New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-16
COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION,

The Board met yesterday afternoon at the ofis
/ Worth street, the Hon. GuLIAs L. NERLAsIn
the chair, and Messrs. Carrigan, Curtis, TleInsii,
I Crabtree, Hunt, Powell and Jelinghaus, present.
DIR. BIssELL reported that on Monday lsst the Coz
missioners employees at Quarantine ordered oa
! Of the storehouses by Mr.. Locke and the hou~s
! were closed and locked. Next day the lock ws fe'
moved and the Doctor resumed possession. u va
stated that the storehouses closed by Mr. Locke
without authority from the Collector.
/ The subject Of raising loan Of &lWW 'or re-
building the Hospitals at Quarantine was referred 70
the Committee on Finance, Of which Mr.. Wilson G'
/ Hunt Is Chairman.s ,
! Reconstruction Of The Hospi,als.-The MAJOR sad
that IT was proper for him to to his ASSOCIATE
/ Commissioners, that the Construction COMMITTEE
the Board visited Quarantine day before yesterfI
| with view Of determining how many oi dc %
Hospitals should BE- repaired, and how many Yfns,
nent structures should at be erected. he al
that the Committee unanimously IN fav@
recommending immediate and permanent reconsrH'
ton Of al the residences Offices and Hospitals neoss'
saTy To complete Institution for the recepti0pi ct
and treatment of persons arriving in port af8rtea
with yellow fever, smallpox other pestential tr
ease and that such reconstruction should be- in eyeff
respect Of material not susceptible Of being destroys
by the torch OF the lncendia. He said that the Coz
mittee had concluded TO advise, that the large an
beautiful edihce, heretofore known the ST. NcholS
Of Quarantine and used for the reception Of well pss
sengers detained at Quarantine should be rebuilt froa
It's foundation, and that similar conclusion had bera
arrived n, in reference Ia the Smallpox Hospital tho
residence formerly occupied by DIR. Waser, and The
Marine Hospital StOre-hoase, except that the latter
named buildings could be repaired without taking down
the walls. He said also that the Committee hsd con-
cluded to recommend that the walls Of the QusIsnH
ncosre should be substantially repaired and eIeystd
SD a. TO BE- impossible Gnd npregnabie; that sl ~
residences OF the officer. and employees Of the ntfa'
ton should be wholly within the incosare, and r~
facing on the street hertOfore and bssides, Ia
there should be psssage-way from the grounds into
the Town o. Castle'on, except gate Opening, 70 %
used exclusively IN connection with bdrying the esds
The Mayor said that in CONNECTION with the iboagS
OF rebuilding the structures permanently 90 ~
old site, the Committee had not been wi;bee
auxous reflection in reference 10 the fears wn1
had been entertained and the dangers which ~
been experienced in regard 20 the spread OF nieco
diseases from Quarantine. He said that the Co..
mit;ee had gone outside Of their daties IN fact 10
slider this natter that they had given attention ps
plan Of proposed additional facilities to the press
Quarantine establ .hment, and Of new reyulaita
relation TO the place of detention, &C., of sssss
coming from yelow-ieyer ports, which the Commra
unanimously indorsed afording If earned ca-
perfect guaranty that par: If the port voah NV
after suffer from the spread Of yellow fever and c
ieinly not Staten Island. The plan referred %, 10
said had been partly initiated tls season, By con:
N the Lower Bay; and that the only reason ~
I had not been fully carried out, was owing snp'yn
he isct that Il had been found practically mposeoS
20 discharge csrgoes at the lower anchorage. Ins
MAYOR went on 10 say that the whOle plan was 70 "
build and reconstruct in the most substantial and s
proved manner all the Necessary accommodates =
make the Quarantine grounds model institution
Marine Hospital to construct ample piers, wharso
and store-houses in the lover bay, remote from ~
and where all yellow fever vessels should be e,a
PEELED 10 discharge cargo, famigate, yentilse sre -
out their Quarantine probation; and not to soos, -
der any circumstance, vessel from yellow eve
port 10 anchor above the Nsrows between tbe sne,
of Staten Island and Long Island. He said tsS -
plan, 20 far as yellow fever was concerned ana vs
was the great dread Of the port, practically rsmo's
Quarantine: and that this conclusion was anises
from the wen-known fact that the great danger o.
teesiVn irew yellow fever ss EoD rossssss sss's~