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§§ 6635–6649 or who wilfully omits to perform any legal duty relating to the removal of a public nuisance, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6635. Every person who makes or keeps gunpowder or saltpeter within any city or village, and every person who carries gunpowder through the streets thereof, in any quantity or manner such as is prohibited by law, or by any ordinance of such city or village, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6636. Every person who throws or deposits any gas tar, or refuse of any gas house or factory, into any public waters, river or stream, or into any sewer or stream emptying into any such public waters, river or stream, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6637. Every master of a vessel subject to quarantine or visitation by the health officer, by the provisions of any law of this territory, now in force, or that hereafter may be enacted, arrives in any port or at the boat landing of any city or town in this territory, who refuses or omits, either:

1. To proceed with and anchor or land his vessel at the place assigned for quarantine, at the time of his arrival; or,

2. To submit his vessel, cargo and passengers to the examination of the health officer, and to furnish all necessary information to enable that officer to determine to what length of quarantine and other regulations they ought respectively to be subject; or,

3. To remain with his vessel at quarantine, during the period assigned for her quarantine and while at quarantine, to comply with the directions and regulations prescribed by law, and with such as any of the officers of health, by virtue of the authority given them by law, shall prescribe in relation to his vessel, his cargo, himself, his passengers or crew,

Is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or both.

§ 6638. Every master of a vessel hailed by a pilot or such officer as may be specified by law, who either:

1. Gives false information to such pilot or other officer, relative to the condition of his vessel, crew or passengers, or the health of the place or places from whence he came, or refuses to give such information as shall be lawfully required; or,

2. Lands any person from his vessel, or permits any person, except a pilot or such officer specified by law, to come on board of his vessel, or unlades or tranships any portion of his cargo before his vessel has been visited and examined by the proper health officers; or,

3. Approaches with his vessel nearer any city or town within this territory than the place of quarantine to which he may be directed—is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail of the county in which the offense was committed, not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or both such fine and imprisonment.

§ 6639. Every person who, being on board any vessel at the time of her arrival at any port within this territory, under the provisions of section 6637, lands from such vessel, or unlades or tranships, or assists in unlading or transhipping any portion of her cargo, before such vessel has been visited and examined by the health officers, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or both.

§ 6640. Every person who goes on board of or has any communication, intercourse or dealing with any vessel at quarantine,