BILL FOR A PATHO-BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 
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of investigation, and who shall be known respectively as the di¬ 
rector of the humano-patho-biological, and the zoo-patho-biologi- 
cal institutes of the patho-biological laboratory of the United 
States. The directors of the institutes named above shall be com¬ 
petent and skilled patho-bacteriologists, the one in human, the 
other in animal diseases, and shall, respectively, be graduates 
from a thoroughly organized and world accredited medical and 
veterinary school, college, or department of some university, and 
shall have both been engaged in and have published in some ac¬ 
credited journal or report investigations which have gained them 
each reputation in the medical-scientific world, and have demon¬ 
strated their fitness for the positions and responsibilities herein 
provided for. 
The salaries of the directors of the institutions above men¬ 
tioned shall be five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum. 
The said Surgeon-General, with and by the advice and consent 
of the directors of the institutes named, ahall also appoint an as- 
I sistant to each at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,- 
500) per annum, respectively; the one assistant to be a credit¬ 
ably graduated doctor of medicine, aud the other a doctor of vet¬ 
erinary medicine, hoth of whom shall be citizens of the United 
States and shall have done creditable work in the field of patho- 
bacteriological investigation. 
The directors of the institute named shall appoint, with and 
by the consent of the Surgeon-General of the United States ma¬ 
rine hospital service, such other assistants and servants as shall 
be necessary to carry on the work herein provided for. 
The said Surgeon-General shall also appoint to each of the in¬ 
stitutes named a competent chemist, each of whom shall be fully 
equal to conducting investigations in search of the true character 
and value of the ptomaines or toxius produced in the evolution 
of micro-organismal life, and who shall have previously distin¬ 
guished themselves in this line of research. The salary of said 
chemists shall be five thousand dollars each ($5,000) per annum. 
The Surgeon-General aforesaid is also authorized to employ such 
assistants and servants for the aid of the said chemists as shall be 
necessary to the faithful and thorough conducting of their inves¬ 
tigations. 
