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 duties of Commissioners—manner of enforcing penalties—Marine Hospital and its government—duties of physicians, nurses, orderlies, &c. at quarantine buildings. Chapter the second empowers the Commissioners to lease or purchase suitable docks or piers in the city of New York, where alien passengers shall be landed—to make such regulations as shall preserve order there, and exclude persons not duly licensed from entering—emigrant boarding houses must be licensed, and the keepers give security for their proper conduct, and that of the agents and runners in their employ. "Every keeper of such boarding-house shall, under a penalty of fifty dollars, cause to be kept conspicuously posted in the public rooms of such house, in the English, German, Dutch, French and Welch languages, and printed upon business cards, to be kept for distribution as hereinafter provided, a list of the rates of prices which will be charged emigrants per day and week, for board and lodging, and also the rates for separate meals, which card shall contain the name of the keeper of such house, together with its number and the name of the street in which such house is situated.” Sec. 3. “No keeper of any emigrant boarding-house shall have any lien upon the baggage and effects of any emigrant for boarding, lodging, or any other account whatever, for any greater sum than shall be due from such emigrant for boarding, lodging, according to the rates or prices so posted, as above provided.” Sec. 4. “All solicitors for emigrant boarding-houses, passenger offices, forwarding or transportation lines, must be licensed, must be native or naturalized citizens of the United States, must