TITLE II. OF QUARANTINE AND REGULATIONS IN THE NATURE OF QUARAN- ART. 1. Of the place of quarantine, and the vessels and persons subject thereto. ART. 3.-Regulations concerning the treatment, conduct and duties of vessels, articles ART. 4.-Regulations concerning the treatment and conduct of vessels, articles and per- ART. 5. Of the regulation of intercourse with infected places. ARTICLE FIRST. Of the Place of Quarantine, and the Vessels and Persons subject thereto. SEC. 1. Anchorage place at quarantine. 2. How designated. 3. Vessels subject to quarantine to proceed immediately thereto. 4. What vessels subject to quarantine, and how classed. 5. Quarantine of classes 1 and 2. 6. Regular quarantine of certain vessels in class 3. 7. Of class 5, and of certain vessels in class 4. 8. Steam vessels excepted from regular quarantine. 9. Where no regular quarantine, health officer to prescribe it. 10. Certain vessels arriving in other ports, subject to same rules as if arriving direct. 11. Vessels, when to be removed from wharves; by whom ; how. 12. Not to return without permit. 13. Certain vessels permitted to pass through the Sound. ART. 1. $1. The anchorage place for vessels at quarantine, shall be as Anchorage near, as may be, to the marine hospital on Staten-Island. ground. nated. $ 2. The quarantine anchorage shall be designated by buoys, to be How desig fixed under the direction of the health officer, and every vessel subject to quarantine shall anchor within them. sels to be an S3. Every vessel in this Article declared to be subject to quaran- Certain vestine, shall, immediately on her arrival, proceed to, and be anchored chored there. at, the place then assigned for quarantine; and shall remain there with her officers, passengers and crew, during her quarantine, subject to the examination of the health officer, to the provisions of this Title, and to such regulations as the health officer or board of health shall lawfully impose. $4. Vessels arriving in the port of New-York are declared to be Vessels subsubject to quarantine, and shall be classed as follows: 1. All vessels from a foreign port, having forty or more passengers, or on board of which, during the voyage, or whilst at the port of departure, any person shall have been sick, arriving between the first day of April and the first day of November in any year. 2. All vessels arriving between the thirty-first day of May and the sixteenth day of October, in any year, from any place, in the ordinary passage from which, they must pass to the south of Cape Henlopen. ject to quarantine. TITLE 2. Ib. Classes 1 and 2. 3. All vessels from any place, (including islands,) in Asia, Africa, or the Mediterranean, or from either of the West-India, Bahama, Bermuda, or Western islands, or from any place in America, in the ordinary passage from which they must pass south of Georgia, arriving between the first day of April, and the first day of November in any year. 4. All vessels from any place where yellow, bilious malignant, or other pestilential or infectious fever existed at the time of their departure, or on board of which, during the voyage, any case of any such fever shall have occurred, arriving between the first day of April and the first day of November, in any year. 5. All vessels which, if they had arrived direct from their foreign port of departure, would have been included in the fourth class, that shall arrive at any place in the United States, or British North America, and proceed thence to the port of New-York, between the first day of June and the first day of October, in any year. S5. Every vessel included in the first two classes of the preceding section, shall be subject to such length of quarantine, and other regulations, as the health officer shall designate and enjoin. Ib. Class 3. $6. Every vessel included in the third class, which shall arrive Ib. Class 4. Ib. Steam vessels. health officer. between the thirty-first day of May and the first day of October, in any year, shall remain at quarantine for two days, and for such further period as the health officer shall deem expedient; but from the provisions of this section, vessels from Canton and Calcutta are excepted, unless they shall have been at some place in the West-Indies, or in America south of St. Mary's in Georgia, and north of the Equator, or on the continent or islands near the continent of Africa, after the fifteenth day of May, in the year of their arrival. $7. Every vessel in the fourth class, which shall arrive within the days mentioned in the last section, and every vessel in the fifth class, shall remain at quarantine for at least thirty days after her arrival, and in all cases, at least twenty days after her whole cargo shall have been discharged and landed, and shall perform such further quarantine as the health officer shall prescribe. § 8. All vessels subject to a regular quarantine, shall, if navigated by steam, be subject only to such length of quarantine, and other regulations, as the health officer shall enjoin. Ib. Fixed by $ 9. The quarantine of vessels subject thereto, where no period of regular quarantine is prescribed, shall be limited by the discretion of the health officer; but unless under special circumstances, and with the sanction of the board or commissioners of health, it shall not exceed the time requisite for a due examination of the vessel and cargo. and a compliance with the regulations of this Chapter. $10. Every vessel arriving in the port of New-York coastwise, ART. 2. after the first day of June, which has been to the West-Indies, or Ib. ConstAmerica south of Georgia, shall be subject to the same regulations as wise. are imposed on such vessels under similar circumstances, that have arrived direct at the port of New-York. removed wharves. $ 11. The mayor of the city of New-York, or the board or the Vessels how commissioners of health, whenever in their judgment the public from health thall require it, may order any vessel at the wharves of the city, or in its vicinity, to the quarantine ground, or other place of safety, and may require all persons, articles or things, landed or introduced into the city from such vessel, to be seized and returned on board, or removed to the quarantine ground. In case the master, owner, or consignee of the vessel can not be found, or shall refuse or neglect to obey the order of removal, the mayor, or the board of health, shall have power so to remove the vessel, at the expense of such master, owner, or consignee. S 12. No vessel, nor person so ordered out, shall return to the city, Not to return. without the written permit of the board of health, the mayor, or the commissioners of health. may pass Sound. S13. If any vessel arriving at the quarantine ground, shall be when vessels bound to some port eastward of the city of New-York, and beyond through the this state, 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 in that case, be brought to anchor off the city, nor shall any of her crew or passengers land in, or hold any intercourse or communication with the city, or with any person therefrom. ARTICLE SECOND. Of the Duties of Pilots in relation to Vessels subject to Quaran SEC. 14. To hail vessels. tine. 15. When to direct them to proceed to quarantine. 16. Duties in conducting vessels into port. sels. $ 14. It shall be the duty of each branch and deputy pilot belong- To hail veeing to the port, to use his utmost endeavours to hail every vessel which he shall discover to be entering the port, and to demand of the master of every such vessel, whether any person has died or been sick on board, during the passage, and whether any pestilential fever existed, at the time of her sailing, at the port whence she sailed. $15. If any of the above questions shall be answered in the af- Further duty firmative, the pilot shall immediately give notice to the master of the vessel, that he, his vessel, crew, passengers and cargo, are subject to the examination of the health officer; and shall direct him to proceed TITLE 2 and anchor his vessel at the quarantine anchorage, there to await the further directions of the health officer. Ib. in bring ing vesse is joto port Health officer to visit vessels. 3 16. It shall be the duty of every pilot who shall conduct into port a vessel subject to quarantine, 1. To bring such vessel to anchor within the buoys marking the quarantine anchorage. 2. To prevent any vessel or boat from coming along side of the vessel under his charge, and to prevent any thing on board from being thrown into any other vessel or boat. 3. To present to the master of the vessel a printed copy of this Chapter, when such copy shall have been delivered to him for that purpose. 4. To take care that no violations of this Chapter be committed by any person on board, and to report such as may be committed, as soon as may be, to the health officer. ARTICLE THIRD. Regulations concerning the Treatment, Conduct and Duties of SEC. 17. Health officer to visit vessels. 18. May question persons on board; administer oaths. 19. To report to board of health. 20. Certain vessels to be ventilated, &c. 21. Who may be permitted to come to the city. 22. Certain vessels to be unladen, &c. 23. To be white-washed. 24. Health officer to report to board of health; when vessel to be released. 25. Cargoes of such vessels to be landed and cleansed. 26. Certain articles may be excepted. 27. When cargo admitted into the city. 28. When crew and passengers admitted. 29. Power of health officer to destroy bedding and clothing. 30. West-India produce to be landed. 31. Except in certain cases. 32. Rags, hides and skins, when landed; how removed. 33. Cotton, and other articles, when to be landed. 34. When to be shipped; how; where. 35. When cotton may be sent to the city. 36. Vessels to be designated by colours. 37. Boats prohibited from landing at quarantine, or passing through range of vessels. 38. Lighters to be used by permission and under restrictions of health officer. 39. Vessels not to approach the city without permit. 40. Bonds by persons under quarantine, when given; to whom. 41. Their penalty and condition. 42. When assignable; for what purpose. 43. Poor passengers, how supported. 44. Expense chargeable on vessel. 45. Power of health officer to confine sailors; when; how maintained. 46. Quarantine of vessels remaining at quarantine on 1st October. $ 17. It shall be the duty of the health officer, to enter on board of every vessel subject to quarantine, immediately on her arrival, and to make strict search and inquiry into the health of the officers, crew and passengers, and into the state and condition of the vessel and her cargo. His powers. $ 18. In the discharge of this duty, he may put all such questions ART. 3. to the persons on board, as he shall judge necessary and proper, to enable him to ascertain the condition of the vessel, and the length of quarantine to which she ought to be subject; and the persons to whom such questions may be put, shall, if required, answer the same under oath, which the health officer is authorised to administer. $19. It shall be the duty of the health officer, to make to the To report. board of health, a report respecting every vessel that he shall visit, and containing all such information as may enable the board to determine what measures, in respect to such vessel, ought to be adopted. $20. Every vessel subject to a regular quarantine of two days, Purifying shall, during its quarantine, be thoroughly ventilated and cleansed, and the clothing and bedding of the crew and passengers, be well washed and aired. vessels, &c. come to the $ 21. Captains and passengers, arriving from healthy ports, and in Who may healthy vessels subject to a quarantine of two days, may, on their ar- city. rival, be permitted to come into the city, without any baggage. unladen, &c. $ 22. The master, owner, or consignee, of every vessel subject to Vessels to be a regular quarantine of thirty days, shall forthwith, upon the requisition, and under the direction of the health officer, cause such vessel to be unladen, cleansed and purified. washed. $23. Every vessel mentioned in the last preceding section, shall, To be whiteduring her quarantine, be at least three times thoroughly white-washed in every part of the inside, except such parts as have been painted or varnished, which shall be purified as the health officer shall direct; and such vessel shall be fumigated with mineral acid gas, when required by the health officer. There shall be an interval of at least four days between each white-washing, and when the weather permits, wind-sails shall be kept in each hatchway of the vessel. to be releas $24. When the requisitions of the preceding section shall have vessel when been complied with, and the regular period of quarantine shall have ed expired, if the health officer shall judge the vessel clean and free from infection, he shall make a full report of all the circumstances affecting the health of the vessel, and of her actual condition, to the board of health, who may then release the vessel from quarantine. $ 25. It shall be the duty of the health officer to cause the cargo Cargo to be of every such vessel, to be landed at the quarantine ground, or at landed, &c. some other suitable place out of the city, and there to be properly ventilated and cleansed, for at least twenty days. cles excepted. $ 26. From such ventilation and cleansing, alum, chalk, coals, certain artidistilled, expressed and fermented liquors, drugs and medicines, dyewoods, glass, stone and earthen ware, fruit in a sound state, honey, |