Revised regulations for the government of the United States Marine-Hospital Service : approved May 20, 1889.
- Marine Hospital Service
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Revised regulations for the government of the United States Marine-Hospital Service : approved May 20, 1889. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![325. The following permanent quarantines have been . established according to law: one at the mouth of Dela- ware Bay; one near Cape Charles at the entrance of Chesapeake Bay; one on Blackboard Island in Sapclo Sound; one at Garden and Bird Keys, Tortugas Islands; one at North Chandeleur Island; one at San Diego, Cali- fornia ; one at San Francisco,' California; and one near Port Townsend, Washington. 326. “Whenever any person shall trespass upon the grounds belonging to any quarantine reservation, oruons^ whenever any person, master, pilot, or owner of a vessel ActAug.i.isss. entering any port of the United States, shall so enter in violation of section one of the act entitled ‘An act to pre- vent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States,’ approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, or in violation of the quarantine regulations framed under said act, such person trespassing, or such master, pilot, or other person in command of a vessel shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, or be sentenced to imprisonment for a period of not nx>re than thirty days, or shall be punished by both fine and impris- onment, at the discretion of the court. And it shall be u. s. Attorney the duty of the United States attorney in the district offenders.'* where the misdemeanor shall have been committed to take immediate cognizance of the offense, upon report made to him by any medical officer of the Marine-Hospi- tal vService, or by any officer of the customs service, or by any State officer acting under authority of section five of said act.” 327. “That no vessel or vehicle coming from any for- vessels cnnm.t eign port or country where any contagious or infectious materials, disease may exist, and no vessel or vehicle conveying any person or persons, merchandise or animals, affected with any infectious or contagious disease, shall enter any ^lort of the United vStates or pass the boundary line between the United States and any foreign country, contrary to the quarantine laws of any one of said United States, into or through the jurisdic.tion of which said vessel or vehicle may pass, or to which it is destined, or except in the manner and subject to the regulations to be prescribed as hereinafter provided. [93]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28716097_0099.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
