The age-herald., 1899-03-05

ever in this act rights are granted to, or duties imposed upon the state board or health or a county board of health, 1t shall be understood that such rights and such duties may be exercised or executed by ene committee of public health respectively or said boards, as their legal and accredited agent.
 Sec. S-Be 1t further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the governor, whenever he deems 1t necessary, or whenever so ad- vised by the state board of health, to pro- claim quarantine, and when proclaimed, It shall be the duty of said board of health to enforce such quarantine, under such reg ulations as may be, from time to time,l prescribed.
 Sec. 4-Be 1t further enacted, That the. state health officer, or any other member Of the state board of health designated by him, shall have the authority to go into any place in this state for the purpose of making such investigations as shall de- termine the necessity for quarantine. Quarantine may be established pending such investigation, or upon receipt of au- thentic information of the existence of quarantinable disease at any place from swhich such disease is likely to invade this state, or any portion thereof. Should per- mission into the investigation into the na- ture of disease as is herein provided for be refused by the authorities of any place outside of this state such refusal will con- stitute ground for declaring quarantine against such place.
 Sec. 5-Be 1t further enacted, That the quarantine authority of the state shall be paramount to that of any county. city, or town therein. Ali state quarantine officers and guards, upon presentation of such cre- dentials and compliance with such regula- tions as may be prescribed by the state board of health, shall be permitted to pass all quarantine lines established by county, city, or town authority Any person who wilfully interferes with such officials and guards, when in the discharge of their duty, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence.
 Sec. 6-Be it further enacted, That when proclamation of quarantine has been issued by the governor, the state board of health, acting through the state health officer, shall be authorized to make such modifica-
  originally adopted as circumstances may require, and the said state health officer shaI. report the same to the governor, with the reasons therefor. Ii.
 Sec. 7-Be it further enacted: That during the existence of quarantine, state or local, the superyisions of trains on all railroads, except such as have both termini in the same county, and of all steamboats and water crafts affected by such quarantine, shall be placed under the state board of health. Provided, That the quarantine authorities of any county, incorporated city, or town traversed by such roads, or to which such steamboats or water craft shall ply, may decline to re- ceive freights, mails, or express matter from a place infected with a quarantin- abe disease, of which refusal the said au- tnorities must give the state health officer immediate notice; and, provided, further, that all trains on said roads shall be per- mitted to pass with open window ws if the passengers and crews thereon desire, and to stop for fuel, water, and proyis- ions at such stations as are as remote as practicable from thickly inhabited places. Steamboats and other water craft shall have the privilege of stopping at similar places for necessary supplies.
 Sec. 8-Be it further enacted, That any person who makes affidavit before quar- antine officer or guard, engaged in enforc- ing quarantine for the protection of a place which said person wishes to enter, and who furnishes such other evidence as may be prescribed by the state board of health, that he has not since the appear ance of a quarintinable disease, then exist ing, been in any place against which quar- an,-ne has been legally proclaimed, shall be permitted to enter remain in the place to which he desires to go Any person who has been in a place then under quar- antine by the authority of the state, or by that of county, city, or town with the ap- proval of the state board of health, and who has since compiled with the require ments as-to detention and disinfection, one or both prescribed or approved by the state board of health, and who shall make arii- davi, thereto, and furnish such other eyi- dence thereof, as said board may prescribe or demand shall be permitted to enter or remain in any place in this state Any quarantine officer or guard, or other per- son, who violates the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of misdemeanor. and on conviction shall be fined not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred ( o,lars for each offence.
 Sec. 9-Be it further enacted, That upon the recommendation of the board of health of a county, and subject to the approval of the state board of health, quarantine may be proclaimed for county by the probate judge thereof, or in case of his inability to act, then by the presiding officer of the board of commissioners, or revenue and for an incorporated city or town by the mayor or chief executive officer thereof; provided, that in case of emergency quar- antine may be proclaimed by said officers without such recommendation, subject, 1 however, to the approval or modification of the board of health of the county. When has been proclaimed for coun- ty, incorporated city, or town in ac,ordance | with the provisions of this section, itsaen- | forcement shall be entrusted to the board | of healkh of the county. the ordecs of which |