Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-04-09
AN ORDINANCE

Supplementary to IN Ordinance Providing for
the Appointment of Board of Health, and
for the A batement of Nuisances, and for
other purposes,
CECTiON LIST. Be IL enacted and or.
~ duined, by tie Mayor and Councilmen Of The
City Of Cumberland That all Boats arriving
at Cumberland from points on the chesapeake
l. Ohio Canal where small pox and other con-
tagious and malignant diseases may be pre-
vailng shall not approach within the corpo,,
rate limits of said city, until said boats, and
all persons on board, shall have been examin-
ed by the Consulting Physician OF the Board
OF Health, and received a written permit to
that effect And any boat neglecting to COM
ply with the provisions of this Ordinance, or
any orders issued or given by said Physician
shall be liable TO a penalty of not less than
twenty, and more than fifty dollars, and a
further penalty of five dollars for every hour
said boat may remain in any position in vio-
latinn hereof, and an action for the recovery OF
all fines, forieitures 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 consignee Of the boat
so violating, each or all of them at the election
Of the city.
SECTION ID. 4nd be IL enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the captain and other persons
on board said boat to make II full disclosure 10
said Physician of all circumstances relating TO
the health of the captain and all other persons
on said boat, as may be deemed necessary by
said Physician under penalty OF five dollars,
TO be collected ms above.
SECTIoN 81. -iRd be IL enacted That it shall
be the duty OF line captain, owner or conslsnte
of any boat to give notice before its arrival
within the corporate Limits, TO the Consulting
Physician of It's arrival at such point, and it
shall be the duty of said Physician within six
hours of such notice, to visit and examine said
boat aud 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 n written permit, on payment of Twenty
FIVE cents by the captain or cohsignee of said
Boat.
SECTION 4. And be il 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 cooperate
limits anduuderco such publication as may
be deemed necessary by said physician, until
such time as he may deem it safe to give a
permit under penalty of not less than Tween
ty Dollars, or more than fifty Dollars.
SECTION 5. And be IL ordained, that it shall
not be lawful for the crew or persons on such
Boat, to come within the cor crate limits, I'd
ill they shall have undergone such publication
as in the judgement of said consulting phys-
clan may be neces sary, and have his written
permit SO TO do, under the penalty of the 4th
section of this ordinance.
SECTION 6. And be IL 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. DER, mayor.
Al WEDDELL, Clerk March IL, 1863