[SEAL.]
Given under my hand at the city of Washington, the 1st day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1899, and of the Independence of the United
States the one hundred and twenty-third.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State._
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., January 3, 1900._
To prevent the introduction of epidemic diseases, it is ordered that
provisions of the act of Congress, approved February 15, 1893, entitled,
"An act granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional
duties upon the Marine Hospital Service," and all rules and regulations
heretofore or hereafter prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury
under that act are to be given full force and effect in the Philippine
Islands in so far as they are applicable, and the following additional
rules and regulations are hereby promulgated:
The examination in ports of the Philippine Islands of incoming and
outgoing vessels, and the necessary surveillance over their sanitary
condition as well as of cargo, officers, crew and all personal effects
is vested in and will be conducted by the Marine Hospital Service, and
Medical Officers of that service will be detailed by the Secretary of
the Treasury as Quarantine Officers at Ports of Manila and Iloilo
immediately and at other ports in the Philippine Islands as soon as
practicable or necessary.
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