Chapter 295. Authorizing the erection of a sanitary, fireproof hospital at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Santa Monica, California
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CHAP. 295.— An Act Authorizing the erection of a sanitary, fireproof hospital at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Santa Monica, California. June 7, 1924.[[H. R. 2821](/us/bill/43/hr/2821).][[Public, No. 217](/us/pl/43/217).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Santa Monica, Calif.Hospital at Soldiers Home, authorized.*Ante*, p. 518.*Post*, p. 1346. That the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be erected at the Pacific branch of said home at Santa Monica, California, on land now owned by the United States, a sanitary, fireproof hospital of a capacity for five hundred beds at a total cost of not more than Buildings, equipment, etc.$1,500,000.
Such hospital shall include all the necessary buildings, with the appropriate mechanical equipment, including roads and trackage facilities leading thereto, for the accommodation of patients, and storage, laundry, and necessary furniture, equipment, and accessories as may be approved by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Sec. 2. Persons who may be admitted. That the persons who shall be entitled to the privileges of treatment in this hospital when constructed, and who may be admitted thereto upon the order of a member of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, shall be the Additional services designated.following:
Honorably discharged officers, soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the Regular, Volunteer, or other forces of the United States in the war with Mexico, the Civil War, the war with Spain, and the World War, or in any war in which the country has been engaged, in campaigns against hostile Indians, or who served in any of the extraterritorial possessions of the United States in foreign countries, including Mexican border service, or 535in the Organized Militia or National Guard when called into the Federal service, and who are disabled by diseases or wounds and by reason of such disability are either temporarily or permanently incapacitated from earning a living.
Approved, June 7, 1924.