Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 2 — Sanitation and Quarantine
§ 89. Quarantine warehouses; erection
Statutory text
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 health laws of any State, at such convenient places therein as the safety of the public revenue and the observance of such health laws may require.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
(R.S. § 4794.)
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 89
(R.S. § 4794.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 4794.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 4794 derived from act Feb. 23, 1799, ch. 12, § 3, 1 Stat. 620.
Credits
(R.S. § 4794.)