Chapter 191. To reimburse certain Departments of the Government for expenses incurred incident to the recent fire in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 191.— An Act To reimburse certain Departments of the Government for expenses incurred incident to the recent fire in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and for other purposes. May 23, 1908.[[H. R. 21927.]](/us/bill/70/hr/21927)[[Public, No. 135.]](/us/pl/70/135) *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the accounting officersChelsea, Mass.Reimbursements for expenses incurred at lire in. of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of the pay director at the naval station at Boston, Massachusetts, all expenditures made by him on account of the recent lire at Chelsea, Massachusetts, in the aggregate sum of not exceeding six hundred dollars.
And that the accounting officers of the Treasury are also authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of the MarineHospital Service located at Chelsea, Massachusetts, the sum of not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars, expended in taking care of accident, emergency, and maternity cases caused by the recent fire at said Chelsea. And the said hospital authorities are hereby authorizedExpenditures in future cases authorized.Maximum. to expend in future cases of like character, out of their appropriation, an additional sum of not exceeding three thousand six hundred dollars; such authority to be in force until such patients can be cared for in local hospitals, and not for a longer period than until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.
Approved, May 23, 1908.