49th CONGRESS, 
2d Session. 
S. 3157. 
Report No. 3998. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
February 4,1887. 
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. 
February 8,1887. 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and 
ordered to be printed. 
AN A.CT 
To authorize the removal of the quarantine station from Ship Island, 
Mississippi. 
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 
2 tines of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
3 That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to 
4 cause the removal of the national quarantine station now lo- 
fi cated on Ship Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, to some other 
6 island in said Gulf, or in such pass in the Mississippi Delta as 
7 may be recommended by a board to be designated by him, 
8 and that the necessary quarantine buildings and appliances be 
9 established thereon; and that the sum of forty-five thousand 
10 dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby 
11 appropriated to carry out the purposes of this act. 
Passed the Senate February 2, 1887. 
Attest; ANSON G. McCOOK, Secretary, 
By CH AS W. JOHNSON, Chief Clerk. AN ACT 
To authorize the removal of the quarantine sta- 
tion from Ship Island, Mississippi. 
49th CONGRESS, 
2d Session. 
February 4, 1887.—Read twice and referred to the Com- 
mittee on Commerce. 
February 8, 1887.—Committed to the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered 
to he printed. 
[Report No. 3998.J 
S. 15137.