Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 1 Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and
Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others
§7 Lease or sale of marine hospitals
The Federal Security Administration is authorized to lease, or to sell at public auction, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, after due notice in the public newspapers, such marine hospital buildings and lands appertaining thereto as he may deem advisable in the interests of the Public Health Service, and to make, execute, and deliver all needful conveyances to the lessees or purchasers thereof, respectively; and the proceeds of such leases and sales are appropriated for the said service. But the hospital at Portland in Maine shall not be sold or leased. And this section shall not be construed to authorize the Federal Security Administrator to lease or sell any such hospital where the relief furnished to sick mariners shall show an extent of relief equal to twenty cases a day on average for the last preceding four years, or where no other suitable and sufficient hospital accommodations can be procured upon reasonable terms for the comfort and convenience of the patients.
(R.S. §4806; derived from Apr. 20, 1866, ch. 63, §1, 14 Stat. 40; June 27, 1866, ch. 142, 14 Stat. 76; acts Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 156, §4, 18 Stat. 485; Aug. 14, 1912, ch. 288, §1, 37 Stat. 309; July 26, 1916, ch. 256, 39 Stat. 390; 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 July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2728, 2729, 53 Stat. 1424, 1425; Repealed. July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIII, §1313, 58 Stat. 714; For renumbering of act July 1, 1944, which repealed these sections, see note set out under sections 1, 2 of this title; See section 248 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare)