Chap. 44.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the 8rd section of an act
to constitute one quarantine district of the Elizabeth river and its
branches, and to create a board of quarantine commissioners and a
quarantine medical officer for said district, approved February 26th,
1877.

Approved January 29, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the third
section of chapter one hundred and forty-four, Acts of Assem-
bly, eighteen hundred and seventy-six—seven, entitled an act
to constitute one quarantine district of the Elizabeth river
and its branches, and to create a board of quarantine com-
missioners and a quarantine medical officer for said district,
approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 3. That the said board of quarantine commissioners shall
be invested with all the powers now granted by law to the
councils of the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth and to
Norfolk county, or by the general law on the subject, in
regard to the establishment and regulation of matters of
quarantine, and they shall prescribe such rules and regula-
tions, conformably to existing law, as they may deem neces-
sary, and have the exclusive control of the quarantine apper-
taining to shipping for the Klizabeth river and its branches,
and the citics, towns and villages situated thereon. They
shall mect semi-annually, upon any day agreed upon by
themselves, but the president of the said board may, upon
his own motion, and shall, at tho request of any two mem-
bers of the board, by written notice to each member, convene
the board at any time when circumstances may render
prompt action necessary. The said board shall, at their first
meeting, or as soon thereafter as practicable, select a suitable
quarantine anchorage, and shall adopt and publish, for the
information and government of all concerned, rules and
regulations for the manayement and enforcement of an
efficient system of quarantine for said district. All pilots
licensed by the laws of this state are hereby required to
conform to the rules and reculations thus adopted, under the
penalty of a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one
hundred dollars. The said board shall require the quaran-
tine medical officer, bereinafter created, to faithfully carry
out these rules and regulations; and they shall have power
to review the official action of said officer, and to revoke or
reverse his decision in regard to any particular vessel; but
in such case they shall record their reasons for so doing in
the minutes of their transactions. The said board of quar-
antine commissioners shall not, as a board, nor shall any of
the members, in their official characters, make any recom-
mendation for the appointment of the quarantine medical
officer hereinafter provided for.
2. This act shall be ip force from its passage.