United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 26
Chap. XXVI.—An Act establishing Navy Hospitals.
Secretaries of Navy, Treasury and War made a board of commissioners.
Act of 1799, ch. 36.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the money hereafter collected by virtue of the act, entituled “An act in addition to An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen,” shall be paid to the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War, for the time being, who are hereby appointed a board of commissioners, by the name and style of Commissioners of Navy Hospitals, which, together with the sum of fifty thousand dollars hereby appropriated out of the unexpended balance of the marine hospital fund, to be paid to the commissioners aforesaid, shall constitute a fund for navy hospitals.
Fines to be paid to them.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all fines imposed on navy officers, seamen and marines, shall be paid to the commissioners of navy hospitals.
Commissioners to procure sites, at suitable places, for navy hospitals.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners of navy hospitals be and they are hereby authorized and required to procure at a suitable place or places proper sites for navy hospitals, and if the necessary buildings are not procured with the site, to cause such to be erected, having due regard to economy, and giving preference to such plans as with most convenience and least cost will admit of subsequent additions, as the funds will permit and circumstances require; and the commissioners are required at one of the establishments, to provide a permanent asylum for disabled and decrepid navy officers, seamen and marines.
Secretary of Navy to prepare necessary rules for the government of the hospitals.
Allowance from the wages and pensions of invalids to be paid to commissioners.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized and required to prepare the necessary rules and regulations for the government of the institution, and report the same to the next session of Congress.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That when any navy officer, seaman or marine, shall be admitted into a navy hospital, that the institution shall be allowed one ration per day during his continuance therein, to be deducted from the account of the United States with such officer, seaman or marine; and in like manner, when any officer, seaman or marine, entitled to a pension, shall be admitted into a navy hospital, such pension during his continuance therein shall be paid to the commissioners of the navy hospitals, and deducted from the account of such pensioner.
Approved, February 26, 1811.