Section 8

Section 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person or persons, goods, wares, merchandize, bedding or clothing, from any port or place at which any malignant or contagious disease (the small pox or measels excepted) prevailed at the time of their departure, or from on board any vessel in which any such disease existed while they were on board, shall enter or be brought into the city or county of Philadelphia, at any time between the first day of June and the first day of October in any year, by land or water without the permission of the board of health first had and obtained, under the penalty of any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars for each and every such offence, and the forfeiture of all such goods, wares, merchandize, bedding and clothing, to be recovered and appropriated as directed by the twenty-ninth section of this act.