county within this state, from any further cost or charge which said commissioners or any such city, town or county shall incur for the maintenance or support of the person or persons named in such bond or any of them within ten years from the date of such bond. The sureties to the said bonds shall be required to justify The sureties before, and to the satisfaction of the officer making such endorse-justify. required to ment and by their oath or affirmation shall satisfy such officer that they are respectively residents of the state of New-York and worth double the amount of the penalty of such bond over and above all debts, liabilities and all property exempt from execution. The subsequent endorsement authorized in this section may be made at any time within ten days after such examination or of the landing of any such person or passenger.

becomes

town.

§ 4. If any person for whom a bond shall have been given as Provision in aforesaid shall within the time specified in such bond become case a person chargeable upon any city, town or county of this state, or upon the chargeable moneys under the control of the said commissioners as aforesaid to a city or the said commissioners may bring an action on such bond in the name of the people of this state, and shall be entitled to recover on such bond from time to time so much money, not in the whole exceeding the penalty of such bond exclusive of costs, as shall be sufficient to defray the expenses incurred by any such city, town or county or the said commissioners for the maintenance and support of the person for whom such bond was given as aforesaid, and shall be authorized to collect and apply such money from any of the real or other security mortgaged, pledged or deposited therefor in conformity to this act.

§ 5. If any owner or consignee as aforesaid, shall refuse or Penalty for neglect or neglect to give any such bond or bonds and security therefor as refusal to hereinbefore required for each person or passenger landing from give bond and security. his ship or vessel, within three days after the landing of such persons or passengers, in respect to bonds required by the second section of this act, or shall not within that time have paid the moneys authorized by said second section to be received in cases where such bonds are herein authorized to be commuted for, every such owner or consignee of such ship or vessel severally and respectively, shall be subject to a penalty of five hundred dollars for each and every person or passenger on whose account such bond may have been required, or for whom such commutation money might have been paid under this act; such penalty to be sued for as provided for in the twelfth section of the said act hereby amended.

§ 6. The first section of the act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act concerning passengers in vessels coming to the city of New-York," passed December 15, 1847, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

vested in

The institution belonging to this state now known as the marine Marine hoshospital, and all the lands and buildings thereon, and all lands pital, &c., and buildings which may hereafter be purchased or erected and commissiondesignated for such marine hospital, or lands and buildings used grati

ers of emi.

Provision re

tards.

for quarantine purposes, are hereby vested in the commissioners of emigration, to be by them held in trust for the people of this state; and the sole and exclusive control of the same except in regard to the sanitary treatment of the inmates thereof, is hereby given to the said commissioners of emigration, for the purpose of receiving therein all persons for whom bonds may be required, or for whom any bond or bonds may have been given, required, or commuted for under the provisions of this act, or the acts hereby amended, suffering under or afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease, or other disease preventing their immediate removal to any more distant hospital, and who shall be sent to such hospital by the direction of the health officer, or under his authority.

§ 7. The third section of the act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act concerning passengers in vessels coming to the city of New-York," passed December 15, 1847, is hereby amended by adding thereto at the end thereof the words following:

The commissioners of emigration shall also have, in relation to specting bas- any illegitimate children so chargeable, or any child likely to be born a bastard, whose mother is so chargeable or receiving support, the same powers and authority to proceed to secure indemnity for the support of the mother and child, as are now or have heretofore been by law vested in the commissioners of the almhouse.

They may

pital,

§ 8. The commissioners of emigration are authorized to employ appoint a su- and appoint a superintendent and such officers other than physiperintendent officers, &c., cians, nurses and orderlies, and such servants as they shall deem for said hos necessary for the management and care of the marine and other hospital used for quarantine purposes, and to pay all needful expenses therefor out of the moneys under their control. But the moneys received under any of the provisions of this act as commutation money, or upon bonds given for or on account of any persons or passengers landing from vessels at the port of New-York, or elsewhere, shall not be applied or appropriated to any other purpose or use than to defray the expenses incurred for the care, support, or maintenance of such persons or passengers, and nothing in this act contained shall be deemed to affect the authority of the board of health, nor the mode of appointment of the health officer, resident physician, or commissioner of health of the city of New-York, or to prevent the health officer from selecting his own medical assistants for any duties required by law to be discharged by him, or under his authority. The said health officer shall at all times have access to inspect all or any patients affected with any contagious or infectious diseases, and to decide upon their detention at quarantine, or the further detention of the vessels from which such patients may have been received.

Amendment. § 9. The fourth section of said last mentioned act is amended by striking out the words "of the" before the word "institution," and inserting in lieu thereof the word "any."

§ 10. The fifth section of said last mentioned act is amended so as to read:

lative to property of mi

alien pas

sengers.

In all cases in which minor children of alien passengers shall Provision rebecome orphans by their parents or last surviving parent dying on the passage to the port of New-York, or in the marine hospi- nors and tal, or any other establishment under the charge of the commissioners, the personal property which such parents or parent may have had with them, shall be taken in charge by the commissioners of emigration, to be by them appropriated for the sole benefit of said orphan children; and said commissioners shall give in their annual report to legislature a minute statement of all cases in which property shall come into their possession by virtue of this section, and the disposition made of the same.

health may

§ 11. The board of health of the city of New-York may ap- Board of point any physician in their employ, or in that of the com- appoint an missioners of emigration, to act as the agent of the board of agent. health in all matters concerning the protection of the city against the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases.

to board of

§ 12. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the marine Superintendor other hospital, used for quarantine purposes, to furnish to the ent to report board of health as often as may be required a full and correct health. report of all persons in the said hospital affected with any contagious or infectious disease, and of all such patients as may die or be discharged as cured; such report shall be countersigned by the agent of the board of health, and no persons who may be, or who have been received as patients affected with contagious or infectious diseases, or under treatment as such shall be discharged or removed from the marine or other hospital used for quarantine purposes without a permit in writing from the health officer.

passengers

hospital.

§13. The commissioners of emigration shall receive into the What alien marine or other hospital for quarantine purposes, all alien passen- are to be regers for whom bonds shall have been given or commutation paid, ceived into under the several acts of this state relating to alien passengers arriving at the port of New-York, who shall be affected with any contagious or infectious disease, and sent to such hospital by the authority of the health officer. They shall defray the expenses of such patients out of the moneys by them received on account of bonds or commutation. They shall also receive and provide for all other patients or passengers who shall have landed from any vessel at the port of New-York, affected with any contagious or infectious disorder, who shall be directed to be so received by the health officer or the board of health; they shall be entitled to receive for each person so admitted (other than aliens as above mentioned) at the rate of three dollars per week for their support and medical care, which shall be at the expense of the owner or consignee of any vessel in which such person shall have arrived, and from which they shall have landed, and no vessel shall be permitted to leave quarantine until such expense shall have been paid, or secured to be paid to the satisfaction of the commissioners of emigration or the officer duly authorized by them for such purpose.

Restriction.

Repeal of part of act of 1846.

Repeal of a part of the Revised

§ 14. The health officer shall not by right of office have any other authority over the marine hospital, or medical charge as physician thereof, than as in this act provided.

§ 15. So much of the act concerning quarantine or regulations in the nature of quarantine at the port of New-York, passed May 18th, 1846, as requires that any person shall be admitted into the marine hospital who shall have paid hospital money during any temporary sickness within one year after such payment, is hereby repealed.

§ 19. So much of the Revised Statutes in relation to the marine hospital and its funds, and the several acts and amendments Statutes, &c thereto, passed April 18, 1843, and May 7, 1843, as authorizes or requires the health commissioner to demand or receive hospital money from or on account of any master, mate, sailor or passenger arriving inthe port of New-York, is hereby repealed.

Physician of 17. There shall be nominated by the governor, and appointMarine hosed by him with the consent of the senate, a "physician of marine stants how hospital," and such number of assistants not less than four, to be appointed.

ital and as

Powers of

cian.

respectively designated as "assistant physician of marine hospital," as the commissioners of emigration shall from time to time determine to be necessary for the proper care and medical treatment of the persons under their care at the marine or other hospital for quarantine purposes. The number of "assistant physicians of marine hospital," shall not be at any time increased, unless the commissioners of emigration shall make and file with the secretary of state a certificate, that in their judgment an increased number should be appointed to meet the actual permanent demand for medical services at such hospital, a copy of which certificate shall be furnished to the governor of the state, and when any vacancy shall exist in the office of "physician of marine hospital," or "assistant physician of marine hospital," and the senate shall not be in session, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment, made by the governor, until the next meeting of the senate, and the confirmation thereof, or appointment of a suc

cessor.

§18. The physician of marine hospital shall have the superinthe physi- tendence and control of, and shall make such regulations for the sanitary treatment of the patients in such marine or other hospital for quarantine purposes as may be found necessary, and prescribe therein the duties of the assistant physicians thereof, and shall take upon himself and assign to such assistants respectively the charge of such portions of such hospital as shall seem to him best adapted to secure the objects and purposes of such institution, and the care and proper medical treatment of the inmates thereof; and the said commissioners may employ from time to time such additional medical assistants as the temporary wants of such hospital and the inmates thereof shall require.

Assistants to appoint nur

§19. Each assistant physician of such marine or other hospital ses and or for quarantine purposes, shall from time to time, as shall be necderlies. essary, select and appoint such and so many nurses and orderlies

in the department of such hospital which shall have been assigned to or be under his supervision and care, as shall be required for the proper care of the inmates of their respective departments, but the number of such nurses and orderlies shall be determined and controlled by the "Physician of Marine Hospital," and the compensation of such nurses and orderlies and of each of them, shall be fixed and determined by the commissioners of emigration.

physician

§ 20. The "physician of marine hospital," shall have and re- Salaries of ceive an annual salary of five thousand dollars, to be paid quarter- and assisly; and each of the assistant physicians shall have and receive a tants. salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly or monthly, as the commissioners of emigration may determine; and in that ratio for any period of service of such physician or assistant, and all salaries and other compensation of such physician and assistant physicians, and of all nurses, orderlies and servants, or others necessarily employed in and about the business, care and proper management of such marine or other hospital for quarantine purposes, shall be paid by the commissioners of emigration, from and out of moneys collected upon the bonds hereinbefore required to be given by the owners or consignees of vessels arriving with and landing passengers at the port of NewYork, or from the commutation moneys paid upon or in lieu of such bonds, in accordance with the provisions of this act, and all the expenses of such marine or other hospital for quarantine purposes, shall, far as practicable, be defrayed by said commissioners. out of and from the moneys and securities in this act specified; but nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to authorize the payment of any salary or compensation for services rendered by said commissioners of emigration or any of them.

ures how

§ 21. The penalties and forfeitures prescribed in and by this Penalties act may be sued for and recovered with costs of suit, by and in and forfeitthe name of the said commissioners of emigration in any court sued for and having cognizance thereof, and when recovered shall be applied recovered. to the support of such marine or other hospital for quarantine purposes as specified in this act. It shall be lawful for the said commissioners, before or after suit brought to compound or commute for any of the said penalties or forfeitures upon such terms as they shall think proper, also to commute and compound with the owner or consignee of any ship or vessel for any such bond or bonds as are required in section three of this act to be given by such owner or consignee for such person or persons, passenger or passengers as have been paupers in any other country or whom from sickness or disease existing at the time of departure from the foreign port, are or are likely soon to become a public charge, or who shall be sent to the marine or other hospital for quarantine purposes in accordance with the provisions of this act, in consequence of sickness or disease existing at the time of departure from the foreign port, the commutation for said last mentioned bond or bonds to be fixed by said commissioners at such sum as