Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-03-26
AN ORDINANCE

Supplemen,ary to an Ordinance Providing for
the Appointment of Board Of Health, and
for the Abatement OF Nuisances, and tor
other purposes.
CECTION 1st. Ee ii ,nuci,d and ar
- dlined, By lie .Wd;or anil Councilman Of the
City V Cumberland, That all Bouts arriving
at Cumberland from points on the Chesapeake
& Ohio Canal where small pox and other CON
taeious and malignant diseases may be pre-
vailing, shall not approach within the corpo-
rate limits of said city, until said boats, and
ali persons on board, shall have been eXamin
ell by the Consulting Physician OF the Board
OF Health, and received II written permit to
that effect. And any boat neel"ciing 10 COM
ply with the provisions OF this OIdinance, or
any orders issued or given by sad Physician
shall be liable TO penalty OF not less than
twenty, and more than fifty dollars, and n
further penalty OF five dollars for every hour
said boat may remain 10 any position in vin
lat"n hereof, and an action for the recovery Of
all fines, foreitures or expenses Incurred in
carrying into effect any of the provisions of
this Ordinance, may be laid against the boat,
the master the owner: or :onsignee of the boat
so violating, each or all of them at the election
of the city.
SECTION 2D. ind be ii enacted, That it shall
be the duty OF the captain aud other persons
on board said boat TO make full disclosure to
the health OF the captain and all other persons
on said boat, rs may be deemed necessary by
said Physician, under penalty OF five dollars,
to he collected as above.
SECTION Sd. And be Il enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the captain, owner or consiguee
OF any boat TO give notice before its arrival
within the corporate limits, to the Consulting
Physician of Its arrival at such point, and it
shall be the duty of said Physician, within six
L., .h al, al, .,,I
boat and all persons on board, and if in his
judgement no danger of infection is to be APP
pretended from said boat and persons on board
he shall furnish the Captain or commander
with written permit, on payment Of Twenty
five cents by the captain or cohsignee Of said
Boat
SECTION 4. And be ii ordained, that if in the
opinion of said physician there is danger of
infection from any boat or persons thereon,
said boat shall remain without the coporate
limits anduuderco such publication as may
be deemed necessary by said physician, until
such time as he may deem it safe to give
permit, under penalty of not less than Twen-
ty Dollars, or more than fifty Dollars.
SECTION 5. .4nd be ii ordained, that it shall
not be lawful for the crew or persons on such
Boat, to come within the corporate limits, ul-
i'll they shall have Undergone such purifcn,ion
as in the judgement of said consulting physi-
clan may Oe necessary, anu nave LIS WTitteu
permit SO to do, under the penalty of the 4th
section of this ordinance.
SECTION 6. And be h.fnrther enacted and or
dained, that all fines, penalties, and expenses
incurred under the provision of this ordinance
or the ordinance to which it is a supplement,
shall be recovered before some Justice OF the
Peace, as all other fines and penalties are re-
covered, and that this ordinance shall take
effect and be in force from and after the 18th
day of March 1868.
G. II. OHR, mayor.
A. J. WEDDELL, Clerk. March IL, 1868