Pennsylvania, ss. In the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by Thomas Mifflin, governor of the said commonwealth, a proclamation: whereas I have heretofore issued a proclamation, bearing date of the 29th day of June last, thereby declaring and establishing a quarantine to be performed by all vessels arriving in this port from any of the West-India Islands, from New-Orleans, or from any Dutch, French or Spanish port, on the Main ... Hereby publicly notifying, that, during the continuance of said quarantine, all vessels suspected of infection shall anchor under the guns of the fort on Mud-Island ...Given under my hand and the great seal o- [sic] the state, at Philadelphia, the twentieth day July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six
