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pared from said manifests monthly statistical reports of departing aliens, using Forms 621 to 627, inclusive.

RULE XXX. Departing aliens shall be divided into the two classes emigrant and nonemigrant aliens. Alien residents of the United States leaving the country permanently shall be considered as "emigrant aliens." Alien residents leaving the United States with the intention of remaining abroad but temporarily, and alien nonresidents leaving after a temporary sojourn in the United States shall be considered as "nonemigrant aliens."

RULE XXXI. Emigrant aliens departing shall be recorded in monthly statistical reports on Forms 621 to 626, inclusive, to show sex, age, length of residence in the United States, country of intended future residence, race or people, place of residence in the United States, and occupation. Nonimmigrant aliens departing shall be recorded in Form 627 to show only sex and countries of last permanent residence and intended future residence.

RULE XXXII. (a) Section 1 of the act of Congress approved June 29, 1906, entitled "An act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule. for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States ” (Stat., 1905-6, pt. 1, p. 596), provides that there shall be maintained at the various immigration stations "books of record" containing certain specified information as to every alien admitted.

(b) It is hereby ordered that the manifests of aliens (Forms 500, 500-A, and 500-B) shall constitute the "book of record " required by the statute referred to, and, to this end, that all completed manifests shall be arranged chronologically, bound permanently in books of 150 manifests, and carefully preserved for reference. Due precautions must be taken to guard against the possible loss or destruction of manifests, whether bound or not.

(c) Inspection officers are directed to give particular attention to procuring the supplemental information called for in columns 25 to 29 of the manifest, supplying any deficiencies which may be found to exist and carefully verifying the information set forth under the respective headings.

(d) All aliens from Canada and Mexico applying for admission to the United States, except those who have resided in Canada or Mexico for one year or more who are coming for temporary

sojourn in the United States, shall be regularly manifested both ' for statistical and naturalization purposes.

(e) To facilitate reference to the permanent record herein constituted, the names of all aliens shall be card indexed (Form 502 being used for that purpose), a card to be made out for each and every alien admitted to the United States, except those who have resided in Canada or Mexico for one year or more who are coming for temporary sojourn in the United States. The index cards shall be carefully and accurately prepared and placed in ́card-index cabinets provided for that purpose, alphabetical guide cards being used, to whatever extent may be necessary, to insure proper subdivision of the record cards. Commissioners of immigration and inspectors in charge shall apply to the Bureau for any special instructions or information desired in regard to indexing, card cabinets, preparation and binding of manifests, etc. Whenever practicable, index cards shall be typewritten to insure legibility, black record typewriter ribbons to be used. In the event of possible confusion of the surname and given name, one card to be made for each combination, thus insuring an accurate cross-reference index.

F. P. SARGENT, Commissioner-General of Immigration.

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§ 24. Places in which traffic in liquor shall not be permitted.Traffic in liquor shall not be permitted:

1. In any building or upon any premises or lands established as a penal institution, protectory, industrial school, asylum, state hospital, state agricultural and industrial school, colony or institution established for the care or treatment of epileptics, or poorhouse, and if such building, premises or lands, other than

a county jail or state prison, be situated in a town and outside the limits of an incorporated village or city, not within one-half mile of any building, premises or lands so occupied, provided there be such distance of one-half mile between such building, premises and lands and the nearest boundary line of such village or city.

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* (As amended by chapter 445 of the Laws of 1896, § 1; chapter 312 of the Laws of 1897, § 16; and chapter 104 of the Laws of 1905.)

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§ 30. Persons to whom liquor shall not be sold or given away.No corporation, association, copartnership or person, whether taxed under this act or not, shall sell, deliver or give away or cause or permit or procure to be sold, delivered or given away any liquors to:

1. Any minor under the age of eighteen years; nor to such minor for any other person;

2. To any intoxicated person;

3. To any habitual drunkard; 4. To any Indian;

5. To any person to whom such corporation, association, copartnership or person may be forbidden to sell by notice in writing from the parent, guardian, husband, wife or child of such person over sixteen years of age, or by a magistrate or overseer of the poor of the town, or by the mayor or chief of police of a city, provided, however, that such notice in writing by a magistrate or overseer of the poor of the town shall apply only in the case of a person who is wholly or partly a charge upon the town, which fact shall be stated in such notice, and, that such notice in writing by the mayor or chief of police of a city shall apply only in the case of a person who has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor five or more times, which fact shall be stated in said notice. (As amended by chapter 460 of the Laws of 1907.)

6. To any person confined in or committed to a state prison, jail, penitentiary, house of refuge, reformatory, protectory, industrial school, asylum or state hospital, or any inmate of a poorhouse, or any patient in any colony or institution established for the care or treatment of epileptics, except upon a written

prescription from a physician to such institution, specifying the cause for which such prescription is given, the quantity and kind of liquor which is to be furnished, the name of the person for whom and the time or times at which the same shall be furnished. Such prescription shall not be made unless the physician is satisfied that the liquor furnished is necessary for the health of the person for whose use it is prescribed, and that fact must be stated in the prescription. (As amended by chapter 312 of the Laws of 1897, § 21.)

PROCEEDINGS RESPECTING THE SUPPORT OF POOR

PERSONS.

Title VIII of Part VI of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Section 914. Who may be compelled to support poor relatives. 915. Order to compel a person to support a poor relative,

etc.

916. Court to hear the case, and make order of support. 917. Support, when to be apportioned among different

relatives.

918. Order, to prescribe time during which support is to
continue, or may be indéfinite; when and how
order may be varied.

919. Costs, by whom to be paid, and how enforced.
920. Action on the order, on failure to comply therewith.
921. Proceedings against absconding parents, leaving
children chargeable to public, etc.

922. Seizure of their property; transfer thereof, when

void.

923. Warrant and seizure, when confirmed or discharged; direction of the court thereon.

924. Warrant, in what cases to be discharged.

925. Sale of the property seized and application of its proceeds.

926. Powers of superintendents of poor.

Section 914. Who may be compelled to support poor relatives. The father, mother and children, if of sufficient ability, of a

poor person who is insane, blind, old, lame, impotent or decrepit, so as to be unable by work to maintain himself, must, at their own charge, relieve and maintain him in a manner to be approved by the overseers of the poor of the town where he is, or in the city of New York, by the commissioners of public charities. If such poor person be insane, he shall be maintained in the manner prescribed by the insanity law. The father, mother, husband, wife, or children of a poor insane person legally committed to and confined in an institution supported in whole or in part by the state, shall be liable, if of sufficient ability, for the support and maintenance of such insane person from the time of his reception in such institution. (As amended by chapter 399 of the Laws of 1898.)

Where a son requests the superintendent of the poor to take proceedings to have his father committed to an asylum, and promises to pay a certain sum towards his future support he is liable therefore. Supreme Court, June, 1888, Herendeen v. DeWitt; 49 Hun, 53.

A husband is not bound to maintain his wife's illegitimate children born before their marriage. Supreme Court, May, 1827, Minden v. Cox, 7 Cow.,

235.

Persons having relatives within prescribed degrees and whom they have sufficient ability to support are under an absolute duty, at their own charge, to support the persons described, not in the poorhouse, nor even through the agency of, but only in a manner to be approved by, the poor authorities of town or county. Supreme Court, April 13, 1892, Matter of Weaver v. Benjamin, 45 St. Rep. 97; 18 N. Y. Supp. 630, 631. This scheme is outside of the general provisions of the statute for the care and relief of the poor, who are, or who become, a public charge. Id. Its purpose is to prevent these persons from becoming a public charge. Id. It is not the intent that they are to be made and marked as public paupers by being consigned to the poorhouse of the county. Id.

The order for support goes beyond the power of the court when it attaches to the liability of a party to support his mother, the condition that she shall receive such support in the county poorhouse. Id.

The court has no power to prescribe the place where the poor person shall be supported, nor any of the conditions of such support, except that the manner of it shall be such as is approved by the overseers or superintendents of the poor. Id.

Whatever power there is over that support is vested in the overseers or superintendents of the poor; the court can only declare the duty to support, and in default to fix the sum to be paid. Id.

Supreme Court, March, 1885, In Stevens v. Cheney, 36 Hun, 1, the court said: "Under this statute (§ 914) the child is bound to aid in the support of a parent if he is a poor person and unable to defend himself, and if he fails to do so, the court of sessions may compel him. If the child

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