vided by this act, shall be allowed one dollar per day for each day's Compensation for work on work, and receive rations; and each laborer shall be entitled to a cer- the levees. tificate from the police jury of the amount due him, which certificate is to be paid by the parishes in which the levees are built, when in funds.

D. sec. 2638.

QUARANTINE.

Con. 1879, art. 248-slaughtering of animals; Con. 1879, art. 178-medicine, etc., practice thereof; Act 1882, No. 92-local board of health; Act 1882, No. 95-board of health, water supply; Act 1882, No. 31-medicine, surgery, board of health; Act 1882, No. 40-offal, etc., board of health; Act 1882, No. 69-board of health; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 117, No. 80-board of health; Act 1877, p. 54, No. 14-quarantine board; Act 1877, Ex. S., p.. 19, No. 14, sec. 4-night cleaners, slaughtering; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 60, No. 37-oil inspection; Act 1877, p. 123, No. 84-vaults and privies.

Quarantine es.

SEC. 3032. There shall be a quarantine established below the city of New Orleans, on the river Mississippi, at a distance not less than tablished. seventy-five miles by the river from the city.

Act 1855, p. 471.

Board of health

SEC. 3033. The board of health is hereby authorized to locate the quarantine ground, receive the transfer of the necessary land in the to locate quarantine ground. name of the State, and to draw upon the treasurer of the State for the receive, transnecessary amount out of the fund appropriated under this act; pro- amount approvided, the consent of the governor of the State is given to said chase.

fer and draw for

priated.

pur- Proviso.

how composed

SEC. 3034. There shall be a board of health, composed of nine competent citizens of the State, to be elected as follows: Three by the Board of health, council of New Orleans, on joint ballot, and six to be appointed by and chosen. the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. The said members shall be selected with reference to their known zeal in Term of office. favor of a quarantine system. All the members of the board shall be commissioned by the governor for the term of one year, after having filed and subscribed in the office of the secretary of State the usual Oath. oath of office, and an oath well and truly to enforce and comply with the provisions of an act entitled "an act to establish quarantine for the protection of the State;" and in case of neglecting or failing to comply with the above required oath within ten days after their appointment or election, their office shall be considered vacated.

D. sec. 1668.

SEC. 3035. The board of health shall meet once a month from the Meeting of the first of November to the first of June, and once a week from the first of June to the first of November, and as often as they may deem necessary.

board of health.

Time of meeting and organ zing.

Duties of the president.

His removal.

His salary.

Quorum.

Provided.

treasurer.

SEC. 3036. The board of health shall meet and organize on the third Monday in April, and elect out of their own number a president, whose duty it shall be to reside in New Orleans and superintend the different quarantine stations of the State, and it shall be his duty to visit them as the board of health shall deem necessary. He shall have the power to issue, during the adjournment, to constables or sheriffs, all orders and warrants provided by the provisions of this act, and shall report to the attorney-general all violations of the same. It shall be his duty to lay before the board at each meeting the business to be transacted, and a book in which he shall enter copies of all letters written by him, orders and warrants issued, and a detail of all his acts. He shall present at each meeting all communications forwarded to him, and a report of the resident physicians and treasurers, and perform all duties as shall be assigned to him by the board of health. He shall only be removed by impeachment, and shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars a year.

SEC. 3037. Four members of said board shall form a quorum; provided, however, that no contract for building shall be entered into without the consent of a majority of the board.

SEC. 3038. The board of health shall have power to appoint a secSecretary and retary, who shall act as treasurer, who shall furnish security in a sum of ten thousand dollars. It shall be his duty to keep a minute of the proceedings of the board, and all vouchers and expenditures made by authority of said board.

board of health.

D. sec. 399, 400.

SEC. 3039. The board of health of the State of Louisiana shall auPowers of the thorize the resident physician of the quarantine station to employ an assistant physician, whose salary shall be two thousand dollars a year. The board of health shall have power to employ nurses and assistants to attend the sick, and such other persons as may be required to carry out proper quarantine duties, and to fix their compensation; also to make all needful rules and regulations for the maintenance of quarantine, and to impose fines not exceeding five hundred dollars for contravention of established rules. The board of health shall have power to remove or cause to be removed any substance which they may deem detrimental to the health of New Orleans; and the street commissioner shall execute their orders whenever not in conflict with the ordinances of the city or the laws of the State; to pass sanitary ordinances for the city, provided such are approved by

the council and published as city ordinances; to define the duties of officers appointed by them, to issue warrants to any constable, police officer or sheriff, in the State; to issue their warrant to the sheriff of the city of New Orleans, or of any parish where any vessel may be, to have such vessel, if they deem it necessary for the protection of health, removed to the quarantine station. The fees of said officer shall be paid by the board of health. The board of health shall have power to extend the period of quarantine should it be deemed necessary by them.

Act 1858, p. 187.

station at the the Atchafalaya.

SEC. 3040. There shall be a quarantine station at some point on the Rigolets, and another on the Atchafalaya river, two miles below Quarantine "pilots' station," at the mouth of the Wax bayou. The board of Rigolets and on health is hereby empowered and it shall be their duty to locate them agreeably to the provisions of this section, but the provisions of this act shall only apply to the station at the Rigolets from the day of the issuing of the proclamation of the governor, as provided by section three thousand and forty-nine, declaring any port on the lake shore or on the gulf of Mexico to be an infected place, and shall remain in full force until suspended by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the board of health. The provisions of this act shall apply to and be enforced at the quarantine station on the Atchafalaya river from the first of May to the first of November of each year; and also when the governor shall have issued his proclamation, as provided by section three thousand and forty-nine, and in such a case shall remain in full force until suspended by a resolution voted for by two-thirds of the members of the board of health. There shall be no permanent building erected at pilots' station, on the Atchafalaya river, but the board of health shall use as a hospital for the reception of the sick hulls and cabins of steamboats. The board of health shall employ an officer, whose duty it shall be and who is hereby empowered to require from captains of vessels, steamboats or crafts, having passed the station at the Rigolets or on the Atchafalaya river the permit of the resident physician.

Act 1855, p. 471.

SEC. 3041. The board of health shall appoint a resident physician for each of the two quarantine stations on the Rigolets and on the Atchafalaya, and such other persons as may be necessary; provided, their salary shall run only during such time as they shall thus be employed, and shall in no case exceed, for the time they shall have been thus employed, the salary of the same officers at the quarantine station, for the same space of time, on the Mississippi river.

Salary of the resident physician.

removed.

sician.

Fees.

SEC. 3042. The resident physician at the quarantine station on the Mississippi river shall receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars, and shall be appointed by the governor of the State, with the Physician, how consent of the senate, and shall be removable at the will of the govappointed and ernor. It shall be the duty of the resident physician, or his assistDuties of phy. ant, to visit and inspect every vessel entering the port of New Orleans through the Mississippi river. Vessels free from disease, not in a foul condition, and not from an infected district (which shall be decided upon by the resident physician), shall be furnished with a certificate of health and allowed to proceed to the city. The resi dent physician shall require for every certificate thus furnished the following fees: Every sailing vessel of one thousand tons or over shall pay thirty dollars; every ship of one thousand tons or less shall pay twenty dollars; every bark shall pay fifteen dollars; every brig shall pay ten dollars; every schooner shall pay seven dollars and fifty cents; every steamboat (towboats excepted) shall pay five dollars; every steamship from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi or Texas, shall pay ten dollars; every steamship from other ports shall pay twenty dollars. The resident physician shall return to the secretary of the board of health a weekly list of all vessels inspected by him, as well Weekly return to the board of as all fees collected by him, which shall form a fund for the support of quarantine.

health.

cian.

D. sec. 1669; Act 1858, p. 187.

SEC. 3043. All vessels in a foul condition, or vessels whose crews Duty of physi- or passengers are suffering or have suffered while on the voyage from contagious, pestilential or infectious diseases, shall be detained by the resident physician at the quarantine station such time, not less than ten days, as may be deemed by him necessary. The resident physician shall have power, at his discretion, to grant permits to persons acclimated and healthy, to proceed to the city. He shall have power to compel the captains of vessels to land their sick at quaran tine, and to employ such means of purification of the vessels as may be directed by the board of health, and require the captain or owners of said vessel to defray the cost of purification. The captain or owners of vessels shall pay five dollars for such sick person landed; nor shall a permit be issued until the payment of the same to the resident physician, which money shall be appropriated to hospital expenses.

Fee.

Power of board

of health to is sue proclamation of quaran tine.

Sec. 3014. In cases of emergency the board of health shall have power to issue proclamation of quarantine without reference to the governor, and to enact all needful regulations for the enforcement of the same.

SEC. 3045. Vessels out ten days from infected ports, presenting clean bills of health, not having nor having had sickness on board, Certain vessels to be permitted and which are not in foul condition, shall be permitted to pass to the to pass to the city. city, after thorough fumigation by disinfecting agents, to effect which purpose the resident physician shall detain said vessels as long as he may deem necessary. The resident physician shall in all such cases require evidence under oath, and he shall by this act be invested with the power to administer oaths whenever he may deem this necessary to attain the objects of quarantine.

Act 1876, p. 110, No. 68-disinfect vessels.

SEC. 3046. The resident physician shall have such other powers as may be delegated to him by the board of health, not contrary to the provisions of this act and necessary to carry them into effect. It shall be his duty to remain at the quarantine ground, attend the sick, and perform all such other duties as may be required of him by the board of health.

Act 1855, p. 471.

Duties of physician.

duties and sal

treasurer for

SEC. 3047. The board of health shall appoint a treasurer for the quarantine ground on the Mississippi river, with a salary of fifteen Appointments, hundred dollars per aunnm, and who shall furnish security in the sum ary of the of ten thousand dollars. It shall be his duty to attend to the finances, the quarantine ground. collect all sums of money due by vessels in a foul condition, account for and pay over to the secretary of the board of health all monthly balances in his hands; and he shall receive and deliver the freight of all vessels ordered to be unloaded, and perform such other duties as the board of health shall require of him.

Duties of the

board of health.

SEC. 3048. The secretary of the board of health shall deposit in bank all moneys paid over to him, and shall keep a correct account secretary of the of the same. He shall moreover present, at each meeting of the board, a statement of its affairs, and cause his accounts to be approved by the auditor of public accounts every three months; and shall act as commissary for the purchase of provisions and supplies; and shall deposit in bank all moneys paid over to him; and shall perform such other duties as the board of health may assign to him.

the

SEC. 3049. The governor of the State shall issue his proclamation, upon the advice of the board of health, declaring any place where Proclamation there shall be reason to believe a pestilential, contagious or infectious in certain cases to be issued by disease exists, to be an infected place, stating the number of days govern or. a quarantine is to be performed. It shall be the duty of the resident physician to give timely notice to the board of health of the necessity of such proclamation. After such proclamation shall have been

issued all vessels arriving in the port of New Orleans, or at the Rig- Effects thereof.