Act No. 878 — An Act Amending Section Two of Act Numbered Three Hundred and Eight, Entitled "An Act Providing for the Establishment of Municipal Boards of Health, and Fixing Their Powers and Duties."
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SECTION 1. Paragraph (a) of section two of Act Numbered Three hundred and eight is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "(a) A president, who shall be a duly qualified physician, or an undergraduate of medicine, or an Army surgeon, or an Army contract surgeon, in cases where there are no civilian physicians available, such employment to be authorized in the discretion of the Civil Governor."
SEC. 2. 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.
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, September 9, 1903.
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