Chap. 538.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the title and sections 12 and 13 of an
act approved February 26, 1877, entitled ‘An act to constitute one quarantine
district of the Hlizabeth river and its branches, and to create a board of quar-
antine conimissioners and a quarantine medical officer for said district,” as
amended and re-enacted by acts severally approved January 29, 1886, extend-
ing the powers of said Commuissioners and officer to land and to add another
section thereto.

Approved February 28, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the title
and sections twelve and thirteen of an act approved February twenty-
sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, entitled ‘‘ 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,’? as amended and re-enacted by acts severally
approved January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight,
and February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, be amended
and re-enacted, and that the said act be further amended by the addition
of a section so as to read as follows:

Title.—An act to constitute one quarantine district of the Elizabeth
river and its branches, and of the city of Norfolk and the city of Ports-
mouth and the county of Norfolk, and to create a board of quarantine
commissioners and a quarantine medical officer for said district and to
define their powers.

$12. Inspection and quarantine of travelers by land and of cars and
other vehicles of railway companies and other carriers and of freight
and baggage.

That in addition to the powers hereinbefore granted the medical ofli-
cer and the board of quarantine commissioners the said officer and com-
missioners shall have lke power and authority in regard to inspection
and quarantine of travelers by land and the cars and the other vehicles
of railway companies or other carriers entering the district embracing
the county of Norfolk, the city of Norfolk, and the city of Portsmouth,
and in regard to passengers, freight and baggage brought therein, as are
hereinbefore granted in regard to vessels entering said district. Any
person coming into said district by land, from a place infected with a
dangerous, contagious or infectious disease, may be compelled by the
quarantine medical oflicer to perform quarantine, and be restrained from
traveling until discharged: and the cars or other vehicles of railway
companies or other carriers, which transport passengers, freight or bag-
vage, directly or indirectly, from such infected places or from sections
in which such infected places are situated, shall be inspected by the
quarantine medical officer, or under his direction, whenever he shall
deem that the public safety demands it, and the passengers traveling
therein may be compelled to perform quarantine, and the passenger,
freight or baggage cars or other vehicles of such railway companies or
other carriers may be quarantined, if the quarantine medical officer
shall deem this necessary. Any such person who shall, before he is
discharged, travel in this state, unless it be to return by the most direct
route to the state from which he came, or any railway company or other
carrier which shall refuse or evade compliance with the provisions of
this section, shall be fined one hundred dollars for each offence. The
quarantine medical ollicer shall, whenever in his judgment it is neces-
sary, have the said cars or other vehicles and freight or baggage fumi-
gated or disinfected, the expense of which shall be paid by the said
railway companies or other carriers. The board of quarantine commis-
sioners shall have the same power of review of the acts of the quarantine
medical officer in regard to travelers by land, cars or other vehicles and
freight and baggage as is hereinbefore provided for in case of vessels, the
said power to be exercised as hereinbefore provided. For the purpose of
carrying into effect the object of this section the quarantine medical
officer may appoint such deputies, from time to time, as the conditions
may require. For the services rendered in the inspection of quarantine
of passengers and in the inspection, fumigation or disinfection of cars or
other vehicles and of freight or bageage, the quarantine medical officer
shall exact from the railway company, or other carrier bringing into the
said district such passengers, freight or bageage, reasonable fees, to be
fixed by the board of quarantine commissioners, not to exceed five dol-
lars for first train and three dollars for each train thereafter per day,
and also the cost of such quarantine, cleansing, funngation or disinfec-
tion, whenever necessary, which shall be recoverable in the name of
such quarantine ofhicer before a magistrate or other courts of this state
having Jurisdiction, and appropriated as hereinbefore provided in the
case of like services to vessels, and similar reports as in the former
cases shall be made by him to the board of quarantine commissioners.

This section shall not be construed to limit, restrict or abrogate any
of the powers granted in the previous sections of this act, but all the
provisions of the said preceding sections shall be applicable to this sec-
tion so far as the same may be appropriate and not inconsistent with the
express provisions of this section.

$13. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions
of this act are hereby repealed.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage,