Section 2

Section 2. 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, the certificate as directed by this act, or where no certificate is to be given on the arrival of the vessel, shall be entitled to receive from the captain or master, the following sums and no more, and to pay the same over from time to time, as the board may direct, to the treasurer of the board of health, to wit: All American vessels sailing under coasting documents, arriving at the port of Philadelphia from any port or place in the United States, between the river St. Croix and the river St. Mary, (except ports or places between Sandy Hook and Cape Charles) shall pay two dollars and fifty cents for each arrival during quarantine months, and the said vessels during that time shall (if having goods capable of containing contagion, persons, baggage or clothing, from any foreign port or place, or any diseased person,) stop at the Lazaretto, and there be examined by the Lazaretto physician and quarantine master, under the rules, regulations and penalties in this act contained. And all American vessels from any port in the United States, where they may have touched or traded from a foreign port or place, shall pay the same sum as if they had arrived direct from such port of place. And all American vessels with coasting documents, arriving from any port or place between Sandy Hook and Cape Charles, including the bay and river Delaware, during quarantine months, having on board merchandize of foreign growth or manufacture, or persons, baggage or clothing from any foreign port of place, or from any place to the northward or eastward of Sandy Hook, or westward of Cape Charles, shall stop at the Lazaretto for examination, under the rules, regulations and penalties in this act contained, and shall pay for each arrival during quarantine months, two dollars and fifty cents. All American vessels arriving from any port or place in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Canada, or the islands or ports adjacent, the river St. Marys, the coast of Florida, Bay of Mexico, including New Orleans, and parts adjacent; and from thence along the Bay of Honduras and the coast of Terra Firma, as far as the river Amazon, including all the islands generally denominated West India, Bahamas or Bermudas, shall pay on arrival five dollars. All American vessels arriving from any place in Europe, in the Western Madeira, Canary or Cape Verd islands, the west coast of Africa, as far as latitude thirty-four degrees south, and from any place in the Mediterranean or straights thereof, or from any place from the river Amazon inclusive, and round the coast of Brazils, as far as latitude thirty-four degrees south, shall pay ten dollars each. And all American vessels arriving from any place beyond altitude thirty-four degrees south, or round Cape Horn, or the Cape of Good Hope, shall pay twenty dollars each. And all foreign vessels arriving as aforesaid, (except prizes to American vessels,) shall pay twenty-five percent. Each additional, unless otherwise regulated by any treaty. And prize vessels taken by foreign armed vessels, shall pay twenty-five per cent, each more than is paid by American vessels. And prize vessels tekn by American vessels, shall pay on arrival ten dollars each. And public armed vessels and privateers shall pay six dollars each. And any vessel of the burthen of one hundred and fifty tons and upwards, arriving at the Lazaretto from any foreign port or coastwise, may come to in the outer channel, as near to the west end of the island of Little Tinicum, opposite the Lazaretto, as her draft of water, wind and weather will permit, for the purpose of receiving the visit from the Lazaretto physician and quarantine master. And if the said vessel does not receive her visit in the inner channel, she shall pay an additional sum of five dollars, of which two dollars shall be paid to the Lazaretto physician and one dollar to the quarantine master, as a compensation for their extraordinary services, and two dollars shall be paid into the treasury of the board.