I will answer the gentlemans question with very great pleasure. Up to 1976 the immigrants by their headmoney did contribute to the expense of maintaining these provisions for their comfort and protection. But in that year the law under which the State had collected this headmoney was declared by the Supreme Court unconstitutional and void. Although since that time we have been unable to collect any headmoney from these immigrants. the State APIFIm 22. has felt bound in charity. I may say. (for there is no obligation resting upon us.) to take care of them during their sojourn in our city. for generally they leave almost within twentyfour hours from the time they land. Now. on this question I can speak from intimate acquaintance with the charitable institution of New York. and with the workings of the New York Board of Emigration who have been attacked here tonight. I do not believe the gentleman making the attack ever saw a commissioner of emigration. Now. I will tell him something about these officers.
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