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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ons. 3+33, 3434. 1906. 301 Sec. 5. That in any lace where a uarantine station and lant is A°°*’¥?*‘?”°`°’_°f W"'? already established by Sltate or local adthorities it shall be the {duty of Ur munmlpammom the Secretary of the Treasury, before selecting and designating a quarantine station and grounds and anchorage for vessels, to examine such established stations and lants, with a view of obtaining a transfer of the site and plants to the United States, and whenever the proper authorities shall be ready to transfer the same or surrender the use thereof to the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to obtain title thereto or possession and use thereof, and to pay a *’“’°*"‘*°· reasonable compensation therefor, if, in his opinion, such purchase or _use will be necessary to the United States for quarantine purposes and the quarantine stations established by authorit of this Act shall, when so established, be used to prevent the introdluction of all quarantinable diseases. Sec. 6. That whenever any established station, or any land or water, UI{;;f,Sg,f:,f,;°“ °f or any part thereof, shall be acquired by the United States under the ` movisions of this Act, jurisdiction over the same shall be ceded to the nited States by any State in which the same is situated before any compensation therefor shall be paid. _ _ Sec. 7. That the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or so much c,,,’#,*§*{§‘;p’2Z{"}’§w K thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money *€°*· °*°- in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying' into effect the provisions of this Act, as wellas for the purpose generally of preventing the importation of yellow fever and other quarantinable diseases into the United States, and for the further purposes, in cooperation with State or municipal, health authorities, of eradicating them should they be imported, of preventin their spread from one State into another State, and of destroying their causes. Approved, June 19, 1906. CHAP. 3434.-An Act To amend section thirty-six hundred and forty-six of the J“¤° l9· 1906 Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by Act of February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, as amended by Act of March twenty-third, nine- [Public, No. 244.] teen hundred and six. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and {bane (gf Representatives oft/w United States of America in Congress assembled, That section thirty-six hun- }{°’g°·;g($·é,Q],j’;";,, dred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended ¤ménHed."` by Act of February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eightydive, as X§’,l£]8Hj,?:Q°g¤d“;_ amended by Act of March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, be amended by striking out the words " check or warrant” wherever said words appear in said amended Act, and by substituting in lieu thereof the words “‘disbursing officer’s check," so as to make the section read as follows: "Sec. 36-16. \Vhenever any original disbursing officer’s check is chQQ§,Q"”i“¤ °m°°"“ lost, stolen, or destroyed, the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize benupiame or, may the officer issuing the same, after the exlpiration of six months and '”“€d` within three years from the date of such isbursing officer’s check, to B°”d· issue a duplicate thereof upon the execution of such bond to indemnify the United States as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: Itvvided, That when such original disbursing officer’s check does not gggcmifgfmydollum exceed in amount the sum of fifty dollars the Secretary of the Treas- mess. ury may authorize the issuance of a duplicate at any time after the expiration of thirty days and within three years from the date of such disbursing oiHcer’s check." Approved, June 19, 1906.