QUARANTINE STATIONS, BOSTON AND CAPE CHARLES.
LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, TRANSMITTING ESTIMATE OF ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION FOR QUARANTINE STATIONS, BOSTON AND CAPE CHARLES, UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.
MARCH 26, 1918 -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,
Washington,
March 22, 1918.
THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith, for the favorable consideration of Congress, estimate for additional appropriation as follows:
| Boston Quarantine Station: For boarding and disinfecting vessel |
$15,000 |
| Cape Charles Quarantine Station: For disinfecting and boarding vessel |
$15,000 |
| Total |
$30,000 |
The necessity for this additional appropriation is set forth in a letter from the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service herewith.
Respectfully,
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Washington, March 22, 1918.
THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.
SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith estimate for additional appropriation as follows:
| Boston Quarantine Station: For boarding and disinfecting vessel |
$15,000 |
| Cape Charles Quarantine Station: For disinfecting and boarding vessel |
$15,000 |
| Total |
$30,000 |
Congress, in an act approved October 6, 1917, "to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses and for other purposes," provided the sum of $40,000, respectively, for boarding vessels at the Boston quarantine station and at the Cape Charles quarantine station.
Every effort was made to secure competition, and plans and specifications were sent to various shipbuilding concerns for the purpose of obtaining their bids on the construction of these two tugs, The lowest bid for the construction of the two vessels was approximately $109,000.
In submitting the original estimate for these two vessels the bureau thought that due allowance had been made for the extraordinary market conditions. Plans, and specifications for the two vessels desired were based, with slight modifications, on a vessel of this department in service at the port of Baltimore, which in recent years (prewar period) cost less than $20,000. It may be stated that the bids submitted, so far as can be determined, correspond with the current price of similar construction for other branches of the Government.
Respectfully,
RUPERT BLUE,
Surgeon General.
Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, by the Treasury Department.
| Detailed objects of expenditure, and explanations. |
Total amount to be appropriated under each head of appropriation. |
Amount appropriated for the fiscal year for which the appropriation is required. |
| Boston Quarantine Station -- For boarding and disinfecting vessel (acts Aug. 14, 1912, vol. 37, p. 309, sec. 1; Oct. 6, 1917, vol. 403, p. 49, sec. 1) |
$15,000 |
$40,000 |
| Cape Charles Quarantine Station -- For disinfecting and boarding vessel (same acts) |
15,000 |
40,000 |
| Total |
30,000 |
80,000 |