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Marine hospi-tal.
1830, ch. 100.
Assistant mar-shals to be paidout of censusappropriation.
Statute I.May 5, 1832.
Tribes to beconvened forvaccinatibn.
Physicians orsurgeons to beemployed, &c.
Supply of vac-sine matter.
Monthly re-turns and gene-ral report.
TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 75. 1832.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable personto complete the marine hospital at Charleston, South Carolina , author-ized by the act of twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty,four thousand three hundred and sixty dollars: Provided, nothing hereincontained shall be construed to enlarge the said contract, or to release thecontractor from his liability thereunder.
For the erection of marine barracks and officers’ quarters at the navyyard, Philadelphia , nine thousand dollars.
For the purpose of defraying the expenses of a survey of the watersof Narragansett bay , to be made under the direction of the Secretary ofthe Navy , with a view to ascertain the practicability and expediency ofestablishing a naval depot therein, five thousand dollars.
For enabling the President of the United States to obtain from theNorfolk Bridge Company a release and conveyance to the United States of the bridge over the southern branch of the Elizabeth river, betweenthe navy yard and the dry dock, and of the road leading from the sameto the south-western side of said yard, the sum of sixteen thousand dol-lars : Provided, the Secretary of the Navy shall be satisfied that the saidsum does not exceed the value of the same: And provided, That theAttorney General of the United States shall be satisfied of the validityof the title, and that the right thus acquired will authorize the UnitedStates to remove the bridge, and to enclose the road within the navyyard.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of State beauthorized, out of the sums appropriated to defray the expenses of takingthe late census, to pay those assistant marshals, for their services, who havefailed to receive compensation, from the delinquency of the principalmarshals.
Approved, May 5, 1832.
Chap. LXXY .—An Act to provide the means of extending the benefits of vacci-nation, as a preventive of the small-pox, to the Indian tribes, and thereby, as faras possible, to save them from the destructive ravages of that disease.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of theseveral Indian agents and sub-agents, under the direction of the Secre-tary of War, to take such measures as he shall deem most efficient, toconvene the Indian tribes in their respective towns, or in such other placesand numbers, and at such seasons as shall be most convenient to theIndian population, for the purpose of arresting the progress of small-pox among the several tribes by vaccination.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, andhe hereby is, empowered to employ as many physicians or surgeons,from the army or resident on the frontier near the point where their ser-vices shall be required, as he may find necessary for the execution of thisact; and, if necessary, two competent persons to conduct the physiciansto the remote Indians who are infected, or may be in immediate dangerof being infected, with the small-pox, whose compensation shall be sixdollars per day, and six men, whose compensation shall be twenty-fivedollars per month.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of theSecretary of War, to cause all Indian agents to be supplied with genuinevaccine matter; and all agents and sub-agents shall use all proper meansto persuade the Indian population to submit to vaccination.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all agents, sub-agents, physi-cians and surgeons, employed in the execution of this act, shall makemonthly returns or reports of their proceedings to the War Department