Neglect or refusal to comply with this regulation entails a penalty of fifty ($50) dollars additional for every such death. Rev. Stats. sec. 4268. Art. 263. The moneys arising from this exaction for every such death is to be applied for the benefit and relief of emigrants in the manner indicated by the law. Collectors will keep a special account of the moneys so received, and, before making payments to any board or commission, not already approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, will make a report to him of the number and designation of the boards or commissions appointed and acting under the authority of the State in which their respective ports are situated, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to determine which is entitled to receive the same. Rev. Stats. sec. 4268. Art. 264. It is required by law that the collector of customs shall examine each emigrant ship or vessel, on its arrival at his port, and ascertain and report to the Secretary of the Treasury the time of sailing; the length of the voyage; the ventilation; the number of passengers; their space on board; their food; the native country of the emigrants; the number of deaths; the age and sex of those who died during the voyage; together with his opinion of the cause of the mortality, if any, on board, and if none, what precautionary measures, arrangements, or habits are supposed to have had any, and what, agency in causing the exemption. This report will be in the following form: Length of voyage, Number, diameter, and description of ventilators, Height of ventilators above upper deck, Number of decks, Passengers. Class 1.-Cabin passengers. Under eight years of age.. Class 2. Total.... Eight years of age or over Pass'ngers other (Eight years of age or over Total... tons burden, Males. FORM NO. 72.-(Continued.) Report of examination of emigrant vessels. Food, (kinds and daily allowance,) Dimensions of single berths, Locality and separation of la How cooked, (whether well or trines, badly, &c.,) Dimensions of double berths, No., capacity, and arrangement No. physicians on board, of hospitals, No. houses over hatchways, No. of tiers of berths, Causes of mortality during voyage, Receipts under section 14, act of March 3, 1855, To 18-. REMARKS. Births. Males.. Total.. Examiner. Art. 265. Collectors of the customs are required by law at the close of each quarter to forward to the Secretary of State a return of the number and designation of passengers arriving at their respective ports on shipboard from foreign ports, embracing the information furnished by the list or manifest of passengers. This return will be in the form following: Rev. Stats. sec. 4267. Number. |