Agents to be employed.

Chamber

lain to re

port ally.

maintenance of any persons for whom commutation money shall have been paid, or on whose account a bond shall have been given as herein before provided, and who shall become chargeable upon any city, town or county, in such manner as they shall deem proper; and after such provision shall have been made by such commissioners, such city, town or county shall not be entitled to claim any further indemnity for the support and maintenance of such person. [1847, ch. 195, § 5.]

SEC. 13. The said commissioners are authorized to employ such agents, clerks and servants as they shall deem necessary for the purposes aforesaid, and to pay a reasonable compensation for their services out of the moneys aforesaid. [Same ch., § 6.]

SEC. 14. The chamberlain of the city of New York shall, on the annu- first Monday of January in every year, and at such other times as he shall be thereunto required by the said commissioners, report to them the amount of money received by him since his last previous report, for commutation money as aforesaid, and the amount of such moneys remaining in his hands. [Same ch., § 7.]

Commission

to

Legisla

SEC. 15. The said commissioners shall annually, on or before the ers to report first day of February in each year, report to the Legislature the ture. amount of moneys received under the provisions of this act during the preceding year, and the manner in which the same has been appropriated particularly. [Same ch., § 8.]

Vacancies,

how supplied.

SEC. 16. In case of a vacancy in the said board of commissioners, to be the same shall be filled by an appointment to be made by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The person so appointed shall hold his office for the remainder of the term of the person in whose place he shall be appointed. The said commissioners shall in all cases be residents of the city of New York or city of Brooklyn. [Same ch., § 9.]

.SEC. 17. The commissioners of emigration, or any one or more of them, shall have and exercise the same powers and authority in relation to poor children, actually chargeable upon or receiving support from said commissioners, as are now by law conferred upon the governors of the alms-house, by section seven, of chapter three hundred and twenty-four, of laws of eighteen hundred and fifty.(1) [1847, ch. 483, § 3, as amended 1851, ch. 523, § 2.]

SEC. 18. The commissioners of emigration are authorized to

(1) Section 7 of chapter 329 was probably intended. That gave the governors of the alms-house power to bind out children under their care as apprentices.

necessary regulations

for

make such regulations as they may deem necessary for the govern- To make the ment of any institution, in which they may support such persons as rethe inst become chargeable to them, and for the employment of the inmates tution. thereof. [1847, ch. 483, § 4; as amended 1849, ch. 350, § 9.]

Marine

hos

in

commission

gration,

SEC. 19. The institution belonging to this state now known as pital, &c. the marine hospital, and all the lands and buildings thereon, and vested all lands and buildings which may hereafter be purchased or erected ers of emiand designated for such marine hospital, or lands and buildings used 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. [1847, ch. 483, § 1, as amended 1849, ch. 350, § 6.]

ers to em

cians, &c.

SEC. 20. The commissioners of emigration are authorized to em- Commissionploy and appoint and dismiss at pleasure a superintendent, physi- ploy physi cians and such other officers, nurses and orderlies and such servants as they shall deem necessary for the management and care of the marine and other hospitals 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, nor shall such passengers be entitled to any aid from the commissioners of emigration after they shall have left the state of New York, and been absent therefrom for more than one year. 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, other than those of the marine hospital, for any duties required by law to be discharged by him, or under his authority. (1849, ch. 350, § 8, as amended 1851, ch. 523, § 5.).

cer.

Health offi- SEC. 21. 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. (1851, ch. 523, § 14.)

Ib.

Salaries of physician

ants.

SEC. 22. The commissioners of emigration are authorized to require the health officer to perform the duties of physician to the marine hospital; in which case he shall reside within the quarantine enclosure, and perform the duties of physician of marine hospital and all other duties appertaining to that office, and discharge the patients from the hospital without compensation therefor, other than is now by law allowed him as health officer, and he shall not be entitled to demand or receive from the commissioners of emigration any pay or compensation whatever for services performed by him, except where a written contract to that effect shall have been entered into by them. He shall also perform the duties of superintendent without compensation, if so required by the commissioners of emigration, and (at and after the expiration of the term of the present health officer) he shall pay the wages of the boatmen whom they shall respectively employ, and the commissioners of emigration shall in no respect be liable therefor. [1849, ch. 350, § 17; as amended 1851, ch. 523, § 6.]

SEC. 23. The "physician of marine hospital" shall have and reand assist ceive an annual salary of five thousand dollars, to be paid quarterly; 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, as 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.(1) [1849, ch. 350,

(1) This section may have been abrogated by the preceding sections

and forfeit

how

sued for and

SEC. 24. The penalties and forfeitures prescribed in and by this Penalties act may be sued for and recovered with costs of suit, by and in the ures, name of the said commissioners of emigration, in any court having recovered. cognizance thereof, and when recovered 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 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 who, 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. [1849, ch. 250, § 21.]

forfeiture.

SEC. 25. Any ship or vessel, whose master or commander, Penalty owner or owners, shall have incurred any penalty or forfeiture under this act, or under the act of April 11th, 1849, amending the same, entitled "An act to amend certain acts concerning passengers coming to the city of New York," shall be liable for such penalties or forfeitures which may be a lien upon such ship or vessel, and may be enforced and collected by warrant of attachment, in the same manner as is provided in title eight of chapter eight of the third part of the Revised Statutes, all the provisions of which title shall apply to the forfeitures and penalties imposed by this act; and the said commissioners of emigration shall, for the purposes of such attachment, be deemed creditors of such ship or vessel, and of her master or commander, and owner or owners, respectively. [1847, ch. 195, § 13, as amended 1850, ch. 339, § 1.]

appoint

of

an

SEC. 26. The board of health of the city of New York may ap- Board point any physician in their employ, or in that of the commission-health may ers of emigration, to act as the agent of the board of health in all agent. matters concerning the protection of the city against the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases. [1849, ch. 350, § 11.]

tendent to

board health.

of

Superin- SEC. 27. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the marine report to or other hospital, used for quarantine purposes, to furnish 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 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. [Same ch., § 12.}

passengers

What alien SEC. 28. The commissioners of emigration shall receive into the are to be re- marine or other hospital for quarantine purposes, all alien passenhospital. gers for whom bonds shall have been given or commutation paid,

ceived into

Duty of com

missioners of

fice

cers.

and

under the several acts of this state relating to alien passengers ar riving 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. [1849, ch. 350, § 13.] .

SEC. 29. The commissioners of the land office, with the health the land of officer of the port of New York, are hereby directed personally to health off-examine and determine whether, in their opinion, the promontory known as Sandy Hook, in the state of New Jersey, will be a proper and convenient site for the establishment of a marine hospital; and they shall be paid such reasonable sum for traveling expenses, out of the moneys appropriated by this act, as the comptroller may deem proper. [1849, ch. 309, § 1.]