Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 1 Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others
§16 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. (R.S. §4812 derived from act Feb. 26, 1811, ch. 26, §5, 2 Stat. 650)