sel from a foreign port having passengers, and not hereinbefore declared subject to quarantine, shall, on her 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, unless she shall have on board during the voyage some case of small-pox, or infectious or contagious disease, in which case she shall be subject to such quarantine as the health officer shall prescribe; and it shall be the duty of the health officer, whenever be thinks it is necessary for the preservation of the public health, to cause the persons on board of any vessel to be vaccinated. 17. Nothing in this act contained shall prevent any ressel arriving at the quarantine from again going to sea before breaking bulk. 18. The commissioners of health shall admit into the Marine Hospital any passenger who shall have paid hospital monies, during any temporary sickness, within one year after such payment. The mayor of the city of New York, the resi. dent physician, and the commissioners of health of said city, shall constitute a board of appeal from any direction or regulation of the health officer, with power to grant such and so much relief as may appear to the board thus constituted, or a majority of them, expedient and proper; the decision of the board of health, however, to be paramount. $19. Every appeal from a decision of the health officer shall be made by serving upon him a written notice of such appcal, within twelve hours after such decision, (Sundays excepted,j and the health officer shall make a return in writing, including the facts on which the decision is founded, within twelve hours after the receipt of such notice, (Sundays excepted,) 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 dec'ded within twenty-four hours there after, (Sundays excepted,); and the execution of the decision appealed from shall be suspended until the determination of the appeal. 20. Every master of a vessel subject to quarantine or visi tation, arriving in 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 subit 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; or, 3. To remain with his vessel at quarantine during the period assigned for her quarantine: and while at quarantine, to comply with the directions and regulations prescribed by law, and with such as any of the officers of health, by virtue of the authority given to them ty law, shall prescribe in relation to his vessel, his cargo, himself, or his crew, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine not exceeding 2000 dollars, or by imprisoninent not exceeding twelve months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 1. Every master of a vessel hailed by a pilot, who shall either 1. Give fulse Information to much pilot relative to the condition of his vessel, crew, passengers, or carge, or the health of the place or places whence he came, or refuse to give such in formation as shall be lawfully required: 2. Or land any person from his vessel, or permit any person except a pilot to come on board his vessel, or unlade or tranship 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 guilty of the like offence, and be subject to the like punishment. And every person who shall fand from any such Vessel, or unlade or tranship any portion of her cargo, under like circumstances, shall be guilty of the like offence, and be subject to the like punishment. § 22. Every person who shall violate any provision of this act, or neglect or refuse to comply with the directions and regulations which any of the officers of health may prescribe, shall be guilty of the like offence, and be subject, for each offence, to the like punishment. $23. Every person who shall oppose or obstruct the health officer in performing the duties required of him, shall be guilty of the like offence, and be punished by fine not exceeding 500 dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 24. Every person who, without authority of the health officer, commissioners of health, or board of health, shall go within the enclosure of the quarantine ground, shall be guilty of the like offence, and be punished by fine not exceeding 100 dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine anit imprisonment. $25. 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 guilty of the like offence, and be subject to the like penishment. And such offender shall be detained at quarantine so long as the health officer shall direct, not exceeding twenty days, unless he shall be taken sick of some pestilential or infectious disease. 426. Every person who shall violate the provisions of the fifth article of title 2nd of chapter 14th of part first of the Revised Statutes, by refu ing or neglecting to obey or comply with any order, prohibition or regulation made by the board of health, in the exercise of the powers therein conferred, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court by which the allender shall be tried. § 27. Articles 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 6th, of title 2nd of chapter 14th of part first of the Revised Statutes; an act entitled "An act to ainend title 2nd, chapter 14th, part first of the Revised Statutes, relating to the quarantine regulations of the port of New York," passed May 2. 1836; an act entitled "An act relative to the quarantine laws," passed May 7. 1839; en act entitled "An act to amend the Revised Statutes relating to the public health," passed April 12. 1842, and all other laws inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. We have derived these statements from the New York Annual Register; The Picture of New York; Hunt's Commercial Magazine; and valuable private communications. TRADE AND NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES. Trade and Navigation of the United States, for the Year ending the 30th of June, 1850.--(From the Rhode Island 205,969 330 onnecticut 206,299, 9,965 211,262 668 New York New Jersey Delaware Maryland 4,557,185 1,932,296) Dist. Columbia Virginis 72,175 2,365,241 8,213 1,047,917 6,589,481 80,388 3,413,158 230,861 2000 2,188 529,793 2,428,290 10,681,763 22,106,011 8,268,673 30,374,681 258,303 372,390 211,262 -33,931,109 7,568,391 41,502,800 7,086,687 4,123,302 11,209,989 52,712,689 88,147,721 22,975,803 111,123,524 1,655) 1,65% 1.655 1,494 1,194 4,501,606 10,795,462 1,270,692 1,270,692) 594,519 600 Pennsylvania -3,428,150 621,314 4,049,464 363,225 88,917 9,966 216,265 251,708 668 211,930 311,927 IN. Carolina 250,616 156,185 416,501 416,501 179,249 144,443 323,692 IS. Carolina Georgia Alabama 4,601,515, 5,943,343 10,544,558 Louisiana 20,927,751 16,770,526 37,698,277 328,930 78,143 1,313,658 7,551.913 306,883 30,241 65,468 95,709 108,131 757,228 865,362 8,107,929 2,652,570 10,760,499 Tennessee Missouri Ohio Kentucky Michigan Illinois TexasCalifornia Oregon 100 217,632 132,045 17,669 398,999 183,505 592,504 159,987 144,109 190,987 144,102 24,958 Total -83,616,742 17.350,170 136,946,912 9,498,299 4,955,509 11,951,868 151,898,720 139,657,013 38,481,275 178,138,318 Account of the Value of the Exports and Imports of the United States, for the following Years, ending till 1842 inclusive on the 30th of September, and since then on the 30th June, with a column showing the Population, as ascertained at the different Periods when a Census was taken. Account of the registered, enrolled, and licensed Tonnage of the United States, from 1818. Tms. 95ths. 1820 619,017 53 1837 822,591 86 831,211 54 1,262,234 27 2,096,478 81 696,644 37 1,117,031 90 1,143,297 92 1,620,607 78 1514 1,068,764 91 1,211,330 11 928,772 50 1,131,286 0 1,431,798 0 1,241,312 0 1,597,232 0 1,267,846 29 1848 1,360,886 0 1,793,155 0 2,417,002 6 3,331,014 0 * The decrease of shipping in 1829 is apparent only. From 1790 down to that year, the returns were Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States, exhibiting the Value of the Imports from, and 178,138,318 136,946,912 14,951,808|151,898,720|2,573,016|2,632,788|1,775,623|1,728,214| |