WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _September 20, 1900._
_The Honorable Secretary of the Treasury_:
SIR:--It is provided in the "Act making appropriations for sundry civil
expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901,
and for other purposes," approved June 6, 1900, that "The President of
the United States is hereby authorized in case of threatened or actual
epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, or Chinese
plague or black death to use the unexpended balance of the sums
appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation act
approved June 4, 1897, and $500,000 in addition thereto or so much
thereof as may be necessary in aid of constituting local boards or
otherwise in his discretion in preventing and suppressing the spread
of same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws
which may be then in force, the same to be immediately available."
You are hereby directed to take charge of this expenditure for the
purpose of enforcing the above provisions, and you are directed to
employ for that purpose the Marine Hospital Service and to provide such
other means as are necessary for the purpose aforesaid, and to carry out
such rules and regulations as have been or shall be made by you in
conformity therewith.
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