Board of health to appoint certain officers. Fees, &c: No member of the board to go within the limits of the lazaretto, &c. Penalty on offending. Amount of taxes. the preva lence of the supplement, shall have power to appoint such officers and servants as may be necessary to attend the health-office, the lazaretto, and the city hospital, and to convey communications and supplies to the said lazaretto and hospital, and such other temporary officers and servants as may be rendered necessary by the existence of any dangerous contagious disease in the city of Philadelphia, or in any other place within the United States. SECT. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the health-officer, on receiving from the captain or master of any ship or vessel, arriving from a foreign port or place, as is required by the second section of the act to which this is a supplement, shall pay the lazaretto physician two dollars. and fifty cents; to the quarantine master one dollar and fifty cents; and to the port physician and health officer, one dollar each; in full compensation for all services, enjoined on them; And provided, that so much of the first section of the act to which this is a supplement, as declares the furnishing the lazaretto physician and quarantine master, with provender for one horse and one cow, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no member of the said board of health shall be permitted to go within the limits of the lazaretto, during the continuance of the quarantine, and any of them offending against this provision, shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars, to be recovered by action in any court having competent jurisdiction, by the guardians of the poor for the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and the township of the Northern Liberties. SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the amount of taxes to be levied and collected by the said board, by virtue of the twenty-eighth section of the act to which this is a supplement, shall in no one year exceed fifProviso as to teen thousand dollars: Provided always, that to defray the expenses necessarily incurred during a season when malignant fever shall become general, or be the cause of extraor yellow fever, dinary expense, it shall and may be lawful for the said board of health, by and with the consent of the commissioners of the county of Philadelphia, to borrow such sum or sums of money as may be deemed necessary; and for discharging the debt so incurred, the said board shall be and hereby are authorized and empowered to increase the amount of taxes in manner aforesaid, to such such sum as may be requisite for the purpose. &c. Accounts to SECT. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, be exhibited. That the said board of health shall also on the first Monday of January, in every year, exhibit their accounts to the auditors for the county of Philadelphia, and it shall be the duty of the said auditors to settle and adjust the account of all monies received and expended by the said board of health; and the And adjust ed. said auditors shall have like powers and authority in settling such accounts as they have in other cases, and on filing a copy of such Copy of, to be settlement in the prothonotary's office, it shall be under the filed. same laws, rules and regulations, and shall have the same operation and effect upon every of the members of the said board of health, and in all other respects as the report of auditors against county treasurers. SECT. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Vessels from That from and after the passing of this act, any vessel of more beyond the than two hundred tons burden, arriving from Europe, Africa, cape of Good Hope, where or any place beyond the Cape of Good Hope, at the port of to remain unPhiladelphia, may come to in the outer channel as near the west til visited, &c. end of the island of little Tinicum, opposite the lazaretto, as her draught of water, wind and weather, will permit, for the purpose of receiving the visit of the lazaretto physician; and if Addition fees the said vessel does not come into the inner channel, a fee of to be paid on twelve dollars shall be paid for the visit of the lazaretto physi- neglecting. cian, by every such vessel, of which sum the several officers Distribution named in the second section of this act, shall be entitled to the of several sums therein mentioned, and the residue thereof shall be paid into the treasury of the board of health. notice of in SECT. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, House-keepThat every person keeping a boarding or lodging house in the ers to give city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, or the townships disposed seaof Moyamensing, or the Northern Liberties, between the first faring men.. day of June, and the fifteenth day of October, in any year, shall within twelve hours after any sea faring man or sojourner shall become sick in such house, report in writing the name of such diseased person to the health officer; and any person ne- Penalty for glecting or refusing to comply with the provisions of this section, neglect. shall, on legal conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, and no person shall hereafter be subject to be punished by imprisonment by virtue of the act to which this is a supplement, without a previous conviction in due course of law: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be con- Proviso. strued to prevent the board of health from temporarily confining any person within the lazaretto bounds, for such time as the said board may deem necessary for the safety of the public. sances. SECT. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- Houses may said, That the said board of health, or a committee of them, be searched, shall have power, having first obtained a warrant from a justice &c. for nuiof the peace in due form of law, founded on a complaint of two freeholders, under oath or affirmation, directed to the sheriff of the county of Philadelphia, or his deputy, to enter and search all houses, stores, cellars, and other enclosures, between sun rise and sun set, where they may have just cause to suspect any nuisance to exist: Provided however, that no sheriff or deputy 4 How process sheriff shall execute any civil process, either by arresting the to be served. body or attaching the goods and chattels of any person or per sons, under colour of any entry made for the purposes aforesaid, unless such service could by law have been made without such entry, and all services so made under colour of such entry, shall be utterly void, and the officer making such service shall be conNuisances to sidered as a trespasser, and said board shall remove or cause to be removed. be removed, all offensive or putrid substances, and all nuisances which may have a tendency in their opinion to endanger the health of the citizens from the streets, lanes, alleys, highways, wharves, docks, or any other part or parts of the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and the townships of the Northern Liberties and Moyamensing; and the said board shall recover in any court having lawful jurisdiction, from all corporate bodies and private individuals, the expense attending such removal, if the owners, occupiers or agents of the premises on which any such nuisance may be found, shall have been duly notified to remove the same, and shall refuse or neglect so to do, within the time prescribed by the board. Expense of, how paid. Parts of the former law continued. SECT. IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of the act, entitled "An act for establishing a health-office, and to secure the city and port of Philadelphia from the introduction of pestilential and contagious diseases," as is not inconsistent herewith, or supplied hereby, shall, together with this act, be continued in force for one year. JOHN TOD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. SIMON SNYDER. Certain part of a street vacated. CHAPTER CLII. An ACT to vacate part of a street of the width of forty feet in the district of Southwark, as a public highway. SECT. I. BE it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in general assembly met, and it is bereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so much of a street, of the width of forty-feet, extending from Carpenter street to Mariott's lane, in the district of Southwark, and county of Philadelphia, as are not included within the limits of Fourth-street, containing forty feet wide Fee simple of on Carpenter street, and ten feet wide on Marriott's lane, be and the same is hereby vacated as a public street or highway, vested in E. Bonsall. and vested in fee simple in Edward Bonsall, of the city of whatsoever. JOHN TOD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER CLIII. An ACT providing for the payment of such portion of a direct tax as may be laid by the general government, on this commonwealth. A certain loan to be ne SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the senate and house of represen tatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in case congress should think proper to lay a direct tax, tax, the governor is hereby authorized and required to negociate a gociated by loan, with all or any of the incorporated banks, within this the Governor. commonwealth, in the stock of which this state have an interest or elsewhere: Provided, the same can be had at an interest not exceeding six per cent. for such portion of said tax as shall be called for, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve from this commonwealth, and the same to pay over in such manner as congress may direct. JOHN TOD Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER CLIV. A SUPPLEMENT to "An act enabling a committee appoint ed by the supreme court to sell and dispose of the real estate of Jacob Palmer, a lunatic." WHEREAS Frederick Heisz, who together with John B. Palmer, was appointed by the supreme court a committee to take care of the person and estate of Jacob Palmer, a lunatic, has refused to act under the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, and the said John B. Palmer cannot alone without act alone. further authority from the legislature execute the same: Therefore, That SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in general assembly met, J. B. Palmer and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, authorized to John B. Palmer, of the city of Philadelphia, is hereby authorized and empowered to do and perform all and singular the acts, matters and things, mentioned and provided for by the act to which this is a supplement, in the same manner, and under the same restrictions as are therein provided, as fully to all intents and purposes as he the said John B. Palmer, together with Frederick Heisz, in the said act named, could now do. JOHN TOD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. SIMON SNYDER. road to be subscribed. How to be paid. CHAPTER CLV. A further SUPPLEMENT to an act, entitled "An act to enable the governor to incorporate a company to make an artificial road from the east end of Perkiomen bridge, in the county of Montgomery, passing through Pottsgrove, and by the White-horse tavern, in Amity township, to the borough of Reading, in Berks county.” SECT. I. BE it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in general assembly met, 150 shares of and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That stock in the from and after the first day of August next, the governor be, Perkiomen and he hereby is authorized and required to subscribe on behalf and Reading of this commonwealth, for one hundred and fifty shares of stock of the Perkiomen and Reading turnpike company, to be paid for in like manner, and subject to like provisions as are contained in the fourth section of an act, entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled "An act to enable the governor to incorporate a company to make an artificial road from the east end of Perkiomen bridge, in the county of Montgomery, passing through Pottsgrove, and by the White-horse tavern in Amity township, to the borough of Reading in Berks county," passed the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. SECT. II. And whereas doubts have been entertained whether the third section of the act to which this act is supplementary, When the stockholders gives the stockholders the privilege of electing their officers an shall meet, nually, Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the stockholders in the said company shall meet on the first Monday &c. |