deemed an agent, within the meaning of this act, unless appointed in the 

 manner and form aforesaid. 



Any person or persons, or association, who shall keep an office within the 

 city of New York, for the sale of the tickets or instruments referred to in sec- 

 tion two, asserting or assuming an authority as above required to sell the 

 same, shall keep afhxed, in a prominent place in such office, a printed certifi- 

 cate of such authority, permission or agency, signed by the proper officers of 

 the companies, and shall file a copy of such authority, permission or agency 

 with the chief of the police department within said city, which said printed 

 certificate and verified copy shall contain the name of the company, line, ship 

 or steamship for which he or they shall act as agent; the name of the street 

 and number of the same in which such office shall be kept for the sale of such 

 tickets or instruments, and the name or names of the individual or individuals 

 authorized to sell the same, who shall be considered the person or persons 

 owning, leasing or controlling the said offices; and for a failure to comply 

 with these provisions such offices shall be deemed disorderly houses and sub- 

 ject to the penalties prescribed in section seven. 



§ 2. No person other than the proper agents, appointed as provided in 

 section one of this act, shall issue, sell, or offer to sell, or in any way dispose 

 of, or attempt to dispose of, to any person or persons, any passenger ticket or 

 instrument, either written or printed, or partly written or printed, or both, 

 entitling or purporting to entitle, absolutely or upon being exchanged, or up- 

 on the happening of any condition or contingency, any person or persons, to 

 any passage, or right of passage, conveyance, or right of conveyance, upon 

 any ship, or steamship company, or line, or upon any ship or steamship be- 

 longing to such company or line, or upon any ship or steamship whatsoever, 

 from any port or place within this state or elsewhere, to any port ox place what- 

 soever; or shall take, or receive, any money or valuable thing, as a considera- 

 tion for such passage, or conveyance, or for the procurement of such ticket or 

 instrument; and no such ticket or instrument shall be sold or offered for sale, 

 or any consideration as aforesaid, received in whole, or in part, for the pro- 

 curement thereof, except by such agent at the office designated in his ap- 

 pointment; nor until he has been authorized to sell the same according to the 

 provisions of the preceding section; nor for a sum exceeding the price charged 

 at the time of such sale, by the company, owners, or consignees, for or upon 

 whose line, ship or steamship, such ticket or instrument was sold; nor unless 

 such ticket or instrument was made and delivered to such agent b) such com- 

 pany, owners or consignees, for the purpose of being sold; nor shall any such 

 ticket or instrument be issued or sold, which shall entitle, or shall be repre- 

 sented as entitling any person or persons to a passage by any mode of convey- 



