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by paying to the register of the city of Baltimore the sum of one dollar and fifty cents for each and every passenger reported as by law required, and the receipt of such sum by said register shall be deemed a full and sufficient discharge from the requirements of giving bonds as aforesaid; and all such commutation money and forfeiture, as herein before provided for, shall be paid and distributed by said register in the mode and proportions provided by the act of which this is a supplement, and the preceding supplements thereto, in regard to the assessments, penalties, and forfeitures made payable by said act and the supplements thereto.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all the provisions of the act, to which this is a supplement, and of the various supplements thereto, which are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from its passage.

MASSACHUSETTS.

Alien passengers and paupers.

When any vessel shall arrive at any port or harbor within this State, from any port or place without the same, with alien passengers on board, who may become chargeable as paupers, the master or commanding officer of such vessel shall, before the said passengers, or any of them, leave such ship or vessel, deposite with the mayor and aldermen of the city, or with the selectmen of the town, where such alien passengers are to be landed, a complete list of their names, and shall add thereto the name of the port or place at which such alien passengers were taken on board; and the said master or commanding officer of such vessel shall, forthwith, together with one or more of the owners of such vessel, if any such owner be resident in such city or town, enter into a bond, with sufficient sureties, to the said city or to the inhabitants of said town, (as the case may be,) in a penal sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, for every alien passenger; with condition to indemnify and save harmless the said city, or town, (as the case may be,) and also the commonwealth, from all expense which may arise in maintaining, supporting, or otherwise providing for such alien passengers, during the full term of three years

then next to come: Provided always, That such mayor and aldermen, or selectmen, may dispense with the giving of such bond, in all cases in which it shall appear to them that no charge or payment, or liability, as aforesaid, is to be apprehended, on account of any such alien passenger or passengers, within the said term of three years: And provided also, that such bond may, at the election of such mayor and aldermen, or selectmen, be dispensed with, in every case in relation to any alien passengers, if the said master, commanding officer, or owner of such vessel, shall, before the landing of such passenger, pay into the city or town treasury (as the case may be) the sum of five dollars for every alien passenger whom he may intend to land.* [Sec. 27.]

If any master or commanding officer of any vessel shall land, or permit to be landed, any alien passenger, contrary to the provisions of the preceding section, the master or commanding officer of such vessel, and the owner or consignee thereof, shall forfeit the sum of two hundred dollars for every alien passenger so landed: Provided always, that the provisions aforesaid shall not be construed to extend to seamen sent from foreign places by consuls or vice-consuls of the United States. [Sec. 28.]

If any master or commanding officer of any vessel shall land any alien passenger, at any place within this State, other than that to which such vessel shall be destined, with intent to avoid the requirements aforesaid, such master or commanding officer shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars for every alien passenger so landed. [Sec. 29.] Revised statutes, chap. 46.

AN ACT relating to alien passengers. [Passed April 20, 1837.]

SEC. 1. When any vessel shall arrive at any port or harbor within this State, from any port or place without the same, with alien passengers on board, the officer or officers whom the mayor and aldermen of the city, or the selectmen of the town where it is proposed to land such passengers, are hereby authorized and required to appoint, shall go on board such vessel and examine into the condition of said passengers.

SEC. 2. If, on such examination, there shall be found among said passengers any lunatic, idiot, maimed, aged or infirm persons, incompetent, in the opinion of the officer so examining, to maintain themselves, or who have been paupers in any other country, no such alien passenger shall be permitted to land, until the master, owner, consignee or agent of such vessel shalĺ

*This section is repealed by the 6th section of the act of April 20, 1837.

have given to such city or town a bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, with good and sufficient surety, that no such lunatic or indigent passenger shall become a city, town or State charge, within ten years from the date of said bond.

SEC. 3. No alien passengers, other than those spoken of in the preceding section, shall be permitted to land until the master, owner, consignee or agent of such vessel shall pay to the regularly appointed boarding officer the sum of two dollars for each passenger so landing; and the money so collected shall be paid into the treasury of the city or town, to be арpropriated as the city or town may direct for the support of foreign paupers.

SEC. 4. The officer or officers required in the first section of this act, to be appointed by the mayor and aldermen, or the selectmen respectively, shall from time to time notify the pilots of the port of the said city or town of the place or places where the said examination is to be made, and the said pilots shall be required to anchor all such vessels at the place so appointed, and require said vessels there to remain till such examination shall be had; and any pilot who shall refuse or neglect to perform the duty imposed upon him by this section, or who shall through negligence or design permit any alien passenger to land before such examination shall be had, shall forfeit to the city or town a sum not less than fifty, nor more than two thousand dollars.

SEC. 5. The provisions of this act shall not apply to any vessel coming on shore in distress, or to any alien passengers taken from any wreck where life is in danger.

SEC. 6. The twenty-seventh section of the forty-sixth chapter of the revised statutes is hereby repealed; and the twentyeighth and twenty-ninth sections of the said chapter shall relate to the provisions of this act in the same manner as they now relate to the section hereby repealed.

SEC. 7. This act shall take effect from and after the passage of the same.

AN ACT concerning alien passengers. [Passed May 10, 1848.]

SEC. 1. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall appoint and commission some suitable person to be superintendent of alien passengers in each city and town of the commonwealth, when it may be necessary for the execution of the provisions herein contained, who, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall be duly sworn, and shall

give bonds to the State treasurer, with sufficient sureties for the performance thereof, in such sum as shall be specified by the governor in his commission, and who shall hold said office until another shall be appointed, commissioned, and qualified in his stead; and the superintendent shall, from time to time, notify the pilots of the port of the said city or town of the place or places where the said examination is to be made, and the said pilot shall be required to anchor all such vessels at the place so appointed, and shall require said vessels there to remain until such examination shall be had; and any pilot who shall refuse or neglect to perform the duty imposed upon him by this section, or who shall, through negligence or design, permit any alien passenger to land before such examination shall be had, shall forfeit to the city or town a sum not less than fifty, nor more than two thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall determine the salary of each superintendent of alien passengers by him appointed, and shall specify the same in his commission: Provided, however, That such salary shall never exceed the net amount of alien-passenger money received by such superintendent, according to the provisions of this act. SEC. 3. The superintendents of alien passengers shall have a care and oversight of all causes and matters arising under this act, in the city or town for which they are appointed; and whenever a breach of any of its provisions shall come to their knowledge, they shall, with the advice of the district attorney for their district, institute prosecutions, by indictment or otherwise, for the forfeitures incurred.

SEC. 4. Where any vessel shall arrive at any port or harbor within this State, with alien passengers on board, who have never before been within the State, the superintendent of the city or town where it is intended to land such passengers shall go on board such vessels, and shall examine into the condition of said passengers; and the master and commanding officer of such vessel shall, within twenty-four hours after such arrival, make a report in writing under oath to said superintendent, of the name, age, sex, occupation, place of birth, last place of residence, and condition, of every such passenger, and none of them shall be landed, or permitted to land, until such report shall be made, except as is hereinafter provided.

SEC. 5. If, on examination, there shall be found among said passengers any lunatic, idiot, maimed, aged, or infirm person, incompetent, in the opinion of the superintendent so examining, to maintain themselves, or who have been paupers in any

other country, no such alien passengers shall be permitted to land until the master, owner, consignee, or agent of such vessel, shall make and deliver to said superintendent a bond to the commonwealth, with such sureties as are undoubted and satisfactory, in the sum of one thousand dollars, that no such lunatic or indigent passenger shall ever become a city, town, or State charge, from the date of said bond: Provided, however, That if it shall be made to appear to said superintendent, by undoubted evidence, that any passengers on board of such vessel are in such condition as to health, property, capacity, and character, that they are not likely to become chargeable to any city or town, he may permit them to be landed, on payment to him, by said master, consignee, or agent, of the sum of two dollars for each passenger so landed; and the names of all such passengers shall be certified by said superintendent on the back of the report: And provided, further, That if any such passengers are so sick or destitute as to require relief, and if said master shall refuse to report them, or if said master, owner, consignee, or agent, shall refuse to give such bond as is herein required, the said superintendent may permit them to be landed, and, in such cases, any city or town that shall be put to any expenses for the support, sickness, or burial, of any such passenger within ten years of the time he has so landed, may maintain an action of debt against said master, owner, consignee, or agent, and recover all expense incurred as aforesaid; and said commanding officer, owner, consignee, or agent, shall be liable to the penalties provided in the tenth section of this act.

SEC. 6. Every superintendent of alien passengers shall, on the third Wednesday of January, April, July, and October, of each year, render an account to the treasurer of the commonwealth of all the money received by him and his assistants, under the provisions of this act, up to the first days of said months of January, April, July, and October; and after deducting therefrom the amount of salary due to him up to the time to which said quarterly accounts shall severally extend, shall pay the balance into the State treasury; and the treasurer shall, as soon as may be after the third Wednesday of January of each year, lay said accounts before the legislature.

SEC. 7. The treasurer of the commonwealth shall, during the months of January, May and September, of each year, cause to be published, in some convenient form for reference, an abstract of the reports and bonds deposited with him by superintendents, as provided in the seventh section, which abstract shall

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