Chapter 61. to provide office-rooms for the National Board of Health, and for the publication of its reports and papers, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 61.— An Act to provide office-rooms for the National Board of Health, and for the publication of its reports and papers, and for other purposes.July 1, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,National Board of Health.May rent offices in Washington, D. C. That the National Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to procure suitable and sufficient offices in the city of Washington for the transaction of its business, at a rental not to exceed the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum.
And said board is also authorized to pay the sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars for the rent of building number fourteen hundred and five G street, northwest, in the city of Washington, used by the National Board of Health for offices, from the third day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to the third day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. 47 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 61, 62. 1879. Sec. 2. That the necessary printing of the National Board of Health bePrinting. done at the Government Printing Office, upon the requisition of the Secretary of the board, in the same manner and subject to the same provisions as other public printing for the several departments of the government: *Provided,* That the cost of said planting shall not exceed the sum*Proviso.* of ten thousand dollars per annum.
Sec. 3. That the National Board of Health is hereby authorized andReport of Medical Experts. empowered to have printed and bound ten thousand copies of the report of the Board of Medical Experts created by former act of Congress, which report shall include the report of Doctors Bemiss and Cochran and Engineer Hardee, upon the yellow-fever epidemic of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; six thousand copies of the same to be furnished the House of Representatives, two thousand copies to the Senate, and the residue to the National Board of Health: *Provided,* That the cost of*Proviso.* publication and binding said report shall not exceed the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars.
And the said board is hereby authorizedPay for preparing report. to pay Doctors Bemiss and Cochran and Engineer Hardee ten dollars per day, for the preparation of their said report, for the period of two months: *Provided,* That the same shall be completed and submitted*Proviso.* to the board within that time. Sec. 4. That the National Board of Health is hereby authorized andPay of stenographer. directed to pay to Frank J. Taylor, for services as stenographer to the Board of Medical Experts in reporting evidence of medical men and others touching the causes, introduction, and spread of epidemic diseases within the United States, and for preparing the same for publication, the sum of five hundred and forty dollars said sum being the amount allowed him by the Committee on Epidemic Diseases.
Sec. 5. That the chief clerk of the National Board of Health shall actDisbursing agent.R. S. 176. as disbursing agent for the board, and shall give bond, conformably to section one hundred and seventy-six of the Revised Statutes, for the faithful performance of that duty, and for such service he shall receive three hundred dollars per annum, in addition to his salary as chief clerk, and the Board of Health may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, pay to its secretary such sum, in addition to his pay as a memberSecretary. of the board, as it may deem proper, not exceeding one hundred dollars per month.
Sec. 6. That section three of the act approved June second, eighteen1879, ch. 202,20 Stat., 484. hundred and seventy-nine, entitled “An act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases within the United States”, be amended as follows: At the end thereof insert: “And the Board ofQuarantine stations. Health shall have power, when they may deem it necessary with the consent and approval of the Secretary of the Treasury as a means of preventing the importation of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States, or into one State from another, to erect temporary quarantine buildings and to acquire on behalf of the United States titles to real estate for that purpose, or to rent houses, if there be any suitable, at such points and places as are named in such section”.
Sec. 7. That all the money hereinbefore authorized to be expendedExpenditures. and all contracts made and liabilities incurred by the National Board of Health shall be paid out of the appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars made in the act of Congress entitled “An act to prevent the1879, ch. 202,20 Stat., 484. introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States”, approved June second, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. Approved, July 1, 1879.