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R. S., sec. 1260. may be assigned as provided by section twelve hundred and sixty of the Revised Statutes.

Repeal of

R. S., sec. 1225,

217 (23 Stat. L.,

108.)

SEC. 2. That the said section twelve hundred and twentyas amended by five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as 1884, July 5, ch. amended by the said act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed, saving always, however, all acts and things done under the said amended section as heretofore existing.

Sept. 26, 1888.

Jan. 13, 1891.

26 Stat. L., 716.

Provided, That no officer shall be detailed to or maintained at any of the educational institutions mentioned in Detail of army said act where instruction and drill in military tactics is not given:

and navy officers

to colleges, etc. -only where military instruction. Nov. 3, 1893.

That section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the 28 Stat. L., 7. Revised Statutes, concerning details of officers of the Army Supp. R. S., and Navy to educational institutions, be, and the same is Army details of hereby, amended so as to permit the President to detail officers to col under the provisions of said act not to exceed one hundred creased to 100. officers of the Army of the United States;

1892-95. p. 152.

leges,-limit in

Aug. 6, 1894, ch. 228. par. 3.

Service.
See note 4.

Duration.

Retired officers.

and no officer shall be thus detailed who has not had five years service in the Army

and no detail to such duty shall extend for more than four years

and officers on the retired list of the Army may upon R.Sec. 1260. their own application be detailed to such duty and when so detailed shall receive the full pay of their rank;

See note 5.

Army and

Navy, maximum

creased to 110.

and the maximum number of officers of the Army and of detail in Navy to be detailed at any one time under the provisions of the act approved January thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, amending section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes as amended by an act approved September twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, is hereby increased to one hundred and ten.

Sec.

HOSPITALS, ASYLUMS, ETC.

4807. Superintendence of Navy hospitals.
4809. Appropriation of fines.

4810. Purchase and erection of Navy hos-
pitals.

4811. Government of Naval Asylum.

Sec.

4812. Allowance of rations to Navy hospitals.

4813. Allowance from pensions.

Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark.
Closing of hospitals.

Title 59, chap. 1. SEC. 4807. The Secretary of the Navy shall have the genSuperintenderal charge and superintendence of Navy hospitals.

ence of Navy hospitals.

See act Nov. 3, 1893.

Note 4.-For other acts relating to details of officers of the Army and Navy see the following: 1879, Feb. 26, ch. 105 (1 Supp. R. S., 221), authorizing the detail of not exceeding 25 officers of the Engineer Corps of the Navy. 1888, Sept. 26, ch. 1037 (1 Supp. R. S., 620), authorizing the detail of not exceeding 50 officers from the Army and 10 from the Navy in addition to those authorized by the preceding act, and providing for the apportionment of the officers so detailed, and the issuance of ordnance stores to the colleges to which such officers are assigned. 1891, Jan. 13, ch. 70 (1Supp. R. S., 887), increasing the maximum of the officers of the Army to be so detailed to 75, and the maximum for Army and Navy to 85, and limiting such detail to institutions where instruction and drill in military tactics is given. 1895, Mar. 2, ch. 186, par. 2, authorizing the detail of any retired officer of the Navy or Marine Corps. R. S., sec. 1225, named in the text, as well as 1884, July 5, ch. 217 (23 Stat. L., 108), were repealed by the act of 1888 above referred to.

Note 5.-As to such details of retired officers, see 1894, Aug. 6, ch. 228, par. 3.

443.

ished.

SEC. 15. Sections forty-five hundred and eighty-five, June 26, 1884. forty-five hundred and eighty-six, and forty-five hundred Supp. R. S., p. and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes, and all other acts Hospital tax and parts of acts providing for the assessment and collec- on seamen aboltion of a hospital tax for seamen, are hereby, repealed, and Expenses of the expense of maintaining the Marine Hospital Service Marine-Hospital shall hereafter be borne by the United States out of the paid. receipts for duties on tonnage provided for by this act; R. S., 88. 4585and so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appro- 4587. Mar. 3, 1875, priated for that purpose.

SEC. 4809. All fines imposed on Navy officers, seamen, and marines shall be paid to the Secretary of the Navy, for the maintenance of Navy hospitals.

Service, how

Repeal of

ch. 156, and 18 Stat. L., 485. Appropriation

of

fines. Feb. 26, 1811, s. 2, v.2, p.650; July 10, 1832, s. 5. v. 4, p. 573.

Purchase and erection of Navy

3, v.2, p. 650; July

10, 1832, s. 5, v. 4,

SEC. 4810. The Secretary of the Navy shall procure at suitable places proper sites for Navy hospitals, and if the hospitals. necessary buildings are not procured with the site, shall, Feb. 26, 181, 8. 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, seaman, and marines.

p. 573.
Naval Asylum
now located at
Philadelphia.

Government of Naval Asylum. Feb. 26, 1811, s.

v. 2, p. 650.

SEC. 4811. The asylum for disabled and decrepit Navy officers, seamen, and marines shall be governed in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Sec-4, retary of the Navy. [See section 5757, naval pension fund, as to provision for those preferring pension to the asylum.] SEC. 4812. For every Navy officer, seaman, or marine Allowance of admitted into a Navy hospital, the institution shall be rations to Navy 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.

or

SEC. 4813. Whenever any Navy officer, seaman, 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.

hospitals.

Ibid.. 8.5.

Allowance from pension.

Ibid.

June 30, 1882.

Army and Navy

June 30, 1882,

Army appro

Provided, That one hundred thousand dollars be, and hereby is, appropriated for the erection of an Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, which shall be hospital at Hot erected by and under the direction of the Secretary of Springk War, in accordance with plans and specifications to be 22 Stat. L., p. 121. prepared and submitted to the Secretary of War by the priation act. 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.

And if the Secretary of the Navy shall not be able to Mar. 3, 1883. maintain properly the whole number of naval hospitals now kept open on the amounts hereby appropriated for the main- pitals.

Closing of hos

Aug. 5, 1882, tenance of and civil establishment at naval hospitals, he and Mar. 3, 1883, v. 22, Stat. L., p. shall close those which are least necessary to the service, and provide for the patients now cared for therein at such other naval hospitals as may be most convenient.

296.

Title 15, chap. 7.

Navy.

Aug. 3, 1848, s.

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SEC. 1551. The Secretary of the Navy may cause persons Insane of the in the naval service or Marine Corps, who become insane while in the service, to be placed in such hospital for the 13. v. 9, p. 272: insane as, in his opinion, will be most convenient and July 2, 1864, s. 2, And v. 13, p. 348. best calculated to promise a restoration of reason. he may pay to any such hospital, other than the Government Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia, the pay which may from time to time be due to such insane person, and he may, in addition thereto, pay to such institution, from the annual appropriation for the naval service, under the head of contingent enumerated, any deficiency of a reasonable expense, not exceeding one hundred dollars per annum.

Title 59, chap. 4. SEC. 4838. There shall be in the District of Columbia a Government Government Hospital for the insane, and its objects shall Hospital for the be the most humane care and enlightened curative treatMar. 3, 1855, s. ment of the insane of the Army and Navy of the United States and of the District of Columbia.

Insane.

1, v. 10, p. 682.

etc.

Admission of SEC. 4843. The superintendent, upon the order of the insane persons of the Army, Navy, Secretary of War, of the Secretary of the Navy, and of the Marine Corps, Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, shall receive, and June 15, 1860, s. keep in custody until they are cured, or removed by the 1, v. 12, p. 23; July same authority which ordered their reception, insane persons of the following descriptions:

13, 1866, ss. 1, 2, v. 14, pp. 93, 94.

First. Insane persons belonging to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and revenue-cutter service.

Second. Civilians employed in the Quartermaster's and Subsistence Departments of the Army who may be, or may hereafter become, insane while in such employment.

Third. Men who, while in the service of the United States, in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, have been admitted to the hospital, and have been thereafter discharged from it on the supposition that they have recovered their reason, and have, within three years after such discharge, become again insane from causes existing at the time of such discharge, and have no adequate means of support.

Fourth. Indigent insane persons who have been in either of the said services and been discharged therefrom on account of disability arising from such insanity.

Fifth. Indigent insane persons who have become insane within three years after their discharge from such service, from causes which arose during and were produced by said service.

sion.

Hereafter the admission to the hospital shall be limited June 16, 1880. to such persons as are entitled to treatment therein under Limit to admisthe provisions of title 59, chap. 4, of the Revised Statutes June 16, 1880, of the United States, and under the act approved March 3, v. 21, p. 259. 1875, chap. 156.

See notes.

etc., to Govern

1, v. 18, p. 251;

That upon the application of the Attorney-General the Aug. 7, 1882. Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized Transfer of inand directed to transfer to the Government Hospital for an convicts, the Insane in the District of Columbia all persons who, ment Hospital. having been charged with offenses against the United 1. June 1874, 8. States, are in the actual custody of its officers, and all per- Aug. 7, 1882, 22 Stat. L., p. 330. sons who have been or shall be convicted of any offense in a court of the United States and are imprisoned in any State prison or penitentiary of any State or Territory, and who during the term of their imprisonment have or shall become and be insane.

Admission of

insane from Na

tional Home for

Disabled Volun teers.

Aug. 7, 1882, 22 Stat. L., p. 330. See note 1.

In addition to the persons now entitled to admission to said hospital, any inmate of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, who is now or may hereafter become insane shall, upon an order of the president of the board of managers of the said National Home, be admitted to said hospital and treated therein; and if any inmate so admitted from said National Home is or thereafter becomes a pensioner, and has neither wife, minor child, nor parent dependent on him, in whole or in part, for support, his arrears of pension and his pension money accruing during the period he shall remain in said hospital shall be applied to his support in said hospital, and be paid over to the proper officer of said institution for the general uses thereof. Government Hospital for the Insane. That hereafter the admissions to the hospital shall be limited to such persons as are entitled to treatment therein under the pro- 1882, Aug. 5, ch. visions of title fifty-nine, chapter four, of the Revised Stat- 390, par. 3, post. utes of the United States, and under the act approved Hospital for InMarch third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, chapter one hundred and fifty-six, second session, Forty-third R. S., §§ 4843Congress.

NATIONAL HOME FOR VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS AND

June 16, 1880. Supp. R. S. p. 298.

Admissions to

sane in District of Columbia.

4854.

1875, March 3, ch. 156, § 5; 1882, Aug. 7, ch. 433, par. 14; 1884, July 7, ch. 332, par. 5, pp. 381, 469.

Sec.

4832. Persons entitled to admission

SAILORS.

Sec.

Disposition of pensions.

SEC. 4832. The following persons only shall be entitled Title 59, chap. 3. to the benefits of the National Home for disabled volunteer soldiers, and may be admitted thereto, upon the recom- mission, etc.

Note 1.-Volunteer soldiers who have become insane within a period of more than three years after their discharge from service may be admitted to the Government Asylum for the Insane in the District of Columbia, whether at the time they became insane they were inmates of any volunteer soldiers' asylum or not. (Op., XIV, p. 225, Williams, Apr. 23, 1873; but see act of June 16, 1880, ante.)

An act approved March 3, 1875, v. 18, p. 485, chap. 156, sec. 5, provides that insane patients of the Marine-Hospital Service may be admitted to the Government Hospital for the Insane upon the order of the Secretary of the Treasury, at a charge not exceeding four dollars and fifty cents a week.

An act approved June 23, 1874, 18 Stat. L., 251, provides for the admission of insane convicts to the insane asylum in the District of Columbia.

What persons entitled to ad

599; Jan. 23, 1873,

are at Augusta,

Mar. 21, 1866, mendation of three of the board of managers, namely: All s. 7, v. 14, p. 11; Feb. 28., 1871, officers and soldiers who served in the late war for the supRes. 45, v. 16. p. pression of the rebellion, and the volunteer soldiers and s. 1, v. 17, p. 417. sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve and of the Mexican war, and not provided for by existing laws, These homes who have been or may be disabled by wounds received or Mc., Milwaukee, sickness contracted in the line of their duty; and such of Ohio, Knights- these as have neither wife, child, nor parent dependent town, Ind., and upon them, on becoming inmates of this home, or receiving relief therefrom, shall assign thereto their pensions when required by the board of managers, during the time they shall remain therein or receive its benefits.

Wis., Dayton,

Hampton, Va.

to

tions.

.

22, Stat.L., p. 322.

See note 1.

Aug. 7, 1882. That all pensions and arrears of pensions payable or to Pensions of in- be paid to pensioners who are or may become inmates of mates of homes the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be paid to treasurers of be paid to the treasurers of said home, to be applied by such such institu- treasurers as provided by law, under the rules and regulaAug. 7, 1882. v. tions of said home. Said payments shall be made by the pension agent upon a certificate of the proper officer of the home that the pensioner is an inmate thereof on the day to which said pension is drawn. The treasurers of said home, respectively, shall give security, to the satisfaction of the managers of said home, for the payment and application by them of all arrears of pension and pension-moneys they may receive under the aforesaid provision. And section two of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for deficiencies, and for other purposes," approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, is hereby revived and continued in force.

Title 14, chap. 1.

Note 1.-Under the act of Feb. 26, 1881, the pensions are to be paid over to the treasurer, without deduction for fines or penalties. Any balance on discharge of inmate is to be paid over to him; in case of death, to his widow, children, or legal representatives.

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SEC. 1176. That every soldier of the Union Army, or Trusses, to petty-officer, seaman, or marine in the naval service, who whom furnished. was ruptured while in the line of duty during the late war 1, v. 17. p. 164 for the suppression of the rebellion, or who shall be so rupMar. 3, 1879, v. 20, tured thereafter in any war, shall be entitled to receive a

May 28, 1872, s.

p. 353.
See note 1.

See sec. 1176, Pensions.

See sec. 1176.

single or double truss of such style as may be designated by the Surgeon General of the United States Army as best suited for such disability; and whenever the said truss or trusses so furnished shall become useless from wear, de

Note 1. It is left with the Surgeon-General of the Army to adopt one style, or different styles, keeping in view the selection of that which in his judgment is best adapted to the purpose for which intended. (Op., XIV, 72. July 30, 1872.)

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