Chapter 727. to perfect the quarantine service of the United States
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CHAP. 727.— An Act to perfect the quarantine service of the United States.August 1, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Quarantine.Punishment for trespass and other violations of law.Vol. 20, p. 37. That whenever any person shall trespass upon the grounds belonging to any quarantine reservation, or whenever any person, master, pilot, or owner of a vessel entering any port of the United States, shall so enter in violation of section one of the act entitled “An act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States,” 356FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 727. 1888. approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, or in violation of the quarantine regulations framed under said act, such person, trespassing, or such master, pilot, or other person in command of a vessel shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a line of not more than three hundred dollars, or be sentenced to imprisonment for a period of not more than thirty days, or shall be punished by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court, Prosecutions.And it shall be the duty of the United States attorney in the district where the misdemeanor shall have been committed to take immediate cognizance of the offense, upon report made to him by any medical officer of the Marine-Hospital Service, or by any officer of the customs service, or by any State officer acting under authority of section five of said act.
Sec. 2. That as soon after the passage of this act as practicable, theQuarantine stations established. Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be established, in addition to *Ante*, p. 43.the quarantine established by the act approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, quarantine stations, as follows: One at the mouth of the Delaware Bay; one near Cape Charles, at the entrance of the Chesapeake Bay; one on the Georgia coast; one at or near Key West; one in San Diego Harbor; one in San Francisco Harbor; and one at or near Port Townsend, at the entrance to Puget Sound; and the said quarantine stations when so established shall be conducted by the Marine-Hospital Vol. 20, p. 37.Service under regulations framed in accordance with the act of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.
Sec. 3. That there are appropriated for the purposes of this act theAppropriations for stations. following sums, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the construction, equipment, and necessary expenses of maintaining the same for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine: For the Delaware Breakwater quarantine: Construction of disinfectingDelaware Breakwater. machinery, steam-tug, warehouse, officers’ quarters, and expenses of maintenance for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For the quarantine station near Cape Charles, Virginia: For theCape Charles, Va. purchase of site, construction of wharf, repair of present hospital buildings and officers’ quarters, disinfecting machinery, steam-tug, expenses of maintenance for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars. For the South Atlantic Station (Sapelo Sound): Construction ofSapelo Sound. disinfecting machinery, warehouse, wharf, small boats, and expenses of maintenance for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For the quarantine near Key West: Purchase of site, constructionKey West. of disinfecting machinery, warehouse, small boats, steam-tug. hospital buildings and officers’ quarters, expenses of maintenance for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eighty-eight thousand dollars. For the Gulf quarantine (formerly Ship Island), provided for byGulf station.*Ante*, p. 43. the act of March fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in addition to the amount appropriated by the act approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight:
For the expenses for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fifteen thousand dollars. Quarantine station. San Diego Harbor. California: For the purchaseSan Diego, Cal. of site and the construction of disinfecting machinery, warehouse, small boats, hospital buildings, officers’ quarters, and for expenses of maintenance for eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fifty-five thousand five hundred dollars. For the quarantine station at San Francisco, California;
HospitalSan Francisco, Cal. buildings and officers’ quarters, disinfecting machinery, warehouse FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 727– 729. 1888.357 and wharf, steam-tug, small boats, expenses for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one hundred and three thousand dollars. For the quarantine station at Port Townsend: For the purchase ofPort Townsend. site, construction of disinfecting machinery, warehouse, small boats, hospital buildings and officers quarters, for expenses of maintenance for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fifty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
Approved, August 1, 1888.