[Printer’s No., 144. 
47th CONGRESS, MM « fl | | 
__1ST Session. ||9 |f9 1-14* 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
December 13, 1881. 
Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed 
Mr. Thomas introduced the following hill: 
A BILL 
To provide for the construction of a marine hospital at Cairo, 
Illinois. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That the Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service he, 
and he is hereby, empowered to procure, subject to the ap- 
proval of the Secretary of the Treasury, a proper site in or 
near the city of Cairo, Illinois, and cause to be erected there- 
on buildings suitable for a marine hospital, after plans and 
specifications which shall he furnished by the Supervising 
Architect of the Treasury Department and approved by the 
said Surgeon-General of tlie Marine Hospital Service. 
Sec. 2. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, 
or so much thereof as may he necessary, he, and the same 
is hereby, appropriated, to be expended by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, upon the requisition of the Surgeon-General of 
the Marine Hospital Service, in the purchase of the said site 2 
and the erection of the said buildings thereon, including the 
cost of heating and ventilating apparatus, and the necessary 
furniture therefor. 
December 13, 1881.—Read twice, referred to the Commi 
tee on Commerce, and ordered to lie printed. 
A BILL 
To provide for the construction of a marine hos- 
pital at Cairo, Illinois. 
47th CONGRESS, 
1st Session. 
H. R. 144.