Chapter 17. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Employees’ Compensation Commission, the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and the Public Health Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920
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CHAP. 17.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Employees’ Compensation Commission, the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and the Public Health Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. December 24, 1919. [[H. R. 11223](/us/bill/66/hr/11223).] [[Public, No. 105](/us/pl/66/105).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sumsUrgent deficiencies appropriations for Employees’ Compensation Commission, War Risk Insurance, and Public Health Service. are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Employees’ Compensation Commission, the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and the Public Health Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, namely:
EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION.Employees Compensation Commission. Contingent expenses: For furniture and other equipment andContingent expenses. repairs thereto, $750; law books, books of reference, periodicals,, stationery, and supplies, $850; experts and temporary assistants in the District of Columbia and elsewhere to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 per day, and temporary clerks, stenographers, or typewriters in the District of Columbia to be paid at a rate not exceeding $100 per month, $7,650; medical examinations, traveling and other expenses, and loss of wages payable to employees under section 21 ofVol. 39, p. 747. the Act of September 7, 1916, and for miscellaneous items, $750; in all, $10,000.
Employees’ compensation fund: For the payment of compensationCompensation fund.Allowances under.Vol. 39, pp. 743,745. provided by “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, including medical, surgical, and hospital services, and supplies provided by section 9, and the transportation and burial expenses provided by sections 9 and 11, $1,100,000, to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That the compensation heretofore or hereafter*Proviso*.Payments to employees, Emergency Fleet Corporation. paid by the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation to or on account of employees for disability or death resulting from personal injuries sustained while in the performance of their duties shall be in full satisfaction of the claims of such employees or their legal representatives against the United States.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public health service.Public Health Service. For medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for war-riskServices, supplies, etc., war risk insurance patients and others. insurance patients and other beneficiaries of the Public Health Service, including necessary personnel, regular and reserved commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, clerical help in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, maintenance, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, printing, freight, transportation and travel, maintenance and operation of passenger motor vehicles, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $2,000,000. 378 hospital at broadview, cook county, illinois.Broadview, HI.
Hospital building at, etc.That so much of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes” (Public *Ante*, p. 45, amended.*Post*, p. 508.Numbered 5, Sixty-sixth Congress), as reads as follows: “The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to acquire and complete immediately the hospital at Broadview, Cook County, Illinois, authorized and appropriated for by an Act entitled ‘An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines,’ approved March 3, 1919” (Public Act Numbered 326, Sixty-fifth Congress), is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
" Uncompleted building and site, to be immediately acquired.“That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed immediately to acquire the uncompleted hospital building at Broadview, Cook County, Illinois, and the site thereof, consisting of three hundred and twenty acres, more or less, and to cause the work on Construction of, and auxiliary buildings, directed.said hospital building to be completed and the five proposed auxiliary buildings to be constructed in accordance with plans and specifications transmitted to the Shank Company July 15, August 16, and September 23, 1919, and the appropriation therefor contained in Vol. 40, p. 1304.the Act entitled ‘An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers,’ approved March 3, 1919, together with such further changes in said buildings as may be found necessary or desirable.
” " bureau of war risk insurance.War Risk Insurance Bureau. Compensation, etc.Military and naval compensation: For the payment of military and naval compensation, funeral expenses, services and supplies, as authorized by law, $30,000,000. Approved, December 24, 1919.