Quarantine Regulations.

HEAD QUARTERS, DISTRICT OF KEY WEST AND TORTUGAS,

KEY WEST, FLA., March 18th, 1865.

C GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 5.

The following Quarantine Regulations for the Port of Key West, are established, to take effect from this date.

I. The Quarantine ground shall be at a place, to be designated by the Health Officer,

II. It shall be the duty of the Master and Pilot of every vessel coming into this port, from any port in the United States, or from any foreign port, to hoist a signal for the Health Officer, and to anchor off the Marine Hospital, until visited by him.

III, It shall be the duty of the Health Officer, without unnecessary delay, to visit every vessel not exempted in this order, and to ascertain her sanitary condition and the port from which she sailed. He shall order to the Quarantine ground, to remain as long as he may deem proper, every vessel having on board any case of Yellow Fever, Small Pox, Cholera, or other infectious disease, also every vessel coming from any port where Yellow Fever exists.

IV. No person shall be allowed to leave the vessel until she has been examined by the Health Officer and relieved from Quarantine, nor shall any communication be had with the vessel, until she has been so examined and relieved.

V. All "Sponge Boats," "Wood Boats," "small Fishing Boats," used to supply the Key West Market, and Pilot Boats returning from their ordinary cruising ground, are exempt from Quarantine Regulations, unless they have visited a "wreck," or have had communication with some vessel liable to be quarantined, or have visited a foreign port; in which case they will become liable to the Quarantine Regulations.

VI. The Health Officer is entitled to the following fees:-

For every necessary visit to every smack or wrecking vessel, two (2) dollars; for every necessary visit to other vessels of less than two hundred and fifty tons, three (3) dollars; to every vessel exceeding two hundred and fifty tons, five (5) dollars. No charge will be made for Naval vessels, or Army transports owned by Government.

VII. Every surgeon or physician, not in the Naval service, practicing in this port, shall immediately report to the Health Officer, any case of infectious disease coming under his knowledge. All Naval surgeons are requested to report to the Health Officer, any case of infectious disease coming within their knowledge.

VIII. These regulations will be strictly enforced by the Health Officer. Should there be any deviation therefrom, or should any order given by the Health Officer to such vessels not be strictly carried out, he will report the fact immediately to these Head Quarters.

IX. For any violation of the above regulations the Provost Marshal will immediately arrest the offender, or offenders, and impose a fine not less than one hundred, nor more than five hundred dollars.

By command of Brig. Gen'l. JOHN NEWTON,

W. A. McCULLEY,
Surgeon and Health Officer,

Official.

J. S. RANSOM, Capt. and A. A. A. Gen'l.