An Act Amending Acts Numbered One Hundred and Fifty-Six and One Hundred and Fifty-Seven by Incorporating the Vaccine Institute with the Serum Institute, and by Transferring the Serum Institute from the Board of Health for the Philippines Islands to the Bureau of Government Laboratories under the Name of the Serum Laboratory, and by Authorizing Certain Employees for the Serum Laboratory

January 30, 1903

ACT NO. 607

AN ACT AMENDING ACTS NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SEVEN BY INCORPORATING THE VACCINE INSTITUTE WITH THE SERUM INSTITUTE, AND BY TRANSFERRING THE SERUM INSTITUTE FROM THE BOARD OF HEALTH FOR THE PHILIPPINES ISLANDS TO THE BUREAU OF GOVERNMENT LABORATORIES UNDER THE NAME OF THE SERUM LABORATORY, AND BY AUTHORIZING CERTAIN EMPLOYEES FOR THE SERUM LABORATORY

SECTION 1. Act Numbered One hundred and fifty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the establishment of Government laboratories for the Philippine Islands," is hereby amended as follows:

(a) By striking out section one and substituting therefor the following:

"SECTION 1. A biological laboratory, a chemical laboratory, and a laboratory for the production of virus and of prophylactics shall be established and maintained by the Government of the Philippine Islands."

(b) By striking out section four and substituting therefor the following:

"SEC. 4. The Serum Laboratory shall be established at Manila and shall afford adequate facilities for the production of vaccine virus and of serums and of prophylactics in such quantity as the public interest may demand."

(c) By striking out paragraph (a) of section seven and substituting therefor the following:

"(a) The Superintendent of Government Laboratories shall be the Director of either the Biological or the Chemical Laboratory, as the Civil Governor shall determine, and the Commission approve, and the other of these laboratories shall be under the supervision of a director, who shall receive compensation at the rate of three thousand five hundred dollars per year. The Serum Laboratory shall be under the supervision of a Director, who shall receive compensation at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per year. The three directors shall be experts in their respective lines of work, and shall personally carry on original investigations."

(d) By adding at the close of paragraph (b) of section seven the following words: "Provided, That the Superintendent of Government Laboratories shall exercise general supervision over the Serum Laboratory, and that the determining of general methods of work and lines of investigation, and the prescribing of the duties of its employees shall be subject to his approval."

(e) By striking out of section eight the words "biological and chemical" whenever they occur, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "biological, chemical, and serum"; and by striking out the words "biological or chemical" whenever they occur, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "biological, chemical, or serum."

(f) By striking out section nine and substituting therefor the following:

"SEC. 9. The Superintendent of Government Laboratories and the additional Directors provided for in section seven shall be appointed by the Civil Governor, by and with the consent of the Commission."

(g) By striking out section ten. CHTAIc

SECTION 2. Act Numbered One hundred and fifty-seven, entitled "An Act providing for the establishment of a Board of Health for the Philippine Islands," is hereby amended by striking out paragraph (k) of section four and substituting therefor the following:

"(k) It shall fall upon the Superintendent of Government Laboratories to furnish such virus, serums, and prophylactics manufactured by the Serum Laboratory as the Board of Health for the Philippine Islands may consider necessary for its work, and the Superintendent of Government Laboratories shall, upon such demand, deliver to the Commissioner of Public Health the virus, serums, and prophylactics requested or such part thereof as he may have on hand in excess of the quantity necessary for properly continuing the work of the Serum Laboratory."

SECTION 3. The following employees of the Serum Laboratory are hereby authorized: One assistant director, class nine; one employee, Class H; two foremen, Class J; five vaccinators at six dollars, local currency, each, per day; twenty laborers at one dollar, local currency, each, per day.

SECTION 4. All outstanding financial obligations of the Board of Health for the Philippine Islands incurred on account of the Serum Institute or the Vaccine Institute prior to January first, nineteen hundred and three, shall be met by the Board of Health for the Philippine Islands from funds appropriated for these institutions prior to the passage of this Act.

SECTION 5. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect as of January first, nineteen hundred and three.

ENACTED, January 30, 1903. cHDAIS