Section 16

Section 16. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every diseased person duly landed or sent to the Lazaretto by either of the aforesaid physicians, quarantine master or health officer, shall be there kept and maintained until the Lazaretto physician shall grant him or her a discharge in writing; and if, before obtaining a discharge as aforesaid, any such person shall elope or otherwise absent himself or herself from the Lazaretto, it shall be lawful for the health officer or any constable or other person whom he shall call to his assistance, and they are hereby enjoined and required to lend such assistance, to pursue and apprehend the person so escaping or absenting himself or herself from the Lazaretto, and there again deliver him or her to be detained until he or she be duly discharged as aforesaid; and moreover, the person so eloping and absenting himself or herself, shall, for each and every offence, suffer such temporary confinement in the Lazaretto, not exceeding three months, as the board of health shall ordain and award; and if any master or captain shall knowingly receive or employ on board of his ship or vessel, or if any house-keeper or other inhabitant of this commonwealth, shall knowingly receive, harbor or in any way entertain any person so eloping or absenting from the Lazaretto, each and every master and captain, and each and every house-keeper or inhabitant so respectively offending, shall, on being thereof legally convicted, forfeit and pay a sum of two hundred dollars. And if any person arriving in or belonging to any ship or vessel detained at the Lazaretto as aforesaid, shall elope or absent himself or herself, without having first obtained a discharge, signed by the Lazaretto physician and quarantine master, or if any person other than those detained at the Lazaretto as aforesaid, shall go on board or along side of any ship or vessel whilst under quarantine as aforesaid, or if any person not authorised by the board of health, shall go within the limits of the Lazaretto, such person or persons shall perform such quarantine as the board of health may direct; the person so offending, upon legal conviction of such offence, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as hereinafter directed; and if any diseased or other person, landed and sent to the Lazaretto by any officer having authority to do the same, or any person arriving in or belonging to any ship or vessel detained at the Lazaretto as aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect to obey the directions of the Lazaretto physician or quarantine master respectively, agreeably to this act, and the order and regulations by the board of health, which shall from time to time be ordained and established for the government and management of the Lazaretto, and the persons, vessels and cargoes under quarantine, the person so refusing or neglecting shall, for each and every offence, on being there of legally convicted, forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as hereinafter directed; and the expense and charge of boarding, lodging, nursing, medicine, maintenance and other necessaries which shall have been provided for the diseased persons, landed and sent to the Lazaretto as aforesaid, and also of burying them in case of their death, shall be paid and discharged by the importer, master or captain, owner or consignee of the ships or vessels respectively, in which such diseased persons were respectively imported, agreeably to the rates in that behalf, by the board of health to be ordained and established: Provided always nevertheless, That when the diseased persons are passengers and not servants, the said expense and charges shall be repaid by them, their executors or administrators, to the captain or master, owner or consignee, who shall pay and satisfy, or be bound to pay and satisfy the same as aforesaid.