Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The President has issued the following proclamation: While quarantine regulations are committed to the several States, the General Government has reposed certain powers tn the President to be used at hlsdiscretion in preventing a threatened epidemic. Feeling it my duty, I hereby call upon all persons who, under existing systems in the several States, are intrusted with the execution of quarantine .. regulations, to be diligent and on the alert, in order to prevent the introduction of the pestilence, which, we all regret to learn, has made its appearance in some of the countries of Europe, between which and the ports of the United States intercourse is direct and frequent. I further advise that the cities and towns of the United States, whether on the coast or on the lines of intercommunication, by sound sanitary regulations and the promotion of cleanliness, be prepared to resist the power of disease and to mitigate its severity, and I further direct the Consuls of the United States in the ports where the pestilence has made or may make its appearance to exercise vigilance in the carrying out of the instructions heretofore given, and in communicating to the Government of the United States any information of value relating to the progress or treatment of the disease.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.