cient number for his county. Every county treasurer receiving such TITLE 6, copies, shall immediately transmit, at the expense of the county, to the clerk of each town therein, five copies, to be distributed by him among the officers entitled thereto; and he shall also transmit or deliver one such copy to each assessor and collector, in every city in his county. ty of neglect $15. If any of the officers concerned in the execution of this Chap- Officers guilter, shall wilfully neglect or refuse to perform the duties assigned of duty. them, such officer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court. TITLE VI. SPECIAL AND LOCAL PROVISIONS. SEC. 1, 2 & 3. Special provisions concerning assessment and collection of taxes, in Kings county. 4, 5 & 6. Special provisions concerning collection of taxes in Albany. 7. Collectors of certain towns in Essex county, to receive mileage. 8. Certain cities to be deemed towns under this Chapter. $1. The assessors of the several towns in the county of Kings, Kings county shall complete their assessment rolls, on or before the first day of July, in each year; and shall deliver the same, on or before the first day of August, in each year, to the supervisors of their respective towns. S2. The board of supervisors of the county of Kings, shall deliver their warrants and tax lists to the collectors of the several towns in that county, on or before the first Tuesday of September, in each year; and the collectors shall settle their accounts with the county treasurer, on or before the first Tuesday in November, in each year. Ib. $3. The town clerks of the several towns in the county of Kings, I. shall certify and deliver to the supervisors of their respective towns, between the first Tuesday of May and the first Tuesday of August, in each year, the names of all the assessors and collectors in their respective towns. in Albany. $ 4. The time for the collection of taxes in the city and county of Time for col Albany, shall be and is hereby extended to the first day of March in lecting taxes every year; and the warrants to the collectors of the several towns and wards of the said city and county, shall be conformed to this provision.7 Albany. $5. If any collector, chosen or appointed for any of the wards in Collectors in the city of Albany, shall, after such election or appointment, die, resign, or remove out of the said city before he shall have entered upon, or completed the duties of his office, or if he shall, by reason of sickness, or other cause, be disabled from performing and completing such (7) Act concerning Revised Statutes, passed Dec. 10, 1828, § 21. [PART I. TITLE 1. duties, it shall, in every such case, be the duty of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of said city, to appoint a collector for such ward, for the remainder of the year; who thereupon shall have the same powers and privileges, be subject to the like duties and penalties, and entitled to the same compensation, as the collector in whose place he was so appointed, Ib. Mileage allowed to collectors in Essex. What cities deemed towns. $6. It shall be the duty of such collector, so to be appointed, before he shall enter on the duties of his office, to enter into a bond with the like penalty, and subject to the same condition, as other collectors are required to enter into by law. S7. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the county of Essex, on the settlement of the accounts of the several collectors of the towns of Minerva, Keene, and Schroon, to allow and pay them mileage, to be calculated for every mile necessarily travelled from their respective dwellings, to the office of the treasurer, after the following rates: 1. To the collector of the town of Minerva, thirty-seven and a half cents per mile: 2. To the collectors of the towns of Keene and Schroon, twentyfive cents per mile : But the sum to be paid to either of the said collectors, shall in no case exceed the sum of four per cent. upon the amount of the tax on the lands of non-residents, returned by such collector to the county treasurer. S8. Every city not divided into wards, for the purpose of choosing supervisors and assessors, shall be deemed to be a town within the provisions of this Chapter. CHAP. XIV. . Of the Public Health. TITLE 1.0f the officers of health in the city of New-York. TITLE 3.--Internal regulations for the preservation of the public health TITLE 4. Of the marine hospital, and its funds. TITLE 5.-General provisions applicable to the city of New-York. TITLE 6.--Regulations for the preservation of public health in other ports and places of the state. TITLE 7.-General regulations concerning the practice of physic and surgery in this state. TITLE I. OF THE OFFICERS OF HEALTH IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK. SEC. 1 & 2. Board of health continued ; president and members how appointed, &c. 3. Who commissioners of health. 4 & 5. Duties of health officer; power to appoint assistant. 6 to 11. Duties of resident physician and health commissioner. 12 & 13. Salaries and fees of commissioners of health and health officer. 14. Consulting physicians, how appointed, and duties. 15 & 16. Inspectors of health how appointed; their fees and duties. TITLE 1. Health. SECTION 1. There shall continue to be a Board of Health in the Board of city of New-York, of which the mayor shall by right of office be president, and the members of which shall, from time to time, be appointed by the common council of the city.1 § 2. In case the mayor shall, from any cause, be unable to attend Ib. to the discharge of his duties as a health officer, the board of health may choose one of their own number as president, who shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties of the mayor under this Chapter. $3. The health officer, resident physician, and health commissioner of the city, shall be the commissioners of health. Commissioners of health $ 4. The health officer shall perform all the duties hereafter speci- Health offified in this Chapter, and such other duties as the board or commis- cer. sioners of health shall lawfully require. $5. The health officer may appoint an assistant, for whose conduct he shall be responsible, and who may perform all the duties required of the health officer. Such assistant, before he shall enter on the duties of his office, shall take the oath prescribed in the constitution of this state. His assistant. physician. S 6. The resident physician shall visit all sick persons reported to Resident the mayor, or to the board or commissioners of health, and shall perform such other duties as the board of health shall enjoin. Health com S7. The health commissioner, under the direction of the board of health, shall assist the resident physician in the discharge of his offi- missioner. cial duties. Ib. to give $ 8. He shall also receive all monies appropriated to the use of the marine hospital, and shall pay all demands against the hospital bond. that shall be approved by a majority of the commissioners of health; and before he shall enter on the duties of his office, shall execute a bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his trust, and with such sureties as the mayor or recorder of the city shall approve. The bond shall be given to the people of this state, and be filed by the officer taking it, in the office of the clerk of the city and county. (1) This Chapter was compiled, with various alterations and additions, from the following statutes; Laws of 1823, p. 64; 1824, p. 18, § 2; 1827, p. 139, § 24 to 33. TITLE 1. To account $9. He shall render to the board of health, a monthly account of his receipts and disbursements on account of the marine hospital, and and deposit shall deposit the balance that shall appear to be in his hands, in such bank in the city of New-York, as the board shall designate, to the credit of the commissioners of health. monies. Monies how drawn. Meetings of physician sioner. $10. The monies so deposited shall not be drawn out, except on the check of the health commissioner, countersigned by the president of the board of health. $ 11. In the discharge of their duties, the resident physician and and commis health commissioner, shall meet daily at the office of the board of health, during such part of the year and at such hours of the day, as the board shall designate. Their salarics. Fees of health offi cers. Consulting physician. Inspector of vessels. His fees. His duty. S 12. The resident physician and health commissioner, shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars; and the health officer, as physician of the marine hospital, a like salary of four hundred and fifty dollars; and such salaries shall be paid out of the monies appropriated for the use of the marine hospital. $ 13. The health officer shall be entitled to receive the following fees for visiting and examining vessels in the discharge of his official duties: 1. For each vessel from a foreign port, six dollars and fifty cents. 2. For each vessel from a place in the United States south of Cape Henlopen, if above one hundred and sixty tons, three dollars; if not exceeding one hundred and sixty, and above one hundred tons, two dollars; if below one hundred tons, one dollar. And such fees shall be paid by the respective masters of the vessels so visited and examined. $ 14. The board of health, may, from time to time, appoint so many consulting physicians as they may deem necessary, designate their duties, and fix their compensation. $15. The board of health shall appoint an inspector of vessels, who shall perform the duties required of him in this Chapter, and shall be entitled to receive the following fees: For each cargo inspected by him under the direction of the board of health, three dollars; For each vessel cleansed and purified by him under the like direction, five dollars; Which fees shall be paid by the owner or consignee of the cargo inspected or vessel purified. 16. It shall be the duty of such inspector, after he shall have performed any service required of him, to make an immediate report of his proceedings and their result, to the board of health, or the mayor and commissioners of health. 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 subject 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. 54 VOL. I. Vessels subject to qua rantine. |