1822 Laws of Florida Territory First Session
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
A PROCLAMATION
AN ORDINANCE
For the preservation of Health in the City of
Pensacola
By Major General Andrew Jackson, Governor of the
Provinces of the Floridas, exercising the powers of the Captain General,
and of the Intendant of the Island of Cuba, over the said Provinces, and
of the Governors of said Provinces respectively.
Sec. 1. That every vessel arriving between the 1st day of
June, and the last day of October in each year, from any port between the
Equator and thirty three degrees of North Latitude, shall be brought to at
the Barrancas, or at such other point as the Board of Health may direct,
and there perform a quarantine of twenty four hours, at least, and as much
longer as the Health officer at Barrancas, or such other point as the
Board of Health may direct, and the Board of Health may deem necessary,
not to extend forty days.
Sec. 2. That there shall be established a Lazaretto at
the Barrancas, or at such point as the Board of Health may direct, for the
accommodation of the sick, under such regulations as the Board of Health
may from time to time establish; and that until the government of the
United States shall establish a public warehouse, at such Lazaretto, the
cargoes or such part thereof, as the Health officer or Collector of the
Port of Pensacola may deem necessary, shall be stored under the directions
of the commanding officer of the troops at Barrancas.
Sec. 3. That the quarantine limits shall be cannon-shot
range, or two miles in a direction towards the harbor from Fort St. Carlos
de Barrancas, or at such point as the Board of Health may direct, and that
any person or persons, belonging to, or having had communication with any
vessel or vessels under quarantine, who shall pass those limits without
permission, first had and obtained from the Resident Physician or Health
officer, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars,
and be imprisoned in the common jail for a term not exceeding six months.
Sec. 4. That for the more effectually guarding against
the introduction of disease, there shall be established a Board of Health,
which for the present shall consist of an officer to be appointed and
called the Resident Physician, and the Mayor and Aldermen of Pensacola
(over whom the Resident Physician shall preside) who are by his ordinance
authorized to make, and from time to time alter such laws and regulations
as they may deem necessary to ensure the health of the city.
Sec. 5. That there shall be a Health officer appointed
and stationed at the Barrancas, or at such other point as the Board of
Health may direct, whose duty it shall be to board every vessel bound
inwards, to see that the provision of this ordinance, and all such
regulations as the Board of Health may make, are strictly complied with
and report from time to time as occasion may require to the Board of
Health.
Sec. 6. That such allowances shall be made to the
Resident Physician and Health officer (all their services included) as
shall not exceed One Dollar and one half for each person on board of each
vessel, to be regulated and determined by the Mayor of Pensacola, who is
authorized to receive from every vessel, the cargo of which it may become
necessary to land and store, such other and further sums as may be
necessary to cover all expenses incident to the same.
Pensacola, 19th July, 1821
ANDREW JACKSON
By the Governor:
R. K. CALL, Acting Secretary West
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