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Volume 39

Public Law 64–276

Making additional appropriations for the Public Health Service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.

Approved August 7, 1916

Statutory text

An Act

Making additional appropriations for the Public Health Service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the following additional sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Public Health Service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, namely:

Assistant surgeons.

For additional assistant surgeons, $50,000.

Interstate quarantine service.

Ante, p. 279.

Interstate Quarantine Service: For cooperation with State and municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $85,000.

Approved, August 7, 1916.

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