and for that purpose he shall have power to enter into contracts with such State commission, board, or officers as may be designated for that purpose by the governor of any State to take charge of the local affairs of immigration in the ports within said State, and to provide for the support and relief of such immigrants therein landing as may fall into distress or need public aid, under the rules and regulations to be prescribed by said Secretary; and it shall be the duty of such State commission, board, or officers so designated to examine into the condition of passengers arriving at the ports within such State in any ship or vessel, and for that purpose all or any of such commissioners or officers, or such other person or persons as they shall appoint, shall be authorized to go on board of and through any such ship or vessel; and if on such examination there shall be found among such passengers any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge, they shall report the same in writing to the collector of such port, and such persons shall not be permitted to land.

SECT. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall establish such regulations and rules, and issue from time to time such instructions, not inconsistent with law, as he shall deem best calculated to protect the United States and immigrants into the United States from fraud and loss, and for carrying out the provisions of this act and the immigration laws of the United States; and he shall prescribe all forms of bonds, entries, and other papers to be used under and in the enforcement of the various provisions of this act.

SECT. 4. That all foreign convicts, except those convicted of political offences, upon arrival shall be sent back to the nations to which they belong and from whence they came. The Secretary of the Treasury may designate the State board of charities of any State in which such board shall exist by law, or any commission in any State, or any person or persons in any State, whose duty it shall be to execute the provisions of this section without compensation. The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe regulations for the return of the aforesaid persons to the countries from whence they came, and shall furnish instructions to the board, commission, or persons charged with the execution of the provisions of this section as to the mode of procedure in respect thereto, and may change such instructions from time to time. The expense of such return of the aforesaid persons not permitted to land shall be borne by the owners of the vessels in which they

came.

INSTITUTIONS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE BOARD.

STATE LUNATIC HOSPITAL, Worcester.

Superintendent, John G. Park, M.D, Worcester.
(Thomas H. Gage, M.D., Worcester.

Trustees.

Francis H. Dewey, Worcester.

John F. Moors, Greenfield.

Robert W. Hooper, M.D., Boston.
Rufus D. Woods, Enfield.

Superintendent of the Chronic Asylum, H. M. Quinby, M.D.
Worcester.

STATE LUNATIC HOSPITAL, Taunton.
Superintendent, J. P. Brown, M.D., Taunton.
(Samuel L. Crocker, Taunton.
George Howland, jun., New Bedford.
William C. Lovering, Taunton.
Simeon Borden, Fall River.

Trustees.

Le Baron Russell, M.D., Boston.

STATE LUNATIC HOSPITAL, NORTHAMPTON.

Superintendent, Pliny Earle, M.D., Northampton.
(Adams C. Deane, M.D, Greenfield.

Henry W. Taft, Pittsfield.

STATE LUNATIC HOSPITAL, DANVERS.

Superintendent, William B. Goldsmith, M.D., Danvers.

Trustees

(Harriet R. Lee, Salem.

Daniel S. Richardson, Lowell.
Charles P. Preston, Danvers.

Charles F. Folsom, M.D., Boston.
Samuel W. Hopkinson, Bradford.

STATE ALMSHouse, TEWKSBURY.

Superintendent, Thomas J. Marsh, Tewksbury.
(F. H. Nourse, Winchester.
George P. Elliot, Billerica.
W. R. Spaulding, Lawrence.
Ellen S. S. Hammond, Boston.
Emily F. Pope, M.D,, Boston,

Trustees.

STATE REFORM SCHOOL, WESTBOROUGH.
Superintendent, Joseph A. Allen, Westborough.

STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, LANCASTER.

Superintendent, N. Porter Brown, Lancaster.

MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL FOR IDIOTIC AND Feeble-Minded Youth,

to be brought into state under what regulations and penal

9, 10

10

10

10

10

ALMSHOUSE.

STATE ALMSHOUSE.

board of health, lunacy, and charity to supervise
appointment, etc., of trustees and officers, etc..
powers of trustees as to inmates and property.

68, 69

116, 117

119, 120

certificate of overseers of poor accompanying admission
inmates, contracts for employment

penalty for escaping .

support recoverable of place of settlement, or kindred
bastardy process in behalf of

transfer of, to primary school, workhouse, and lunatic hos-

pitals
vaccination

TOWN AND CITY ALMSHOUSES.

none lies from adjudication that nuisance exists

in case of damages awarded concerning wet lands

in case of neglect or refusal of board of health to act
notice to be given to opposite party.

necessary proceedings

costs and expenses, how paid

91

92

20

12

in case of offensive trades from order of board of health.
costs in appeal in matter of offensive trades

in case of offensive trades from order of state board
in case of order of state board concerning polluted waters
in case of tombs closed by order of board of health.
in case of tombs closed by order of city council
in case of tombs ordered to be repaired
decisions

APPENDIX TO PART III. PUBLIC CHARITY.

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returns of property, etc., of charitable institutions
by-laws of state board of health, lunacy, etc.

board of health, lunacy, and charity to have supervision of
certain children bound.

ASSOCIATIONS.

swine-slaughtering associations

charitable, etc., to make annual return of property, etc., to

assessors.