Sec. 5. The health officer, the board of health, or the mayor and commissioners of health, may, if in their opinion it will not be dangerous to the public health, permit the cargo of any vessel under quarantine, or any part thereof, to be shipped for exportation by sea, or transportation up the North or East rivers; but if the vessel receiving the same shall approach nearer than three hundred yards to the wharves of this city, such, cargo may be seized, and sold by the commissioners of health, for the use of the Marine Hospital.

Sec. 6. Every vessel during her quarantine, shall be designated by colors, to be fixed in a conspicuous part of her main shrouds.

Sec. 7. No vessel or boat shall pass through the range of vessels lying at quarantine, or land at the quarantine ground after sun-set, without the permission of the health officer. Sec. 8. No lighters shall be employed to load or unload vessels at quarantine without permission of the health officer, and subject to such restrictions as he shall impose.

Sec. 9. All passengers under quarantine, who shall be unable to maintain themselves, shall be provided for by the master of the vessel in which they shall have arrived; and if the master shall omit to provide for them, they shall be maintained on shore at the expense of such vessel, and such vessel shall not be permitted to leave the quarantine until such expense shall have been repaid.

Sec. 10. The health officer, upon the application of the master of any vessel under quarantine, may confine in any suitable place on shore, any person on board of such vessel charged with having committed an offence punishable by the laws of this State, or the United States, and who cannot be secured on board such vessel, and such confinement may continue during the quarantine of such person, or until he shall be proceeded against in due course of law, and the expenses thereof shall be charged, and collected, as in the last preceding section.

Sec. 11. All vessels and persons remaining at quarantine on the first day of October, shall thereafter be subject to such quarantine and restrictions, as vessels and persons arriving on or after that day.

Sec. 12. The board of health, or the mayor and commissioners of health, whenever in their judgment the public health shall require it, may order any vessel at the wharves of the city, or in their vicinity, to the quarantine ground, or other place of safety, and may require all persons, articles, or things, introduced into the city from such vessel, to be seized, returned on board, or removed to the quarantine ground. In case the master, owner, or consignee of the vessel cannot be found, or shall refuse or neglect to obey the order of removal, the board of health, or the mayor and commissioners of health, shall have power to cause such removal at the expense of such master, owner, or consignee ; and such vessel or persons shall not return to the city, without the written permission of the board of health, or the mayor and commissioners of health.

Sec. 13. If any vessel arriving at the quarantine ground, subject to quarantine, shall be bound to some port east of the city of New York, the health officer, after having duly visited and examined her, may permit her to pass on her voyage through the Sound; but no such vessel shall be brought to anchor off the city, nor shall any of the crew or passengers land in, or hold any communication with the city, or any person therefrom.

Sec. 14. No vessel, found on examination of the health officer to be infected with the yellow fever, or to have been so infected, after sailing from her port of departure, shall be permitted to approach within three hundred yards of the city of New York, between the first day of May and the first day of October in the same year. But the health officer, with the permission of the board of health of the cities of New York and Brooklyn, may permit any vessel arriving at the port of New York to proceed to some wharf designated by the board of health of either of the cities of New York or Brooklyn, and discharge its cargo; provided satisfactory proof be given to the health officer that the port or ports from which said vessel sailed was free from contagious or infectious disease at the time of her sailing therefrom, and that no sickness of a contagious or infectious type has existed on board the vessel during her entire voyage.

Sec. 15. The master of every vessel released from quarantine, and arriving at the city of New York, shall, within twenty-four hours after such arrival, deliver the permit of the health officer at the office of the mayor and commissioners of health, or to such person as they shall direct, but such vessel shall not approach within three hundred yards of the city of New York, without the written permission of the mayor and commissioners of health.

Sec. 16. Every vessel having had during the voyage a case of small-pox, or infectious or contagious disease, and every vessel from a foreign port having passengers, and not hereinbefore declared subject to quarantine, shall, on her arrival at the quarantine ground, be subject to visitation by the health officer, but shall not be detained beyond the time re

quisite for due examination, unless she shall have on board, during the voyage, some case of small-pox, or infectious or contagious disease, in which ense she shall be subject to such quarantine as the health officer shall prescribe; and it shall be the duty of the health officer, whenever he thinks it is necessary for the preservation of the public health, to cause the persons on board of any vessel to be vaccinated.

Sec. 17. Nothing in this act contained shall prevent any vessel arriving at the quarantine from again going to sea before breaking bulk.

Sec. 18. The commissioners of health shall admit into the Marine Hospital any passenger who shall have paid hospital moneys, during any temporary sickness, within one year after such payment. The mayor of the city of New York, the resident physician, and the commissioners of health of said city, shall constitute a board of appeal from any direction or regulation of the health officer, with power to grant such and so much relief as may appear to the board thus constituted, or a majority of them, expedient and proper; the decision of the board of health, however, to be paramount.

Sec. 19. Every appeal from a decision of the health officer shall be made by serving upon him a written notice of such appeal, within twelve hours after such decision, (Sundays excepted,) and the health officer shall make a return in writing, including the facts on which the decision is founded, within twelve hours after the receipt of such notice, (Sundays excepted,) to the mayor, who shall immediately call a meeting of the board of appeal, and shall be president of said board, and said appeal shall be heard and decided within twenty-four hours thereafter, (Sundays excepted,) and the execution of the decision appealed from shall be suspended until the determination of the appeal.

Sec. 20. Every master of a vessel subject to quarantine or visitation, arriving in the port of New York, who shall refuse or neglect either

1. To proceed with and anchor his vessel at the place assigned for quarantine, at the time of his arrival:

2. To submit his vessel, cargo and passengers to the examination of the health officer, and to furnish all necessary information to enable that officer to determine to what length of quarantine and other regulations they ought respectively to be subject; or,

3. To remain with his vessel at quarantine during the period assigned for her quaran tine; and while at quarantine, to comply with the directions and regulations prescribed by law, and with such as any of the officers of health, by virtue of the authority given to them by law, shall prescribe in relation to his vessel, his cargo, himself or his crew, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding twelve months, or by both such fine and impri

sonment.

Sec. 21. Every master of a vessel hailed by a pilot, who shall either

1. Give false information to such pilot relative to the condition of his vessel, crew, passengers or cargo, or the health of the place or places whence he came, or refuse to give such information as shall be lawfully required:

2. Or land any person from his vessel, or permit any person except a pilot to come on board his vessel, or unlade or tranship any portion of his cargo, before his vessel shall have been visited and examined by the health officer:

3. Or shall approach with his vessel nearer the city of New York than the place of quarantine to which he shall be directed:

Shall be guilty of the like offence, and be subject to the like punishment. And every person who shall land from any such vessel, or unlade or tranship any portion of her cargo, under like circumstances, shall be guilty of the like offence, and be subject to the like punishment.

Sec. 22. Every person who shall violate any provision of this act, or neglect or refuse to comply with the directions and regulations which any of the officers of health may prescribe, shall be guilty of the like offence, and be subject, for each offence, to the like punishment.

Sec. 23. Every person who shall oppose or obstruct the health officer in performing the duties required of him, shall be guilty of the like offence, and be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Sec. 24. Every person who, without authority of the health officer, commissioners of health, or board of health, shall go within the enclosure of the quarantine ground, shall be guilty of the like offence, and be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Sec. 25. Every person 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, shall be guilty of the like offence, and be subject to the like punishment. And such

offender shall be detained at quarantine so long as the health officer shall direct, not exceeding twenty days, unless he shall be taken sick of some pestilential or infectious disease.

Sec. 26. Every person who shall violate the provisions of the fifth article of title second of chapter fourteenth of part first of the Revised Statutes, by refusing or neglecting to obey or comply with any order, prohibition or regulation made by the board of health, in the exercise of the powers therein conferred, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court by which the offender shall be tried. Sec. 27. Articles first, third, fourth and sixth, of title second of chapter fourteenth of part first of the Revised Statutes; an act entitled "An act to amend title second, chapter fourteenth, part first of the Revised Statutes, relating to the quarantine regulations of the port of New York," passed May 2, 1836; an act entitled " An act relative to the quaran. tine laws," passed May 7, 1839; an act entitled "An act to amend the Revised Statutes relating to the public health," passed April 12, 1842, and all other laws inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed.

TOBACCO INSPECTION LAW OF LOUISIANA.

WE place on record, for the benefit of our Southern subscribers, interested in the tobacco trade, the following "Act to regulate the Inspection of Tobacco in the cities of New Orleans and Lafayette." This act, it will be perceived, repeals all laws for the inspection of tobacco, from and after the 1st of November, 1846, when this law goes into effect. It was passed, and approved by the Governor of the State of Louisiana, June 1st, 1846.

AN ACT TO REGULATE THE INSPECTION OF TOBACCO IN THE CITIES OF NEW ORLEANS AND LAFAYETTE.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, That there shall be appointed by the governor of the state, by and with the advice of the Senate, ten inspectors of tobacco for the cities of New Orleans and Lafayette, to be denominated the "New Orleans and Lafayette Board of Tobacco Inspectors."

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, &c., That said inspectors shall be appointed for the term of four years, shall take an oath faithfully to discharge the duties of the office, as prescribed by law, and shall each give bond to the state for the sum of ten thousand dollars, (with two sureties for five thousand dollars, each good for the amount, to be approved of by the Treasurer of the state,) for the faithful performance of their duties, while in office; and that each person offering himself as security under this section, shall take an oath, before some competent magistrate, that he is worth what he is surety for. And said sureties shall be liable on said bond, not only to the state, but to all persons who shall have suffered damage by the wrongful act, or neglect, or inattention of said inspectors.

Sec. 3. No person shall be appointed an inspector who is not a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the state of Louisiana.

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of said inspectors to organize themselves as a board, appointing one of their own number as president of the board, and another secretary. Seven members shall constitute a quorum. The board of inspectors shall have a common seal. In the absence of the president or secretary, the board shall name a president or secretary pro tempore. The president and secretary shall be chosen yearly, and allowed each two hundred dollars per annum, for their services.

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the president to call meetings of the board, and preside over the deliberations of the same. It shall be the duty of the secretary to record the proceedings of the board, and in such manner as to show the votes of each member upon questions submitted to the board.

Sec. 6. All contracts of the board, hereinafter provided for, shall be submitted to the board, and shall be approved of by a majority of the whole number of inspectors.

Sec. 7. The board shall have authority to make rules and by-laws for the regulation of its own members in the discharge of their duties, which by-laws shall not be inconsistent with the laws and constitution of this state, nor of the United States, nor of the provisions of this act.

Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the board to provide suitable warehouses in said cities, two of which shall be located in Lafayette, for the storage of tobacco, at the lowest rates

at which they can be obtained, which warehouses shall be fire-proof, and floored with plank two inches thick, and provided with a sufficient number of presses, and shall be located at such points in said cities as will be most convenient for the reception of the tobacco, and for the convenience and interest of those engaged in the tobacco trade.

Sec. 9. When the tobacco is brought to the warehouse, it shall be received by the inspector or inspectors allotted to said warehouse, or their clerk, who shall immediately mark with ink the warehouse numbers, commencing with one, and running on to the end of the year, on each end of the cask.

When called on by the owner or agent to inspect a lot of tobacco, they shall cause the hogshead or cask to be placed at a convenient distance from the press, and under the eye of an inspector, or their clerk, to cause one head of the cask to be taken out; the cask must then be headed upon the open end, and the whole cask be taken from the tobacco and weighed. The weight of the cask being the tare, shall be marked on it with a marking iron.

The inspectors shall then have the tobacco broken in four different places, from each of which they shall draw four hands or bundles of tobacco, which they shall tie up neatly and compactly the bundles from the top-break forming the first layer of the sample. The inspectors shall be careful that the sample shall be a fair representation of the quality of the whole hogshead of tobacco, as near as they can make it so. The tape or twine used in tying up the sample shall pass through the hands of tobacco, and a seal of wax shall be put on each sample. One end of the sample-card, which expresses the quality of the tobacco, the warehouse number, inspection number, and the initials of the inspectors' names who have inspected it, shall be put under the seal of wax. When a hogshead or cask of tobacco is damaged, if practicable, the damaged portion shall be cut off, and held at the disposal of the owner or agent. The quantity so trimmed shall also be expressed on the sample-card with ink. If the damage be to such an extent that it cannot be trimmed off, the inspectors shall refuse to classify said hogshead. They shall give a sample of it, expressing the probable extent of the damage, but without the inspection seal. If, upon the inspection of a hogshead of tobacco, it be apparent that it is falsely or fraudulently packed, said hogshead shall be marked " condemned," and the inspectors shall refuse to give a sample of it. It shall then be at the disposal of the owner or agents, subject to the same charges as if it had been inspected. If the cask of a hogshead of tobacco shall prove to be of green or unsound timber, the inspectors shall provide a suitable cask, at the expense of the owner or agent.

Sec. 10. There shall be two classes of tobacco, to wit: admitted and refused.

The inspectors shall class as admitted, all tobacco they may find to be sound, well cured, and in good keeping condition; and they shall class as refused, all such tobacco as they may find to be soft, high in case, or otherwise unsound.

Sec. 11. When the inspectors are called upon to re-inspect a lot of tobacco, they shall make a copy of the original sample-card, and shall write on it, with ink, in plain letters, "re-inspected," and shall give the date of the same.

Sec. 12. When the inspection of one or more hogsheads of tobacco is finished, the laborers of the warehouse, under the eye of an inspector, or their clerk, shall have the cask returned to the tobacco, and the loose tobacco shall also be returned; and should it be impossible to put it all in, it shall be held subject to the order of the owner, and after it is placed under the press it shall be coopered up, in good condition for shipping, each cask having six hoops. The cask shall then be weighed by an inspector, or their clerk, and the gross weight marked in ink over the tare weight. The gross weight, the tare, and the warehouse number, shall also be marked with marking irons, by cutting with the same on the bilge of the hogshead or cask, and the cask then stored away.

Sec. 13. The particulars of each day's inspection shall be recorded in a book, to be kept in each warehouse for that purpose, in which shall be noted all the marks and numbers on the cask when received, the gross weight, tare, warehouse number, inspection number, by whom inspected, and for whose account.

Sec. 14. The samples, and a certificate, corresponding with the record of inspection, shall then be issued to the owner or agent, and shall be a receipt for the tobacco. This certificate shall be transferable by endorsement or otherwise, which shall be evidence of its delivery. When the legal holder of the certificate shall call for the delivery of the tobacco, it shall be the duty of the inspectors to have the hogshead promptly delivered at some opening of the warehouse which is accessible by a paved street.

Sec. 15. On receiving tobacco in the warehouse, the clerk of the inspectors shall give temporary receipts to the owners or agents, acknowledging the receipt thereof, which they may require to be surrendered upon the issuance of their certificate of inspection as hereinbefore provided. The inspectors shall be liable for all tobacco stored with them, and shall be responsible to all persons interested in the same, for the correctness of their

samples and weights. The inspectors shall have recourse upon the particular inspector or inspectors, whose neglect or wrongful act has caused the damage.

Sec. 16. The inspectors themselves, and the persons employed by them, are prohibited from dealing or trading in tobacco, either in their own names, or in the names of others, or in any manner whatever, or from being connected with, or having any interest in, the business of other persons dealing in tobacco, or from putting up loose tobacco in bales or hogsheads, or from being interested in any manner in the warehouses rented by them for the storage of tobacco, as provided by this law, or from owning or being interested in any of the laborers or coopers employed in the warehouses, or from having any interest in the drayage of tobacco to and from the warehouses; and upon conviction of the violation of any one of the above prohibitions, the inspector, or other person so offending, shall be deprived of his office, and shall be subjected to a fine of not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than two thousand dollars, to be proceeded against by indictment or information in the proper courts of the state. And any inspector, upon conviction or indictment, of giving wilfully a false or fraudulent inspection, or accepting a bribe in relation to the discharge of the duties of his office, shall be deprived of his office, and shall suffer imprisonment in the penitentiary, not less than three months, nor more than two years.

Sec. 17. That all tobacco shall be inspected by two inspectors, in the presence of each other; and in case of disagreement between them, a third inspector shall be called in, who shall decide upon its quality.

Sec. 18. That all tobacco brought to the cities of New Orleans and Lafayette, for sale, shall be inspected before it is sold, under the penalty of fifty dollars for every hogshead or cask sold without inspection, to be recovered of the party violating this law, at the suit of any inspector, one-half of which shall be paid to the state, and the other half to the inspector suing. There shall also be a privilege upon the tobacco, into whosesoever hands it may be placed by the sale, for the above penalty. The suit to be prescribed against, if not brought within twelve months from the time of sale. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to require the inspection of tobacco in carrots, boxes, bales, stripped or stemmed tobacco, or tobacco stems in hogsheads, boxes, or bales, or damaged tobacco sold by order of the port-wardens, on the levee, or of tobacco intended for re-shipment without sale, unless at the request of the agent or owner of the same. Sec. 19. The inspectors shall not inspect tobacco at any other warehouses than those provided, as contemplated by this law.

Sec. 20. The fees for receiving, weighing, inspecting, storing for two months, coopering, and all other duties imposed by this law upon the inspectors, shall not exceed two dollars and fifty cents per hogshead, one-half of which shall be paid by the purchaser to the seller. For re-inspecting, re-weighing, and coopering, the charge shall be seventyfive cents for each hogshead.

On tobacco remaining in store more than two months from date of receipt, they shall charge extra storage at the rate of twenty-five cents per month. On tobacco stored on which there is no inspection, fifty cents per month. The owner or agent storing the tobacco shall be bound for the fees, and there shall be a privilege upon the tobacco for them. Sec. 21. The board of inspectors shall be allowed to employ two clerks for each warehouse, to hold their places at the pleasure of the board; the first to receive out of the funds hereinafter provided at the rate of, and not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum, the other not to exceed six hundred dollars. The board shall also be allowed to employ a sufficient number of laborers and coopers for each warehouse.

Sec. 22. Should any vacancy occur in the board of inspectors, by death, resignation, deprivation of office, or from any other cause, it shall be the duty of the governor to appoint, as soon thereafter as it may be deemed by him expedient, a competent successor, subject to the ratification of the senate, as other civil appointments made by the governor; and the inspector so appointed shall, in all respects, conform to the requirements of this act. All appointments under this section shall be for the unexpired term of four years. Sec. 23. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a competent person, who shall be a citizen of the United States and a citizen of the state of Louisiana, to act as treasurer to the said board of inspectors. The salary of the treasurer shall be two thousand five hundred dollars per annum.

The said treasurer shall take an oath faithfully to discharge the duties of his office, and shall give bond, with two good securities, in the sum of ten thousand dollars each, for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, to be approved of by the Secretary of State, and each security shall make oath that he is worth the amount for which he is security, over and above all his debts. In case of a vacancy in said office, the governor shall supply the place with another officer as soon as practicable, in the same manner pointed out by this act for the appointment of inspectors in case of vacancy.

Sec. 24. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to keep the books and accounts of all