Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 6 Freedmen’s Hospital
§261 Direction; expenditure; limitation
on appropriations
The Freedmen's Hospital in the District of Columbia
shall, until otherwise ordered by Congress, be continued under the direction of
the Secretary of the Interior who shall submit estimates for expenses and
maintenance. No part of any appropriation shall be used in support of, or to
pay the expenses on account of any person to be admitted to such hospital,
unless of persons removed thither from some other Government hospital.
(R.S. §2038; June 23, 1874, ch.
455, §1, 18 Stat. 223; Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 199, §1, 27
Stat. 551; Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1483, §1, 33 Stat. 1190;
Sections 261 to 264 related to Freedmen's Hospital in the District of Columbia,
and were also set out as sections 32–317 to 32–320 of the District of Columbia
Code; Freedmen's Hospital was transferred to Howard University by Pub. L.
87–262, Sept. 21, 1961, 75 Stat. 542 (20USC§124–§129), section 7 of which
repealed all laws specifically applicable to Freedmen's Hospital effective with
the transfer. Sections 32–317 to 32–320 were omitted from the 1981 edition of
the District of Columbia Code)