any officer of his commission or the benefits derived by longevity of service. The care of sick and disabled seamen and all other duties now required by law to be performed by the Marine-Hospital Service shall hereafter be performed by the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, and all funds and appropriations now provided by law for use by the Marine-Hospital Service and all properties and rights pertaining to said service shall be available for use for like purposes and in like manner, under the Treasury Department, by the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.

Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 1, 32 Stat. 712.

The provisions of law relating to the Marine Hospital Service prior to this act are contained in Rev. St. §§ 4801-4813, and acts supplementary to and amendatory thereof, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, pp. 3320–3328. Act Jan. 4, 1889, c. 19, mentioned in this section, provides for the appointment and promotion of medical officers of the service, and is set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 3325.

The appointment of a Supervising Surgeon-General of the Service was authorized by Act March 3, 1875, c. 130, § 1, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 3321.

Provisions for physical and mental examination of all alien passengers arriving by medical officers of the Marine-Hospital Service are contained in Act March 3, 1903, c. 1012, § 17, ante, under Title XXIX, "Immigration," subchapter "Regulation and Restriction of Immigration in General."

Salaries and allowances.

Sec. 2. That the salary of the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service shall be five thousand dollars per annum, and the salaries and allowances of the commissioned medical officers of said service shall be the same as now provided by regulations of the Marine-Hospital Service.

Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 2, 32 Stat. 712.

The salary of the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Service was fixed at $4,000 per annum, by Act March 3, 1875, c. 130, § 1, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 3321.

See note under preceding section of this act.

Assistant Surgeons-General; assistants; pay and allowances; rank. Sec. 3. That commissioned medical officers, when detailed by the Surgeon-General for duty in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Bureau at Washington, District of Columbia, in charge of the administrative divisions thereof, namely, marine hospitals and relief, domestic quarantine, foreign and insular quarantine, personnel and accounts, sanitary reports and statistics, and scientific research, shall, while thus serving, be assistant surgeons-general of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, but their pay and allowances shall be the same as now provided by regulations of the Marine-Hospital Service for officers in charge of said divisions; and the senior officer thus serving shall be the assistant within the meaning of section one hundred and seventy-eight, Revised Statutes of the United States: Provided, however, That no such officer shall be detailed in charge of said divisions who is below the rank of passed assistant surgeon.

Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 3, 32 Stat. 712.

Provisions for the detail of officers from the Service for duty in the Bureau are contained in Act March 3, 1891, c. 541, Act July 31, 1894, c.

174, § 1, and Act March 2, 1895, c. 177, § 1, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, pp. 3325, 3326.

Rev. St. § 178, mentioned in this section, is set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 90. It provides that in case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the chief of any bureau, etc., the "assistant" or deputy, etc., shall perform the duties of such chief, etc., until a successor is appointed, etc.

See note under section 1 of this act.

Use of Service in time of war.

Sec. 4. That the President is authorized, in his discretion, to utilize the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service in times of threatened cr actual war to such extent and in such manner as shall in his judgment promote the public interest without, however, in any wise impairing the efficiency of the service for the purposes for which the same was created and is maintained.

Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 4, 32 Stat. 713.

See note under section 1 of this act.

Hygienic laboratory; advisory board; members; compensation and expenses; vacancies.

Sec. 5. That there shall be an advisory board for the hygienic laboratory provided by the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, for consultation with the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service relative to the investigations to be inaugurated, and the methods of conducting the same, in said laboratory. Said board shall consist of three competent experts, to be detailed from the Army, the Navy, and the Bureau of Animal Industry by the Surgeon-General of the Army, the SurgeonGeneral of the Navy, and the Secretary of Agriculture, respectively, which experts, with the director of the said laboratory, shall be ex officio members of the board, and serve without additional compensation. 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.

Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 5, 32 Stat. 713.

The act authorizing the hygienic laboratory is Act March 3, 1901, c. 853, § 1, 31 Stat. 1137.

See note under section 1 of this act.

Chiefs of divisions of hygienic laboratory; pay; director of laboratory.

Sec. 6. That 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.

Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 6, 32 Stat. 713.

See notes under sections 1 and 5 of this act.

Conferences with State and Territorial boards of health.

Sec. 7. That 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.

Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 7, 32 Stat. 713.

See note under section 1 of this act.

Uniform registration of mortality, morbidity, and vital statistics; collection, compilation, and publication.

Sec. 8. That to secure uniformity in the registration of mortality, morbidity, and vital statistics it shall be the duty of the SurgeonGeneral 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.

Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 8, 32 Stat. 714.

See note under section 1 of this act.

The collection of vital statistics annually by the Census Office is provided for by Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 8, set forth ante, under Title XXXI, "The Census." And State authorities are requested to cooperate with the Census Office in securing a uniform system of registration of births and deaths, etc., by Res. Feb. 11, 1903, No. 7, also set forth ante, under Title XXXI, "The Census."

Regulations by President; report of Surgeon-General.

Sec. 9. That 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. Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 9, 32 Stat. 714.

See note under section 1 of this act.

Supervising Surgeon of Marine-Hospital Service.

The United States Marine Hospital Service is to be designated as the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service of the United States, and the Supervising Surgeon-General is to be known as the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service of the United States, by Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 1, set forth ante, under Title LVIII, "The Public Health."

ACT MARCH 3, 1875, c. 130, § 1.

Supervising Surgeon-General of Marine Hospital Service; salary; appointment.

See note under Rev. St. § 4802, above.

The salary of the Surgeon-General of the service is fixed at $5,000 per annum, by Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 2, ante, under Title LVIII, "The Public Health."

Sec. 4806.

ACT JAN. 4, 1889, c. 19.

Medical officers of Marine Hospital Service; appointment after examination.

The United States Marine Hospital Service is to be designated as the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service of the United States, and the officers of said service are to be known as the Surgeon-General, surgeons, passed assistant surgeons, and assistant surgeons of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service of the United States, by Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 1, ante, under Title LVIII, "The Public Health."

ACT MARCH 3, 1891, c. 541.

Details from Marine-Hospital Service.

The commissioned medical officers, when detailed by the Surgeon. General for duty in the Public Health and Marine Hospital Bureau at Washington, in charge of the administrative divisions thereof, are, while thus serving, assistant surgeons general of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, their pay and allowance to be the same as already