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Volume 44

Public Law 69–792

To facilitate and simplify the work of the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, and for other purposes.

Approved July 3, 1926

Statutory text

An Act

To facilitate and simplify the work of the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to aid and assist visitors within the national parks or national monuments in emergencies and when no other source is available for the procurement of food or supplies, by the sale, at cost, of food or supplies in quantities sufficient to enable them to reach safely a point where such food or supplies can

Proviso.

Receipts available for further purchases.

be purchased: Provided, That the receipts from such sales shall be deposited as a refund to tire appropriation or appropriations current at the date of covering in of such deposit and shall be available for the purchase of similar food or supplies.

Sec. 2.

Medical assistance, etc., to employees at isolated stations.

That the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, is authorized to provide, out of moneys appropriated for the general expense of the several national parks and national monuments, medical attention for employees of the National Park Service located at isolated situations, including the moving of such employees to

Attention in cases of death.

hospitals or other places where medical assistance is available, and in case of death to remove the bodies of deceased employees to the nearest place where they can be prepared for shipment or for burial.

Approved, July 3, 1926.

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