Chapter 28. To authorize the construction of a nurses’ home for the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum
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CHAP. 28.— An Act To authorize the construction of a nurses’ home for the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum.January 13, 1927.[[S. 4393](/us/bill/69/s/4393).][[Public, No. 542](/us/pl/69/542).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Columbia Hospital for Women, etc.Construction of nurses’ home for, authorized. That a modern, fireproof nurses’ home is hereby authorized for the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum to replace the existing cottages and to cost not exceeding $400,000, including heating and ventilating apparatus, equipment, accessories, roadways, and approaches and other facilities leading thereto.
All of such workSupervision of Architect of the Capitol. shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Architect of the Capitol and in accordance with plans and specifications prepared by him and approved by the board of directors of the 972hospital, such plans to provide separate room accommodations for each nurse or student. The plans and specifications may provide for such future extensions and modifications as may be deemed advisable. Sec. 2. Contracts authorized.The Architect of the Capitol, for the purposes and subject to the limit of cost fixed by section 1 hereof, is authorized to enter into contracts, to purchase material, supplies, equipment, and Employment of personal services, etc.accessories in the open market, to employ the necessary personnel including professional services without reference to section 35 of the Vol. 36, p, 699.Act approved June 25, 1910, and to incur such other expenditures, including advertising and travel, as may be necessary and incidental to the purposes of this Act.
Sec. 3. Assignment of appropriations.All expenditures incurred under this Act shall be charged against the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed in the appropriation Act in which the appropriations therefor are contained. Approved, January 13, 1927.