patients with, 78, 95.
           authority of Board to make rules in relation  to, 38.
Solicitor of the Board, his election and duties, 75, 76.
Southern Poudrette  removed from Moyamensing, 51.
Southwark  Commissioners elect two members of the Board of Health, 4, 52.
Special Committees, President to  appoint,  75.
Special meetings, how called, 75.
Spirits excepted from quarantined goods, 10.
Spring Garden, Commissioners of, elect two members of the  Board of Health, 4, 52.
St. Mary's, health fees on vessels  from  places adjacent to, 6, 7.
St. Croix and St. Mary's rivers, health fee on vessels from places between, 6.
Standing Committees appointed annually, 80.
Stated meetings of the Board, when held, 5, 75.
Steward of the Lazaretto elected, 75.
                        duties and compensation of, 104, 105, 106, 107.
Sugar excepted from quarantined goods, 10.
Sulphur.   See " Brimstone."
Superintendents of Cemeteries to return certificates of deaths  under a penalty, 26, 46.
Superintendents of the Board's burial grounds, their appointment, duties and pay, 84.
Supplies for Board, how obtained, 81.
         for City Hospital, how obtained, 93.
         for Lazaretto, how  obtained, 100, 104.
Surgeons.  See " Physicians."
Surplus funds, how to be invested, 30.
Temporary Hospitals, when to be opened, 91, 92.
                     rules for government of,  91,92.
Terra Firma, health fee on  vessels from coast of, 7.
Testimony, members or officers may give testimony in suits for penalties, 28.
Tobacco manufactured, excepted from quarantined goods, 10.
Treasurer of the Board to be chosen, 4, 75.
                       to give bond, with sureties, 4, 76. 
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GENERAL  INDEX.
Treasurer of the Board  to pay money on orders, 4,76.
                       to keep accounts and publish them annually, 4,5,76.
                       to report monthly, 70.
Typhus malignant, cases to be admitted in City Hospital, 95.
United States, vessels from ports in. health fee on, 6.
                                  when to stop at Lazaretto, 6,12, 13, 24, 35,36.
              persons and goods landed in, from  infected ports,  not  to enter city,
                   14.
              Board may prohibit intercourse with infected ports in, 15.
              officers of, bound to aid in enforcing health and quarantine laws, 61.
              to have warehouses at quarantine stations to store goods from vessels
                   under quarantine, 63.
              laws of, in relation to quarantines and Health Laws, 61.
              laws of, in relation to  passengers, and passenger ships and vessels, 63,
                   65, 67, 68.
Vacancies in the Board, how supplied, 4.
Vegetables not to be landed without permit, under a penalty, 36.
           not more than one hundred bushels to be stored without permit, under a
               penalty, 37.
Vessels, &c., arriving in Delaware from foreign places may come to Philadelphia after
             being in Delaware fifteen days, 2.
        of one hundred and fifty tons,  or upwards, may be visited in the outer chan-
             nel, 7.
        in which case they pay an extra health fee, 7.
        to be examined  at Lazaretto before landing persons, cargo or baggage, 8, 12,
                                       35, 36.
                                   by  Lazaretto Physician and Quarantine Master,
                                      8, 12,35,36,
                                   agreeably to forms prescribed by Board, 8,12.
        when considered clean, 9,35,36.
        on receiving bill of health to proceed to city, 9,35, 36.
        letter-bag of,  to be sent up to the city, 9.
        from infected ports to be detained and purified, 9,10,13, 14.
        having had sickness on board to be detained, 13, 14.
        and their owners,  masters and consignees liable for all expenses and penalties,
             9,10,21,30.
        after purification may proceed to Philadelphia, 10.
        after undergoing quarantine may still be detained, 10.
        may take in freight at the Lazaretto, by lighters, and proceed to sea, 11, 14.
        from ports in United States,  when liable to detention, 2,13,15.
        neglecting to stop at Lazaretto  to be sent back with crews, 13.
        with small-pox on board to undergo quarantine, 37.
        under quarantine, their cargo, &c,  to be landed and purified, 16.
        from foreign ports, when to be  visited by Port Physician, 17.
                          to be visited before hauling to any wharf under  a  penalty,
                               IS. 
GENERAL INDEX.
133
Vessels with fish, hides or vegetables, not to unload without a permit, 36.
        to be inspected after being unloaded, 36,37.
        after unloading may be removed for purification, 37.
        cargo and crew of, not to enter Philadelphia when sickness on board, 11.
        under quarantine, no one to go on board or alongside of under penalty, 20.
        may be ordered back to the Lazaretto, notwithstanding bill of health, if behoved
            to be infected, or may be removed, 21.
        liable  for penalties, expenses,  &c, 9,10, 21,30, 67.
        not to leave Lazaretto until approved security be first given for expenses of
            vessel and passengers, 59.
        in the Pennsylvania coal trade exempt from health fees, 45.
        carrying an over proportion of passengers may be forfeited, 6G, 67.
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Vessels, Inspectors of, their appointment, duties and compensation, 78, 83, 84.
Visiters to Lazaretto,  108.
Wardens of the Port may regulate fees to be paid to Health Officer, 47.
Watchmen authorized to seize carts, horses, &c,  used in violating laws in relation to
                privies, 57,58, 111.
            reward to, for so doing, 111.
Warehouses to  be  purchased by the United States to deposit goods, &c, from vessels
     under quarantine, 63.
Wednesday, first of every month for Treasurer's reports, 76.
             and for report of Health Officer, 82.
            and for report of Lazaretto Physician,  100.
            last of every month for report of Port Physician, 83.
 West Indies,  health fee on vessels from, 7.
 Western Islands, health fee on vessels from, 7.
 Wine excepted from quarantined goods, 10.
 Witnesses, members  and officers  may be, in suits for penalties, &c , 28,29.
 Yellow Fever cases to be admitted  in City Hospital, 95. 
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