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try of Justice, a suitable site was also offered to the 

 Ministry, I had already, early in the summer, addressed a 

 petition to the Ministry of War, which have at its disposal 

 extensive plots of land in the neighbourhood of the 

 Laboratory, asking it to present the University Labora- 

 tory for Medical Bacteriology with a building plot not 

 smaller than 10000 Dells, for the erection of a Serum 

 Institute. General Tuxen, then Ministry of War, received 

 this request in a very kind way. In October 1898 the 

 Laboratory was promised a piece of land of the size 

 stated, and in November 1898 the proposal which led 

 to the erection of the Institute as it stands now, was 

 sent to the Ministry of Justice. 



Unfortunately a Bill on the matter was not brought 

 in that year, but was deferred to the next parliamentary 

 session when, however, for political reasons, it did not 

 make progress. 



In the following session 1900 1901 the Bill was 

 brought in again, and passed in the spring 1901; the 

 royal assent to the Act was given on the 20th of March. 



The Act is worded as follows: 



STATE SERUM INSTITUTE ACT. 



Art. 1. 



An Institute for the production of antidiphtheric serum shall be 

 established under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice. It shall 

 undertake to supply such serum on the largest possible scale to the 

 medical men of this country and its colonies, on appliance for it 

 to the said Institute. 



Art. 2. 



A sum of kr. 172800 shall be used for the erection of the 

 necessary buildings on a site of 10000 r| ells, situated to the north 

 of the barracks belonging to the 2nd regiment of artillery, on the 

 Common of Amager, as well as for the equipment of the said Institute. 



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