antine stations, grounds, and anchorages established by authority of the United States, and as soon as practicable after the approval of this Act shall select and designate such suitable places for them and establish the same at such points on or near the coast line of the United States or the border of the United States and a foreign country, as in his judgment are best suited for the same and necessary to prevent the introduction of yellow fever into the United States, and, in his discretion, he may also establish at the group of islands known as the Dry Tortugas, at the western end of the Florida reef, and at such other point or points on or near the coast line of the United States (not to exceed four in the aggregate) as he deems necessary, quarantine grounds, stations, and anchorages, whereat or whereto infected vessels bound for any port in the United States may be detained or sent for the purpose of being disinfected, having their cargoes disinfected and discharged, if necessary, and their sick treated in hospitals until all danger of infection or contagion from such vessels, their cargoes, passengers, or crews has been removed.

SEC. 2. That in cases in which the title to the land and water so selected and designated is in the United States it shall be the duty of the department, bureau, or official of the United States having custody or possession of such land and water, or any part thereof, not used by the Government for other purposes designated by law, or possession of said Dry Tortugas Islands, on demand of the Secretary of the Treasury, to deliver the same into his custody and possession for the use of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, evidencing such delivery by a suitable instrument in writing to be delivered to the Secretary of the Treasury. That in cases in which the title to such land and water, or any part thereof, is in any other owner than the United States it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to secure the title and possession of the same to the United States for the use of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States, by purchase at a reasonable price, if possible; but if, in his judgment, 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 United States for the purpose of acquiring for the United States the title and possession of such land and water, and said Attorney-General shall, as soon as possible after such application by the Secretary of the Treasury, cause such proceedings to be instituted and conducted to a conclusion, and the custody and possession of such land and water, when duly acquired in accordance 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.

SEC. 3. That on acquiring possession of any land and water in accordance with the provisions of this Act for the purpose of establishing thereat a quarantine station and anchorage, the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause 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 places for quarantine stations and anchorages, with a description of the 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 specified quarantine stations and anchorages, to be dealt with there before visiting any port of the United States. He shall establish at such quarantine stations and anchorages all necessary instrumentalities for disinfecting vessels and their cargoes, and where the same shall be required shall erect the necessary hospital buildings and install the necessary furniture and fittings for receiving and treating the sick among the passengers and

crews of vessels going to such quarantine stations and anchorages, and provide for the separation of 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 eradicate such disease from such vessels, their cargoes, passengers, and crews.

SEC. 4. That any vessel, or any officer of any vessel, or other person other than State health or quarantine officers, entering within the limits of any quarantine grounds and anchorages, 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 fine of not more than three hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. That any master or owner of any vessel violating any provision of this Act, or any provision of an Act entitled "An Act granting additional powers and imposing additional duties on the Marine-Hospital Service," approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, or violating any rule or regulation made in accordance with this Act or said Act of February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-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 vessel or its contents, or as to the health of any passenger or person thereon shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 5. That in any place where a quarantine station and plant is already established by State or local authorities it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, before selecting and designating a quarantine station and grounds and anchorage for vessels, to examine such established stations and plants, 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 authority of this Act shall, when so established, be used to prevent the introduction of all quarantinable diseases.

SEC. 6. That whenever any established station, or any land or water, or any part thereof, shall be acquired by the United States under the provisions of this Act, jurisdiction over the same shall be ceded to the United 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 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 well as 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 preventing their spread from one State into another State, and of destroying their causes

Approved, June 19, 1906.

$500,000.00

[PUBLIC-NO. 64..]

By the Act To amend section thirty-six hundred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by Act of February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by Act of February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, be amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 3646. Whenever any original check or warrant is lost, stolen, or destroyed, the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize the officer issuing the same, after the expiration of six months and within three years from the date of such check or warrant, to issue a duplicate thereof upon the execution of such bond to indemnify the United States as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: Provided, That when such original check or warrant does not exceed in amount the sum of fifty dollars the Secretary of the Treasury 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 check or warrant." Approved, March 23, 1906.

[PUBLIC NO. 244.]

By the Act To amend section thirty-six hundred and forty-six of the 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, nineteen hundred

and six.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-six, 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, 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. 3646. Whenever any original disbursing officer's check is lost, stolen, or destroyed, the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize the officer issuing the same, after the expiration of six months and within three years from the date of such disbursing officer's check, to issue a duplicate thereof upon the execution of such bond to indemnify the United States as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: Provided, That when such original disbursing officer's check does not exceed in amount the sum of fifty dollars the Secretary of the Treasury 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 officer's check."

Approved, June 19, 1906.

[PUBLIC NO. 67.]

By the Act For the relief of the county of Custer, State of Montana. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the

board of county commissioners of Custer County, Montana, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, in full settlement of all demands against the United States for the construction of a steel bridge across the Tongue River for the accommodation of the Fort Keogh Military Reservation in Montana, according to the terms of the contract entered into between the said board of county commissioners and D. D. Wheeler, quartermaster, United States Army, dated in September, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven: Provided, That said county of Custer shall maintain and keep said bridge in repair without charge or expense to the United States.

Approved, March 27, 1906.

$4,350.00

[PUBLIC-NO. 173.]

By the Act To provide souvenir medallions for The Zebulon Montgomery Pike Monument Association.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of aiding in securing a proper and adequate celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the southwest expedition of Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike and of the exploring of the territory of the upper Arkansas Valley, including portions of the States of Kansas and Colorado and of the Territory of New Mexico, said celebration to be held at some proper place in the immediate vicinity of Pike's Peak, Colorado, in the year nineteen hundred and six, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to have prepared, in the United States Mint at Philadelphia, two dies for medallions, of such design and size as may be designated by The Zebulon Montgomery Pike Monument Association, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Colorado, and approved by him; and he shall have made and struck, at some one of the mints of the United States, from these dies such number of medallions of silver or bronze, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred thousand, and in such quantities as may be requested by the said monument association, the net proceeds from the sale of the said proposed medallions to be applied exclusively to the fund to defray the expenses of construction and erection of a monument to said Pike and of the exercises in dedication thereof under the auspices of the said monument association.

SEC. 2. That the material from which said proposed medallions are to be made shall be furnished by the Secretary of the Treasury on or before the first day of August, nineteen hundred and six, in such amounts and in such proportions as the president of said The Zebulon Montgomery Pike Monument Association may, in writing request, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall deliver said medallions, when made, to the President of said The Zebulon Montgomery Pike Monument Association upon the payment to the Secretary of the Treasury of an amount not less than the cost thereof.

Approved, May 17, 1906.

[PUBLIC-NO. 199.]

By the Act For the relief of the State of Rhode Island.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to resettle and readjust the claim of the

State of Rhode Island for and on account of its expenditures in raising volunteers during the war with Spain under the provisions of the Acts of Congress approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and ninetytight, March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and April ewenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four.

Approved, June 7, 1906.

[PUBLIC NO. 288.]

By the Act To modify the requirements of the Act entitled "An Act to promote the education of the blind," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy

nine.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars heretofore invested in United States registered four per centum bonds, funded loan of nineteen hundred and seven, inscribed "Secretary of the Treasury, trustee-interest to the Treasurer of the United States for credit of appropriation "To promote the education of the blind,'" shall upon the maturity and redemption of said bonds on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and seven, in lieu of reinvestment in other Government bonds, be set apart and credited on the books of the Treasury Department as a perpetual trust fund; and the sum of ten thousand dollars, being equivalent to four per centum on the principal of said trust fund, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and such appropriation shall be deemed a permanent annual appropriation and shall be expended in the manner and for the purposes authorized by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An Act to promote the education of the blind," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.....

Approved, June 25, 1906.

$10,000.00

[PRIVATE-NO. 3573.]

By the Act For the relief of James N. Robinson and Sallie B. McComb. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, to James N. Robinson and Sallie B. McComb, of Marion County, Indiana, on account of damages sustained by them because of the wrongful confiscation by the United States of three hundred and thirty-five acres of land and three hundred dollars in promissory notes, all the property of the said James N. Robinson and Sallie B. McComb, and the sum of three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated for such purpose ...

Approved, June 30, 1906.

S. Doc. 535, 59-1-30

3,250.00