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To make return annually. Ib., 7.

Board to keep record and re

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charge shall be made for receiving from his predecessor or paying to his successor.

SEC. 7. That it shall be the duty of the treasurer to make an annual return, on oath, of the receipts and expenditures of the said estate, to the Judge of Probate of Abbeville County, which, before it is presented to the Judge of Probate, shall be inspected and approved by the Board, a copy of which return it shall be the duty of the Judge of Probate to transmit to the succeeding Legislature.

SEC. 8. It shall moreover be the duty of the Board to cause to port to Legisla- be kept a regular record of all their proceedings, and annually to transmit to the General Assembly a faithful trauscript from the said record, for the year preceding, accompanied by a copy of the last return made by them to the Judge of Probate, and by an exhibit showing the precise situation of the estate on the first Monday in February and the first Monday in November, next preceding.

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SEC. 9. That the Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville County shall have power, for default in relation to the returns required by this Chapter, or any other sufficient cause appearing to the Judge, to remove any one or more of the Trustees, or any of their successors, from the trust committed to them; and it shall be the duty of the Judge of Probate, or the members of the delegation of Abbeville County, according as the default may be in relation to a return to the Judge of Probate or in a return to the General Assembly, having given previous notice to the Trustees, to report to the Court at its next term any default which may occur in relation to any of the returns aforesaid; and upon such report, or other sufficient cause, laid before him, the Solicitor attending the said Court shall proceed to procure the removal of the Trustee or Trustees complained of.

TITLE IX.

OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

CHAPTER XXXII. Of Physicians and Apothecaries.
XXXIII. Of Quarantine.
XXXIV. Of Asiatic Cholera.

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SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person within the

Qualifications

limits of this State, who has not attended two full courses of in- of physicians. struction, and graduated at some school of medicine, either in the United States or some foreign country, or who cannot produce a certificate of qualification from some State medical society, and is not a person of good moral character, to practice medicine, or prescribe medicine or medicines, for reward or compensation, for any sick person within this State: Provided, That, in all cases, when any person has been continuously engaged in the practice of medi- 1869, XIV. 197 ; cine for a period of ten years or more, and can produce a certificate; 1817, VI, 63, to that effect, either from some physician of good standing or from three citizens, one of whom shall be qualified to administer an oath according to the laws of the State, he shall be considered to have complied with the provisions of this Chapter.

SEC. 2. In no case wherein the provisions of this Chapter shall have been violated shall any person so violating receive a compensation for services rendered: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall in any way be construed to apply to any person prac ticing dentistry, or females practicing midwifery.

Proviso.

Unqualified practitioners not

to be pad: denwives excepted.

tists and md

1869, XIV, 197,

22.

2 Hill. 414; 12 Rich., 129.

Qualified prac▪

titioners may

1 eet their fees.

SEC. 3. That all persons now practicing, or who may hereafter sue for and col practice medicine or surgery as herein provided, shall be entitled to 1833, VI, 497, 1; charge, sue for, and collect, for their services, in the same manner 9 Rich., 273. as the graduates of the Medical College of South Carolina.

1845, XI, 346, 2.

Apothecaries

must obtain li

SEC. 4. That no apothecary within this State shall be permitted to cense of State vend or expose to sale any drugs or medicines without previously 1817, VI, 65, 9, obtaining a license to do so from the Trustees and Faculty of the 1833, VI, 497, 22. Medical College of the State of South Carolina.

Medical College.

Trustees, &c., to examine ap

plicants for ape

thecaries' license &c.

Fees for exam

SEC. 5. That the said Trustees and Faculty of the Medical College of the State of South Carolina shall have the power to examine any apothecary who may apply to them for a license, touching his knowledge of drugs and pharmacy, and on finding such person qualified, shall grant such license, and shall receive therefor the sum 27-10; 1853, VI, of five dollars for each and every examination, and the sum of five dollars for every license.

cense.

1817, VI, 64-5,

497, 82.

Compensation for post mortem

examinations made under di

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SEC. 6. That the following compensation shall be allowed to any physician who may be called in by the County Coroner or acting rection of Coro- Coroner to make a post mortem examination, and testifying thereof To report to as an expert, to wit: Where death has resulted from violence, the sioners in cases sum of ten dollars; when any chemical analysis is required, a sum where chemical not exceeding fifty dollars, together with the expenses of such analy made. (See Ch. sis; and that in every case in which a physician shall be called 1851, XII, 128, to any distance beyond one mile, he shall be allowed five cents per mile for travel: Provided, That in all cases in which chemical analysis shall be made, the physician who shall make the post mortem examination shall furnish to the County Commissioners, with his account, a full statement of such analysis.

XIX.)

21; 1869, XIV,

274, 22.

Proviso.

Accounts for

post mortem ex

SEC. 7. Every account presented for service for any post mortem aminations to examination shall have the certificate of the Coroner, or Trial Juscertificate at- tice acting as Coroner, that the services were rendered.

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SEC.

23. Appeal, how made and prosecuted.
24. Health Officer may enforce orders;
expense to be a lien on vessel.
25. Misdemeanor to violate quaran-
tine regulations.

26. Governor may declare places in-
fected

27. Duration of pestilence.

28. Vessels from infected places to be
subject to quarantine.

29. Masters neglecting or refusing to
obey certain regulations to be
guilty of misdemeanor.

30. To give correct information to pi-
lots; not to unload or permit any
person but a pilot to come on
board until examined; not to ap-
proach nearer than quarantine.
31. Penalty for violating this chapter
or disobeying Health Officer.
32. Health Officer to be appointed by
Governor, and hold office for two
years; to keep records and report
to Governor.

33. Salary and allowance for inciden-
tal expenses.

34. "Health Officer" to mean Health
Officer or Deputies; Deputies to
be physicians.

35. Pena ty on pilot or other person
for violating the law.

36. Quarantine officers may employ

Iorce.

37. May fire upon vessel violating the
law.

38. Boats, &c., to be provided at the
expense of the State.

29. Fines and forfeitures, how recov-
ered.

Quarantine hospita or lazaretto on Morris

Island,

SECTION 1. That the Governor of the State and the Health Officer of the port of Charleston are authorized to establish, at some point on Morris Island, to be by them selected, a quarantine hospital or lazaretto, together with the necessary buildings for the ac- 1. commodation of a keeper, nurses, and other attendants.

1869, XIV, 227,

Station of Health Officer in

bor.

Ib., § 2.

SEC. 2. The station of the Health Officer, or his deputies, shall be at a suitable point on Sullivan's Island, or at Fort Johnson, as may Charleston barbe thought best for the expeditious boarding and examination of hor vessels arriving from all ports into the harbor of Charleston; the location of said station to be determined upon by the Health Officer, with the approval of the Governor; and the necessary buildings shall be erected for the accommodation of the Health Officer and his deputies.

vessel

Vessels to an

age ground, and remain subje t to regulations.

SEC. 3. The anchorage ground for vessels at quarantine at the ports of Georgetown, Charleston and Hilton Head shall be where it chor at ancho has heretofore been, and shall be designated by buoys, to be anchored under the direction of the Health Officers; and every subject to quarantine shall, immediately on her arrival, anchor within them, and there remain, with all persons arriving on her, subject to the examination and regulations imposed by law. For the purposes of quarantine, the port at Hilton Head shall be held 1. to include the port of Beaufort.

Head

Hilton include Beaufort

quarantine to

1868, XIV, 112,

Vessels subject to quarantine.

ib., ¿ 2.

Vessels at quar

November.

SEC. 4. Vessels arriving at the ports of Georgetown, Charleston and Hilton Head shall be subject to quarantine, as follows:

1. All vessels from any place where pestilential, contagious or infectious disease existed at the time of their departure, or which shall have arrived at such place and proceeded thence to either of said ports, or on board of which, during the voyage, any case of such disease shall have occurred, arriving between the first day of May and the first day of November, shall remain at quarantine for at least thirty days after their arrival, and at least twenty days after their cargo shall have been discharged, and shall perform such further quarantine as the Health Officers may prescribe

2. All vessels from any place (including islands) in Asia, Africa or the Mediterranean, or from any of the West Indies, Bahama, Bermuda or Western Islands, or from any place in America, in the ordinary passage from which they pass south of Hilton Head; and all vessels on board of which, during the voyage, or while at the port of their departure, any person shall have been sick, arriving between the first day of May and the first day of November, and all vessels from a foreign port, and not embraced in the first subdivision of this Section, shall, on arrival at the quarantine ground, be subject to visitation by the Health Officers, but shall not be detained beyond the time requisite for due examination and observation, unless they shall have had on board, during the voyage, some case of infectious, contagious, or pestilential disease, in which case they shall be subject to such quarantine and regulations as the Health Officers may prescribe.

3. All vessels embraced in the foregoing provisions, which are navigated by steam, shall be subject only to such length of quaran tine and regulations as the Health Officer shall enjoin, unless they shall have had on board, during the voyage, some case of infectious, contagious, or pestilential disease, in which case they shall be subject to such quarantine as the Health Officer shall prescribe.

SEC. 5. All vessels and persons remaining at quarantine on the antine on arst of first day of November, shall thereafter be subject to such quarantine [b., 113, 23. and restrictions as vessels and persons arriving on and after that day.

Infected and

foreign

84 riving after

to be subject to

SEC. 6. All vessels arriving on and after the first day of Novemvessels ber, having had, during the voyage, a case of small-pox, cholera, or first November typhus, or infectious, or contagious disease, and every vessel from a such quarantine foreign port having passengers, and not hereinbefore declared subprescribes. ject to quarantine, shall, on her arrival, be anchored at quarantine he vaccinated. ground, and be visited by the Health Officer, or his deputies, but shall not be detained beyond the time requisite for due examina

as Health Officer

Passengers to

1869, XIV, 210,

2.

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