TITLE 2. ground. * S1. The anchorage ground for vessels at quarantine shall be Anchorage near the place were the Marine hospital now is, and shall be designated by buoys to be anchored under the direction of the health officer, and every vessel subject to quarantine shall immediately on her arrival anchor within them, and there remain with all persons arriving on her, subject to the examinations and regulations imposed by law. Quarantine of vessels. Subject to regulations. *S2. Vessels arriving at the port of New York shall be subject to quarantine as follows: 1st. All vessels from any place where pestilential, contagious or infectious disease existed at the time of their departure, or which shall have arrived at any such place and proceeded thence to New York, or on board of which during the voyage any case of such disease shall have occurred, arriving between the first day of April and the first day of November, shall remain at quarantine for at least thirty days after their arrival, and at least twenty days after their cargo shall have been discharged, and shall perform such further quarantine as the mayor and commissioners of health may prescribe, unless the health officer, with the approval of the mayor or commissioners of health, shall sooner grant a permit for said vessel or cargo, or both, to proceed. 2nd. All vessels from any place (including islands) in Asia, Africa or the Mediterranean, or from any of the West Indies, Bahama, Bermuda or Western islands, or from any place in America in the ordinary passage from which they pass south of Cape Henlopen; and all vessels on board of which, during the voyage or while at the port of their departure, any person shall have been sick, arriving between the first day of April and the first day of November, and all vessels from a foreign port, not embraced in the first subdivision of this section, shall, on their arrival at the quarantine ground, be subject to visitation by the health officer, but shall not be detained beyond the time requisite for due examination and observation, unless they shall have had on board during the voyage some case of infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, in which case they shall be subject to such quarantine and regulations as the health officer and the mayor or commissioners of health may prescribe. 3d. All vessels embraced in the foregoing provisions which are navigated by steam, shall be subject only to such length of quarantine and regulations as the health officer shall enjoin, unless they shall have had on board during the voyage some case of infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, in which case they shall be subject to such quarantine as the health officer and the mayor or commissioners of health shall prescribe. *S 3. All vessels and persons remaining at quarantine on the quarantine first day of November, shall thereafter be subject to such quarantine and restrictions as vessels and persons arriving on and after that day. Vessels at the wharves may be or dered to *S 4. The board of health, or the health officer, or the mayor of the city and commissioners of health, whenever in their judgment the public health shall require, may order any vessel at the wharves quarantine 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 vessels, to be seized, returned on ground. board, or removed to the quarantine ground or other place. If 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 health officer, 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 person shall not return to the city without the written permission of the board of health, health officer, or mayor and commissioners of health. ART. 2. bound to ports. *S 5. If any vessel arriving at the quarantine ground, subject Vessels to quarantine, shall be bound to some port east of the city of New eastern 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 her crew or passengers land in, or hold any communication with the city, or any person therefrom. be delivered 36. The master of every vessel released from quarantine and Permit to arriving at the city of New York, shall, within twenty-four hours at Mayor's after such release, deliver the permit of the health officer at the office of the mayor. office. subject to $7. Nothing in this act contained shall prevent any vessel Vessels not arriving at quarantine from again going to sea before breaking quarantine. bulk. ARTICLE SECOND. Of the Duties of Pilots in relation to Vessels subject to quarantine. SEC. 8. To hail vessels. 9. When to direct them to proceed to quarantine. 10. Duties in conducting vessels into port. branch and lots, S8. It shall be the duty of each branch and deputy pilot be- Duty of longing to the port, to use his utmost endeavors to hail every deputy pi vessel he shall discover entering the port, and to interrogate the master of such vessel in reference to all matters necessary to enable such pilot to determine whether, according to the provisions of the preceding sections, such vessel is subject to quarantine or examination by the health officer. master of 59. If, from the answers obtained from such inquiries, it shall Notice to appear that such vessel is subject to quarantine or examination by vessel. the health officer, according to the preceding provisions, the pilot shall immediately give notice to the master of the vessel, that he, his vessel, his cargo, crew and passengers, are subject to such examination, and that he must proceed and anchor said vessel at the quarantine anchorage, there to await the further directions of the health officer. pilots in S10. It shall be the duty of every pilot, who shall conduct Duty of into port a vessel subject to quarantine or examination by the Charge of health officer: 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 anything 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 vessels. TITLE 2 title, when such copy shall have been delivered to him for that Health offcer to board purpose. 4. To take care that no violations of this title be committed by any person, and to report such as shall be committed as soon as may be to the health officer. ARTICLE THIRD. Regulations concerning the Treatment, Conduct and Duties of Vessels, Articles and Persons under Quarantine. SEC. 11. Health officer to visit vessels: to examine on oath as to disease, &c. 12. To reside at the quarantine grounds: his powers. 13. May cause the arrest of persons escaping from the Marine hospital. 14. Sick persons not to leave the hospital until discharged. 15. Commissioners of emigration to take charge of emigrants whose quarantine has expired. 16. Health officer, the board of health or the mayor may permit cargo of vessel at quarantine to be reshipped. 17. Vessels at quarantine to be designated by colors. 18. No vessel or boat t› pass vessels at quarantine without permission. 19. Lighters not to unload vessels at quarantine without permission. 22. Board of appeal from decisions of the health officer. 23. Appeals from his decision, how conducted. 24. When public health requires, vessels to be removed from New York and vicinity, to quarantine ground: board of health empowered to employ assistance to effect removal: persons effecting removal to have a lien on vessel. 25. When master, owner or consignee neglects to comply with order of health officers, health officers empowered to employ assistants: persons employed to have lien on vessel. 26. Lien to be enforced in manner prescribed by title eight of chapter eight of third part of R. S. 27. Persons obstructing health officer, and persons having intercourse with vessels without permission, &c., deemed guilty of misdemeanor. 28. Courts of general and special sessions of New York to have exclusive jurisdiction: duty of district attorney. 29. Inconsistent acts repealed. *$11. It shall be the duty of the health officer to board every every vessel vessel subject to quarantine or visitation by him immediately on her arrival, between sunrise and sunset; to inquire as to the health of all persons on board, and the condition of the vessel and cargo, by inspection of the bill of health, manifest, log-book, or otherwise; to examine on oath as many and such persons on board as he may judge expedient, to enable him to determine the period of quarantine and the regulatious to which such vessel shall be made subject, and to report the facts and his conclusions, and especially to report the number of persons sick, and the nature of the disease with which they are afflicted, to the mayor or commissioners of health in writing. Residence of health officer. To remove * $ 12. It shall be the duty of the health officer to reside within the quarantine enclosure, and he shall have power: 1. To remove from the quarantine anchorage ground, any vessel dangerous he may deem dangerous to the public health, to any place south of the quarantine buoys and inside of Sandy Hook. vessels. Cargo and 2. To cause any vessel under quarantine, when he shall judge it Per necessary for the purification of the vessel or her cargo, passengers, or crew, or either of them, to discharge or land the same at the quarantine ground or some other place out of the city. to be land. ed. 3. To cause any such vessel or her cargo, bedding, and the clothing of persons on board, to be ventilated, cleansed and purified in such manner, and during such time as he shall direct; and if he shall judge it necessary to prevent infection or contagion, to destroy any portion of such bedding or clothing, and, with the authority of the mayor or commissioners of health, any portion of such cargo which he may deem incapable of purification. ART. 3. etc., not to antine until 4. To prohibit and prevent all persons arriving in vessels subject to quarantine, from leaving quarantine, or removing their goods or Persons, baggage therefrom, until fifteen days after the last case of pesti- leave quar lential, contagious or infectious disease shall have occurred on anteri board, and ten days after her arrival at quarantine, unless sooner days. discharged by him, with the consent of the mayor or the commissioners of health. New York. 5. To permit the cargo of any vessel under quarantine, or any Permit to portion thereof, when he shall judge the same free from infection proceed to and contagion to be conveyed to the city of New York or elsewhere; such permission, however, to be inoperative without the written approval of the mayor or commissioners of health. 6. To cause all persons under quarantine to be vaccinated, when Vaccinahe deems it necessary for the preservation of the public health. tion. 7. To administer oaths and take affidavits in all examinations To adminprescribed by this act, and in relation to any alleged violation of ister oaths. quarantine law or regulation; such oaths to have the like validity and effect as oaths administered by a commissioner of deeds. persons from antine. 13. The health officer or the physician of the Marine hospi- May arrest tal may direct in writing, any constable or other citizen, to pursue who elope and apprehend any person, not discharged, who shall elope from quar quarantine, or who shall violate any quarantine law or regulation, or who shall obstruct the health officer or the physician of the Marine hospital in the performance of their duty, and to deliver him to said officer or officers, to be detained at quarantine until discharged by said officer or officers; but such confinement shall in no case exceed ten days. It shall be the duty of the constable or other citizen so directed, to obey such directions; and every such person so eloping or violating quarantine laws and regulations, or obstructing the health officer, shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable with or by fine and imprisonment. *14. Every sick person sent to the Marine hospital by the care of the health officer shall be there kept and attended to with all neces- sick, sary and proper care, and no such person shall leave the hospital until the health officer shall grant a discharge in writing. sioners of to take * 15. The commissioners of emigration shall remove from the Commis Marine hospital, and take charge of all indigent emigrants whose emigration quarantine has expired, and who shall have sufficiently recovered charge of from the diseases with which they were admitted, on the notifica-ngent tion in writing of the health officer that such removal will not with ordinary care endanger the safety of the individual or the health of the community. emigrants. shipped for * 16. The health officer, the board of health, or the mayor May permit and commissioners of health, may, if in their opinion it will not be cargo or dangerous to the public health, permit the cargo of any vessel sca. under quarantine, or any portion thereof, to be shipped for exportation by sea, or transportation up the North or East river; and if the vessel receiving the same shall approach nearer than two hundred yards to the wharves of the city, said cargo may be seized and sold by the mayor and commissioners of health for the use and benefit of the Marine hospital. TITLE 2. * S17. Every vessel during her quarantine shall be designated Designation by colors, to be fixed in a conspicuous part of her main shrouds. by colors. Other ves sels not to pass. Lighters not to be * $ 18. No vessel or boat shall pass through the range of vessels lying at quarantine, or land at the quarantine grounds or wharves, without the permission of the health officer. *S 19. No lighter shall be employed to load or unload vessels employed at quarantine without permission of the health officer, and subject permission. to such restrictions and regulations as he shall impose. Passengers to be provi vessel. *S 20. All passengers being on board of vessels under quaranded for by tine, shall be provided for by the master of the vessel in which master of they shall have arrived; and if the master shall omit or refuse to provide for them, or they shall have been sent on shore by the health officer, they shall be maintained by the commissioners of emigration at the expense of such vessel, her owners, consignees, and each and every one of them; and the health officer shall not permit such vessel to leave quarantine until such expense shall have been repaid or secured; and the said commissioners shall have an action against such vessel, her owners and consignees, and each and every one of them, for such expenses, which shall be a lien on such vessel, and may be enforced as other liens on vessels are enforced by said commissioners. Persons charged ses may be confined on shore. *S 21. The health officer, upon the application of the master with offen- 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 offense punishable by the laws of this state or the United States, and who cannot be secured on board of 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 expense thereof shall be charged and collected as in the last preceding section. Appeal to the mayor and commissioners of health. Appeal, how made. facts, when made. *S 22. Any person aggrieved by any decision, order or direction of the health officer, may appeal therefrom to the mayor and commissioners of health of the city of New York, who shall constitute a board of appeal; the said board shall have power to affirm, reverse or modify the decision, order or direction appealed from, and the decision of said board thereon shall be final. * S23. An appeal to the board of appeal must be made by serving upon the health officer a written notice of such appeal, within twelve hours (Sundays excepted) after the appellant receives notice of the order, decision or direction complained of. Within twelve hours after the health officer receives such notice (Sundays exReturn of cepted), he shall make a return in writing, including the facts on which his order, decision or direction was founded, 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 until such decision is made, the order, decision or direction complained of, except it refer to the detention of a vessel, her cargo or passengers, at quarantine, shall be suspended. Decision. When pub lic health *S 24. The board of health, or the mayor and commissioners of requires, health of the city of New York, or the board of health of Brookremoved lyn, or the health officer of the port of New York, whenever in vessels to be |