Chapter 1. to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to contract for the purchase or construction of a refrigerating ship for the disinfection of vessels and cargoes, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 1.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to contract for the purchase or construction of a refrigerating ship for the disinfection of vessels and cargoes, and for other purposes.April 18, 1879. *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Refrigerating ship. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized to contract for the purchase or construction of such steam vessel, and refrigerating machinery, or to arrange with the Navy Department for the use of such vessel as may be recommended by the National Board of Health, to disinfect vessels and cargoes from ports suspected of infection with yellow fever or other contagious disease; the construction of the same, if such construction shall be recommended by said Board of Health, to be under the inspection of an officer of the Bureau of Steam Engineering of the Navy, who may, at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, be detailed by the Secretary of the Navy for that purpose; and for the purpose of suchAppropriation. purchase or construction, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 18, 1879.