Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 1 Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others
§29a Charges incurred in the disposal of surplus material
That freight charges incurred in the transfer of the property provided for in this Act To authorize the Secretary of War to transfer certain surplus motor-propelled vehicles and motor equipment and road-making material to various services and departments of the Government, and for the use of the States, shall not be defrayed by the War Department, and if the War Department shall load any of said property for any other department, the expense of said loading shall be reimbursed the War Department by the department to which the property is transferred by an adjustment of the appropriations of the two departments. Provided however, That any State receiving any of said property for the improvement of the public highways shall, as to the property received, pay to the Department of Agriculture the amount of 20 per centum of the estimated value of said property, as fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture or under his direction, against which sum said State may set off all freight charges paid by it on the shipment of said property, not to exceed, however, said 20 per centum.
(Mar. 15, 1920, ch. 100, §4, 41 Stat. 531; Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 156, 41 Stat. 1365; Repealed. Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, §1(45), 65 Stat. 703)