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The ambulance shall not be taken to any place for repair; but, if repair is needed, a person having had the small-pox shall be engaged to mend it at its regular depository.

In driving the ambulance to any point, care shall be taken to avoid crowded streets, school-houses, or frequented places. The driver shall, as far as practicable, keep out of crowded thoroughfares, and shall avoid meeting or passing any procession, funeral, or large concourse of people.

The inspector shall display the yellow flag from every dwelling containing small-pox; and if said flag be taken away withont authority, the Health-officer must be immediately notified of the fact.

The inspector of each district shall be notified of the presence and locality of small-pox cases in his district; and it shall be his duty to see that the quarantine regulations relating to houses having the small-pox within are properly enforced, and that no person exposed to the contagion be allowed to go out of the dwelling or come in contact with any other person.

The inspector shall, in an urbane manner, inform the people of the quarantine regulations imposed by the Board of Health regarding small-pox, but shall cause no unnecessary hardship.

The inspector detailed to attend to the small-pox shall first ascertain whether the case can be isolated in the dwelling, so as not to expose the other inmates to the disease.

Whenever a patient in a tenement, lodging house, boarding-house or hotel is so situated that he cannot be isolated from other inmates, he or she shall be removed and taken to the hospital; and if any person interferes with the execution of this order, or the patient refuses to obey, the law shall be enforced against such person or persons.

If it come to the knowledge of any inspector that cases of small-pox are kept in tenement-houses, lodging-houses, boarding-houses, or hotels without the proper notice having been given to the Board of Health as required by law, the inspector shall make immediate report to the Health officer, stating the name of the person or persons causing or abetting in the violation of this law.

In all cases where there is doubt whether a person is really afficted with small-pox, a physician's opinion should be secured before removing the patient.

The inspector shall see that the rules regarding the interment of persons who die of small-pox be
complied with.

The foregoing rules and regulations are made and promulgated by the Board of Health of the District
of Columbia, in accordance with an act entitled "An act for the prevention of diseases in the District of
Columbia," passed by the legislative assembly of said District, and approved by the governor thereof,
June 19, 1872.

Promulgation.

Physicians attend

It shall be the duty of every physician resident of the District of Columbia, or otherwise, attending
upon any person affected by small-pox within said District, to report to the Board of Health said case of ing small-pox patients.
small-pox within twelve hours after his first visit and discovery of the discase of said person; the name
and residence of said person; and whether the room or residence in which said person may be situated
and attended has been and is fumigated and disinfected according to the "rules and regulations"
aforesaid.

All school trustees, school teachers, or others having authority, are forbidden to receive into or allow
to attend any school, public or private, within the District of Columbia, any pupil not vaccinated, as
required by the "rules and regulations" heretofore made and promulgated by this board.
February 14, 1873.

Regulations to prevent the spread of small-pox.

REGULATIONS

To secure a full and correct record of vital statistics, including the registration of marriages, births, and deaths, the interment, disinterment, and removal of the dead in the District of Columbia.

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Registrar of vital

[First.] It is hereby ordered by the Board of Health of the District of Columbia, that there shall be
elected or appointed from its members, as the Board may direct, an officer named and known as the statistics.
registrar of vital statistics of the District of Columbia, but who may be designated registrar, and who
shall, under the direction of said board, keep a full and correct record of vital statistics, issue such
permits as are hereinafter required, make and publish a weekly statement of births, marriages, and
deaths in said District, and perform such other duties as are hereinafter provided.

marriages to be re

Second, that it shall be the duty of every clergyman, magistrate, or other person who shall perform
any marriage ceremony within the District of Columbia, to report each marriage ceremony solemnized ported to.
by him to the registrar aforesaid, within forty-eight hours thereafter, giving the full name, age, color,
occupation, birthplace, (State or Country,) and legal residence of each person married, and the date of
such marriage.

Third. That any physician, accoucheur, midwife, or other person in charge who shall attend, assist,
or advise at the birth of any child within the District of Columbia, shall report to the registrar afore-
said, within six days thereafter, stating distinctly the date of birth, sex, and color of the child or
children born, its or their physical condition, whether still-born or not, the full name, nativity, and
residence of the parents, and maiden name of the mother of such child or children.

births of children to be reported to. See below after regu lation eleven.

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deaths to be report

Fourth. That whenever any person shall die within the District of Columbia it shall be the duty of
the physician attending such person during his or her last sickness, or of the Coroner of the District ed to.
when the case comes under his official notice, to furnish and deliver to the undertaker, or other person
superintending the burial of said deceased person, a certificate, duly signed, setting forth, as far as the
same may be ascertained, the name, age, color, sex, nativity, (giving State or Country,) occupation,
whether married or single, duration of residence in the District of Columbia, cause, date, and place of
death, (giving street and number,) and duration of last sickness of such deceased person. And it shall
be the duty of the undertaker, or other person in charge of the burial of such deceased person, to state
in said certificate the date and place of burial, and having signed the same, to forward it to the Regis-
trar aforesaid within twenty-four hours after such death: Provided, That in case of death from any
infectious or contagious disease said certificate shall be so made and forwarded within eight hours
thereafter.

Fifth. That no interment or disinterment of the dead body of any human being, or disposition
Interments or disin-
thereof in any tomb, vault, or cemetery shall be made within the District of Columbia without a permit terments not to take
therefor, granted by the board of health of said District, nor otherwise than in accordance therewith. place without permit,
And no sexton or other person shall assist in or assent to, or allow any such interment or disinterment &c.
to be made until such permit has been given, as aforesaid; and it shall be the duty of every sexton or
other person having charge of any burying ground, cemetery, tomb, or vault, as aforesaid, who shall
receive any such permit, to preserve and return the same to the registrar aforesaid, before 6 o'clock p.
m. of the Saturday following the day of burial; and no sexton, undertaker, or other person shall bury,
or cause to be buried, the body of any deceased person within the District of Columbia, except in such
grounds as are now known and used as burial-grounds, or such as shall hereafter be by law designated
and authorized to be used as such.

Dead bodies not to be carried through District without permit.

Sixth. That no dead body, or part of the dead body of any human being shall be in any manner carried or conveyed from, in, to, or through the District of Columbia, by any person, or by means of any boat, vessel, car, stage, or other vehicle, or by public or private conveyance, without a permit therefor first granted by the Board of Health of said District; and when the remains of any deceased person are to be conveyed, transferred, or removed beyond the limits of the District of Columbia, it shall be the duty of the person, or agent or officer of the corporation having charge of the conveyance, transfer, or removal, to detach, sign, and return the coupon attached to said permit to the Registrar of Vital Statistics of the Board of Health aforesaid, before 5 o'clock p. m. of the Saturday following the conveyance, transfer, or removal of said remains; Provided, That the same effect may be given by said board to a burial or transit permit issued by the proper authority of any other place or jurisdiction, when the death of the person named in the permit shall have occurred within such place or jurisdiction. Seventh. That whenever a permit for burial is applied for, in case of death without the attendance of a physician, or if it be impossible to obtain a physician's certificate, it shall be the duty of the Healthofficer to investigate the cause and circumstances of such death, to make and sign the certificate required by section 4 of these regulations, and if not satisfied as to the cause and circumstances of such death, he shall so report to the Board of Health, who shall refer the case to the coroner of the District for investigation and report, and said coroner is hereby required to make such investigation and report. Physicians, mid- Eighth. That it shall be the duty of every physician, accoucheur, midwife, undertaker, sexton or wives, sextons, &c., to superintendent of any cemetery, or other person having charge of the same, practicing medicine or register their names. doing business within the District of Columbia, to register his or her name in a book or books to be provided for such purpose, at the office of the Board of Health of said District, giving full name, residence, and place of business, and in case of removal from one place to another in said District, to make change in said register accordingly.

Health-officer to investigate cause of death in certain cases.

See below.

Penalties.

Repeal.

When takes effect.

Registered physi cians to be graduates of medical schools. Meaning of term "physical condition."

Enforcement of reg. ulations.

Ninth. That any person who shall violate, or aid and abet in violating, any of the provisions of the foregoing regulations, shall, upon conviction thereof by competent judicial authority, be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars for each and every such offense. Tenth. That all rules, regulations, and ordinances heretofore passed by this Board inconsistent with the provisions of these regulations be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Eleventh. That these regulations shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of
August, A. D. 1874.

[First.] It is hereby ordered that physicians required to register their names under the 8th regulation of the Board, to secure a full and correct record of vital statistics, do so upon a license received from some chartered medical society or upon a diploma received from some medical school or institution. Second. That the expression "physical condition," as employed in the statute heretofore enacted by the legislative assembly of the District, and incorporated in the 3d regulation, be defined as follows: The general physical condition, whether healthy or unhealthy." But in no case will the Board require in the enforcement of this rule that sick-bed or confidential communications made to physicians be revealed in the report required by this 3d regulation.

Third. That on and after the 15th day of next month, by which time all physicians of the city may have registered according to the requirements of the Board, the regulation with regard to penalties be rigidly enforced; and that up to that date the regulation with regard thereto, as far as any violations thereof have occurred, and as far as this Board is concerned, as prosecutors, the same be not enforced. [August 28, 1874.]

May 8, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 306.

Public documents to be fur

nished at cost, &c. R. S., § 3809.

NUMBER 31.

JOINT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PUBLIC PRINTER TO PRINT ADDITIONAL COPIES
OF BILLS AND OTHER PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

Public documents furnished at cost, &c.

Resolved, &c., That the Public Printer be and he is hereby directed to furnish to all applicants copies of bills and reports and other public documents hereafter printed by order of Congress and distributed from the Document Rooms of the Senate and House on said applicants paying the cost of such printing with ten per centum added, and giving the notice required by section thirty-eight hundred and nine of Title fortyfive of the Revised Statutes. [May 8, 1880.]

June 7, 1880.

21 Stat. L., 308.

Supplement to

NUMBER 44.

JOINT RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF A SUP-
PLEMENT TO THE REVISED STATUTES.

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Resolved, &c., That the Supplement to the Revised Statutes, embracing Revised Statutes the statutes general and permanent in their nature passed after the Reto be prepared and vised Statutes with references connecting provisions on the same subpublished. ject, explanatory notes, citations of judicial decisions, and a general index, prepared by William A. Richardson, be stereotyped at the Government Printing Office; and the index and plates thereof and all right and title therein and thereto shall be in and fully belong to the government for its exclusive use and benefit.

Supplement to Revised Statutes: distribution of. 1878, May 22, Res. No. 22, p. 387. 1878, Dec. 21,

35.

That six thousand three hundred and fifty-seven copies be printed, bound, and distributed as provided for the distribution of the Revised Statutes by the "Joint resolution providing for the distribution and sale of the new edition of the Revised Statutes of the United States", passed May twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and joint resolution passed December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy. Res. No. 1, 481. eight, and such additional copies, on the order of the Secretary of State, 1881, Feb. 8, ch. as may be necessary from time to time, to be kept for sale in the same -to be kept for manner and on like terms as the Revised Statutes are required to be sale. kept for sale, and to supply deficiencies and offices newly created; that for preparing and editing said supplement, including indexing and all clerical work necessary to fully complete said work, including the legis lation of the Forty-sixth Congress, there shall be paid to said editor the sum of five thousand dollars;

distribution to members of Fortysixth Congress.

to bo prima facie

And each Senator and Member of the present Congress who would not receive copies under said joint resolutions shall receive the same number of copies as other Senators or Members receive under the same. The publication herein authorized shall be taken to be prima facie evidence of the laws therein contained in all the courts of the United evidence. States and of the several States and Territories therein; but shall not preclude reference to, nor control, in case of any discrepancy, the effect of any orignal act as passed by Congress: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to change or alter any existing law. [June 7, 1880.]

NUMBER 52.

JOINT RESOLUTION FOR THE RELIEF OF CERTAIN PERSONS IN RESPECT OF DUTIES
DEMANDED OF THEM UPON THE IMPORT OF CERTAIN ARTICLES NAMED THEREIN.

Preamble.

Cut hoops, barrel hoops, &c., contracted for prior to March 12, 1880, for transportation to pay duty at 35 per cent.

duties paid in excess to be refunded.

Whereas, by a circular of the Secretary of the Treasury issued in eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, after a decision of a case between the United States and an importer in the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York, all the articles named in the following resolution were directed to be imported on payment of a duty of thirty-five per cent ad valorem: and

Whereas, the Secretary of the Treasury by letter of March twelfth, eightcen hundred and eighty, to the House of Representatives has communicated his purpose to revoke said circular, and subject said articles to the specifio duty imposed by existing law on all band, hoop and scroll iron; and

Whereas, it is represented, that confiding in the said circular of the year eighteen hundred and seventy eight parties have contracted for such articles to be imported under the duty of thirty five per centum ad valorem, and it is right and proper to relieve them from the effect of the change of orders by the Secretary of the Treasury upon his construction of the existing law, but without intending to alter existing law, or to interpret by legislative act the effect thereof, leaving that to the judicial tribunals, except as to the special cases herein provided for: Therefore,

June 14, 1880.

21 Stat. L., 309.

Preamble.

Resolved, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby Cut hoops, barauthorized and directed to cause to be levied upon all articles under rel hoops, &c., conthe designation of "cut hoops", "hoops cut to length", "hoops cut and tracted for prior to March 12, 1880, for punched", and "barrel hoops", the duty of thirty-five per centum ad importation, to valorem, which shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of pay duty of 35 per the Treasury to have been ordered under bona fide and absolute con- cent. tracts made and entered into prior to March twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and which shall be imported from any foreign country into the United States, prior to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-one.

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1880.-JUNE 16; RESOLUTION NO. 57.

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valorem, paid since the twelfth day of March, eighteen hundred and And the amount of any duties in excess of thirty-five per centum ad eighty, upon any of the articles herein before named, which shall be shown as aforesaid to have been imported under such contracts, shall be refunded to the parties entitled thereto out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. [June 14, 1880.]

June 16, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 310.

Lands selected

by Kansas for

NUMBER 57.

JOINT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO CERTIFY
SCHOOL LANDS TO THE STATE OF KANSAS.

Lands selected by Kansas for school purposes confirmed to State, &c.

Whereas, the United States has sold and disposed of sections sixteen and thirty-six in certain Indian reservations embraced within the territorial limits of the State of Kansas, in pursuance of treaty obligations; and

Whereas the State of Kansas, in pursuance of a decision of the General Land Office, dated August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, has selected for school purposes other equivalent lands in lieu of such sections sixteen and thirty-six, disposed of as aforesaid: Therefore,

and the same are hereby, confirmed to said State; and the Secretary of Resolved, &c., That the lands so selected by the State of Kansas be, school purposes the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized to certify the same to said State, in lieu of sections sixteen and thirty-six, sold and disposed of by the United States, within the limits of any former Indian reservation as aforesaid. [June 16, 1880.]

confirmed to State, &c.

GENERAL LAWS

OF THE

UNITED STATES

ENACTED BY THE

FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS-THIRD SESSION

IN

THE YEARS 1880-1881.

NOTE. The omitted chapters and parts of chapters are private, special, local, or temporary acts not
of general interest.

In the margin and in the notes, the letters R. S. refer to the Revised Statutes, and STAT. L. to the
Statutes at Large.

CHAPTER 1.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO DISPOSE OF A PART OF
THE FORT DODGE MILITARY RESERVATION TO ACTUAL SETTLERS UNDER THE PRO-
VISIONS OF THE HOMESTEAD LAWS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Fort Dodge military reservation, in Kansas, in part, to be offered to homestead settlers.

-part may be purchased by Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fé Railroad Company.

Whereas, that portion of the Fort Dodge military reservation hereinafter described is no longer needed for military purposes: Therefore,

Dec. 15, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 311.

Fort Dodge military reservation, in Kansas, in part, to be offered to

Be it enacted, &c., That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to cause all that portion of the Fort Dodge military reservation, in the State of Kansas, being and lying north of land owned and occupied by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company for right homestead settlers. of way for its railroad; and to cause the same to be surveyed, section- R. S., §§ 2287ized, and subdivided as other public lands, and after said survey to offer 2317. said lands to actual settlers only, under and in accordance with the homestead laws of the United States:

Provided, That the said Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Com- part may be purpany shall have the right to purchase such portion of said reservation chased by Atchias it may need for its use adjoining that now owned by it, not exceeding Santa Fé Railroad son, Topeka and one hundred and sixty acres, by paying therefor the price at which the Company. same may be appraised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. [December 15, 1880.]

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