County, State of Wisconsin, and upon which said Branch Home is located, and by authority of an act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in the county of Leavenworth, State of Kansas, and upon which said Branch Home is located, is hereby ceded to the respective States in which said Branches are located and relinquished by the United States, and the United States shall claim or exercise no jurisdiction over said places after the passage of this act: Provided, That nothing contained. herein shall be construed to impair the powers or rights heretofore conferred upon or exercised by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in and on said places. Act of March 3, 1901 (31 Stat. L., 1175).

Establishment

of the Govern

for the Insane.

Par.

2346. Disbursement of appropriations. 2347. Pensions to inmates.

2348. Treatment of the insane of the Army in asylums in California.

ESTABLISHMENT AND SUPERVISION.

2340. There shall be in the District of Columbia a Govment Hospital ernment Hospital for the Insane, and its objects shall be Mar. 3, 1855, c. the most humane care and enlightened curative treatment of the insane of the Army and Navy of the United States and of the District of Columbia.

199, s. 1, v. 10, p. 682.

Sec. 4838, R.S.

Supervision.

Mar. 3, 1881, v. 21, p. 458.

The superin

tendent.

Sec. 3, ibid.

Mar. 3, 1881, v.

21, p. 414.

2341. The supervision heretofore exercised by the Secretary of the Interior over the Government Hospital for the Insane shall be continued, and the officers of said hospital shall report to him as heretofore, anything in this act to the contrary notwithstanding. Act of March 3, 1881 (21 Stat. L., 458).

SUPERINTENDENT.

2342. The chief executive officer of the Hospital for the Insane shall be a superintendent, who shall be appointed Sec. 4589, R.S. by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall be entitled to a salary of four thousand dollars a year, and shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties, in such sum and with such securities as may be required by the Secretary of the Interior. The superintendent shall be a well-educated physician, possessing competent experience in the care and treatment of the insane; he shall reside on the premises, and devote his whole time to the welfare of the institution; he shall, subject to the approval of the visitors, engage and discharge all needful and useful employees

in the care of the insane, and all laborers on the farm, and determine their wages and duties; he shall be the responsible disbursing agent of the institution, and shall be exofficio secretary of the board of visitors.

2343. The superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane shall deposit in the Treasury of the United States, in his name as agent, all funds now in his hands or which may hereafter be intrusted to him by or for the use of patients, which shall be kept as a separate account; and he is hereby authorized to draw therefrom on his order, from time to time, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, for the use of such patients, but not to exceed for any one patient the amount intrusted to the superintendent on account of such patient; and he shall give a separate bond, satisfactory to the said Secreretary, for the faithful performance of his duties in respect to these funds as herein provided. Act of July 1, 1898 (30 Stat. L., 623).

ADMISSIONS.

Admission of the Army, Navy,

insane persons of

Marine Corps,

June 15, 1860, c.

2344. The superintendent, upon the order of the Secretary of War, of the Secretary of the Navy, and of the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, shall receive, and etc. keep in custody until they are cured, or removed by the 66, s. 1, v. 12, p. 23; same authority which ordered their reception, insane per- 179, s. 1. 2, v. 14, sons of the following descriptions:

18, p. 486.

First. Insane persons belonging to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue-Cutter Service.

Second. Civilians employed in the Quartermaster's, Pay, and Subsistence Departments of the Army who may be, or may hereafter become, insane while in such employment. Act of February 9, 1900 (31 Stat. L., 7).

Third. Men who, while in the service of the United States, in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, have been admitted to the hospital, and have been thereafter discharged from it on the supposition that they have recov ered their reason, and have, within three years after such discharge, become again insane from causes existing at the time of such discharge, and have no adequate means of support.

Fourth. Indigent insane persons who have been in either of the said services and been discharged therefrom on account of disability arising from such insanity.

Fifth. Indigent insane persons who have become insane

22924-0858

July 13, 1866, c.

1875, c. 156, s. 5, v. Sec. 4843, R.S.

patients upon

bond.

Sec. 9, ibid.

within three years after their discharge from such service, from causes which arose during and were produced by said service.'

Discharge of 2345. If any person will give bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the supreme court of the DisSec. 4856, R.S. trict of Columbia, or by any judge thereof in vacation payable to the United States, with condition to restrain and take care of any independent or indigent insane person not charged with a breach of the peace, whether in the hospital or not, until the insane person is restored to sanity, such court or judge thereof may deliver such insane person to the party giving such bond.

Disbursement of appropriations

Mar. 3, 1855, c.

683.

2346. All appropriations of money by Congress for the for the insane. support of the Hospital for the Insane shall be drawn from 199, s. 7, v. 10, p. the Treasury on the requisition of the Secretary of the Sec. 4858, R.S. Interior, and shall be disbursed and accounted for in all respects according to the laws regulating ordinary disbursements of public money.*

Payment of pensions to inmates.

Aug. 7, 1882, v. 22, p. 330.

2347. If any inmate of the Government Hospital for the Insane so admitted from said National Home is or thereafter becomes a pensioner, and has neither wife, minor child, nor parent dependent on him, in whole or in part, for support, his arrears of pension and his pension money accruing during the period he shall remain in said hospital shall be applied to his support in said hospital and be paid over to the proper officer of said institution for the general uses thereof. Act of August 7, 1882 (22 Stat. L.,330). 2348. The Secretary of War may, in his discretion, conArmy in Califor- tract for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane Mar. 3, 1901, v. of the Army, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers on the Pacific coast at any State asylum in California, in all cases which he is now authorized by law to cause to be sent to the Government Hos pital for the Insane in the District of Columbia. Act of March 3, 1901 (31 Stat. L., 1163).

Treatment of insane of the

nia.

31, p. 1163.

The right to admission to the asylum has been extended by statute to include the following classes of cases:

(1) To insane convicts serving sentences of confinement imposed by United States courts. Act of June 23, 1874 (18 Stat. L., 251).

(2) To persons in custody charged with crime against the United States. Act of August 7, 1882 (22 Stat. L., 202).

(3) To inmates of the several branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers who may become insane. Act of August 7, 1882 (22 Stat. L., 302). (4) To inmates of the Soldiers' Home who may become insane.

Act of July 7, 1884 (23 Stat. L., 194). The expense of maintenance to be paid from the Soldiers' Home fund.

2 The act of March 3, 1881 (21 Stat. L., 458), vests the supervision of the asylum and the control over its management in the Secretary of the Interior.

3 In accordance with the act of August 7, 1882. See note 1, ante.

tanooga National Military | 2414-2421. The Antietam Battlefield.

Imilitary parks

2349. In order to obtain practical benefits of great values of national to the country from the establishment of national military May 15, 1896, v. parks, said parks and their approaches are hereby declared 29, p. 120. to be national fields for military maneuvers for the Regular Army of the United States and the National Guard or Militia of the States: Provided, That the said parks shall be opened for such purposes only in the discretion of the Secretary of War, and under such regulations as he may prescribe.' Act of May 15, 1896 (29 Stat. L., 120).

1Section 35 of the act of February 2, 1901 (31 Stat. L., 757), contained a provision that "the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys to be made for the purpose of selecting four sites with a view to the establishment of permanent camp grounds for instruction of troops of the Regular Army and National Guard, with estimates of the cost of the sites and their equipment with all modern appliances, and for this purpose is authorized to detail such officers of the Army as may be necessary to carry on the preliminary work; and the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the necessary expense of such work, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War: Provided, That the Secretary of War shall report to Congress the result of such examination and surveys; and no contract for said sites shall be made nor any obligations incurred until Congress shall approve such selections and appropriate the money therefor."