-contents.

Fees of consul.

Medical officer may be detailed at consulate.

Penalty for ves

out bill of health.

regulations in such cases prescribed for securing the best sanitary condition of the said vessel, its cargo, passengers, and crew;

and said consular or medical officer is required, before granting such duplicate bill of health, to be satisfied that the matters and things therein stated are true;

and for his services in that behalf he shall be entitled to demand and receive such fees as shall by lawful regulation be allowed, to be accounted for as is required in other cases. The President, in his discretion, is authorized to detail any medical officer of the Government to serve in the office of the consul at any foreign port for the purpose of furnishing information and making the inspection and giving the bills of health hereinbefore mentioned.

Any vessel clearing and sailing from any such port withsel clearing with out such bill of health, and entering any port of the United States, shall forfeit to the United States not more than five thousand dollars, the amount to be determined by the court, which shall be a lien on the same, to be recovered by proceedings in the proper district court of the United States.

Proceedings.

Marine Hospi

sist local health

rules, etc.

In all such proceedings the United States district attorney for such district shall appear on behalf of the United States; and all such proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with the rules and laws governing cases of seizure of vessels for violation of the revenue laws of the United States.

SEC. 3. That the Supervising Surgeon-General of the tal Service to as Marine Hospital Service shall, immediately after this act boards to enforce takes effect, examine the quarantine regulations of all State and municipal boards of health, and shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, co-operate with and aid State and municipal boards of health in the execution and enforcement of the rules and regulations of such boards and in the execution and enforcement of the rules and regulations made by the Secretary of the Treasury to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States from foreign countries, and into one State or Territory or the District of Columbia from another State or Territory or the District of Columbia;

Rules to ope

and all rules and regulations made by the Secretary of the rate uniformly. Treasury shall operate uniformly and in no manner discriminate against any port or place;

Additional

and at such ports and places within the United States as rules, etc., by have no quarantine regulations under State or municipal Secretary of Treasury where authority, where such regulations are, in the opinion of the local regulations Secretary of the Treasury, necessary to prevent the introare inadequate. duction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United

States from foreign countries, or into one State or Territory or the District of Columbia from another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, and at such ports and places within the United States where quarantineregulations exist under the authority of the State or municipality which, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, are not suffi cient to prevent the introduction of such diseases into the United States, or into one State or Territory or the District of Columbia from another State or Territory or the District

of Columbia, the Secretary of the Treasury shall, if in his judgment it is necessary and proper, make such additional rules and regulations as are necessary to prevent the introduction of such diseases into the United States from foreign countries, or into one State or Territory or the District of Columbia from another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, and when said rules and regulations have been made they shall be promulgated by the Secretary of the Treas ury and enforced by the sanitary authorities of the States and municipalities, where the State or municipal health authorities will undertake to execute and enforce them; but how enforced. if the State or municipal authorities shall fail or refuse to enforce said rules and regulations the President shall execute and enforce the same and adopt such measures as in his judgment shall be necessary to prevent the introduction or spread of such diseases, and may detail or appoint officers for that purpose.

Rules for ves

The Secretary of the Treasury shall make such rules, sels from foreign and regulations as are necessary to be observed by vessels ports. at the port of departure and on the voyage, where such vessels sail from any foreign port or place to any port or place in the United States, to secure the best sanitary condition of such vessel, her cargo, passengers, and crew; which shall be published and communicated to and enforced by the consular officers of the United States.

-to
in consulate.

be posted

None of the penalties herein imposed shall attach to any vessel or owner or officer thereof until a copy of this act, with the rules and regulations made in pursuance thereof, has been posted up in the office of the consul or other consular officer of the United States for ten days, in the port from which said vessel sailed; and the certificate of such consul or consular officer over his official signature shall be competent evidence of such posting in any court of the. United States.

pital Service to

obtain informa

SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of the supervising Sur Marine-Hosgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service, under the perform duties direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to perform all under this act, the duties in respect to quarantine and quarantine regula- tion, etc. tions which are provided for by this act, and to obtain information of the sanitary condition of foreign ports and places from which contagious and infectious diseases are or may be imported into the United States,

consuls.

and to this end the consular officer of the United States Sanitary reat such ports and places as shall be designated by the by the made Secretary of the Treasury shall make to the Secretary of the Treasury weekly reports of the sanitary condition of the ports and places at which they are respectively stationed, according to such forms as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe;

tic sanitary re

and the Secretary of the Treasury shall also obtain, Weekly domes. through all sources accessible, including State and muni- ports. cipal sanitary authorities throughout the United States, weekly reports of the sanitary condition of ports and places within the United States, and shall prepare, publish, and Publication transmit to collectors of customs and to State and municipal health officers and other sanitarians weekly abstracts

and distribution.

conditions.

of the consular sanitary reports and other pertinent information received by him,

Climatic, etc., and shall also, as far as he may be able, by means of the voluntary co-operation of State and municipal authorities, of public associations, and private persons, procure information relating to the climatic and other conditions affecting the public health,

Annual report.

Rules to secure

etc.

and shall make an annual report of his operations to Congress, with such recommendations as he may deem important to the public interest.

SEC. 5. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall from sanitary condi tions of vessels, time to time issue to the consular officers of the United States and to the medical officers serving at any foreign port, and otherwise make publicly known, the rules and regulations made by him, to be used and complied with by vessels in foreign ports, for securing the best sanitary conditions of such vessels, their cargoes, passengers, and crew, before their departure for any port in the United States, and in the course of the voyage;

Inspection, etc., on arrival.

to

Vessels enter only upon

and all such other rules and regulations as shall be observed in the inspection of the same on the arrival thereof at any quarantine station at the port of destination, and for the disinfection and isolation of the same, and the treatment of cargo and persons on board, so as to prevent the introduction of cholera, yellow fever, or other contagious or infectious diseases;

and it shall not be lawful for any vessel to enter said health officer's port to discharge its cargo, or land its passengers, except certificate. upon a certificate of the health officer at such quarantine station certifying that said rules and regulations have in all respects been observed and complied with, as well on his part as on the part of the said vessel and its master, in respect to the same and to its cargo, passengers, and

Master to deliver papers to customs officer.

Bills of health, force and effect.

Infected

ves

nearest quaran

crew;

and the master of every such vessel shall produce and deliver to the collector of customs at said port of entry, together with the other papers of the vessel, the said bills of health required to be obtained at the port of departure and the certificate herein required to be obtained from the health officer at the port of entry;

and that the bills of health herein prescribed shall be considered as part of the ship's papers, and when duly certified to by the proper consular or other officer of the United States, over his official signature and seal, shall be accepted as evidence of the statements therein contained in any court of the United States.

SEC. 6. That on the arrival of an infected vessel at any sels to be sent to port not provided with proper facilities for treatment of tine station. the same, the Secretary of the Treasury may remand said vessel, at its own expense, to the nearest national or other quarantine station, where accommodations and appliances are provided for the necessary disinfection and treatment of the vessel, passengers, and cargo;

Certificate after treatment.

and after treatment of any infected vessel at a national quarantine station, and after certificate shall have been given by the United States quarantine officer at said station

that the vessel, cargo, and passengers are each and all free from infectious disease, or danger of conveying the same, said vessel shall be admitted to entry to any port of the United States named within the certificate.

Local

tine.

quaran

ence of conta

But at any ports where sufficient quarantine provision has been made by State or local authorities the Secretary of the Treasury may direct vessels bound for said ports to undergo quarantine at said State or local station. SEC. 7. That whenever it shall be shown to the satisfac- Immigration may be suspendtion of the President that by reason of the existence of ed during exist cholera or other infectious or contagious diseases in a for- gious diseases. eign country there is serious danger of the introduction of the same into the United States, and that notwithstanding the quarantine defense this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce the same is demanded in the interest of the public health, the President shall have power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall designate and for such period of time as he may deem necessary.

SEC. 8. That whenever the proper authorities of a State for use of State Compensation shall surrender to the United States the use of the build- buildings, etc. ings and disinfecting apparatus at a State quarantine station, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorized to receive them and to pay a reasonable compensation to the State for their use, if, in his opinion, they are necessary to the United States.

National Board

Repeal of 1879,

SEC. 9. That the act entitled "An act to prevent the intro- of Health abolduction of infectious or contagious diseases into the United ished. States, and to establish a national board of health," ap- Mar. 3, ch. 202 (1 proved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy nine, Supp. R. S., 261). be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

And the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to obtain possession of any property, furniture, books, paper, or records belonging to the United States which are not in the possession of an officer of the United States under the Treasury Department which were formerly in the use of the National Board of Health or any officer or employee thereof.

property of, to

be obtained.

Mar. 3, 1883, v.

The President of the United States is hereby authorized, 22, p.613. Sundry in case of a threatened or actual epidemic, to use a sum, civil act. not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in aid of State and local boards or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same and maintaining quarantine at points of danger.

Mar. 3, 1893.

Permanent ap

demics, to be ex

[Par. 7.] The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of Chap. 208. cholera, yellow fever, or smallpox, to use the unexpended propriation for balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by preventing epithe sundry civil appropriation act approved August fifth, pended in discre eighteen hundred and ninety-two, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the

tion of President,

See notes 2 and 3. spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, and the additional sum of nine hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the same purpose to be immediately available.

Title 64.

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Note 2.-This act reappropriated the unexpended balance of a former appropriation and $100,000 additional (27 Stat. L., 367).

Note 3.-Very important changes in the quarantine laws are made by 1893, Feb. 15, ch. 114, p. 82. See the notes thereon.

SEC. 5258. Every railroad company in the United States, Interstate Whose road is operated by steam, its successors and assigns, communication is hereby authorized to carry upon and over its roads, 89. 1, 2, v. 14, p.66. boats, bridges, and ferries, all passengers, troops, govern

June 15, 1866.

Secretary of the Treasury to withold pay.

railroads.

2. v. 17, p. 508;

ment supplies, mails, freight and property on their way from any State to another State, and to receive compensation therefor, and to connect with roads of other States so as to form continuous lines for the transportation of the same to the place of destination. But this section shall not affect any stipulation between the Government of the United States and any railroad company for transportation or fares without compensation, nor impair or change the conditions imposed by the terms of any act granting lands to any such company to aid in the construction of its road, nor shall it be construed to authorize any railroad company to build any new road or connection with any other road without authority from the State in which such railroad or connection may be proposed. And Congress may at any time alter, amend, or repeal this section.

SEC. 5260. The Secretary of the Treasury is directed to withhold all payments to any railroad company and its ment to certain assigns, on account of freights or transportation over their Mar. 3, 1873, s. respective roads of any kind, to the amount of payments June 22, 1874, v. made by the United States for interest upon bonds of the United States issued to any such company, and which shall not have been re-imbursed, together with the five per centum of net earnings due and unapplied, as provided by law.

18, p. 200.

Companies may sue in Court of Claims.

Mar. 3, 1873, s. 2, v. 17, p. 508. See note 1.

SEC. 5261. Any such company may bring suit in the Court of Claims to recover the price of such freight and transportation, and in such suit the right of such company to recover the same upon the law and the facts of the case

Note 1.-An act approved July 12, 1876, chap. 179, v. 19, p. 78, regulates compensation for carrying mails over land-grant roads.

An act approved March 3, 1879, chap. 183, v. 20, p. 410, provides for the adjustment of accounts, for transportation of the Army, etc., by certain railroads, subject to the provisions of this section.

An act approved June 19, 1878, chap. 316, v. 20, p. 109, established the office of Auditor of Railroads and contains sundry provisions relative to his duties, etc.

The second section of the act of May 7, 1878, chap. 96, v. 20, p. 56, provides that the