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 PEOPLE V. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE. 329 �• iec. 3. It sliall be the duty of the Chamberlain of the city of ISTew Torkto pay over, from time to time, to the commissioners of emigration all such sums of money as may be necessary for the execution of the inspection laws of the stale of New York, with the execution of which the commissioners of emigration now axe or may hereafter be chargee! by law, and to take the vouchcrs of the commissioners of emigration for all such payments. And it shall be the duty of the said Chamberlain to pay over annually, on the flrst of January in each year, to the treasury of the United States, the net produce of all dutjes collected and received by him nnder this act, after the payments to the commissioners of emigration aforesaid, and take the receipt of the secre- tary of the treasury therefor. �"Sec. 4. ihe commissioners of emigration shall institute suits in the name of the people of the state of New York for the collection of all moneys due, or which may grow due, under this act ; the same to be paid, when collected, to the Chamberlain of the city of New York, to be applied by him pursuant to the terras of this act, �"Sec. 5. Section 1 shall not apply to any passenger whose passage ticket was actually issued and paid for prior to the time this act takes efEect; but every ticket shall be presumed to have been issued after this act takes efEect, in the absence of evidence showing the contrary. - " Sec. 6. This act shall take effect immediately." �Three days prior to the passage of the said act, and on the twenty- eighth of May, 1881, (Laws of New York, 1881, c. 427, p. 685,) an act was passed as follows : �" Section 1. The commissioners of emigration are hereby empowered and directed to inspect the persons and effects of all persons arrivingby vessel at the port of New York from any foreign country, as far as may be necessary to ascer- tain who among them are habituai criminals or paupers, lunatics, idiots, or imbe- ciles, or deaf, dumb, blind, infirm.or orphan persons, without means orcapac- ity to support themselves, and subject to become a public charge, and whether their persons or eiieets are infected with any infections or contagiousdisease, and whether their effects contain any criminal implements or contrivances. �"Sec. 2. On discovering any such objectionable persons or effects, the said the commissioners of emigration and its inspectors are further empowered to take such persons into their care or custody, and to detain or destroy such effects, if necessary for the public welfare. and keep such persons under proper treatment, and provide for their trausportation and support as long as they may be a necessary public charge. The commissioners of emigration shall, in case of habituai criminals, and may in other cases, where necessary to prevent such persons from continuing a public charge, retransport such person or persons to the foreign port from which they came." �"Sec. 3. The commissioners of emigration are further empowered to board any incoming vessel from foreign ports arriving at the port of New York, by its agents and inspectors, who shall liave such powers as may be necessary to the eliectual execution of this act, and any person who shall re&ist them in the execution of their lawf ul f unctions shall be guilty of a mis- ��� �