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w A L B A N Y , W E D N E S D A Y , D E C E M B E R £ 6 , I H £ 7 * r i p t r B I i l S H E D B Y A U T H O R I T Y . v------------------------------------------------ g g F - § a B . « ) '{Continue I f row No ¥ m - — iix i f y vessel subject to quarantine, i^'phall be designated by colours, to be fixed iu a §$ € 0nnp«eHO*»& p&ft ol till; main shrouds uf the ves- P\ sel, and lo remain there until the expiration of •‘\-her quarantine. § 87 . No boat from any outward or imvard _ bound vessel, shall land at the quarantine ground after sunset , nor shall boats of any de scription, at any time, pass through the range of vessels lying at quarantine, without the per mission of the health officer. propeily cleansed, and when tin* s a m r an* duly c l e a n e d and pnrifii <1, shall r ale- Ins repoit t>: the may < r and j o n misMtinei'- <'f health. § 5 i. n*. avor .uid i (imi'iisM .i.t-is ofliral'h, may then direct the vessel to Mich wharf as they-may deem proper » and h o vessel being at wharf pursuant to sucli direction, shall without then perrnissfon in writing, depart thence, or change her bir*h until the first day of the ensu ing October. § 52 . If any coasting vessel subject to a re gular quaruntirc of two day s, sliall be wholly laden with lumber or timber, the mayor and ' 1)ier t commissioner'* of health mav permit t cargo § 38 . No lighters shall be .employed to load t„ I,. discharged at any wharf they shall desig- or unload vessels at quarantine biu by-the per-.,,^,. t bl t aft^r such discharge, such vessel mission of tlie health officer, and subject to such i shall be subject to all res-trictionr. in tho pn ced- yestrictions as he shall impose. sections m this Article contained § 3 9 No vessel subject to quarantine, sIimII i § 53. vessel which has b**ci» regularH approach the city of N e w - \ o r k beyond the | employ ed 111 trading to one port or island in the place assigned for quarantine, without a writti n , West I n d i e s , oi America south of lin n ^ n permit from the health oflicer, nor shall any sucb permit be granted to any vessel or a.iy portion of her cargo, until the requisitions 01 this Chapter 111 reja'ion io .->uch vessel and car go, shall have been complied with. § 40 . T h e health officer, whenever he shall iieem .it expedient^ m a j require any person placed under quarantine, to execute a bond with auch sureties as he shall approve, to the com missioners of health, and their successors in ot-1 y a.rci>» from the city, may be permitted by the major and t ommisMOiiers of health, to come to the wharf with hei cargo 011 board, on and afu r the fust day <.f October, provided the cargo m their opinion is of a harmless character. § 54 . Auy new vessel, or any other vessel not employ ed before in the West India or South m America south ol U nii^m an inoith o f t h e equa t o r , for the peiiud ol tw > |\ , months, im m e d i a t e l y preceding hi r arrival at the port ot N e w - Y o r k , and tlie port or inland , 1 ) ing lri'e irom aiiy yellow , bilious-malignant ; »r an_\ pt stilentiul 01 infectious fever as well as j ’he crew aud p a s s e n g e r ' , and l i a u ig peifoitned her regular quara itme of two day «, an d been proper! 1 v e n t i l a t e d , a n d permitted by t h e health- officer to proceed to tbe str e a m , three h u n d r e d tice. § 41 . The penalty of such bond shall not be less than five hundred, 1101 more than two thou sand 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 ern trade,’ south of Georgia, shall be subject to three miles, except 111 passing the city by wa-!the same regulations as mentioned in the last ter, -nd that he shall go tnto any city or town Ipuceding section, if employed m such regular of the United States, 111 v lolatmn of the quaran-j tine laws theieof. , <§ 42 . It the person executing suchjbond, shall other respects similarly circumstanced. 11 <tdc, although she may be so employed for a l< ss p< 1 1 id than one v ear, nmv ided she is in all break its eonditi><n, by visiting any city or town ofthe United States, other than the city ot N w \ York, the board nf health on Hie application <>1 1 55 . All vu “s* l> Irom the West India Islands, id America south of Georgia and north nf the Liiuator, being healthy and Irom healthy ports, the prop^f authority, ma dir d •.u.'h .m assign- j after ptiformmg two days quarantine, and be- ment of the bond to be made, as shall enable the i mg properly v entilated, and bt mg permitted b' assignee to prosecute thereon, and to apply theJthe health ofTieei to eome to the strea.ni, three penalty thereof, when recovered, to such u s e s ; hundred yafds from tlie city, may, after tht .1 as may be directed, by the quarantine law s ol 1 catgoes shall hav e been discharged, and the v» s- the state, to which such city or town may be- »,el well thaned and punned, be permitted by /.' il ind ' ‘Id bv 'he c<> • n issiuuors ol health, lur the use ol tlie inuunc hospital. A R T I C L E F I F T H . O f the Ixrgulatun of Intercourse with Infected Placet. §64 The mayor of the city of N e w - Y o r k , required of bim mthi* T i t l e , shall be consider ed guiliy oi tlie like offence ; the fine for each offence not to exceecl five hundred dollirs, nor the imprisonment three months. “ ■ ^ § 74 . livery person w h o , without the autho rity of the health officer or board of healthj shall go within the enclosure of the qttarantine ground, bball be considered guilty of the like or ihe president, at the time of the board °fj offence; the fine for each offence not to exceed health, mav issue hi* proclamation, ec anng e hundred dollars, nor the imprisonment tl)ir- any place where there shall be reason to believe <. j^yg a pestilential or infectious fever actually exists, j ^ 1 5 ^ £ very p*rson who shall violate the pro to be an mleeted place within the meaning ot the health law* of this state. § G 5 . Such proclamation shall fix the period when it shall ce <se to have effect ; but such pe riod, if they sball judge the public health to re quire it, nmy from tune tu tune be extended by 1 lie board of health, slid notice of such extension shall be published 111 one or more of the newa- pnper». of the city. $ bn Alter stueh proclamation shall have been issued, all vessels irrivmg 111 the port of New- York tiom such infected place, shall be sub let t 1 1 a quurantiae ol at least thirty days, and, ingvt'ier w ith the r ollicers, crews, passengers, -nd argoes, to nil the provision!*, regulations a ni penalties o f tin •> Ctiapt^j, in relation to ves sejs xui'jcet to a Mirnlttr quarantine. § 67 . The board of health may, in tfieir dis cretion. prohibit or regulate t ie internal inter course by laid 01 water, between the city of i\ew-Y\rl> and such infected place ; and may direct, that ail persons who shall come into the city of ;\evv-Yjrk, contrary to their prohibitions or regulations, shall be apprehended nnd con- v eyed to the ve&el or place wliencg they last came ; or if sick, that they be conveyed to the marine hospital, 01 such other place as the board of health shall direct. I A R T I C L E S I X T H . Penalties fbr viuiuling the Provision* o f thu Title. § 68 Every master of a vessel subject to quarantine, arriving ut the port of N e w - Y o r k , who shall lefuse or neglect either, 1 . T» pioered with, and anchor his vessel at the h hibicion ol the thirty -seventh section ofthisTitle, ahall be considered guilty o f the lik e oUei&Qf. and 1a- fined for each ofl'.nce in a sum not ex ceeding fitiy dollars. § 76 . E v e r y person who shall fjo on board oft or have any communication, intercourse Q|R> dealing with any vessel at quarantine, without*: the permission of the health officer, shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by tine or imprisonment. 77 . Such offender shall also be detained at quarantine so long as the board of heiUth shall direct, not to exceed twenty days, unless ho shall betaken sick of some pestileutial or infec tious disease. § 78 . It shall be the duty of the health offi- =CR*JU>giv« immediate jjifunnatmn.. tn-lhe hoard, of health, of every sucb transgression, ®the cir cumstances attending it, and the condition of the vessel with which a communication shall have been had, that the board may determine how long the offender onght to be detained at qua* rantine. ' § 79 . E v e r y master \tho shall not comply with the directions of the thirty- sixth section of this T i t l e , shall fnrfeiUfor each offence the sum of'fifty dollar#, and the further sum of three dollars for every hour ha shall su offend. § 80 . ■dv'crj* person who shall violate the prohibitions of tlfe >ixty-sccond and-sixty-third sections of tlijs Title, shall for e a ch offence for feit the sif& o f five hundred dollars. § 81 Every person under quarantine, shnil long. § 43 . All passengers placed under quarantine, the mayor and Cummiss.v.-Lfs of health) to Com te sudi wharf as they ma) designate, to receive who shall be unable to maintain themselves, i their ou.vvard cargoes, at auy time after the first of October. § 56 If any fpks i I subject to a r e gular qua rantine of two duvti, slmll have uruvedtiom any place m the Wont IndieB, or in Am e n r a south of Georgia and north of the equuior, or from any pluce 011 the continent, or tlie islands near the con'in-nt of Africa ; or shall have been at any ofthe p i n e s so <_numer,.t'd alter ill* fif teenth day of May, in the year of In r arrival shall be provided for by the master of the \ es- «ol in which they shall have arrived. § 44. If the master shall omit so to provide for them, they shall be maintained on shore, aud the expense of their maintenance be charged to their vessel ; nor shall such vessel be permitted lo leave the quarantine, until the monies so ex pended shall have been repaid. § 45. The health officer, upon the application •of the inasti r of auy vessel under quarantine, no portion >f her cargo shall be brought into the and his consenting to {fey for the maintenance j c jtv' ) before the fir<t day of October 111 tin yen' of the offender whilst i# custody, may direct t o l 0f jlt.r arrival, until it shall hiive been inspected 1 by an inspector <’1 vessels, unless by :i pe< 1 11 1 pernnssi 11 in w r i t i n g , of the m a y o r an d com I i.'isjtioners of heulth 1 §57 When such 1 .speetor shall h.ive made ^ hi.- rep irt to the mayor and commissioners of I h“ alth, they may diiect such caigo, or nnv pari 1 thereof, to be brought into the ( ' t v , subject to 1. piQ«-reu wiiii, an« a.ieoor ms ve^e. <u be subjeet to the sa.rw ponaUy, who shall elope ie place, assigned lor quarantine, at the time of from 0Jr g<> b(iyond tlle 'b()Und^ to , . . . , f°r hi - quirantme ; and it shall be the duty of o sibmit his vessel, cargo and pa^sen- evor.. mstice of the peace or other magistrate of ry justice ol m e p e a c e or outer magistrate gers, to the exam ination ot tbe health .,»>< or bef()ro „ hom a . such ofFeildcr s h a n bc brought. and to furnish all necessary informal,on to ena- t0 on i , r him b worr;lllt (o b e re-conveyed to thut ofbcc,; to detrnnine to w h a t Icng'h of, [bF f „ | m . lQ (jtt&fsntiw tftd fit ho r r- gufwwms t h e y owght-re-* spectively to be .subj< < t : 3 . 'I'o rt m im w h hr ■< vessel at quarantine during the ptuod assigned for her quarantine ; b e confined in some suitable place 011 shore, any mate, sailor, or mariner on board such vessel, who shall have committed an offence, punisha ble by the laws of this state or of the Tinted States, and who cannot be properly secured for punihment 011 board of vessel. Such confine ment bhall continue during the resrdue ot tin. quarantine of the offender, or until he shall be J mich regulations as thev shall pr proceeded against 111 due course of law , and the 1 order it to be landed at mhhc su expenses maintaining the offender, shall be ofthe city, there to be detained at least twentv charged and paid in the same manner, as the days and properly ventilated, and then to be ^ brought into the city subject to their regula tions. § 58 No v esscl subject to a regular quaran tine of thirty days, vrhen permitted to proceed, ribc or niHV expenses of maintainiug’ poor pas^ftigers. $ 46 . All vessels and persons remaining at quarantine on the first day of October, shall thereafter be subject only to such quarantine and restrictions, as vessels aud persons arriving 1 sliaH approach within three hundred ya'ds of the on or after that day. city of New - Y o r k , between the first day of June A R T I C L E F O U R T H I and the first duv of October, m the yearoi her | arrival. PegulatMHS concerning the rrratmcut an,I Con- 1 r ^ No cargo or part of the cargo of .v y duct of Vttseh, Arlules and I ersons t de/a cd<^ vesse|> on board of which during her voyage a from Quarantine , or exempt therefrom. , fase ^ any pestilential fever shall have occur- § 47 . The master of every vessel released ! red, shall be brought into the etty of New-York from quarantine, and arm i n g at the citv ol| between the first day of June and the first day N e w - Y o r k , shall, within twenty-four hours af- j of N >v ember, except by the permission in wri ter such arrival, deliver the permit of the health j ting of the board of health officer, at the office of the mayor and commis-J § GO. No vessel arriving from any place rn sioners of health, or to such person as they shall; the I'nited States north of Cape Henlopen, or in direct. I British Noah America, lH 4 w*sen the thirty-first § 48 . No vessel subject to a regular quaran-! ,juy of May and the first dav of October in auy tine of two days, unless she shall have sailed j year, hav mg 011 board \West India \produce o from Tsmnp nort in the. W e s t Indies, or in A m e - ! merchandize, slmll aTj»*??ch V i t luiiJ& r c c hup and whilst nt t^uarnntine, to co--iply -vnththe- tit- rections u d regulations of ;lu- Chipter, and with surh as any nf the officers of nealth, by virtue of the authority given to them in this Chapter, shal prescribe in relation to his ves sel, his cargo, luinselfor Ins crew : Sliall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment ; tbe fine for each ofleiioe not to exceed 1 wo thousand dol lars, nor the imprisonment twelve months. j 69 . Every sueh mnstur who shall violate the prov isions of the thirty-ninth and forty-se venth sections of thi - I’ule, by refusing or neg lecting t i comply with any of the directions in those nections respectively contained, shall be ( otiHidered guilty of the lik' offence, and be subject f ir each offyice t 1 the like punishment , 70 . Every master of a vessel who shnll vio- . , - , 1 1 , 1 .; 1 »te the provisions of the thirtieth, thirty-first, anded at mjiiic suitable place out . 1 , . . J' J ’ 1 sixtieth, und srxty-nrst sections of this iitle^ by refusing or neglecting to comply with the directions therein contained, or with the orders and regulations of the mayor nnd commissioners of health by virtue of the authority therein gi ven. shall^hirtronsideTPd guilty of the like of fence , the fine not to exceed five hundred dol lars, nor tin* imprisonment six months. § 71 . E v e r y master of a vessel hailed by aj pilot, who shall either, 1 Give false information to such pilot rela tive to the condition ofhis vessel, crew, passen gers or cargo, or the health o f the place or place* whence he came, 01 reluse to give such informa tion ns shell bc lawfully required : 2 Or Und any person from his vcss<l,or un- -lade or tranship uny portion of his < argo before his vessel shall have been visited and eiamined by the heulth officer: 3 Or sliall approach with his vessel nearer the city 01 New-York thun the place 01 quaran tine to which he shall be directed: Shall be ccnsideied guilty of the like offence, for each offence shall be fined in a sum not femffuFbnTrcTpnn § 82 . Every pilot who shall refuse or neglect to perforin the duties enjoined on him in any of the piovinioiih contained in the second Article onhis_T i t l e , shalTlje 'considered guilty o f a rnii- demeanor, and shall be fined for e a ch offence in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars. § 83 . W h e n e v e r the commissioners of health, or either of them, shall charge in writing any pilot with any violation or neglect of duty, the warden of the port shall suspend such' pilot from his office, until be shall have entered into a recognizance before some magistrate in th6 city of N e w - Y o r k , in the sum of two hundred dollars, and with sufficient sureties, to appear and answer to the offence charged, at the next court of general sessions for the city and county of N e w - Y o r k . ^ 84 . Every person who shall violate fhe provisions of the fifth Article1 o f this Title, lty refusing or neglecting to obey or comply With any order, prohibition or regulation tnnde by the board of health in the exercise of the powers therein conferred, shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or impmon- ment, in the discretion of the cd^irt by tflflch the offender shall be tried. T I T L E III. INTERNAL RRGCLATIONS FoR TH£ MlBilER- v a t i o N o r th e pl ’ bjljc h e a l t h m in*. UTV OF NEW-TORK. A R T I C L E F I I t S T . :mn Duties and Ptizecrs o f thh Heard (.f 1 th , the Ataunr anti Commissioners o1' O f ccr Health Health. § 1. T h e board o f health shull have power, 1. T o appoiut from time to time so many' health wardens rnul other officers, to carry into effect the prov isioits-of this T i t l e , and the rules and regulations of the board, as they may deem necessary : 2. T o authorise such officers, at such times as the board shall think ,£ l, to cutet into and her arrival, shall, when released from quaran-1 , ^ lf; thL> nm^tvr ()f any sucb vessel, shall , (1 of the like offence, nnd be subject to'affected thcrel i*._ _ ___ _ ___ l_ __ il ___ il,.,.,. Itdiwl r/» ^ 1 arrlc n f 1 ) . . > >• tKp liL<' rwitiiilti I n rn . tine, approach within three hundred yards o f , exhibit to the mayor and commissioners of that part of the island of Nevv-V orl^ whii h lies jleaj({,^ surh satislactorv proof as is requned in lh(! ’ 'k*' P‘ \ lllt' j 3 , T o give all such directions and adopt all ^ 7 2 Every person upon whom anv duty is j such measures, as in their j u d g m e n t may be lie- so u t h w a r d of B a n k - s t r e e t on the N o rth r i ' e r i ; th,. t hirty-first section of this T i t l e , thev i n a v p < r - ! ° r t,f‘ t'\l\»»ed, or prohibition h u d u n d e r cessarv, -for cle a n s i n g a n d p u r i f y i n g ull such af\ ! nut the vessel to be hanh-d to any w h a r f of the t l * » I I o w ii . r sections, nam e ly , t h e fourth, sixth, ( b u il d i n g s , lots an d o t h e r p l a c e s ; an d to do or eighth, uiulu, tenth, Hrvrnth* twentieth, t * e n - . cause to be doueevery thing 111 relation thereto- ty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty- which in their opinion m a y b e proper to pre- fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-seventh, twenty - serv e the health of the city : tMghth, tory-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-. 4 . T o cause any av enue, street, alley or other fust, fifty -second fifty-third fiftv-fourth, fifty-j passage whatever, to be fenced up, or otherwise huh, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh,, fifty-eighth, and 1 enclosed, if they shall (hiuk'^W public safety to and of Eighth-street on the East river, until ter the first day of October, in the y ear of her arrival ; unless by virtue of a special permission to be granted under the circumstances mention city, and such produce or merchandise may bc there lauded ; otherwise it shall lie sent to ^tne suitable place out of th< n!y , for purification ,! subiect to t h e i r regulat lv e d i . otIS. ed in the three next following sections § 49 . If m , such ve»»el s .11 b„ye . m . , . . , N<< u h „ ,|la„ h, „ . b, rn „ ne „f from any place in the Mediterranean, m Asia, ^ in America south of the equator, or from the Madeira, Canary, Cape deVerd, Western, Ber muda or Bahama Islands, the mayor and com missioners of health, may, by a special permis sion iu 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, subjt ct to their orders and regulatioPM. § 50 . Where such order for unloading tin cargo, shall have been made, the inspector of vessels, after such vessel shall have been un- 1 'alV’d, shall see that the vessel at d ballast are th e c r e w , or a passenger, m uny vessel, a t what- -ever place arriving, on board of w h i c h any p e r son shall have been sick o f any pestilential fe ver, shall e n t e r the city o f N e w - Y o r k until fif teen days after t h e last case of such fever that shall have occurred on board such vessel. § 63 . No person shall bring into the citv of New-York any clothing, bedding, or mer chandize, that shall have been on board ot anv vessel as is referred to in the last preceding section, until such article Hhall hav e been clean sed and purified , and all such articles brought into the ntv rontra~v this sc^tton, m a y hr fifty-ninth actions of this Title, who shall; require it, and to adopt suitable measures for violate any provisions m the *ections so enu-; preventing all persons from going to any part o f merated, by refusing or neglecting to obey i the city so enclosed. the directions, regulations or prohibitions there in contained, or fcuch orders and regulations as shall be made by the officers of health there iu named under the authority there given, shall be considered guilty of the like offence, and for each offence to be fi ied in a sum not ex ceeding two thousand dollars, or imprisoned for a term not exceeding twelve months. § 73 . Every person who shall oppose or ob struct the health oflicer m performing the duties § 2 . It shall be the duty of the board of health, 1 . T o adopt prompt m easures to prevent the spreading of a contagious disease, when it shall appear to them by a report of the resident phy sician or health commissioner, or of a consult ing physician, that any person within the city is afflicted with a disease of that character ; 2. To forbid and prevent all communication* wrth the house or f a m i ly so infected, except bv
