TITLE 2 ivory, lignum-vitæ, mahogany, metallic substances, marble, oils, paints, resin, salts, spices, syrups, tar, turpentine, turtle shell, wax, and such other articles of the cargo as may be sufficiently purified by washing with water, or are not liable to retain infection, shall be excepted, if the authority to make such exception, shall have been giv en to the health officer, by the board of health, or the mayor and commissioners of health. Cargo when admitted to the city. Crew, pas sengers, &c. ted. $27. No portion of such cargo, other than articles excepted under the preceding section, shall be conveyed to the city, without the permit of the board of health, which shall not be given until the health officer, or some special agent approved of by the board of health, shall have reported to the board, that such cargo has been properly ventilated and cleansed, and is in a sound condition, and free from infection. $28. None of the officers, passengers or crew of any such vessel, when admit- shall proceed to or enter the city, until fifteen days after the sailing of the vessel from her foreign port of departure, nor until fifteen days after the last case of pestilential or infectious fever that shall have occurred on board, nor until ten days after landing at quarantine." Certain arti cles to be destroyed. West-India produce to be landed Except in certain cases. Raga, hides, and skins, $29. The health officer, if he shall judge it necessary to prevent infection or contagion, may cause any bedding or clothing on board a vessel subject to quarantine, or any portion of her cargo that he may deem infected, to be destroyed. $30. If there shall be any West-India produce or merchandize, other than such articles as are enumerated in the twenty-sixth section of this Title, or that may be excepted under that section, on board of any coasting vessel subject to quarantine, it shall be the duty of the health officer, (except in the cases mentioned in the next succeeding section,) to order such produce or merchandize to be landed for purification, at the quarantine ground, or at some suitable place out of the city, subject to his orders and regulations, or if not landed at the quarantine ground, to those of the mayor and commissioners of health. $31. The landing of such produce or merchandize from any such vessel, shall not be required, if the master shall exhibit satisfactory proof that it is free from damage, and has been landed in the United States or some British port of North America, more than twenty days; or that the port in the West-Indies where it was shipped, was healthy at the time of such shipment, and that the vessel in which it was imported, was also healthy, from the time of her departure from the United States, or British port of North America, until her return. $ 32. All rags, hides and skins, arriving in vessels subject to the when landed. examination of the health officer, between the thirty-first day of May and the first day of October in any year, shall be discharged at the ART. 3. quarantine ground: if the health officer on examination, shall find the articles so discharged to be sound, he may grant a permit for their removal to those parts of the city, where their entry is permitted, unless they shall have arrived under the circumstances mentioned in the next succeeding section. If, in his opinion, such removal would be dangerous to the public health, the health officer shall detain such articles until they shall have been cleansed or purified, or until, in his judgment, they may be removed with safety. other articles ed. $33. All cotton, all the articles enumerated in the last preceding Cotton and section, and all other articles in the opinion of the health officer likely to be detainto imbibe and retain infection, shall be detained at the quarantine ground, or at some other suitable place without the limits of the city, until the first day of November, if they shall arrive between the thirty-first day of May and the first day of November, in any vessel on board of which any person is, or shall have been sick, of any pestilential or infectious fever during the time the cargo was on board, or which shall have brought such articles from a port, where such fever existed at the time of, or shortly previous to their shipment. shipped. $34. If in their opinion it shall not be dangerous to the public When to be health, the health officer, the board of health, or the mayor and commissioners of health, may permit such articles to be shipped for exportation by sea, or transportation up the North or East river, in any vessel which shall not approach, whilst loading or when loaded, nearer than three hundred yards to the wharves of the city and if, [See General any vessel so loaded, shall approach nearer to the city, the articles so index, Title loaded may be seized and sold by the commissioners of health, for the use of the marine hospital. Distress.] be sent to the $35. If any vessel subject to quarantine for less than thirty days, When may and laden in whole or in part with cotton of the United States or their city. territories, shall have on board any sick person, the character of whose disease cannot be immediately ascertained, the health officer may detain such vessel and cargo at quarantine, for a term not exceeding ten days; and if, in his opinion, the disease of such sick person is not of a malignant or pestilential nature, he may either release the vessel and cargo from quarantine, or, detaining the vessel, may permit the cotton to be sent directly to the city of New-York, or to be put on board of any vessel, at the wharves of the city, for exportation. have colours. $36. Every vessel subject to quarantine, shall be designated by Vessels to colours, to be fixed in a conspicuous part of the main shrouds of the vessel, and to remain there until the expiration of her quarantine. $37. No boat from any outward or inward bound vessel, shall Bonts not to fand at the quarantine ground after sunset; nor shall boats of any de land, & TITLE 2 scription, at any time, pass through the range of vessels lying at quarantine, without the permission of the health officer. Lighters. Vessels not to approach the city. Certain bond may be required. Its penalty and condition When assigned. Poor passen gers. Ib. Sailors, when and how confined. $38. No lighters shall be employed to load or unload vessels at quarantine, but by the permission of the health officer, and subject to such restrictions as he shall impose. $39. No vessel subject to quarantine, shall approach the city of New-York beyond the place assigned for quarantine, without a written permit from the health officer; nor shall any such permit be granted to any vessel or any portion of her cargo, until the requisitions of this Chapter in relation to such vessel or cargo, shall have been complied with. $ 40. The health officer, whenever he shall deem it expedient, may require any person placed under quarantine, to execute a bond with such sureties as he shall approve, to the commissioners of health, and their successors in office. S41. The penalty of such bond shall not be less than five hundred, nor more than two thousand dollars, and its condition shall be, that the person executing it, shall not, during his period of quarantine, approach nearer the city-hall in the city of New-York, than the distance of three miles, except in passing the city by water, and that he shall not go into any city or town of the United States, in violation of the quarantine laws thereof. $42. If the person executing such bond, shall break its condition, by visiting any city or town of the United States, other than the city of New-York, the board of health, on the application of the proper authority, may direct such an assignment of the bond to be made, as shall enable the assignee to prosecute thereon, and to apply the penalty thereof, when recovered, to such uses as may be directed, by the quarantine laws of the state, to which such city or town may belong. S43. All passengers placed 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. $44. If the master shall omit so to provide for them, they shall be maintained on shore, and the expense of their maintenance be charged to their vessel; nor shall such vessel be permitted to leave the quarantine, until the monies so expended shall have been repaid. $45. The health officer, upon the application of the master of any vessel under quarantine, and his consenting to pay for the maintenance of the offender whilst in custody, may direct to be confined in some suitable place on shore, any mate, sailor, or mariner on board of such vessel, who shall have committed an offence, punishable by the laws of this state or of the United States, and who can not be properly secured for punishment on board of his vessel. Such confinement ART. 4. shall continue during the residue of the quarantine of the offender, or until he shall be proceeded against in due course of law; and the expenses of maintaining the offender, shall be charged and paid in the same manner, as the expenses of maintaining poor passengers. of certain $46. All vessels and persons remaining at quarantine on the first Quarantine day of October, shall thereafter be subject only to such quarantine and vessels. restrictions, as vessels and persons arriving on or after that day. ARTICLE FOURTH. Regulations concerning the Treatment and Conduct of Vessels, Articles and Persons released from Quarantine, or exempt therefrom. SEC. 47. Master to deliver permit; to whom. 48. Certain vessels not to come within certain bounds. 49. When permits may be granted; cargo may first be unloaded. 50. Inspector's duties in such case. 51. Vessel to be directed to a wharf; when and how she may leave it. 52. Cargoes of certain other vessels, under what restrictions introduced into city 53, 54, 55. The same. 56. Cargoes of certain vessels not to be brought into city without permit. 57. Permit, when granted. 58. Certain other vessels not to approach within certain bounds in period fixed. 59. Where case of fever, cargo not to be introduced within certain period. 60. Certain vessels not to come within certain bounds. 61. When permit may be granted; by whom. 62. No person to enter city until fifteen days after last case of fever. liver permit. $47. The master of every vessel released from quarantine, and Master to dearriving 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. sels restrict bounds. $48. No vessel subject to a regular quarantine of two days, unless Certain ver she shall have sailed from some port in the West-Indies, or in Ame-ed to certain rica south of Louisiana and north of the equator, before the sixteenth day of May; or from some port in the United States south of Georgia, before the first day of June in the year of her arrival, shall, when released from quarantine, approach within three hundred yards of that part of the island of New-York which lies southward of Bank-street on the North river, and of Eighth-street on the East river, until after the first day of October, in the year of her arrival; unless by virtue of a special permission to be granted under the circumstances mentioned in the three next following sections. cepted. S49. If any such vessel shall have arrived from any place in the When exMediterranean, in Asia, in America south of the equator, or from the Madeira, Canary, Cape de Verd, Western, Bermuda or Bahama islands, the mayor and commissioners of health, may, by a special TITLE 2 permission in writing, direct her to be hauled to a wharf south of the bounds so prescribed; and in their discretion may first order her cargo, or any portion thereof, to be unloaded, subject to their orders and regulations. Inspector's Juty Vessel to be located. Certain car goes may be landed. Certain ves sels may wharves. 350. Where such order for unloading the cargo, shall have been made, the inspector of vessels, after such vessel shall have been unloaded, shall see that the vessel and ballast are properly cleansed, and when the same are duly cleansed and purified, shall make his report to the mayor and commissioners of health. $51. The mayor and commissioners of health, may then direct the vessel to such wharf as they may deem proper; and no vessel being at a wharf pursuant to such direction, shall, without their permission in writing, depart thence, or change her birth, until the first day of the ensuing October. $52. If any coasting vessel subject to a regular quarantine of two days, shall be wholly laden with lumber or timber, the mayor and commissioners of health may permit her cargo to be discharged at any wharf they shall designate; but after such discharge, such vessel shall be subject to all restrictions in the preceding sections in this Article contained. $53. Any vessel which has been regularly employed in trading come to the to one port or island in the West-Indies, or America south of Georgia and north of the equator, for the period of twelve months, immediately preceding her arrival at the port of New-York, and the port or island being free from any yellow, bilious-malignant or any pestilential or infectious fever, as well as the crew and passengers, and having performed her regular quarantine of two days, and been properly ventilated, and permitted by the health officer to proceed to the stream, three hundred yards from the city, may be permitted by the mayor and commissioners of health, to come to the wharf with her cargo on board, on and after the first day of October, provided the cargo in their opinion is of a harmless character. Ib. Ib. $54. Any new vessel, or any other vessel not employed before in the West-India, or Southern trade, south of Georgia, shall be subject to the same regulations as mentioned in the last preceding section, if employed in such regular trade, although she may be so employed for a less period than one year, provided she is in all other respects similarly circumstanced. $55. All vessels from the West-India islands, and America south of Georgia and north of the equator, being healthy and from healthy ports, after performing two days quarantine, and being properly ventilated, and being permitted by the health officer to come to the stream, three hundred yards from the city, may, after their cargoes shall have |