Chapter 268. To amend 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.” July 1, 1922.[[H
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CHAP. 268.— An Act To amend 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.” July 1, 1922.[[H. R. 11588](/us/bill/67/hr/11588).][[Public, No. 273](/us/pl/67/273).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Hospitals for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, etc. That subsection C of section 7 of the 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, Dawson Springs, Ky., Sanatorium.
Vol. 40, p. 1304, amended. Condemnation proceedings authorized to acquire title to lands to be donated for site.be amended by adding at the end thereof a new sentence to read as follows: “*Provided,* That whenever any person, company, or corporation, municipal or private, shall undertake or shall have undertaken to secure any land or easement therein, which in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury is needed for the site of or in connection with the proper and convenient construction, maintenance, and operation of such sanatorium for the purpose of conveying the same to the United States free of cost and shall be unable for any 819reason to obtain the same by purchase and acquire a valid title thereto, the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, cause proceedings to be instituted to acquire such land or easement for the United States by condemnation of said land or easement, and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General of the United States to instituteInstitution, etc., by Attorney General. and conduct such proceedings upon the request of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided further,* That all expenses of said proceedings*Proviso.* Donor to pay all expenses. and any award that may be made thereunder shall be paid by the said person, company, or corporation, to secure which payment the Secretary of the Treasury may require the said person, company, or corporation to execute a proper bond in such amount as he may deemBond for expenses. necessary before said proceedings are commenced.
” Approved, July 1, 1922.