Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 1 Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others
§11a Same; liability of foreign vessels for hospital charge
Each seaman admitted to the marine hospitals within the United States on application of the master of a foreign vessel shall be subject to the charge fixed by the Federal Security Administrator, which shall be paid by the master of such foreign vessel to the collector of the collection district in which the hospital is situated. And the collector shall not grant a clearance to any foreign vessel until the money so due from her master shall be paid. The officer in charge of each hospital is hereby directed, under penalty of $50, to make out the accounts against such foreign seaman that may be placed in the hospital under his direction, and render the same to the collector.
(R.S. §4805; Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 156, §6, 18 Stat. 486; derived from act May 3, 1802, ch 51, §5, 2 Stat. 193; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, §§201, 205(b), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2728, 2729, 53 Stat. 1424, 1425; . Repealed. July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIII, §1313, 58 Stat. 714; For renumbering of act July 1, 1944, which repealed these sections, see note set out under sections 1, 2 of this title; See section 249 of Title 42)