Chapter 319. Authorizing the purchase of the State laboratory at Hamilton, Montana, constructed for the prevention, eradication, and cure of spotted fever
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CHAP. 319.— An Act Authorizing the purchase of the State laboratory at Hamilton, Montana, constructed for the prevention, eradication, and cure of spotted fever. February 27, 1931.[[S. 5959](/us/bill/71/s/5959).][[Public, No. 744](/us/pl/71/744).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public Health Service.Purchase of labo ratory at Hamilton, Mont., for spotted fever Investigations by, authorized. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to purchase from the State of Montana, at the actual cost of the same, to be determined by him, the laboratory of the State of Montana at Hamilton, Montana, with its equipment, constructed for the purpose of carrying on, and at which are carried on jointly by said State and the Bureau of Public Health, studies and research for the prevention, eradication, and. cure of spotted fever, and at which serum is produced for the treatment of patients suffering from such malady or likely to contract 1431the same.
Title to the ground upon which the said laboratory is situated with all equipment and supplies therein shall be taken in the name of the United States and shall be administered and maintained as a part of the United States Public Health Service, Treasury Department. Sec. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of Appropriations authorize.For purchase.For additional building.*Post*, p. 1585.$75,000 for the purpose hereinabove set forth, and an additional sum of $75,000 for constructing and equipping on the ground so to be acquired another building for the same purpose, for making alterations to the existing laboratory referred to, and for the construction of the necessary out buildings.
Approved, February 27, 1931.