that may be placed in the hospital under his direction, and render the same to the collector. Act May 3, 1802, c. 51, § 5, 2 Stat. 193. Subsequent provisions for the care of sick and disabled seamen of foreign vessels by the Marine-Hospital Service were made by Act March 3, 1875, c. 156, 6, post, § 9194. § 9194. (Act March 3, 1875, c. 156, § 6.) Care of foreign seamen. That sick and disabled seamen of foreign vessels and of vessels not subject to hospital-dues may be cared for by the marine-hospital service at such rates and under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. (18 Stat. 486.) See notes to section 3 of this act, ante, § 9190. § 9195. (Act June 23, 1913, c. 3, § 1.) Admission to marine hospitals of persons with infectious, etc., diseases for study. * For maintenance of marine hospitals, * There may be admitted into said hospitals for study, persons with infectious or other diseases affecting the public health, and not to exceed ten cases in any one hospital at one time. (38 Stat. 24.) This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1914, cited above. A similar provision was made by the appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1912 and 1913, Act March 4, 1911, c. 285, § 1, 36 Stat. 1394, and Act Aug. 24, 1912, c. 355, § 1, 37 Stat. 435. § 9196. (Act June 23, 1913, c. 3, § 1.) Commissioned officers and employés of the Public Health Service entitled to hospital relief. Hereafter commissioned officers and pharmacists, and those employees of the service devoting all their time to field work, shall be entitled to hospital relief when taken sick or injured in line of duty. (38 Stat. 24.) This was a further provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1914, cited above. § 9197. (R. S. § 4806.) Lease or sale of marine hospitals. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to lease, or to sell at public auction, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, after due notice in the public newspapers, such marine-hospital buildings and lands appertaining thereto as he may deem it advisable to sell, and to make, execute, and deliver all needful conveyances to the lessees or purchasers thereof respectively; and the proceeds of such leases and sales are hereby appropriated for the marine-hospital establishment. But the hospitals at Cleveland in Ohio, and Portland in Maine, shall not be sold or leased. And this section shall not be construed to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to lease or sell any such hospital where the relief furnished to sick mariners shall show an extent of relief equal to twenty cases a day on an average for the last preceding four years, or where no other suitable and sufficient hospital accommodations can be procured upon reasonable terms for the comfort and convenience of the patients. Act April 20, 1866, c. 63, § 1, 14 Stat. 40. Act June 27, 1866, c. 142, 14 Stat. 76. Further provisions for the renting or leasing of marine-hospital buildings or lands were made by Act March 3, 1875, c. 156, § 4, post, § 9198. The proceeds of leases and sales of marine-hospital buildings, etc., were appropriated for the marine-hospital establishment, by R. S. § 3689, ante, § 6799 (24). § 9198. (Act March 3, 1875, c. 156, § 4.) `Renting or leasing of marine-hospitals. The Secretary of the Treasury may rent or lease such marinehospital buildings, and the lands appertaining thereto, as he may deem advisable in the interests of the marine-hospital service; and the proceeds of such rents or leases are hereby appropriated for the said service. (18 Stat. 485.) Sec. Previous provisions for the lease or sale of hospital buildings were made by R. S. § 4806, ante, § 9197. See notes to that section. (R. S. §§ 4807-4813. Transferred to Chapter 1A.) These sections, relating to the Navy Hospitals and the Naval Home, are placed, with subsequent provisions relating thereto, post, under a separate chapter of this Title, next following, chapter 1 A, "Navy Hospitals, Naval Home, and Army and Navy Hospitals," §§ 9199–9201, 9203, 9204, 9206, 9207. CHAPTER ONE A Navy Hospitals, Naval Home, and Army and Navy Hospitals This chapter, inserted here as additional to the original chapters of this title in the Revised Statutes, includes the provisions relating to the Navy hospitals and the Naval Home, distinct from the marine hospitals for the relief of seamen, being R. S. §§ 4807-4809, originally contained in chapter 1 of this title of the Revised Statutes, and provisions of subsequent acts relating to such hospitals, etc.; and it includes also provisions relating to Army and Navy hospitals not included in the organization of either the Army or the Navy. 9199. Superintendence of Navy hospi tals. 9200. Deduction from pay of seamen, 9203. Navy hospitals established; au- Naval Home for performance of services in and about Home. 9206. Allowance of rations to Navy hospitals. 9207. Pension of officer, seaman, or marine at Naval Home or hospital to be paid to fund for benefit of Home or hospital. Sec. 9208. Deposit of moneys, etc., of deceased inmates of Naval Home; inquiries for next of kin; payment of claims. 9209. Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., established; regulation. 9210. Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark.; patients subject to rules and articles for government of armies. 9211. Hospital for tuberculosis at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, open to officers and men of Navy and Marine Corps. 9212. Hospital at Fort Bayard; patients to be subject to articles of war. § 9199. (R. S. § 4807.) Superintendence of Navy hospitals. The Secretary of the Navy shall have the general charge and superintendence of Navy hospitals. Act Feb. 26, 1811, c. 26, § 1, 2 Stat. 650. Act July 10, 1832, c. 194, § 5, 4 Stat. 573. § 9200. (R. S. § 4808.) Deduction from pay of seamen, etc., for Navy hospital fund. The Secretary of the Navy shall deduct from the pay due each officer, seaman and marine, in the Navy, at the rate of twenty cents per month for each person, to be applied to the fund for Navy hospitals. Act March 2, 1799, c. 36, § 2, 1 Stat. 729. Act Feb. 26, 1811, c. 26, § 1, 2 Stat. 650. A provision similar to that of this section, for deduction from the pay of officers and enlisted men of the marine corps, was made by R. S. § 1614, ante, § 2936. § 9201. (R. S. § 4809.) Appropriation of fines. All fines imposed on navy officers, seamen, and marines shall be paid to the Secretary of the Navy, for the maintenance of Navy hospitals. Act Feb. 26, 1811, c. 26, § 2, 2 Stat. 650. Act July 10, 1832, c. 194, § 5, 4 Stat. 573. Forfeitures on account of desertion were appropriated to the naval hospital fund by a provision of Act June 7, 1900, c. 859, post, § 9202. § 9202. (Act June 7, 1900, c. 859.) Disposition of forfeitures for desertions. From and after July first, nineteen hundred, all forfeitures on account of desertion shall be passed to the credit of the naval hospital fund. (31 Stat. 697.) This was a proviso annexed to an appropriation for the naval hospital fund in the naval appropriation act for the fiscal year 1901, cited above. § 9203. (R. S. § 4810, as amended, Act March 4, 1913, c. 148.) Navy hospitals established; authority of Congress required. The Secretary of the Navy shall procure at suitable places proper sites for Navy hospitals, and if the necessary buildings are not procured with the site, shall cause such to be erected, having due regard to economy, and giving preference to such plans as with most convenience and least cost will admit of subsequent additions, when the funds permit and circumstances require; and shall provide, at one of the establishments, a permanent asylum for disabled and decrepit Navy officers, seamen, and marines: Provided, That hereafter no sites shall be procured or hospital buildings. erected or extensions to existing hospitals made unless hereafter authorized by Congress. Act Feb. 26, 1811, c. 26, § 3, 2 Stat. 650. Act July 10, 1832, c. 194, § 5, 4 Stat. 573. Act March 4, 1913, c. 148, 37 Stat. 902. This section, as enacted in the Revised Statutes, did not contain the proviso annexed thereto as set forth here, requiring the authority of Congress for procuring sites and erecting, etc., hospital buildings. Said proviso was added by amendment, making the section read as set forth here, by Act March 4, 1913, c. 148, last cited above. § 9204. (R. S. § 4811.) Government of Naval Asylum. The asylum for disabled and decrepit Navy officers, seamen, and marines shall be governed in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. Act Feb. 26, 1811, c. 26, § 4, 2 Stat. 650. The employment of beneficiaries for performance of services in and about the Naval Home, their compensation to be paid from the appropriation for support of the Home, was authorized by a provision of Act Aug. 22, 1912, c. 335, post, § 9208. § 9205. (Act Aug. 22, 1912, c. 335.) Employment of beneficiaries in Naval Home for performance of services in and about Home. For the performance of such additional services in and about the Naval Home as may be necessary the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to employ, on the recommendation of the governor, beneficiaries in said Home, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Secretary and paid from the appropriation for the support of the Home. (37 Stat. 334.) This was a proviso annexed to an appropriation for the Naval Home Philadelphia, Pa., to be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund, in the naval appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above. Provisions in the same language were made by the similar acts for several preceding years. Appropriations for the Naval Home are made in the annual sundry civil appropriation acts. The provisions for the fiscal year 1914 were by Act March 4, 1913, c. 148, § 1, 37 Stat. 895. § 9206. (R. S. § 4812.) Allowance of rations to Navy hospitals. For every Navy officer, seaman, or marine admitted into a Navy hospital, the institution shall be allowed one ration per day during his continuance therein, to be deducted from the account of the United States with such officer, seaman, or marine. Act Feb. 26, 1811, c. 26, § 5, 2 Stat. 650. § 9207. (R. S. § 4813, as amended, Act March 3, 1899, c. 421.) Pension of officer, seaman, or marine at Naval Home or hospital to be paid to fund for benefit of Home or hospital. Whenever any officer, seaman, or marine entitled to a pension is admitted to the Naval Home at Philadelphia, or to a naval hospital, his pension, while he remains there, shall be deducted from his accounts and paid to the Secretary of the Navy for the benefit of the fund from which such home or hospital, respectively, is maintained; and section forty-eight hundred and thirteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended accordingly. Act Feb. 26, 1811, c. 26, § 5, 2 Stat. 650. Act May 4, 1898, c. 234, 30 Stat. 377. Act March 3, 1899, c. 421, 30 Stat. 1027. This section, as enacted in the Revised Statutes, was as follows: "Whenever any Navy officer, seaman, or marine entitled to a pension, is admitted to a navy hospital, the pension, during his continuance in the hospital shall be paid to the Secretary of the Navy and deducted from the account of such pensioner." The provision set forth here was enacted, and this section was amended accordingly, by Act May 4, 1898, c. 234, and again by Act March 3, 1899, c. 421, cited above. One-half the pension of any soldier or sailor entering either a State home for soldiers or sailors, or a national soldiers' home, was payable to his wife during such residence, or, if there be no wife, to his children under sixteen years of age, or his permanently helpless and dependent child, if any, by R. S. § 4766, as amended by Act March 3, 1899, c. 460, ante, § 9096. § 9208. (Act Aug. 22, 1912, c. 335, § 1.) of deceased inmates of Naval Home; payment of claims. Deposit of moneys, etc., inquiries for next of kin; All moneys belonging to a deceased inmate of the Naval Home or derived from the sale of his personal effects, and which are not claimed by his next of kin, shall be deposited in the Treasury by the governor of the home, as agent, and if any sum so deposited has been or shall hereafter be unclaimed for a period of five years from the death of such inmate it shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided, That the governor of the Naval Home is hereby authorized and directed, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, to make diligent inquiry in every instance after the death of an inmate to ascertain the whereabouts of his next of kin: And provided further, That claims may be presented hereunder at any time, and when supported by competent proof in any case more than five years after the death of an inmate shall be certified to Congress for consideration. (37 Stat. 335.) This was a provision of the naval appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above. § 9209. (Act June 30, 1882, c. 254, § 1.) Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., established; regulation. Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, which shall be erected by and under the direction of the Secretary of War, in accordance with plans and specifications to be prepared and submitted to the Secretary of War by the Surgeons-General of the Army and Navy; which hospital, when in a condition to receive patients, shall be subject to such rules, regulations, and restrictions as shall be provided by the President of the United States: Provided further, That such hospital shall be erected on the government reservation at or near Hot Springs, Arkansas. (22 Stat. 121.) These were provisos accompanying an appropriation for the erection of the hospital mentioned, in the Army appropriation act for the fiscal year 1883, cited above. Patients in the hospital were made subject to the rules and articles for the government of the armies, by a provision of Act March 3, 1909, c. 252, post, § 9210. § 9210. (Act March 3, 1909, c. 252.) Army and navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark.; patients subject to rules and articles for government of armies. Hereafter all persons admitted to treatment in the Army and Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, shall, while patients in said hospital, be subject to the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States. (35 Stat. 748.) This was a proviso annexed to an appropriation for the hospital in the Army appropriation act for the fiscal year 1910, cited above. |