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 392 _FIFTY—THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 301. 1894. ·T°*¤° *!°¤¤'¤¤*°¤ 9* That a Joint Commission, consisting of the select committee of five ir'i.::¢Z:¥s:Ef°d° Senators, appointed by the President of the Senate, to investigate the Ford Theater disaster and five members of the House of Represexita tives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, mm shall investigate the Ford Theater disaster and report to the Senate P t m and House, whether in equity and justice the Government should com- °' 'I"pensate the' suiierers of that disaster for the injuries sustained by them, and, if it shall be decided that they should be compensated, then _ . the Commission will investigate each individual case, and report the amount of compensation that should be allowed in each case. The Com- ¤;,,k_,w mission may employ a clerk who is a stenographer, and who shall do the stenographic work of the Commission as clerk, and that the Commission shall have power to send for persons and papers, and the chairmauof the Commission or of any subcommittee may administer 1¤¤r¤¤¤•¤. - oaths. The expenses of said investigation shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate and House of Representatives on vouchers approved by the chairman, and .the Commission may report by bill or otherwise. ° 1,,,.,, .,. ,,,,1.,- Rnronr cron nxrznosrvnsz To enable the Secretary of the Treasury •**¤—~ to investigate and report upon the importation, use, transportation, and manufacture of high and low explosives, with the view of securingby legislation greater security to life and property, four thousand dollars. n».1nmm,uu. That there shall be appointed in the district of Baltimore, State of ` m¢;:;•,z*$* °PP"“i°" Maryland, one assistant appraiser oi" merchandise, at an annual ' salary of two thousand five hundred dollars, who shall reside at the port of Baltimore. uassunussms Massacnusnrrs AVENUE: For grading Massachusetts avenue as ";‘“°,: °‘ °‘ extended around the Naval Observatory Circle, seven thousand dollars, pug, P gpg_ one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Qnarantineserviee. QUARANTINE SERVICE. _ mmmmcs. For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officers and employees of quarantine station at Delaware Breakwater, Reedy Island, Cape Charles and supplemental station, South Atlantic Station (Sapelo Sound), Brunswick, Key West, Gulf, San Diego, San Francisco, and Port Townsend, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. tigprnim. Gulf m- For ballast scows, small hospital, repairs to buildings and boat ' landings, for the Gulf Quarantine Station, Ship Island, Mississippi (transferred from Chaudeleur lsland), five thousand dollars. santa, smmlptn, For establishing a quarantine station, and maintenance of same, at NV or near Southport, North Carolina, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. dnllgpgention of epi- PREVENTION OF EPIDEMICS. _g;:m·j¤<1¢•i\»¤¤¤¤• The President of the United States is hereby authorized in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, or Chinese plague or black death to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriavtr 27,p. ssc. tion Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, or, so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force. ‘