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[CITE: 24USC18]

 
                     TITLE 24--HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS
 
   CHAPTER 1--NAVY HOSPITALS, NAVAL HOME, ARMY AND NAVY HOSPITAL, AND 
                  HOSPITAL RELIEF FOR SEAMEN AND OTHERS
 
Sec. 18. Rules and regulations for Army and Navy Hospital

    The Army and Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, shall 
be subject to such rules, regulations, and restrictions as shall be 
provided by the President of the United States and shall remain under 
the jurisdiction and control of the Department of the Army.

(June 30, 1882, ch. 254, Sec. 1, 22 Stat. 121; June 18, 1930, ch. 525, 
Sec. 2, 46 Stat. 781; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, Sec. 205(a), 61 
Stat. 501.)


                               Amendments

    1930--Act June 18, 1930, provided that the hospital was to be 
subject to the jurisdiction and control of the Department of War.

                         Change of Name

    Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of 
Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by act July 26, 1947, 
ch. 343, title II, Sec. 205(a), 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act July 
26, 1947, was repealed by act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, Sec. 53, 70A 
Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956 enacted ``Title 10, Armed 
Forces'', which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the 
Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.

Ex. Ord. No. 10272. Delegation of Authority to the Secretary of the Army

    Ex. Ord. No. 10272, July 10, 1951, 16 F.R. 6711, provided:
    By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of 
August 8, 1950, c. 646, 64 Stat. 419 [section 301 of Title 3 The 
President], and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered 
that the Secretary of the Army be, and he is hereby, designated and 
empowered to exercise the authority vested in the President by section 1 
of the act of June 30, 1882, 22 Stat. 117, 121, as amended [this 
section], to provide rules, regulations, and restrictions with respect 
to the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas: Provided, That 
the rules, regulations, and restrictions prescribed under the authority 
of this order shall, so far as feasible, be uniform with those obtaining 
with respect to other hospitals under the jurisdiction of the Department 
of the Army, and that those prescribed by the Executive order of August 
25, 1892, as amended by Executive Order No. 6885 of October 23, 1934, 
shall continue in force and effect until amended, modified, or revoked 
by the Secretary of the Army in action taken pursuant to this order.
                                                        Harry S. Truman.
