Section 5

Section 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any ship or vessel coming from any port or place within the United States, at which port or place the said ship or vessel had only called in or touched upon her arrival from a foreign port or place, shall be liable and subject to all the rules, regulations and restrictions, of the preceding sections of this act, and shall be examined and treated, as well the vessel itself, as the cargo, crew, passengers and baggage on board, in the same manner as if such ship or vessel had directly arrived at the Lazaretto from a foreign port or place, without having first touched at a port or place within the United States. And all ships or vessels, as well vessels of war as merchant vessels, coming from any port or place within the United States, and bound to the port of Philadelphia, between the first day of June and the first day of October in every year, and having on board any goods or merchandize, the growth or produce of any foreign place or country, or any persons or persons bedding or clothing, from any foreign port or place, shall come to anchor opposite the said Lazaretto, and shall be examined by the said Lazaretto physician and quarantine master; and if the captain or master of any such ship or vessel, shall produce such satisfactory proof as the board of health shall in that case direct to be required, that the said goods or merchandize shall have been landed in the United States more than twenty days, and are free from damage, and that the said vessel, bedding, clothing and persons, are free from the infection of any dangerous contagious disease, the small pox and measels excepted, then and in that case, the said physician and quarantine master shall give to the captain or master of such ship or vessel, a certificate of the facts, permitting such ship or vessel to proceed to the city; which certificate the said captain or master shall present at the health office in Philadelphia within twenty-four hours after his arrival and safely mooring there, and if he should neglect so to do, being thereof legally convicted under this act, he shall be sentenced to pay a fine of two hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as is hereinafter directed and provided; and if the said captain or master shall fail to produce such satisfactory proof as aforesaid, of the wholesome state of the said vessel, goods, merchandize, bedding, clothing and persons, the said vessel, goods, merchandize, bedding, clothing and persons shall be detained at the Lazaretto, and shall be proceeded with in the same manner, and subject to the same orders and regulations as are herein before provided and directed, in the case of vessels coming directly from a foreign port or places; and if the captain or master of any such ship or vessel, coming from any port or place within the United States, and bound to the port of Philadelphia, having on board any goods or mechandize, bedding, clothing or persons as aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect to come to anchor opposite the Lazaretto, and shall pass the same and with intent to proceed to the city, without examination by, and certificate obtained from the said physician and quarantine master as aforesaid, he shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as is hereinafter provided and directed; and the said vessels, goods, merchandize, bedding, clothing and persons, shall be sent back to the Lazaretto, there to be proceeded with in such manner as the board of health, agreeably to this act, shall in that case devise and direct.