Chapter XXVI. *establishing Navy Hospitals.*Feb. 26, 1811. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Secretaries of Navy, Treasury and War made a board of commissioners
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Chap. XXVI.— An Act *establishing Navy Hospitals.*Feb. 26, 1811. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Secretaries of Navy, Treasury and War made a board of commissioners.Act of 1799, ch. 36. That the money hereafter collected by virtue of the act, entituled “An act in addition to An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen,” shall be paid to the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War, for the time being, who are hereby appointed a board of commissioners, by the name and style of Commissioners of Navy Hospitals, which, together with the sum of fifty thousand dollars hereby appropriated out of the unexpended balance of the marine hospital fund, to be paid to the commissioners aforesaid, shall constitute a fund for navy hospitals.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* ThatFines to be paid to them. all fines imposed on navy officers, seamen and marines, shall be paid to the commissioners of navy hospitals. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatCommissioners to procure sites, at suitable places, for navy hospitals. the commissioners of navy hospitals be and they are hereby authorized and required to procure at a suitable place or places proper sites for navy hospitals, and if the necessary buildings are not procured with the site, to cause such to be erected, having due regard to economy, and giving preference to such plans as with most convenience and least cost will admit of subsequent additions, as the funds will permit and circumstances require; and the commissioners are required at one of the establishments, to provide a permanent asylum for disabled and decrepid navy officers, seamen and marines.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* ThatSecretary of Navy to prepare necessary rules for the government of the hospitals. the Secretary of the Navy be authorized and required to prepare the necessary rules and regulations for the government of the institution, and report the same to the next session of Congress. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* ThatAllowance from the wages and pensions of invalids to be paid to commissioners. when any navy officer, seaman or marine, shall be admitted into a navy hospital, that the institution shall be allowed one ration per day during his continuance therein, to be deducted from the account of the United States with such officer, seaman or marine; and in like manner, when any officer, seaman or ELEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 28, 29. 1811. 651 marine, entitled to a pension, shall be admitted into a navy hospital, such pension during his continuance therein shall be paid to the commissioners of the navy hospitals, and deducted from the account of such pensioner. Approved, February 26, 1811. Chapter XXVIII: in addition in the act entituled “An act supplementary in the act concerning Consuls and Vice Consuls,” and for the further protection of American seamen. 2 Stat. 651 1811-02-28 Chapter XXVIII Charles C.
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Chapter XXVI
*establishing Navy Hospitals.*Feb. 26, 1811. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Secretaries of Navy, Treasury and War made a board of commissioners
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