Home Rula Repubalika, Volume I, Number 11, 6 January 1902 — HON. ROBERT W. WILCOX'S LEPER BILL TO PROVIDE A RESERVATION FOR LEPROUS PERSONS. [ARTICLE]

HON. ROBERT W. WILCOX'S LEPER BILL TO PROVIDE A RESERVATION FOR LEPROUS PERSONS.

He it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That that part of the Island of Molokai, Territory of Hawaii, known as Kalaupapa, and now used as a place of confinement for leprous persons, is hereby declared to be a government reservation, and all lepers, there confined, or that may hereafter be confined there, shall be under the control of the Secretary of the Treasury. Sec. 2. That whenever the Board of Health of any State or Territory of the United States shall declare that a person is infected with leprosy, it shall be the duty oE the Secretary of the Treasury to transport said infected person to said reservation, and there confine said infected person until cured. — ~~ Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power to make all needful regulations for the control of said-reserva-tion, and shall have thorough investigations made as to the cause and as to the cure for leprosy. Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall each year submit a written report to Congress as to the conditions on the said reservation. Sec. 5 That the expense of transportation, care, medical attendance, amusement, and so forth, shall be paid by the United States government, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall annually submit estimates for the same. Sec. 6. That this shall becotne a law sixty da\ s after its passage and approval.