of the commissioners of emigration; and when so recovered, shall constitute a part of the fund and be disposed of in the same manner as commutation moneys now derived from emigrant passengers.

SEC. 10. The commissioners of emigration shall annually make and return to the legislature with their annual report an affidavit, in and by which they shall respectively swear or af firm, each for himself, to the correctness of such report; and that he hath not, directly or indirectly, been interested in the business of boarding emigrants, in the transportation of any emigrant passengers through any portion of the interior of this country, or had made or received, directly or indirectly, any gain, profit or advantage, by or through the purchase of supplies, the granting of any contract or contracts herein, or licenses, privilege or privileges, or the employment of any officer, servant or agent, mechanic or laborer, or any person in the business, under the control of said commissioners.

SEC. 11. In case the moneys now appropriated by law for the support of the fever and smallpox hospitals at quarantine shall be exhausted during the recess of the legislature, the commissioners of emigration may use such portions of the commutation money, collected pursuant to act May 5th, 1847, for the support of said hospitals, as the governor, attorney-general, and comptroller may certify to be necessary for such purpose. SEC. 12. This act shall take effect immediately.

AN ACT to control an act entitled "An act for the protection of emigrants arriving in the State of New York," passed April 11th, 1848. [Passed April 10th, 1849Chap. 321, p. 463.]

[Sec. 1 amends sec. 4 of chap. 219 of 1848.]

[Sec. 2 amends sec. 5 of the same chap.]

AN ACT to amend "An act for the protection of emigrants arriving in the State of New York." [Passed April 11th, 1849, "three-fifths being present"-Chap. 432, P, 600.]

[Sec. 1 amends sec. 3 and 7 of chap. 219 of 1848.]

SEC. 2. The commissioners of emigration are hereby authorized to employ such agents, clerks and servants as they shall deem necessary for the purposes aforesaid; and they shall appoint at least one agent in each of the cities of Albany, Rochester and Buffalo, and pay a reasonable compensation to such clerks, agents and servants for their services out of the moneys aforesaid.

AN ACT concerning passengers arriving at the ports of entry and landings in this State. [Passed December 10, 1847-Chap. 431, p. 557.]

SEC. 1. Within twenty-four hours of the arrival of any ship or vessel at any port of entry or landing place in this State, situated northerly of the city of Albany, and including those upon the river St. Lawrence, lake Ontario, the Niagara river, and lake Erie, from any of the United States other than this State, or from any country out of the United States, the master or commander of any such ship or vessel shall make a report in writing, on oath or affirmation, to the president of the board of trustees of the village, in which such port may be, or, in case of his absence or other inability to serve, to either of the trustees of said village, or if such port be within the jurisdiction of an incorporated city, then such report shall be made to the mayor of such city, or, in case of his absence, to one of the aldermen thereof, or if such port or landing be without the jurisdiction of any incorporated city or village, then such report shall be made to one of the overseers of the poor of the town in which such port or landing may be, which report shall state the name, place of birth, last legal residence, age, and occupation of every person or passenger arriving in such ship or vessel, on her last voyage to said port, not being a citizen of the United States, emigrating to the United States, or the territories thereof, and who shall not have executed the bond or paid the commutation money mentioned in the next section of this act. In case any such master or commander shall omit or neglect to report as aforesaid, or shall make any false report or statement in respect to any such person or passenger, in all or any of the particulars herein before specified, such master or commander shall forfeit the sum of seventy-five dollars for every such person or passenger in regard to whom any such omission or neglect shall have occurred, or any such false report or statement shall be made, for which the owner or owners of every such ship or vessel shall also be liable, jointly and severally, and which may be sued for and recovered as hereinafter provided. (As amended by chap. 116 of 1851.)

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the officer to whom such report shall be made, by an endorsement to be made on such report, to require the master or commander of such ship or vessel, within twenty-four hours after the arrival of such ship or vessel at the port or landing, to execute to the superintendents of the poor of the county a bond for each and every such person, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, with one or more sureties, to be approved by the officer making such endorse

ments; conditional to pay all damages, costs, charges and expenses that any county, city, or town, within this State, shall incur in the support and maintenance of such persons within five years from the date of such bond; but such master or commander may commute for such bond, by paying to the persons mentioned in this section as aforesaid the sum of one dollar for such person, and the payment of such sum shall be in full discharge of such master or commander from all liability for the support of such person, and from his liability to give such bond. (As amended by chap. 116 of 1851.)

SEC. 3. The treasurer of each of such cities and villages shall within five days after his election to office, and before he shall perform any duties under this act, execute a bond, with two sureties, to the superintendents of the poor of the county in which such village or city is situated, to be approved by the president of the board of trustees of such village, or by the mayor of such city, conditional for the faithful performance of his duties under this act, and shall, on, or before the first Tuesday of the months of February, May, August and November in every year, report to and pay over to the superintendents of the poor of the county in which such city or village is situated, the amount of money received by him since his previous report for commutation as aforesaid.

SEC. 4. The superintendents of the poor of said counties respectively shall audit the accounts of the officers of such cities or towns, or villages, for services rendered by them under the provisions of this act, and pay the same out of the commutation money received by them aforesaid, and shall annually, on or before the fifteenth day of February of each year, report to the legislature the amount of money received under the provisions of this act, during the preceding year, and the manner in which the same has been appropriated particularly.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the said superintendents to provide for the maintenance and support of such of the persons for whom commutation money shall have been paid as aforesaid, and shall appropriate the moneys aforesaid for that purpose, in such manner as to indemnify, as far as may be, the several cities, towns and counties of this State for any expense or charge which may be incurred for the maintenance and support of the persons aforesaid; such appropriation shall be in proportion to the expenses incurred by said cities, towns, and counties severally for such maintenance and support.

SEC. 6. In case any such person for whom commutation money has been paid as aforesaid, shall, at any time within

three years from the payment of such money, become chargeable upon any city, town or county within this State, it shall be the duty of the said superintendents to provide for the payment of any expenses incurred by any such city, town or county, for the maintenance and support of any such person out of the commutation to be paid as aforesaid, so far as the same will enable them to do so. The said superintendents shall prescribe such rules and regulations as they shall deem proper for the purpose of ascertaining the right and the amount of the claim of any city, town or county, to indemnify under this and the preceding section of this act.

SEC. 7. If any master or commander as aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to give such bond, or pay over such sum of money as is herein before required for commutation money for each and every such person, within twenty-fours after the arrival of such vessel at such port or landing, every such commander, and the owner or owners of such ship or vessel severally and respectively, shall be subject to a penalty of seventyfive dollars for each and every person or passenger, on whose account such master or commander shall have so neglected or refused to give such bond or pay such commutation money, to be sued for in the manner hereinafter provided. (As amended by chap. 116 of 1851.)

SEC. 8. The penalties and forfeitures provided by this act may be sued for and recovered, with costs of suits, by either of the overseers of the poor of the city or town where such money ought to be paid, in the name of the superintendents of the poor of said county, in any court having cognizance thereof, and when recovered shall be applied to the purpose specified in said act. Such superintendents, or overseers of the poor, may also prosecute in their own name any bond, given in pursuance of the second section of this act, whenever the conditions of the same have not been fulfilled. (As amended by chap. 116 of 1851.)

SEC. 9. Any ship or vessel whose master or commander, owner or owners, shall have incurred any penalty or forfeiture under the provisions of this act, shall be liable for such penalties or forfeitures, which shall 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 superintendents shall, for the purpose of such attachment, be deemed creditors of such

ship or vessel, and of her master or commander, and owner or owners respectively.

SEC. 10. This act shall take effect immediately.

AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act concerning passengers arriving at the ports of entry and landings in this State, and to repeal the act amendatory thereo rassed April 11, 1849." [Passed April 9, 1851-Chapter 116, page 222.]

[Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 amend sections 1, 2, 7, and 8 of chapter 431 of 1847.]

SEC. 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

AN ACT for the protection of emigrant passengers arriving at the city of New York. [Passed April 13, 1853.]

SEC. 1. The owner or owners, consignee or consignees, master, commander, or person having charge of any ship or vessel arriving at the port of New York with passengers emigrating to the United States, shall land all such passengers on some one of the public wharves of the city of New York, excepting, however, such wharves as are owned or rented by or under the control of any steamboat, or railroad, or forwarding company or line.

SEC. 2. No owner or owners, consignee or consignees, master, commander, or person having charge of any such ship or vessel, shall order, permit or allow any such passengers to be taken or removed from such ship or vessel at quarantine or elsewhere, excepting for the purposes of the quarantine regulations as to health, or shall give orders or permit or allow any runner or person on behalf of or connected with any steamboat, railroad or forwarding company or line, or emigrant boarding-house, to solicitor OOK any such passengers, or to enter or go on board such ship or vessel prior to the landing of such passengers as is provided for in the first section of this

act.

SEC. 3. The first and second sections of this act shall apply to the owner or owners, consignee or consignees, master, commander, or persons having charge of any steamboat or other vessel employed for the purpose of conveying any passengers from quarantine.

SEC. 4. Any consignee or consignees, master, commander, or person having charge of any ship, steamboat or vessel, who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, and the owner or owners of such ship, steamboat or vessel, severally and re