Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 1 Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others
§26a Beneficiaries of fund for relief of sick and disabled seamen
The “fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen”, of which separate accounts shall be kept in the Treasury, is appropriated for the expenses of the Public Health Service, and shall be employed, under the direction of the Federal Security Administrator, for the care and relief of sick and disabled seamen employed in registered enrolled, and licensed vessels of the United States.
(R.S. §4803; derived from June 29, 1870, ch. 160, §3-5, 16 Stat. 170; June 26, 1884, ch. 121, §15, 23 Stat. 57; Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1484, §1, 33 Stat. 1217; Aug. 14, 1912, ch. 288, §1, 37 Stat. 309; Reorg. Plan No. I, §201, 205 (b), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 Fed. Reg. 2728, 2729, 53 Stat. 1424, 1425; Public Health Service and its functions and personnel were transferred to Federal Security Agency, and functions of Secretary of Treasury, other than those relating to acceptance and Investment of gifts, were transferred to administrator of said agency by Reorg. Plan No. I . Repealed. July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIII, §1313, 58 Stat. 714; For renumbering of act July 1, 1944, which repealed these sections, see note set out under sections 1, 2 of this title; See section 249 of Title 42 Public Health and Welfare)