Chapter 213. Extending the benefits of the marine hospitals to the keepers and crews of life-saving stations
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CHAP. 213.— An Act Extending the benefits of the marine hospitals to the keepers and crews of life-saving stations.August 4, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Marine hospitals.Life-Saving Service to be admitted. That the privilege of admission to and temporary treatment in the marine hospitals under the control of the Government of the United States be, and is hereby, extended to the keepers anti crews of the Life-Saving Service under the same rules and regulations as those governing sailors and seamen, and for the purposes of this Act members of the Life-Saving Service shall be received in said hospitals and treated therein, and at the dispensaries thereof, as are seamen of American registered vessels; but this ActLimitation. shall not be. so construed as to compel the establishment of hospitals or dispensaries for the benefit of said keepers and crews, nor as estabishing a home for the same when permanently disabled.
Approved, August 4, 1894.