49th CONGRESS, 
2d Session. 
H. R. 10439. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 
January 10,1887. 
Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 
Mr. Robert H. M. Davidson introduced the following bill: 
A BILL 
For the establishment of a national quarantine station near Key 
West, Florida. 
' 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 
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2 lives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
3 That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, au- 
4 thorized and instructed to select a site on one of the islands 
5 near Key West, Florida, and cause to be erected thereon 
6 suitable buildings, appliances, and approaches for a quaran- 
7 tine hospital, plans for the same to be approved by the Su- 
8 pervising Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service; 
9 the said quarantine hospital shall be under the direction of 
10 the Supervising Surgeon-General, under authority of the na- 
11 tional quarantine act of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred 
12 and seventy-eight; and that the sum of fifty thousand dol- 
13 lars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any 14 moneys in the United States Treasury not otherwise appro- 
15 priated, to carry out the provisions of this act, the same to be 
16 immediately available. 
A BILL 
For the establishment of a national quarantine 
station near Key West, Florida. 
January 10, 1887.—Read twice, referred to the Commit- 
tee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. 
49th CONGRESS, 
2d Session. 
H.R 1043d.