Title 24 — Hospitals and Asylums
Chapter 1 — Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others
§ 14. Establishment of Navy hospitals
Statutory text
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 no sites shall be procured or hospital buildings erected or extensions to existing hospitals made unless authorized by Congress.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
R.S. § 4810
Enacted · 24 U.S.C. § 14
R.S. § 4810
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 4810
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 4810 derived from acts Feb. 26, 1811, ch. 26, § 3, 2 Stat. 650; July 10, 1832, ch. 194, § 5, 4 Stat. 573.
Credits
1913 · 2 acts
- R.S. § 4810
- 1913Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 148, 37 Stat. 902.
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(R.S. § 4810; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 148, 37 Stat. 902.)