OFF!SZ OF THE AlTORNEY GENERAL OF **TEXAS** AUSTIN

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### and control **0s** 

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S8ctloa 25. of Title 42, The 

### Pub116 &aIth, U.S.C.A., 

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### 'For the ptWgo8aOf 88818tm Stat88, 00~4~ tle8,health dI8trlOt8, **end other**  polltioal wb

### diVf8iOZl84bfthe Stat.8 in .rtabllf#hhiaq end UlEtefnlng adequate menaure8 for tJm p8rentloa, treatIWIlt, and OOStrOl Of th. V.MCO.1 di88.8.88 for th8 ptWm8. 

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### tratlou8 to derrlop **more** lffeotlt. 

### s8aaurea of pre- *antlolL,treatment, and 

### aontrolof t& vrrurwl dl8.88.8, iocrludiag the trrIUng of prromel; for the.

XoWrrble Oeorge U. Cox, -6. 4



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to 6u8tlor in om7iag 0~8 the **purporer** 

### of rretioae 25e to 25e, lnoluslve In **the** Dlrtriot of Columbia end 

### l luwhePe~ snd for the pP*iu of r*portI, boou

### neat8, snb o&her **ruterlal** relatl&g 

### theroto, there 1s beroby xuthorlred to be epproprlxtod for the 

### fiscal ear endlag June 30, 1939, not exoeedlng the am of I3,000,OOO~ for the fiscal **rear** endIn& Juue 

### 30, 1940, **sot** 

### arose& T “z the sumof $5,000,000~ for the fIrcal oar e&in& we 30, 1941, not exeeedlng the sm of 

### 7,030,OOO;and for each 

### fircol yew thereefter,sutth 

### sum 8s uy ho deemod neeeuar7 to oarq out 

### the purpore8 of reotloar 25e to 258, 1nc1u81ro." The Pedorrl Ooveramont 18 l uthorlrc0 to cstabllrh, 

### mlnt4ln, opemtct on4 **ruporvlao** 

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### trootment or 

### pwroaa ulth venereal dieea8e8, 

### whoare 

### under qwuatine **by** tha Stat0 Health Offioer. 

### It ~alrar m llfferaaoe 

### ubethrr the Sate of Fedcrol **Government** 

### furblrhea trertmnt for 

### perron vlth runereel dlaearer uhlle 8uch 

### persoas are un4cr 

### warentlne by the **State** 

### Be~lth Offleer.

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### 701~ quertion in the tnrtant request. You em therefore advised that you have 

### l uthorlty under the 

### prerent qu@ra~tLne 18~ **to** 

### tranrport pfwrorm vho bare venereal 

### dtssa8s8 to Petire hospitals for 

### trutaeiat b3 suoh horplMl8, raid 

### perrcxu to 

### reuln 

### uador quaranclattuntil released by the Bealth O~flocr, 

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