Chap. 65.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 6, 1886, en-
titled “An act to authorize the judge of the county court of Warwick to
appoint a quarantine officer at Newport News,” by placing the appointing
power with the governor, and defining the duties of said officer, and adding
thereto sections 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7, and 8

Approved January 16. 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
act approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled
“an act to authorized the judge of the county court of Warwick to
appoint a quarantine officer at Newport News,” be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows, and that sections two, three, four,
five, six, seven, and eight be enacted and added thereto as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
governor of Virginia be, and he is hereby, authorized to establish
quarantine at the port of Newport News, and to appoint a quarantine
officer, and to regulate his fees; to make such health arrangements
and sanitary regulations at the port of Newport News as in his judg-
ment may be necessary to prevent the introduction and spread of
any infectious or contagious disease.

§ 2. The quarantine officer to be appointed under this act shall be
a practicing physician, having his residence in the city of Newport
Newr. His term of office shall be two years, the first term to begin
on the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
seven, and he shall be appointed during the month of March prior
to the succeeding term.

§ 3. Said quarantine officer shall be subject to removal for cause,
and any vacancy in said office shall be filled for the unexpired term
by appointment made by governor.

§ 4. The said quarantine officer shall appoint an assistant, who
shall be a practicing physician and a resident of Newport News, and
who may be removed at pledsure.

§ 5. The fees to be fixed by the governor shall be the same as the

fees fixed by law for Norfolk for quarantine, and no expense under
this act shall be imposed on the city of Newport News or any port
of this commonwealth.
- § 6. The quarantine officer at Newport News now holding this
office at the time of the introduction of this bill, shall continue in
office until his successor shall be appointed by ‘the governor and
enter upon the discharge of his duties.

§ 7. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this bill are hereby
repealed.

§ 8. This act shall be in force from its passage.