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a term not exceeding six months, or both, at the discre- 

 tion of the court havins: cosrnizance of the offence. 



[Sect. 3.] Be it further enacted^ That whenever the 

 visiting Physician of the Board of Health, shall think it 

 necessary that any vessel should be purified and cleansed 

 and perform quarantme, he, or any other person author- 

 ized thereto by the Board of Health, may direct the mas- 

 ter or commander of such vessel to proceed to, and anchor 

 at such place as the said Board of Health shall have ap- 

 pointed for cleansing, and purifying vessels : And it shall 

 be the duty of said Physician to apply to the Board of 

 Health to direct the time and manner in which such puri- 

 fication shall take place, and the expenses shall be defrayed 

 by the master, commander, owner or consignee, to be 

 recovered by an action of the case in the name of the 

 President of the Board of Health ; and each and every 

 master, commander, owner or consignee of every such 

 vessel, who shall neglect or refuse to comply with such 

 directions, shall, on conviction thereof, before the Court 

 of General Sessions of the Peace, be fined, not exceeding 

 one thousand dollars^ or suffer imprisonment for a term, 

 not exceeding six months, or both, at the discretion of the 

 Court. 



[Sect. 4.] Be it further enacted, That all pecuniary 

 penalties and forfeitures, arising from this act, shall ac- 

 crue to the use of the town of Salem, and shall be pros- 

 ecuted for, and recovered by action of debt in the name 

 of the President of the said Board of Health in any Court 

 competent to try the same, excepting in those cases in 

 which it is herein otherways provided : And that the fourth, 

 seventh, and ninth sections of the act to which this is an 

 addition, be, and the same are hereby repealed, excepting 

 so far as respects the recovery of any fines, or forfeitures 

 already incurred thereby. 



\^This Act passed June 16, 1800.'] 



I hesitate to extend this statement further because I 

 find nothing in the modern record which is distinctive or 



