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Title 24USC / Chapter VI

Chapter 6 Freedmen’s Hospital

§262 Admission of patients; charges for

Patients may be admitted to Freedmen's Hospital for care and treatment on the payment of such reasonable charges therefor as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. All moneys so collected shall be paid into the Treasury to the credit of Freedmen's Hospital to be disbursed under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior for subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses incident to the management of the hospital. A report as the expenditure thereof shall be made annually to Congress.

(June 26, 1912, ch. 182, §1, 37 Stat. 172; May 29, 1928, ch. 901, §1(78), 45 Stat. 992; Repealed Sec. 7 Pub. L. 87–262, Sept. 21, 1961, 75 Stat. 542)