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 300 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3433. 1906. "°“‘*°““'“*°“— United States, by purchase at a reasonable price, if possible; but if, in his 'udgment, the price demanded for such property be excessive, he is hereby authorized to apply to the Attorney-General of the United States to cause to be instituted in the proper tribunal, condemnation proceedings in the name of the Unite States for the pu1·- se of acquiring for the United States the title and possession of such liiiid and water, and said Attorney-General shall, as soon as possible after such application by the Secretary of the Treasury, cause such °°¤¤°*°* ¤*·¤**<>¤¤~ piméedings to be institqted grid (qondéicted to ahconpllqsion, and Jhe cus an possession o suc an an water, w en u y acquire in accorddnoe with the award made in such condemnation proceedings, shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Treasury for the use of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. mf;,“},’}*;’gf,*s°’},;’;’°‘°°·  3. Tha}; qln acquiring qosplessgon of apy land ami wats; inn ' accor ucc wit the rovisionso t is ct or epu seo esta is - ing thereat a uaranltiine station and anchorage, therIS(ecretary of the Treasury shalicause to be published in such newspapers as he may think proper, once a week for four successive weeks, a notice of the selection and designation of such laces for quarantine stations and anchorages, with a description of &e boundaries of such quarantine stations and anchorages, and such rules and regulations as he shall adopt and promulgate, requiring vessels with yellow fever among their passengers or crews to go to s cified quarantine stations an anchorages, to be dealt with there hgfore visiting any port of the mW United States. He shall establish at such quarantine stations and 1>1¤¤¤. ctc- anchorages all necessary instrumentalities for disinfecting vessels and their cargoes, and where the same shall be required shall erect the  hosp1tal buildfngs and iplstall lthe necessalry furniture ang ngs or receivin an treating e sic among thepassengers an crews of vessels going to such quarantine stations and anchorages, and provide for the separation 0 those among their passengers and crews who are suffering from yellow fever from those who are in good health, and shall further provide for doing all things necessary to eraldicate such disease from such vessels, their cargoes, passengers, an crews. ¤u’Q§,,“;‘e'},‘°‘;§,fQ;“]}; Sec. 4. That any vessel, or any officer of any vessel, or other pergmmm imm an- sorrother than State health or quarantine officers, entering within the ' limits of any quarantine grounds and anchoragcs, or any quarantine station and anchorage, or departing therefrom, in disregard of the quarantine rules and regulations or without the permission of the officer in charge of such quarantine ground and anchorage, or of such quarantine station and anchorage, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a tine of not more than three lmndred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than ermipggggog one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. That any master or pig naming my., 0yYp6l‘ of any vessel violating any provision of this Act, or any pro- '“{,‘:,·_‘§!,§p_ M_ vision ofdaln Act piiititled "An Acgigranting additional powers and imsing a itiona uties on the arine-Hos ital Service," a roved _ Fdbruary fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ni)nety-three, or vliglating any rule or regulation made in accordance with this Act or said Act of February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninetv-three, relating to the inspection of vessels, or to the prevention of the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States, or any master, owner, or agent of any vessel making a false statement relative to the sanitary condition of such yessel orhitp contpnts, or as to the health of any passenger or person thereon s al be eemed ilt of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punishedubyya iine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.