bunals and in the same manner as is provided by law for appeals from the decisions of justices in civil cases, and all the provisions of law relating to appeals from justices, shall apply so far as applicable to appeals from such mayor or other magistrate. But such appeal shall not authorize the detention of such luggage or effects after the payment of the sum which such mayor or magistrate shall adjudge to be justly due from such emigrant. [For Section 2 see Laws of 1857, chap. 579, § 4.] CHAP. 350. AN ACT to amend certain acts concerning passengers coming to the city of New York, PASSED April 11, 1849; "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: [For Section 1 see Laws of 1851, chap. 523, § 3.] CH. XXV. in case a comes town. 4. If any person for whom a bond shall have been given Provision as aforesaid shall within the time specified in such bond person bebecome chargeable on any city, town or county of this state, chargeable or upon the moneys under the control of the said commis- to a city or sioners as aforesaid 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. [For Section 5 see Laws of 1850, ch. 339, § 2.] [For Section 6 see Laws of 1849, ch. 350, § 6.] [For Section 7 see Laws of 1851, ch. 523, § 2.] [For Section 8 see Laws of 1851, ch. 523, § 5.] $9. The fourth section of said last mentioned act is Amendamended by striking out the words "of the" before the word ment. "institution," and inserting in lieu thereof the word "any." [For Section 10 see Laws of 1850, ch. 339, § 3.] 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. $ 12. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the ma- Superinten rine or other hospital, used for quarantine purposes, to furnish port to dent to re PART I. board of health. What alien passengers are to be received tal. to the board of health as often as may be required a full and correct report of all persons in the said hospital affected with any contagious or infectious disease, and all of 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. S 13. The commissioners of emigration shall receive into the marine or other hospital for quarantine purposes, all alien into hospi- passengers for whom bonds shall have been given or commutation paid, 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 of 1846. S 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 regulapart of act tions 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. Repeal of a part of the &c. Powers of S16. So much of the Revised Statutes in relation to the marine hospital and its funds, and the several acts and amendments 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 in the port of New York, is hereby repealed. [For Section 17 see Laws of 1851, ch. 523, § 6.] S 18. The physicians of marine hospital shall have the CH. XXV. superintendence and control of, and shall make such regula- the physi tions for the sanitary treatment of the patients in such marine cian. 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. to appoint orderlies. $19. Each assistant physician of such marine or other hos- Assistants pital for quarantine purposes, shall from time to time, as shall nurses and be necessary, 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. physicians ants. $20. The "physician of marine hospital," shall have and Salaries of receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars, to be paid and assistquarterly; and each of the assistant physicians shall have and receive a 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 New York, 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. and forfei tures how $ 21. The penalties and forfeitures prescribed in and by Penalties this act may be sued for and recovered with costs of suit, by and in the name of the said commissioners of emigration in any court having cognizance thereof, and when recovered sued for and recov ered. PART L shall be applied 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 re*quired 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 they shall deem just and equitable and sufficient to defray the necessary expenses consequent upon the care, support and maintenance of the persons for whom such commutation shall be paid, during the existence and continuance of their then sick or diseased state. Persons keeping boarding houses to take out license. CHAP. 432 AN ACT to amend "An act for the protection of emigrants arriving in the State of New York." [The act here referred to is chap. 219 of Laws of 1848.] PASSED April 11, 1849; "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. The third and seventh sections of the act entitled "An act for the protection of emigrants arriving in the state of New York," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: S3. All persons keeping houses in any of the cities of this state for the purpose of boarding emigrant passengers, shall be required to have a license for said purpose from the mayor of the city in which such houses are located, and such person so licensed shall pay to the said city the sum of ten dollars per annum, and shall give bonds satisfactory to said mayor, with one or more sureties, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, for their good behavior, and the proper conduct of all agents and runners in their employ, and said mayor is hereby authorised to revoke such license for cause. Every keeper various lan- of such boarding house shall, under a penalty of fifty dollars, cause to be kept conspicuously posted in the public rooms of such house, in the English, German, Dutch, French and Welch languages, and printed upon business cards, to be Notice in guages to be put up in cach house. CH. XXV. of to be commis kept for distribution as hereinafter provided, a list of the rates of prices which will be charged emigrants per day and week for board and lodging, and also the rates for separate meals, which card shall contain the name of the keeper of such house, together with its number and the name of the street in which such house is situated. The keeper of such Copy therehouse shall also file a copy of said list in the city of New filed with York in the office of the commissioners of emigration, and in sioners of each of the other cities of this state, with the mayor of said emigration. city, and with the agent of the commissioners of emigration, and the keeper of any emigrant boarding house who shall neglect or refuse to post a list of rates, or to keep business cards so as above provided, or who shall charge or receive, or permit or suffer to be charged or received for the use of such keeper or for any other person, any greater sum than according to the rates of prices so posted and printed on business cards, and if any runner employed by any emigrant boarding house keeper or any emigrant boarding house keeper himself, shall engage any emigrants as guests for such boarding house, without delivering to every such emigrant a printed business card as above provided, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be deprived of his or her license, and be punished by a fine not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered in the city of New York by the commissioners of emigration, and in the other cities of this state by the mayors thereof, and any person who shall keep a boarding or lodging house for emigrants within any of the cities of this state, who shall refuse or neglect to obtain a license in pursuance of the provisions of this section, shall, upon the first conviction, forfeit the penalty of one hundred dollars, and upon a subsequent conviction, shall forfeit the penalty of two hundred dollars, to be recovered by the persons, and in the manner above set forth. emigrant to keep an cense. $7. No person or persons shall exercise the vocation of Agents or booking emigrant passengers, or taking money for their inland booking fare, or for the transportation of the luggage of such passen- passengers gers, without keeping a public office for the transaction of office and such business, nor without the license of the mayor of the have licity in which such office shall be located, for which shall be paid the sum of twenty-five dollars per annum. Every such office and place for weighing luggage, shall be at all times when business is being transacted therein, open to the commissioners of emigration or their agent, duly appointed, and no scales or weights shall be used for such purpose but such as have been inspected and sealed by the city inspector of weights; and every such establishment shall have posted in a Estab conspicuous place and manner at its place of business, in the to have noEnglish, German, Dutch, French and Welch languages, a list is post. of prices or rates of fare for the passage of emigrant passengers, and the price per hundred pounds for transportation of their luggage to the principal places to which the proprietors lishments tices |