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 FIF’l`Y—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1370. 1902. 713 sanitary reports and statistics, and scientific research, shall, while thus serving, be assistant surgeons-general of the Public Health and Marine- Hospital Service, but their pay and allowances shall be the same as P¤v¤¤d¤11¤w¤¤ce¤ now provided by regulations of the Marine-Hospital Service for officers in charge of said divisions; and the senior officer thus servin Assistant. shall be the assistant within the meaning of section one hundred and R‘S'°°°'178’p‘28' seventy-eight, Revised Statutes of the United States: Provided, how- Promoever, hat no such officer shall be detailed in charge of said divisions Rank- ` who is below the rank of passed assistant surgeon. Sec. 4. That the President is authorized, in his discretion, to utilize ,,,E§°0,°f,,,f°"’l°° .’“ the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service in times of threatened or actual war to such extent and in such manner as shall in his judgment promote the public interest without, however, in any wise impairing the efficiency of the service for the purposes for which the gmém was cr-Ie12b8d glld 1S;D&lHbt:in9d· ad d f h Hyg; pj hm [cry · E0. 5.at there s all an visory boar or the y ienic ° ° '“ · laboratory provided by the Act of Congress approved March Third, ¤f:$(<l;m;Wb0ud m nineteen undred and one, for consultation with the Surgeon-General °3 ’ P' 1m' of the Public Health and Marine—Hospital Service relative to the investigations to be inau rated, and the methods of conducting the same, in said laborato . §d board shall consist of three competent experts, Members. to be detaileldy from the Army, the Navy, and the Bureau of Animal Industr by the Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of the Havy, and the Secreta of Agriculture, respectively, which experts, with the director of the said laboratory, shall be ex oihcio members of the board, and serve without additional compensation. Five other members of said board shall be a pointed by the Sur con- <¤*¤i¤¤ memben- General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, wigi the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, w o shall be skilled in laboratory work in its relation to the public health, and not in the regular employment of the Government. The saidfive members shall Sa};f)f,_‘“°”* °°’”P°¤· each receive compensation of ten dollars per diem while serving in _ conference, as aforesaid, to ether with allowance for actual and neces- T’“"h“g "‘P°'““· sary traveling expenses am? hotel expenses while in conference. Said conference is not to exceed ten days in any one iiscal year. The term of service of the five members of said board, not in the regular employ- ment of the Government, first appointed shall be so arranged that one of said members shall retire each year, the subsequent a intments to be for a period of five vears. Appointments to iillxitacancies "°°““"’*’"· occurring in a manner other than as above provided shall be made for the unexpired term of the member whose p ace has become vacant. Sm:. 6. That there shall be appointed bv the Surgeon-General. with °“‘°" °““"’*°“”· the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, whenever, in the opinion of the Sur con-General, commissioned medical officers of the Public Health andgMarine-Hospital Service are not available for this duty by detail, competent persons to take charge of the divisions, respectively, of chemistry, zoology, and pharmacolo of the hygienic laboratory, who shall each receive such pay as shadlvbe fixed by the P"- Surgeon-General, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. The director of the said laboratory shall be an officer detailed from the ,Ofgf"°*°' °‘ 1”‘°°”°‘ corps of commissioned medical officers of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, as now provided by regulations for said detail from the Marine—Hospital Service, and while thus serving shall , have the yand emoluments of a surgeon: Provided, That all commis- gltgazmy sioned otliiders of the Public Health and Marine-Hos ital Service not ` below the grade of passed assistant surgeon shall be elhgible to assign— ment to duty in charge of the said divisions of the hygienic laboratory, and while serving in such capacity shall be entitled to the pay and emolumentph of their rank. h f h G f h I I Sec. 7. at when, in the opinion 0 the Sur con- eneral o the ? im °°¤ °*°¤°¤¤ Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of tli United States, the di§;•;hiif°t°"mms