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 or in the employment of the Commissioners of Emigration, shall solicit custom for any transportation line, or shall be interested in any way, directly or indirectly, in the forwarding of emigrants." Sec. 8. "The Commissioners are to appoint agents, clerks and servants to enforce the due performance of these duties, to furnish a reasonable compensation to them, and to appoint one agent at least for the cities of Albany, Rochester and Buffalo, to make an annual Report to the Legislature, and an affidavit respectively each for himself to the effect that directly or indirectly, by virtue of his office, he has not through himself or agents been instrumental in the business of bonding or transporting emigrants, &c. The third chapter provides for the establishment of hospitals at Sandy Hook.

According to circumstances most of the State laws have peculiar regulations, in general of minor importance to those already given. Penalties by fine or imprisonment are annexed to a violation of their provisions; these penalties can be enforced by the Commissioners of Emigration, the Mayor of the City, or Agent, whose official duty it may be to control the actions of persons by whom they may be infringed. The British Consul is the officer to be applied to, on a complaint coming under the cognizance of the English laws being preferred. An action at the proper tribunals can be preferred against any persons under the jurisdiction of the United States. There are also Emigrant Societies, which will endeavor on application at their office, to apply a remedy for any fraud, imposition or outrage practised upon Emigrants; so that no emigrant who