Chapter 185. To authorize the health officer of the District of Columbia to permit the disinterment of the bodies of Eliza Hill Bowles, Bernice Worthen Bowles, and Bessie Vivian Bowles
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CHAP. 185.— An Act To authorize the health officer of the District of Columbia to permit the disinterment of the bodies of Eliza Hill Bowles, Bernice Worthen Bowles, and Bessie Vivian Bowles. October 10, 1918.[[H. R. 12429](/us/bill/65/hr/12429).][[Private, No. 31](/us/pvtl/65/31).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,That the health officer of the District of Columbia. William C. Bowies may disinter bodies of deceased children in.District of Columbia be, and he is hereby, authorized, under such directions and precautions as he may adopt, to permit William C.
Bowles to disinter, remove, and reinter the bodies of his deceased 1528 children, Eliza Hill Bowles, buried October seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; Bernice Worthen Bowles, buried October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; and Bessie Vivian Bowles, buried October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; all of whom died from diphtheria and were buried in Congressional Cemetery Conditions.in said District, but such permit shall not be issued unless there has been filed in the health department of the District of Columbia a permit from the proper governmental authorities at the place where the reinterment is to be made, authorizing said interment there of the said remains.
Approved, October 10, 1918.