been discharged, and the vessel well cleaned and purified, be permit- ART. 4. ted by the mayor and commissioners of health, to come to such wharf

as they may designate, to receive their outward cargoes, at any time after the first of October.

certain ves

brought into

permit.

$56. If any vessel subject to a regular quarantine of two days, Cargoes of shall have arrived from any place in the West-Indies, or in America sels not to be south of Georgia and north of the equator, or from any place on the city, without continent, or the islands near the continent of Africa; or shall have been at any of the places so enumerated, after the fifteenth day of May, in the year of her arrival, no portion of her cargo shall be brought into the city, before the first day of October, in the year of her arrival, until it shall have been inspected by an inspector of vessels, unless by a special permission in writing, of the mayor and commissioners of health.

granted.

$57. When such inspector shall have made his report to the mayor Permit when and commissioners of health, they may direct such cargo, or any part thereof, to be brought into the city, subject to such regulations as they shall prescribe, or may order it to be landed at some suitable place out of the city, there to be detained at least twenty days and properly ventilated, and then to be brought into the city, subject to their regulations.

sels not to

S58. No vessel subject to a regular quarantine of thirty days, when Certain vespermitted to proceed, shall approach within three hundred yards of approach the the city of New-York, between the first day of June and the first day of October, in the year of her arrival.

city.

be brought to

$59. No cargo or part of the cargo of any vessel, on board of Cargo not to which during her voyage, a case of any pestilential fever shall have oc- city. curred, shall be brought into the city of New-York between the first day of June and the first day of November, except by the permission in writing of the board of health.

sels not to

city.

$ 60. No vessel arriving from any place in the United States north Certain vesof Cape Henlopen, or in British North America, between the thirty- approach the first day of May and the first day of October in any year, having on board West-India produce, or merchandize, shall approach within three hundred yards of the Island of New-York, southward of the bounds before in this Article prescribed, until permitted by the mayor and commissioners of health, or health officer.

$61. If the master of any such vessel shall exhibit to the mayor When may and commissioners of health, such satisfactory proof as is required in be permitted. the thirty-first section of this Title, they may permit the vessel to be hauled to any wharf of the city, and such produce or merchandize may be there landed; otherwise it shall be sent to some suitable place out of the city, for purification, subject to their regulations.

TITLE 2. $62. No person who shall have been one of the crew, or a passenger, in any vessel, at whatever place arriving, on beard of winch not to enter any person shall have been sick of any pestilential fever, shall enter the city of New-York until fifteen days after the last case of such fever that shall have occurred on board such vessel.

Crews, &c.

the city.

Clothing, &c. not to be

city.

$63. No person shall bring into the city of New-York any clothbrought into ing, bedding or merchandize, that shall have been on board of any such vessel as is referred to in the last preceding section, until such article shall have been cleansed and purified; and all such articles brought into the city contrary to this section, may be seized and sold by the commissioners of health, for the use of the marine hospital.

Proclamation of infected

places.

Ib.

Consequence

of.

Powers of board of health.

ARTICLE FIFTH.

Of the Regulation of Intercourse with Infected Places.

SEC. 64. Proclamation of mayor, &c. of infected places.

65. Period for its ceasing to be fixed; may be extended.

66. Vessels arriving after proclamation, subject to quarantine of at least thirty days. 67. Board of health may regulate internal intercourse with infected place.

$ 64. The mayor of the city of New-York, or the president, at the time, of the board of health, may issue his proclamation, declaring any place where there shall be reason to believe a pestilential or infec tious fever actually exists, to be an infected place within the meaning of the health laws of this state.

$65. Such proclamation shall fix the period when it shall cease to have effect; but such period, if they shall judge the public health to require it, may from time to time be extended by the board of health, and notice of such extension shall be published in one or more of the newspapers of the city.

$66. After such proclamation shall have been issued, all vessels arriving in the port of New-York from such infected place, shall be subject to a quarantine of at least thirty days, and, together with their officers, crews, passengers and cargoes, to all the provisions, regula tions and penalties of this Chapter, in relation to vessels subject to a similar quarantine.

$67. The board of health may, in their discretion, prohibit or regulate the internal intercourse by land or water, between the city of New-York and such infected place; and may direct, that all persons who shall come into the city of New-York, contrary to their prohibi tions or regulations, shall be apprehended and conveyed to the vessel or place whence they last came; or if sick, that they be conveyed to the marine hospital, or such other place as the board of health shall

direct.

ARTICLE SIXTH.

Penalties for violating the Provisions of this Title.

SEC. 68. Master violating certain provisions, to be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; how

punished.

69 & 70. Violating certain other provisions, the same.

71. Giving false information to pilot, landing goods or persons, proceeding beyond qua

rantine ground, the same.

72. Every person violating certain provisions, the same.

73. Opposing or obstructing health officer in the performance of his duties, the same.

74. Entering quarantine ground, the same.

75. Violating § 37, the same, fine only.

76. Holding intercourse with vessel, the same, fine or imprisonment.

77. May be detained at quarantine.

78. Health officer to give information of such transgression.

79. Master violating § 36, to forfeit certain sum.

80. Every person violating certain provision, the same.

81. Person leaving quarantine, same; duty of magistrates in such case.

82. Pilot violating Article 2d, punishable for misdemeanor; fine.

83. Suspension of pilot.

84. Violation of Article 5, misdemeanor; punishable by fine or imprisonment.

ART. 6.

$68. Every master of a vessel subject to quarantine, arriving in Penalties on 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 :

3. To remain with his vessel at quarantine during the period assigned for her quarantine: and whilst at quarantine, to comply with the directions and regulations of this Chapter, and with such as any of the officers of health, by virtue of the authority given to them in this Chapter, shall prescribe in relation to his vessel, his cargo, himself or his crew:

Shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment; the fine for each offence not to exceed two thousand dollars, nor the imprisonment twelve months.

masters.

$69. Every such master, who shall violate the provisions of the Ib. thirty-ninth and forty-seventh sections of this Title, by refusing or neglecting to comply with any of the directions in those sections respectively contained, shall be considered guilty of the like offence, and be subject for each offence to the like punishment.

$70. Every master of a vessel who shall violate the provisions of the thirtieth, thirty-first, sixtieth and sixty-first sections of this Title, by refusing or neglecting to comply with the directions therein contained, or with the orders and regulations of the mayor and commissioners of health by virtue of the authority therein given, shall be considered guilty of the like offence; the fine not to exceed five hundred dollars, nor the imprisonment six months.

Jb.

TITLE 2. $71. 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:

Penalties for violating cer. tain provi

sions.

Obstructing health officer.

Entering quarantine ground.

Violating $37.

Intercourse with vessels.

2. Or land any person from his vessel, or unlade or transship 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 considered guilty of the like offence, and for each offence shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. And every person who shall land from any such vessel, or unlade or transship any portion of her cargo, under the like circumstances, shall be considered guilty of the like offence, and be subject to the like penalty.

$ 72. Every person upon whom any duty is or shall be enjoined, or prohibition laid under the following sections, namely, the fourth, sixth, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twentieth, twenty-first, twentysecond, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth sections of this Title, who shall violate any provisions in the sections so enumerated, by refusing or neglecting to obey the directions, regulations or prohibitions therein contained, or such orders and regulations as shall be made by the officers of health therein named under the authority there given, shall be considered guilty of the like offence, and for each offence be fined in a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, or imprisoned for a term not exceeding twelve months.

$73. Every person who shall oppose or obstruct the health officer in performing the duties required of him in this Title, shall be considered guilty of the like offence; the fine for each offence not to exceed five hundred dollars, nor the imprisonment three months.

$74. Every person who, without the authority of the health officer or board of health, shall go within the enclosure of the quarantine ground, shall be considered guilty of the like offence; the fine for each offence not to exceed one hundred dollars, nor the imprisonment thirty days.

$75. Every person who shall violate the prohibition of the thirtyseventh section of this Title, shall be considered guilty of the like of fence, and be fined for each offence in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars.

$76. 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 considered guilty of a mis- ART. 6. demeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment.

ders detained.

$77. Such offender shall also be detained at quarantine so long When offenas the board of health shall direct, not to exceed twenty days, unless he shall be taken sick of some pestilential or infectious disease.

fences.

$78. It shall be the duty of the health officer to give immediate Notice of of information to the board of health, of every such transgression, the circumstances 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 ought to be detained at quarantine.

36.

$79. Every master of a vessel who shall not comply with the di- Violating rections of the thirty-sixth section of this Title, shall forfeit for each offence the sum of fifty dollars, and the further sum of three dollars for every hour he shall so offend.

63.

$80. Every person who shall violate the prohibitions of the sixty- Do. § 62 and second and sixty-third sections of this Title, shall for each offence forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars.

quarantine.

$81. Every person under quarantine, shall be subject to the same Eloping from penalty, who shall elope from or go beyond the bounds assigned to him for his quarantine; and it shall be the duty of every justice of the peace or other magistrate before whom any such offender shall be brought, to order him by warrant to be re-conveyed to the quarantine ground, there to remain for the residue of his term of quarantine.

Penalties on

$82. Every pilot who shall refuse or neglect to perform the duties enjoined on him in any of the provisions contained in the second pilots. Article of this Title, shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined for each offence in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars.

against pi

$83. Whenever the commissioners of health, or either of them, Proceedings shall charge in writing any pilot with any violation or neglect of du- lots. ty, the warden of the port shall supend such pilot from his office, until he shall have entered into a recognizance before some magistrate in the city of New-York, 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 NewYork.

$84. Every person who shall violate the provisions of the fifth Violations of Article of this Title, by refusing or neglecting to obey or comply with Article 5. any order, prohibition or regulation made by the board of health in the exercise of the powers therein conferred, shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment, in the discretion of the court by which the offender shall be tried.