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State of New-Hqmpshire.
JUNE SESSION, 182O,
CHAPTER I.
AN ACT to prevent the introduction of paupers from for-
eign ports or places.                 14, 1m20
SECTION 1. 3E it enacted by the senate and house of repre-
sentatives in general court convened, That when any ship or
vessel, having any passengers on board who have no settle-
ment within this state, shall arrive at any pdrt or harbor with- but Or MM
in this state, the master of such ship or vessel shall, before ermsrvenels
such passengers come on shore, leave a list of their names
and places of residence with the selectmen or ovatheers of
the poor of the town where such passengers shall be landed;
brid if, in the opinion of said selectmen or overseers of the
poor, any such passengers may be liable to becoMe chargea-
ble for their support to the state or county, the master of
such ship or vessel shall within two days after his arrival as
aforesaid, and on being notified by the selectmeti or overseers
to that effect, enter into bonds, with sufficient sureties, to the
satisfaction of said selectmen or overseers of the poor, in a  ds
sum not eiceeding five hundred dollars for each passenger,
to indemnify and save harmless such town as well as the state
and the several counties of the same, from all manner of
charge and expense, which may arise from  uch passengers,
for and during the term of three years; and if the master of
such ship or vessel shall land any such passengers, without
entering their names and giving bonds as aforesaid, he shall
forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred dollars for each pas-
senger so landed, to be recovered by action of debt by any
person who shall se for the same, one moiety thereef to the
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