54 EARLY QUARANTINE ARRANGEMENTS OF SALEM. 



use of the town of Salem, and shall be prosecuted and 

 recovered by action of debt in the name of the President 

 of the said Board of Health, or by information in any 

 Court competent to try the same. And it shall be the 

 duty of the Board of Health and of each member thereof, 

 to pursue and enforce the due execution of the foregoing 

 law, and prosecute all offenders for all penalties and for- 

 feitures which may accrue under the same. 

 [This Act passed June 21, 1799.~\ 



[ACTS OF 1800, CHAP, xx.] 



An Act in addition to an act, entitled, "An Act to em- 

 power the inhabitants of the Town of Salem to choose a 

 Board of Health, and for removing and preventing nui- 

 sances in said Town," and for repealing part of said Act. 



[Sect. 2.] Be it further enacted, That any master or 

 commander of any vessel, who shall enter the harbour 

 of Salem with his said vessel, after notice given to him 

 by any person or persons whomsoever, that quarantine 

 has been directed by said Board of Health for all vessels 

 coming from the port, or place from which such master 

 or commander shall have arrived, or who shall falsely or 

 fraudulently attempt to elude the directions of the said 

 Board of Health, by false and unfounded declarations of 

 the port or place from whence he came, or as to the 

 sickness or deaths which may have happened on board 

 said vessel, during her then last voyage, or who shall land, 

 or suffer to be landed from his vessel, any person or ap- 

 parel, bedding, goods, or merchandize whatsoever, with- 

 out the permission of the said Board of Health, every such 

 master or commander, shall, upon conviction thereof in 

 manner and form pointed out in the sixth section of the 

 act to which this is an addition, forfeit and pay a sum not 

 exceed mgjive hundred dollars, or suffer imprisonment for 



