LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, PASSED AT THE FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION, [SECOND MEETING.] CHAP. 333. AN ACT for the preservation of the Public Health. Passed June 22, 1832. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: subject to S 1. All vessels, boats, rafts, and other craft, and all per- Vessels, & al sons, hereafter arriving in any port or place within this state, quarantine. from any part of Upper or Lower Canada, or from any other place out of this state in which the Asiatic or malignant cholera, or any other malignant disease, shall be known to exist, shall be subject to quarantine in the manner hereinafter provided. S 2. It shall be the duty of the governor, forthwith, by pro- Proclamation clamation, to make known that such quarantine exists; and to to be made. call upon all the magistrates and citizens of this state to aid in enforcing the same; and more especially, to enjoin on the of ficers of the cities, villages and towns hereinafter mentioned, the prompt and faithful discharge of the duties prescribed by this act. health in cer S3. It shall be the duty of the common council of every Boards of city, and the trustees of every incorporated village in the seve- tain cities ral counties of this state, bounded by lakes Erie, Ontario and and villages. Champlain, or on the rivers St. Lawrence or Hudson, or bounded on, or intersected by, any of the canals of this state, in which city or village there is not now a board of health and health officer duly organized or appointed, forthwith to appoint a board of health, to consist of not less than three, nor more than seven persons, for such village, and a competent physician to be the health officer thereof. $ 4. The supervisors, overseers of the poor and justices of In towns. the peace, or the major part of them, of each town in the aforesaid counties, shall be a board of health for such town; and Their powers and duties. they shall forthwith appoint some competent physician to be the health officer for such town. $5. The several boards of health now organized in any city or village in this state, and the several boards of health to be constituted under this act, shall have power, and it shall be their duty, 1. Forthwith to meet in their respective cities, villages and towns, and to fix and determine the period of quarantine to which vessels or persons arriving in such city, village or town, from places as mentioned in the first section of this act, shall be subject; which period shall in no case be less than fifteen days: but the said board shall have power, after an examination of any vessel or person subjected to quarantine, to reduce the period of the quarantine of such vessel or person, if they shall deem it safe to do so. 2. To meet from time to time, and as often as they shall think expedient, for the performance of their duties under this act. 3. To prescribe the duties and powers of the health officer; to direct him from time to time in the performance thereof; and to fix the compensation he shall receive. 4. To make regulations, in their discretion, concerning the place and mode of quarantine; the examination and purification of vessels, boats and other craft not under quarantine; the treatment of vessels, articles and persons under quarantine; the discharge of such vessels, articles or persons thereof; the regulation of intercourse with infected places the apprehension, separation and treatment of emigrants and other persons who shall have no fixed and permanent residence in this state; the suppression and removal of nuisances; and all such other regulations as they shall think necessary and proper for the preservation of the public health. 5. To procure suitable places for the reception of persons under quarantine, and persons sick of the Asiatic or malignant cholera, or any other malignant disease; and in all cases where sick persons can not otherwise be provided for, to procure for them proper medical and other attendance and provision. 6. To publish from time to time all such regulations as they shall have made, in such manner as to secure early and full publicity thereto. 7. To issue warrants to any constable of their respective cities, villages or towns, to apprehend and to remove such persons as can not otherwise be subjected to the regulations by them adopted; and whenever it shall be necessary so to do, to issue their warrant to the sheriff of their respective counties, to bring to their aid the power of the county all which warrants shall be forthwith executed by the officers to whom they shall be directed, who shall possess the like powers and be subject to the like duties in the execution thereof, as if the same had been duly issued out of any court of record in this state. 8. To employ all such persons as shall be necessary to enable them to carry into effect the regulations they shall have adopted and published, and the powers vested in them by this act. $6. Every person who shall wilfully violate any regula- Ponaity. tions so to be made and published by any such board of health, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be subject to fine and imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court; such fine not to exceed one thousand dollars, nor such imprisonment two years. health in $7. Whenever the trustees of any incorporated village, or Boards of the supervisors, overseers of the poor and justices of the peace, other places. or the major part of them, of any town within this state, not situated within any of the counties above mentioned, shall determine that it is expedient to constitute a board of health, and to appoint a health officer under the provisions of this act, they shall have power to do so; and from and after the publication of such their determination, and the appointment of such board of health and health officer, all the provisions of this act shall extend to such village or town. may employ $8. The governor shall have power to employ suitable Governor agents to proceed to any part of this state, or to Upper or agents. Lower Canada, for the purpose of procuring information in relation to the progress of the said disease, and the prevention or treatment thereof, or for any other purpose he may deem conducive to the public health; and it shall be his duty to communicate, by proclamation, any information so to be obtained, or which shall otherwise come to his knowledge, and which he shall deem useful; and in general to take all necessary measures for the purpose of causing this act to be faithfully executed. S9. All expenses now incurred or to be incurred by the Expenses several boards of health in the execution of this act, shall be provided for. a charge on their respective counties, and shall be levied, collected and paid, under the direction of the said board of supervisors of the respective counties, in the same manner as other county charges are levied, collected and paid. All expenses to be incurred in the execution of the powers hereby vested in the governor, shall be paid out of the treasury of the state, on the warrant of the comptroller, after being first audited by him. $10. This act shall take effect immediately on the passage Act when to thereof, and shall continue in force until the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, unless the governor shall sooner declare, by proclamation, that there ex take effect. Duty of secretary of state. Poor-houses. ists no sufficient reason for the continuance thereof; in which case all the provisions of this act, except the ninth section, shall, from the time of the receipt of such proclamation, cease and expire in the respective villages and towns in which the same shall have been in force. $11. The secretary of state shall cause copies of this act to be printed, and transmitted, in such manner as he shall think expedient, to the mayor of every city and the trustees of every incorporated village, and to the supervisors of every town in this state. The expense incurred under this section shall be audited by the comptroller, and on his warrant shall be paid out of the treasury of this state. $12. Whenever any pestilence or contagious disease shall break out in any county poor-house in this state, or in the vicinity of ary such county poor-house, and the physician to such county poor-house shall certify that such pestilence or disease is likely to endanger the health of the persons supported at such poor-house, the superintendents of such county poorhouse shall have power to cause the persons supported at such poor-house, or any of them, to be removed to some other suitable place in the same county, there to be maintained and provided for at the expense of the county, with all necessary medical care and attendance, until they can be safely returned to the county poor-house, from which they were taken, or otherwise discharged. S 13. It shall be the duty of the inspectors of the county prisons to meet from time to time as they shall think proper, at the prisons and poor-houses in their respective counties, du"ring the continuance of this act, to establish such rules and regulations as they may deem proper for the ventilation and parification of the prisons and poor-houses in their respective counties, and the preservation of the health of the persons kept in said prisons and poor-houses, and to cause such rules and regulations to be put in force. CHAP. 334. AN ACT to divide the State into Congressional Districts. The People of the State of New-York, represented in $1. That for the election of representatives in the congress of the United States this state shall be divided into the following districts, namely: The counties of Suffolk and Queens shall compose the first district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the counties of Rockland, Richmond and Kings shall compose the second district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the city and county of New-York shall compose the third district, and shall be entitled to elect four members; the counties of Westchester and Putnam shall compose the fourth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the county of Dutchess shall compose the fifth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the county of Orange shall compose the sixth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the counties of Ulster and Sullivan shall compose the seventh district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the counties of Columbia, Greene and Schoharie shall compose the eighth district, and shall be entitled to elect two members; the county of Rensselaer shall compose the ninth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the city and county of Albany shall compose the tenth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the counties of Saratoga and Schenectady shall compose the eleventh district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the county of Washington shall compose the twelfth district, and shall be entitled to elect one. member; the counties of Warren, Essex and Clinton shall compose the thirteenth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the counties of St. Lawrence and Franklin shall compose the fourteenth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the counties of Montgomery and Hamilton shall compose the fifteenth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the counties of Herkimer and Lewis shall compose the sixteenth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the counties of Oneida and Oswego shall compose the seventeenth district, and shall be entitled to elect two members; the county of Jefferson shall compose the eighteenth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the county of Otsego shall compose the nineteenth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the counties of Delaware and Broome shall compose the twentieth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the county of Chenango shall compose the twenty-first district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the counties of Cortland, Tompkins and Tioga shall compose the twenty-second district, and shall be entitled to elect two members; the counties of Onondaga and Madison shall compose the twenty-third district, and shall be entitled to elect two members; the county of Cayuga shali compose the twenty-fourth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the counties of Wayne and Seneca shall compose the twenty-fifth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the county of Ontario shall compose the twenty-sixth district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the counties of Steuben and Yates shall compose the twenty-seventh district, and shall be entitled to elect one member; the cour |