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 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 61, 62. 1879. 47 Sec. 2. That the necessary printing of the National Board of Health be Printing. 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 printing shall not exceed the sum p,.,,,,,,,, of ten thousand dollars per annum. ' Sec. 3. That the National Board of Health is hereby authorized and Report or Meaempowered to have printed and bound ten thousand copies of the report of iw] EXDQNS- the Board of Medical Exports 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 1’r<>vi~w. publication and binding said report shall not exceed the sum of seven thousand nve hundred dollars. And the said board is hereby author- Pay for preparized to pay Doctors Bemiss and Cochran and Engineer Hardee ten dol- *1% “’1""*· lars per day, for the preparation of their said report, for the period of two months : Provided, That the same shall be completed and submitted lroviso. to the board within that time. SEO. 4. That the National Board of Health is hereby authorized and Pay of steuogdirected to pay to Frank J. Taylor, for services as stenographer to the 1`°·1*l¤¤1‘· 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 act D i S b ii rs i ng as disbursing agent for the board, and shall give bond, conformably to *‘€“"“· section one hundred and seventy-six of the Revised `Statutes, for the 1%.8.176. faithtul 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 mem- Secretary- ber 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, eighteen 1¤7Q,vh-202, hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An act to prevent the introduction 20 bm? 484- of contagious or infectious diseases within the United States", be amended as follows : At the end thereof insert: "And the Board of _ Qwrautine sw- Health shall have power, when they may deem it necessary with the *10***- consent and approval of the Secretary of the Treasury as a means of preventing the importation of contagious or iniectious 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 expended Expcnriitures. 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 "en act to prevent the in-  agi, troduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States ", Z M  · approved June second, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. Approved, July 1, 1879. CHAP. 62.-—An act to provide for the conveyance of the low grounds in the city of July 1, 1879;—_ \Vashington, under the provisions of the act of Congress, chapter ninety-six, approved ·*———_ May seventh, eighteen hundred and twenty-two. Be it emwted by the Senate and House of Representatives oj the United U Y 9_ States of America in Congress assembled, That the powers and duties §8§g;h-69% heretofore in and by the third section of the act of Congress, approved ¤