Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-06-23

States, unless they shall have discharged
their cargoes, been purified, land remained
twenty days unladen. Every master,
commander, or consignee of any vessel,
offending in the premises, is liable to a
fine of two thousand dollars, or imprlson-
ment.
All vessels subject to quarantine, must
have a written permit from the Health
Officer, before they come to the city,
which permit must be delivered to the
Commissioners of Health, within twenty
four hours after their arrival. Every
master or commander neglecting, may be
fined in sum of two thousand dollars, or
imprisoned.
all persons having intercourse with
vessels at quarantine, without permission
from the Health Officer, shall be consid-
cred guilty of misdemeanour, and may
be fined in the sum of five hundred dol
lars, and detained at quarantine.
The Health Officer may take q bond
from persons willing to proceed beyond
the city of New-Yo rk, who are under
quarantine.
The Board of Health may cause any
cargo, or part of cargo, or any other
matter or thing in the said city, that may
be putrid, or in their opinion, dangerous
to the health of said city. to be removed
or destroyed.
No boat can land after sunset, or pass
between vessels at quarantine, at any
time without permission from the health
officer. Any person offending against
any of these directions may be fined in
the sum of fifty dollars.
Cotton, the growth of.he United States,
cannot be brought into the city, south OF
line commencing at Spring street, on
the north river, and running through the
said street to the Bowery, thence down
the Bowery to Grand street, through
Grand street to Walnut street, and thro'
Walnut street to the east river, brtween
the 3lst of May and the LIST of October.
Impure, damaged, or foreign cotton, must
be landed at, and may be exported from,
the quarantine ground, during the said
period All hides, and skins, during the
said period, must be landed at quarantine,
and if sound, may be taken to any place
in the city north Of the last mentioned
line. Sound cotton, of United States
growth, and sound hides, may be taken
from their places ofdeposit, and by water
only, put ON board of vessels lying at the
wAarves for expectation. Any sound cot
ton may be shipped from the quarantine
ground, and transported through the East
or North Rivers. provided the vessel hav-
ing the same on board, shall not approach
within three hundred yards Of any dock in
the city of New i ork, nor lie at anchor
opposite the said city, and provided any
! such cotton shall not be landed in the said
city.
No person can enter the quarantine
I: ground wIUnuut permit from the health
officer, or board of health, under the Pc
nalty of one hundred dollars, or imprison-
ment.
Every person practising physic in the
city of New York, who shall have, be-
tween the Slst of May and the list of No
vember, In any year, a patient labouring
under yellow, bilious malignant, or any
pestilential or infectious fever, shall forth
with make report in writing to some
one of the health commissioners, and for
neglecting so to do, he shall be consider
ed guilty of misdemeanour. and fined in
a sum not exceeding two hundred and
fifty dollars.
/ All persons keeping boarding houses,
between the 3lst May and the LIST of No
vember, are to report within l2 hours to
the commissioners of health, and the
Board of Health, all transient persons
who may be taken sick at their houses;
and all masters of vessels are prohibited
landing sick persons, without first OBJ
tanning written permit from one of the
health commissioners, or from the board
of health, under the penalty of two hun
dred and fifty dollars, or Imprisonment
for six months,
No dead animal shall be exposed in a
ny place, street, yard, lane, or lot, with
in the city, under the penalty of ten dol
lars.
No sailed provisions shall be packed or
repacked at any season of the year, in
! that part of the city, lying to the south
ward of Canal-Street, on the North ri
yer, and Walnut street, on the East river,
From the LIST day of May to the LIST of
October, no sailed or picked beef or fish,
unless smoa sed, can be deposited South
of said line, and all the aforementioned
articles, and all cotton and hides, which
may have been deposited south of said
line, prior to the Slst of May, and shall
there remain on the lst of June, must be
reported to the Health Commissioners.
a II dirt and filth cha II he hrouoI,t ont
from houses, cellars, alleys, yards; and