A fine from five hundred to two thousand dollars, and imprisonment from six to twelve months.

Of what shall every person be deemed guilty who shall go on board of, or have any communication, intercourse, or dealing with any vessel at quarantine, without the permission of the health officer?

A misdemeanor.

How punishable ?

By fine or imprisonment.

What are the powers of the Board of Health?

1. To appoint health wardens and other officers. 2. To authorize such officers to examine, in the daytime, all places, of every description within the city.

3. To adopt all necessary measures for cleansing and purifying such places.

4. To fence up or otherwise enclose any part of the city, if they shall think the public safety requires it; and adopt measures to prevent all persons from going to any part of the city so excluded.

What are the duties of the Board of Health?

1. To adopt prompt measures to prevent the spreading of a contagious disease.

2. To forbid all communication with the family infected. 3. To prevent all communication with the part of the city infected.

4. To exercise all other powers that the circumstances of the case and the public good shall require.

What may the Board of Health, or the Mayor and Commissioners of Health, order to be destroyed?

Anything that may be putrid, or otherwise dangerous to the public health.

Whom may they send to the marine hospital?

All persons in the city, not residents thereof, who shall be sick of any malignant or contagious disease.

What is the duty of each practising physician in New York city?

1. To make a report in writing to the Mayor, the Board of Health, or either of the Commissioners of Health, of every patient he shall have laboring under yellow, bilious, malignant, or other pestilential and infectious fever, between the thirty-first day of May and the first day of November in each year, and within twenty-four hours after he shall ascertain or suspect the nature of the disease.

2. To report, if so directed, every patient he shall have between the same days, laboring under fever of any description.

3. To report the death of any of his patients who shall have died of fever, within forty-eight hours after such death shall have occurred, and to state in such report the specific name and type of such fever.

By whom is the marine hospital held?

By the Commissioners of Health, and they shall have the control thereof.

How are sick persons there kept and attended to?
With all necessary and proper care.

By whom are the expenses to be paid?

By the patients; except those who shall have paid hospital-money, and such poor persons as the Board of Health shall exempt.

How much hospital-money must the master of every vessel from a foreign port pay?

One dollar and fifty cents for himself and every cabin

passenger, and one dollar for each steerage passenger,

mate, sailor, or marine.

How much must the master of each coasting vessel pay?
Twenty-five cents for each person on board.
How is this money applied?

To the use of the marine hospital.

Is the master to receive the money from the passengers?
He is.

At what other places are quarantines established?

At Albany, Troy, and Hudson.

What shall the medical societies in each county require?

All physicians and surgeons not members of the society to apply for admission within sixty days after notice. What is the penalty for not applying?

A forfeiture of his license.

What is the term of medical study required of a student with some physician or surgeon authorized by law to practise ?

Four years.

In what cases is there a deduction of one year?

When the student has pursued college studies for one year after he became sixteen years of age, or has attended a complete course of all the lectures delivered in an incorporated medical college in this State.

How old must a person be to practise medicine?
Twenty-one years.

CHAPTER XV.

Of what does Chapter Fifteenth treat?

Of Public Instruction.

Where is the government of the University vested?

In a board of regents.

Under what name or title is the University incorporated?

"The Regents of the University of the State of New York."

It can hold property, real and personal, to what amount?

To the amount of the annual income of forty thousand bushels of wheat.

What is the number of the regents ?

Twenty-one, including the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, who are members of the board by virtue of their office.

How appointed?

By the Legislature.

What are the officers ?

A chancellor, a vice-chancellor, a treasurer and secretary.

By whom chosen?

The regents.

What is sufficient to a choice ?

A plurality of votes.

Who is the presiding officer ?

The chancellor.

When is their annual meeting?

The second Thursday in January.

What degrees may they confer ?

Such degrees above that of master of arts as are known to, and usually granted by, any college or university in Europe.

Who has the control of the whole income arising from the literary fund?

The regents.

Into how many parts do they divide this income?

Into eight parts, and assign one part to each senate district.

How shall this be distributed in each district?

Among the incorporated seminaries of learning, exclusive of colleges, subject to their visitation by valid corporate act.

In what proportion?

In proportion to the number of pupils in each seminary, who for four months during the preceding year shall have pursued therein, classical studies, or the higher branches of English education, or both.

How far must the pupil be advanced in the classics?

So far as to have read in Latin the first book of the Æneid.

How far must the pupil be advanced in English education?

Beyond such knowledge of arithmetic (including vulgar and decimal fractions) and of English grammar and Geography, as is usually obtained in common schools.

What shall the regents require from each seminary subject to their visitation, before the first of January?

An annual report.

What shall this report contain?

1. The names and ages of all the pupils instructed in such seminary, during the preceding year, and the time that each was so instructed.

2. The studies pursued, together with the book such student shall have perused in whole or in part; if in part, what portion.

3. An account or estimate of the cost or value of the library, philosophical and chemical apparatus, and mathematical and other scientific instruments, belonging to the seminary.

4. The names of the instructors employed in the seminary, and the compensation paid to each.