tion. Five other members of said board shall be appointed by the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall be skilled in laboratory work in its relation to the public health, and not in the regular employment of the Government. The said five members shall each receive compensation of ten dollars per diem while serving in conference, as aforesaid, together with allowance for actual and necessary traveling expenses and hotel expenses while in conference. Said conference is not to exceed ten days in any one fiscal year. The term of service of the five members of said board, not in the regular employment of the Government, first appointed shall be so arranged that one of said members shall retire each year, the subsequent appointments to be for a period of five years. Appointments to fill vacancies occurring in a manner other than as above provided shall be made for the unexpired term of the member whose place has become vacant. (32 Stat. 713.)

See notes to section 1 of this act, ante, § 9134.

See, also, notes to Act Aug. 14, 1912, c. 288, § 1, ante, § 9128, as to change of designation of the Service.

The Hygienic Laboratory was provided for by Act March 3, 1901, c. 853, § 1, ante, § 9142.

Provisions for printing the bulletins of the Hygienic Laboratory and of the yellow fever institute of the Public Health Service were made by Res. Feb. 24, 1905, No. 21, § 1, ante, § 7135.

§ 9144. (Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 6.) Hygienic laboratory; chiefs of divisions; pay; director of laboratory.

There shall be appointed by the Surgeon-General, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, whenever, in the opinion of the Surgeon-General, commissioned medical officers of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service are not available for this duty by detail, competent persons to take charge of the divisions, respectively, of chemistry, zoology, and pharmacology of the hygienic laboratory, who shall each receive such pay as shall be fixed by the Surgeon-General, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. The director of the said laboratory shall be an officer detailed from the 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 pay and emoluments of a surgeon: Provided, That all commissioned officers of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service not below the grade of passed assistant surgeon shall be eligible to assignment 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 emoluments of their rank. (32 Stat. 713.)

See notes to section 1 of this act, ante, § 9134.

See, also, notes to Act Aug. 14, 1902, c. 288, § 1, ante, § 9128, as to changes of designation of the Service.

The director of the hygienic laboratory, mentioned in this section, was to receive the pay and allowance of a senior surgeon, by a provision of Act March 4, 1913, c. 149, § 1, post, § 9145. The pay of a senior surgeon was prescribed by Act Aug. 14, 1912, c. 288, § 2, ante, § 9129.

§ 9145. (Act March 4, 1913, c. 149, § 1.) Hygienic laboratory; pay of director.

Hereafter the director of the Hygienic Laboratory shall receive the pay and allowances of a senior surgeon. (37 Stat. 915.)

This was a proviso annexed to appropriations for the Service in the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above.

See notes to Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 6, ante, § 9114.

§ 9146. (Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 7.) Conferences with State and Territorial boards of health.

When, in the opinion of the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States, the interests of the public health would be promoted by a conference of said service with State or Territorial boards of health, quarantine authorities, or State health officers, the District of Columbia included, he may invite as many of said health and quarantine authorities as he deems necessary or proper to send delegates, not more than one from each State or Territory and District of Columbia, to said conference: Provided, That an annual conference of the health authorities of all the States and Territories and the District of Columbia shall be called, each of said States, Territories, and the District of Columbia to be entitled to one delegate: And provided further, That it shall be the duty of the said Surgeon-General to call a conference upon the application of not less than five State or Territorial boards of health, quarantine authorities, or State health officers, each of said States and Territories joining in such request to be represented by one delegate. (32 Stat. 713.)

See notes to section 1 of this act, ante, § 9134.

See, also, notes to Act Aug. 14, 1912, c. 288, ante, § 9128, as to changes of designation of the Service.

§ 9147. (Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 8.) Uniform registration of mortality, morbidity, and vital statistics; collection, compilation, and publication.

To secure uniformity in the registration of mortality, morbidity, and vital statistics it shall be the duty of the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, after the annual conference required by section seven to be called, to prepare and distribute suitable and necessary forms for the collection and compilation of such statistics, and said statistics, when transmitted to the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Bureau on said forms, shall be compiled and published by the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service as a part of the health reports published by said service. (32 Stat. 714.)

See notes to section 1 of this act, ante, § 9134.

See, also, notes to Act Aug. 14, 1912, c. 288, § 1, ante, § 9128, as to changes in designation of the Service.

The collection of vital statistics annually by the Census Office was provided for by Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 8, as amended by Act April 27, 1904, c. 1626, ante, § 4390; and State authorities were requested to co-operate with the Census Office in securing a uniform system of registration of births and deaths, etc., by Res. Feb. 11, 1903, No. 7, 32 Stat. 1231.

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§ 9148. (Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 9.) Regulations by President; report of Surgeon-General.

The President shall from time to time prescribe rules for the conduct of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. He shall also prescribe regulations respecting its internal administration and discipline, and the uniforms of its officers and employees. It shall be the duty of the Surgeon-General to transmit annually to the Secretary of the Treasury, for transmission by said Secretary to Congress, a full and complete report of the transactions of said service, including a detailed statement of receipts and disbursements. (32 Stat. 714.)

See notes to section 1 of this act, ante, § 9134.

See, also, notes to Act Aug. 14, 1912, c. 288, § 1, ante, § 9128, as to changes of designation of the Service.

The President was authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of certain diseases specified, to use appropriations made for the purpose in preventing and suppressing the spread thereof, with a proviso as to an annual report of expenditures, by provisions of Act June 23, 1913, c. 3, § 1, post, § 9173.

Provisions for printing the annual report of the Surgeon-General were made by Res. Feb. 24, 1905, No. 21, § 2, ante, § 7136.

§ 9149. (Act Feb. 3, 1905, c. 297, § 1.) Service to remain under jurisdiction of Treasury Department.

Office of Surgeon-General of Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service: * * and said Service shall remain under the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department until otherwise hereafter specifically provided by law. (33 Stat. 650.)

This was a provision, following appropriations for the Surgeon-General and clerks and employés in his office, in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year ending 1906.

A similar provision was made by the appropriation act for the fiscal year 1905, Act March 18, 1904, c. 716, § 1, 33 Stat. 104. See notes to Act Aug. 14, 1912, c. 288, § 1, ante, § 9128.

Sec.

CHAPTER B

Sanitation and Quarantine

This chapter includes the laws for protection of the public health from contagious and infectious diseases by sanitation and quarantine, etc.; principally R. S. §§ 4792-4800, which constituted the whole of this Title of the Revised Statutes as originally enacted, and the Quarantine Acts of Feb. 15, 1893, c. 114, and June 19, 1906, c. 3433, with provisions of other acts additional or incidental thereto.

9150. State health-laws to be observed by United States officers, etc. 9151. Discharge of cargo of vessel in quarantine.

9152. Erection of quarantine warehous

es.

9153. Deposit of goods in warehouses. 9154. Extending time for entry of vessels subject to quarantine.

Sec.

9155. Vessels from infected ports sub

ject to State quarantine laws. 9156. Entry of vessels in violation of quarantine laws; penalty; proceedings.

9157. Bill of health; contents; fees; detail of medical officer at consulate; vessel clearing without bill of health; penalty; pro

§ 9150. (R. S. § 4792.) State health-laws to be observed by United States officers, etc.

The quarantines and other restraints established by the healthlaws of any State, respecting any vessels arriving in, or bound to, any port or district thereof, shall be duly observed by the officers of the customs revenue of the United States, by the masters and crews of the several revenue-cutters, and by the military officers commanding in any fort or station upon the sea-coast; and all such officers of the United States shall faithfully aid in the execution of such quarantines and health-laws, according to their respective powers and within their respective precincts, and as they shall be directed, from time to time, by the Secretary of the Treasury. But nothing

in this Title shall enable any State to collect a duty of tonnage or impost without the consent of Congress.

Act Feb. 25, 1799, c. 12, § 1, 1 Stat. 619.

§ 9151. (R. S. § 4793.) Discharge of cargo of vessel in quarantine. Whenever, by the health-laws of any State, or by the regulations made pursuant thereto, any vessel arriving within a collection-district of such State is prohibited from coming to the port of entry or delivery by law established for such district, and such health-laws require or permit the cargo of the vessel to be unladen at some other place within or near to such district, the collector, after due report to him of the whole of such cargo, may grant his warrant or permit for the unlading and discharge thereof, under the care of the surveyor, or of one or more inspectors, at some other place where such healthlaws permit, and upon the conditions and restrictions which shall be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, or which such collector may, for the time, deem expedient for the security of the public

revenue.

Act Feb. 25, 1799, c. 12, § 2, 1 Stat. 619.

§ 9152. (R. S. § 4794.) Erection of quarantine warehouses.

There shall be purchased or erected, under the orders of the President, suitable warehouses, with wharves and inclosures, where merchandise may be unladen and deposited, from any vessel which shall be subject to a quarantine, or other restraint, pursuant to the healthlaws of any State, at such convenient places therein as the safety of the public revenue and the observance of such health-laws may require.

Act Feb. 25, 1799, c. 12, § 3, 1 Stat. 620.

Provisions for the establishment and management of quarantine stations, grounds, and anchorages, were made by the Quarantine Act of June 19, 1906, c. 3433, post, §§ 9167-9172.

§ 9153. (R. S. § 4795.) Deposit of goods in warehouses.

Whenever the cargo of a vessel is unladen at some other place than the port of entry or delivery under the foregoing provisions, all the articles of such cargo shall be deposited, at the risk of the parties concerned therein, in such public or other warehouses or inclosures as the collector shall designate, there to remain under the joint custody of such collector and of the owner, or master, or other person having charge of such vessel, until the same are entirely unladen or discharged, and until the articles so deposited may be safely removed without contravening such health-laws. And when such removal is allowed, the collector having charge of such articles may grant permits to the respective owners or consignees, their factors or agents, to receive all merchandise which has been entered, and the duties accruing upon which have been paid, upon the payment by them of a reasonable rate of storage; which shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury for all public warehouses and inclosures. Act Feb. 25, 1799, c. 12, § 2, 1 Stat. 619.

§ 9154. (R. S. § 4796.) Extending time for entry of vessels subject to quarantine.

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, whenever a conformity