Chapter 156. Providing additional hospital facilities for patients of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Division of Rehabilitation, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 156.— An Act Providing additional hospital facilities for patients of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Division of Rehabilitation, and for other purposes. March 4, 1921. [[H. R. 15894](/us/bill/66/hr/15894).] [[Public, No. 384](/us/pl/66/384).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Hospitals, etc., for ex-soldiers.Methods of securing, authorized.Treasury is authorized, within the limits of appropriations made herein, to provide additional hospital and out-patient dispensary facilities for persons who served in the World War and are now or hereafter may be patients of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance or of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Division of Rehabilita-1365tion,
(1)by purchase, gift, or lease of existing plants,
(2)by construction Existing plants.Construction on owned sites.on sites now owned by the Government or on sites to be acquired, when approved by the President, by purchase, condemnation, gift, or otherwise, or
(3)by such remodeling or extension of existing plants Remodeling, etc., Public Health plants.and their equipment, owned or acquired by the United States at places now being used or that have been used by the Public Health Service for hospital purposes, as may be necessary economically to adapt such plants to the uses and purposes herein provided. Such Equipment, facilities, etc., included.hospitals and out-patient dispensary facilities shall include the necessary buildings, and auxiliary structures, mechanical equipment, approach work, roads and trackage facilities leading thereto, vehicles, live stock, furniture, equipment and accessories, and also shall provide accommodations for officers, nurses, and attending personnel, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to accept gifts or donations Acceptance of donations, etc.for any of the purposes named herein; The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to transfer without Army hospital supplies, etc., to be transferred to Public Health Service.charge to the Secretary of the Treasury for the use of the Public Health Service such mechanical, construction, and miscellaneous material, hospital furniture and equipment, hospital and medical supplies, motor trucks and other motor-driven vehicles, not required by the War Department, as may be required by the Public Health Service for its hospitals; The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized in his discretion to Technical, etc., services for construction purposes, authorized.employ technical and clerical assistants within or without the District of Columbia, without regard to civil-service laws, rules, and regulations, and to pay from the sum herein appropriated for construction purposes, at customary rates of compensation, exclusively to aid in the preparation of the plans and specifications for the above-named objects and for the supervision of the execution thereof, and for Allowance for expenses, supplies, etc.traveling expenses, field-office equipment, and supplies, commercial printing in or out of the District of Columbia, incident thereto, at a total limit of cost for such additional technical and clerical assistants and traveling expenses, and so forth, of not exceeding 3 per centum of the limit of cost for construction: *Provided,* That all of the abovementioned Proviso.Supervision of work.work shall be under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury; In carrying out the purposes herein authorized the President is Assignment of lands, etc., to Public Health Service.authorized and empowered, in his discretion, to assign for use of the Public Health Service, under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury, such lands or buildings now owned or leased by the United States, not including property under the jurisdiction of the Volunteer Soldiers’ Homes excepted.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, which, in his judgment, can be used more efficiently for the care of patients of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to take over immediately Fort Mackenzie, Immediate transfer of Forts Mackenzie, Walla Walla, and Logan H. Roots.Wyoming, Fort Walla Walla, Washington, and Fort Logan H. Roots, Arkansas, with all lands, buildings, and equipment belonging thereto for the uses contemplated herein and to expend from the appropriation in the following paragraph not to exceed $600,000 at Forts Allotments for increasing hospital facilities at.Mackenzie and Walla Walla, and not to exceed $250,000 at Fort Logan H. Roots, for providing and increasing hospital facilities thereat; For carrying into effect the preceding paragraphs relating to additional Appropriation for expenses.*Post,* p. 1374.hospital facilities there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $18,600,000, to be immediately available and to remain available Amount for remodeling, etc., plant.until expended, of which sum not to exceed $6,100,000 shall be used for remodeling or extending existing plants. Approved, March 4, 1921.