tendent or overseers shall cancel such I take effect from and after its passage. HAMPSHIRE. Foreign passengers. ssel having passengers on board who in the State, shall suffer such passenhall give bond to the State, in a sum dollars for every such passenger, with he satisfaction of the selectmen of the ssengers are landed, conditioned to innless such town, and every town and om all expenses, which for three years m such passengers, whose names shall 1. [Sec. 7.] uffer any such passenger to land before ven, unless the same shall be dispensed n on application therefor, he shall be xceeding two hundred dollars for each r by imprisonment not exceeding one filed by the selectmen who approve the e clerk of the court of common pleas for felon-convict Procure to be same. s shall cancel s nd after its pass E. gers on board suffer such passe the State, in a s uch passenger he selectmen of t conditioned to nd every town a ich for three year whose names shall nger to land bein shall be dispense erefor, he shall ed dollars for ea not exceeding en who approve the of common pleas felon-convict, or person convicted of der sentence of death, or any other a criminal prosecution, or who sh him or her from any prison or pla out of the United States. SEC. 2. Every captain, or master who shall so as aforesaid import, procure to be imported, brought or ing therein, into this State, by lan offer for sale, any such person as him or her so to be, shall forfeit hundred dollars, to be recovered w by any person who will sue for the cord having cognizance thereof, in be ruled to give special bail, the or to the State, and the other moiety same. SEC. 3. Every person who shall of on conviction thereof, be adjudged recognizance, with sufficient suretie within such reasonable time as sha to some place without the limits an States, every such felon-convict, o scription aforesaid, which he or she of having brought, imported, or se or assisting therein, into this Stat said sold, or offered for sale; and such recognizance, with sufficient d for the maintenance and support of 1 such ship or vessel as aforesaid, who otherwise incapable, in the opinion of rs, or of such justice, of providing for or commander of any ship or vessel as suffer to be landed, from on board his passenger who may be sick, infirm, or providing for his or her own support, mit from the overseer or overseers of g first entered into bond as aforesaid, der shall forfeit and pay for each ofundred dollars, to be sued for and reor overseers of the poor of the townsame, in an action of debt, with costs. ice of the peace of said township, or in cognizance thereof. Such city, or 1 e corporate pectively des arriving place of b tr of five hu SEC. 3. And mitted to land resaid, with Such city reach and ev SEC. 4. And riving as afo the corporat hall become si fr his or her d ach city or to ort of the said bail remain in ngers arriving in this State. [Passed February 19, 1838.] That from and after the first day of ite authorities of any city or township id are hereby, authorized to impose and owner, or owners, agent, or consignee r vessel arriving from any country out ; any such city or township with alien ess than one dollar, and not exceeding enance. Sec. 5. And b and may be sue ny ship or resel ,from on board be sick, infirm or her own supp eer or overseers ( bond as afores nd pay for each be sued for andr poor of the tre of debt, with said township, or te. [Passed February ter the first dard y city or town rized to impose an agent, or consig many country ownship with al and not exceeding city, any su the corporate authorities of any such spectively designate, a full and cor gers arriving in his vessel, with t and place of birth of each and every alty of five hundred dollars. SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That n mitted to land from on board any aforesaid, without permission from t any such city or township, under t for each and every passenger so lan SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That in arriving as aforesaid, and landed by of the corporate authority of any su shall become sick, infirm, or otherwi for his or her own maintenance, the such city or township to provide for port of the said sick or infirm passe shall remain incapable of providing tenance. SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That th and may be sued for and recovered, action of debt, in any court having corporate name of any such city o where the penalty or forfeiture ma the defendant or defendants in every special bail; and that it shall and m porate authority of any such city or Л try out of the United States, the mase ship or vessel from which such passhall have been landed, shall make a ath or affirmation, to the mayor of the 1 case of his absence, or other inability ugti, in re are occurre ade, for wh 1 every such ally, and provided. ( Sa. 2. It s discharging ment to be n signee of anded, to giv enalty of th senger inc ereinafter p armless the ty, town or missioners Hief or suppo discharging the duties of his office, te the name, place of birth, last legal ipation of every person or passenger, from such ship or vessel on her last t being a citizen of the United States, ithin the last twelve months, arrived the United States, at any place withd who shall not have paid the commulanded according to the provisions of ereby amended, or of the act of Februhundred and twenty-four, concerning oming to the port of New York, nor ey under the provisions of this or any eport shall contain a like statement of ssengers aforesaid as shall have been to land from any such ship or vessel, h last voyage, or who shall have been ed to go on board of any other ship, intention of proceeding to and landing York, or elsewhere, within the limits of port shall further specify whether any so reported, are lunatic, idiot, deaf, Tears from th and to the s rge they ma are of the per ospital, or an And every bon curities, bein Thom shall pro freehold in th wer and above im, including 15 |
