and erection of remain in force and purchase of grounds keis referred to in said act. chase of market sites District, and sets apart, pledges, and appropriates the market-houses,shall funds arising from the market revenues of the city of be applicable to Washington for the payment of the interest on the bonds and erection of mar- and the gradual extinction of the principal thereof, and appropriates three hundred thousand dollars for the purchasing of land and erecting market-houses in the northern and western sections of the city, shall remain in full force and effect so as to be in all respects applicable to the purchase of the grounds and erection of the market-houses provided for, and mentioned in the said act; and shall be used and applied to the purchase of the grounds mentioned or referred to in this act, and the erection of said markethouses, intended to be secured and mentioned in this act, and not otherwise. Rep al of other in co tht acts and parts of acts. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved June 19, 1872. June 19, 1872. to issue regulations vent or remove for diseases. Regulations to be CHAP. IV.—An Act for the prevention of diseases in the District of Colora bia. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Board of Health Columbia, That it shall be the duty of the Board of with view to pre Health of the District of Columbia, whenever in their midable epidemics judgment the said District is threatened with, or affected by, any formidable epidemic, infectious, or contagious disease, to issue, or cause to be issued, such orders, regulations, and instructions as may, in their judgment, be deemed effective for the prevention or removal of such advertised in news disease; which orders, regulations, and instructions shall be advertised in at least two daily papers in the District of Columbia, for a period of thirty days; said orders, regulations and instructions to be, and remain in full force and effect, until by the said board revoked: Provided, And to be subject That the same may, from time to time, be modified in such manner, as in the judgment of said board, shall be And to be subject deemed necessary; said orders, regulations, and instructions to be subject to the approval of the Governor. papers. to modification. to approval by the Governor. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the orders, regu And to include instructions for the speedy interment of the dead, house visi lations, and instructions aforesaid shall include orders, When infected clothing, bedding, &c. of poor persons pursuant to such sation shall be paid. shall be destroyed, regulations,compen SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever, in Removal of persons to public hostheir opinion, the complete isolation of any person suffer- pitals provided for. ing from any such disease (the same being an inmate of any tenement house, lodging-house, boarding-house, or hotel in the District of Columbia) cannot be secured by other means, such person shall be removed as expeditiously as possible under the direction of the Board of Health to the public hospital for treatment, and any person suffering from any dangerous, infectious, or contagious disease, or any person having the care, charge, or control of such diseased person who shall refuse to comply with the pro- ply with this secvisions of this section, or who shall resist the enforcement thereof by proper authority, shall be liable to a fine. of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars; and in case of the person having charge or control of such diseased person, to imprisonment in the District jail for a period of not more than thirty days, in addition to the fine aforesaid. Penalty prescribed for refusal to com tion. Notice required from proprietor of SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the proprietor of any tenement house, lodging-house, boarding-house, or tenement-houses, hotel in the District of Columbia, shall, in the event of of an innate af any person living in such house becoming afflicted with disease. &c., as to presence with such any such disease, at once notify the Board of Health. thereof in writing. For a refusal to give the notice Penalty for fail herein provided, the person so offending shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. ure to give such notice. Penalties for pro ceedings likely to disease. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That any person sufferSpread infectious ing from any such infectious or contagious disease, who shall willfully expose himself in any street, public place or conveyance, or any person having the care, charge or control of such diseased person, or any owner or driver of any such conveyance who does not immediately provide for the disinfection of the same, after it has conveyed such diseased person; and any person who gives, lends, sells, transmits or exposes any clothing, bedding rags, or other things which have been exposed to infection, shall, on conviction, be liable to a penalty of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. Fines herein prorided for to be re SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That any person who shall let to any other person any house, room, or part of a house in which any patient has been confined by reason of such disease, without having such room, house, or part of a house completely disinfected to the satisfaction of the Board of Health as certified by them, such person shall be liable to a penalty of not less than ten dollars, nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all fines imposed toverable like other by the provisions of this act shall be recovered as other fines recovered for fines are recovered for the use of the District of Co use of the District. Expense in carry ing out this act to be of Board of Health. lumbia. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the expenses paid from treasury incurred in carrying the provisions of this act into effect shall be paid out of the treasury of the Board of Health. Repealing clause. Emergency clause. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts of the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia inconsistent with the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, Whereas, an emergency exists, therefore this act shall take effect on its approval by the Governor. Approved June 19, 1872. CHAP. V.-An Act granting certain privileges to E. H. Larrabee. June 20, 1872. to E. H. Larrabee. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia, That authority be, and is hereby, granted to Building privilege E. II. Larrabee to erect a frame house on his lot, adjoining Samuel Ceas, on the east side of eighth street west, . between D and E streets south: Provided, The consent of the President of the United States be first obtained: Provided further, That the consent of the inspector of buildings be also obtained. Approved June 20, 1872. CHAP. VI.—An Act in relation to the collection of certain amounts due the late corporation of Georgetown, D. C. June 20, 1872. taxes due George Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia, That the Governor be, and he is hereby, Collection of special authorized to take such measures, by legal process or town. otherwise, as he may deem necessary, to collect certain amounts due the late corporation of Georgetown on account of special taxes for street improvements, rent, and on other accounts. Approved June 20, 1872. CHAP. VII.-An Act extending the time for the report of the Commissioners to Revise the Laws. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia, That the Commissioners appointed under the act of the Legislative Assembly entitled "An act to provide for a revision of the statutes," approved December eighteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be, and the same are hereby, authorized to continue the said work of revision until completed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall complete their work and make a final report thereof on or before the first day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. Approved June 20, 1872. June 20, 1872. tion for Georgetown almshouse. CHAP. VIII.-An Act making an appropriation for the contingent expenses of the almshouse, Georgetown, District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Making appropria- Columbia, That the sum of four thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of the Georgetown fund, as follows: To pay the contingent expenses of the almshouse, Georgetown, two thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars, and forty-eight cents; to pay the indebtedness on said almshouse to April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, the sum of two thouPrescribing how sand five hundred dollars, payment to be made upon proper vouchers approved by M. V. Buckey and H. Dade, trustees. Approved June 20, 1872. payment shall be made. June 20, 1872. bant. CHAP. IX.—An Act for the relief of P. M. Dubant. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Relief of P. M. Du Columbia, That the sum of one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifteen cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of the general fund for the relief of P. M. Dubant, for supplies furnished the late board of registration, the amount having been appropriated at the last session of the Legislative Assembly, but omitted from the act of Assembly through a clerical error. Approved June 20, 1872. June 20, 1872. purposes for fiscal 30, 1873, rate of tax ton, Georgetown, CHAP. X.-An Act imposing taxes for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of For governmental Columbia, That for the support of the government of the year ending June District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirty, ation in Washing- eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes herein stated, there shall be levied on all taxable real estate in the city of Washington an aggregate tax of one dollar and seventy cents on each one hundred dollars of the assessed value of said property. On like property in the city of Georgetown a tax of one dollar and forty |