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1090 January 19, 1929. [H. R. 14922.] [Public, No. 674 .] Navy . Two fleet subma- rines . Lim it of co st in- creased. Vol . 43, p . 881, amend- ed. January 19, 1929 .

CHAP. 85.-An Act To provide for the care and treatment of naval patients [H. R. 7209.]

on the active or retired list, in other Government hospitals when naval hospital [Public, No. 675 .]

facilities are not available . Navy.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Naval patients may United States o America in Congress assembled, That hereafter be treated in other

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f Government hospitals, the Secr etary of t he N avy m ay pr ovide for the care and treat ment if facilities not available in naval hospitals.

of naval patients on the active or retired list and members of the Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve entitled to treatment iii-' naval hospitals in other Government hospitals when appropriate naval hospital facilities are not available and the Government agencies having control of such other hospitals consent thereto . All expenses incident to such care and treatment received by naval patients in other Government hospitals, excepting Saint Elizabeths Hospital, shall be chargeable to the same appropriation or fund as would be chargeable with the care and treatment of such Proviso . Rations and p ensions patients in a naval hospital : Provided That the deductions author- d educt ions : R . S ., sees. 4812, 4813, ized by sections 4812 and 4813, Re vised Sta tutes , sha ll ap ply to p .934 . such care and treatment in other Government hospitals, except Saint 672 . S . Code, pp . 671, Elizabeths Hospital, and shall be credited to said appropriation or fund. Approved, January 19, 1929 . Expenses. January 19, 1929.

[H. R. 5617.] [Public, No . 676 .] Navy. Retainer pay claims of enr oll ed Res erve members prior to July 1, 1925, to be filed with- in one year hereof. Lim ita ti on on ad- vance pay ment s to Fleet Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve, etc ., subsequent to July 1,1 923 . Proviso . Cla ims submitted within one year not de- barred . Fleet Naval Reserve and Fl eet Marine Corps Reserve ex- cepted . SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEss. II. CHs . 84-86. 1929 CHAP. 84.-An Act To authorize an increase in the limit of cost of two fleet submarin es . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the limita- tion of $5,300,000 each imposed in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1926, on construction and machinery expenditures on account of two fleet submarines is hereby increased to $6,650,000 each . Approved, January 19, 1929 . CHAP. 86 .-An Act To limit the date of filing claims for retainer pay . Be it enacted b y the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That no claim for retainer pay which accrued to enrolled members of the Naval Reserve Force or Marine Corps Reserve prior to July 1, 1925, shall be allowed unless such claim shall have been filed with the General Accounting Office within one year from the date of this Act . SEC . 2. No advance payment to assigned members of the Fleet Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve, no payment of compensa- tion for the performance of drills, equivalent instruction or duty, appropriate duty or for administrative functions, nor any payment for uniform gratuity accruing to members of the Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve subsequent to July 1, 1925, shall be made upon any claim unless such claim shall have been filed with the General Accounting Office within three years from the expiration of the quarter in which the right to such payment accrued : Provided, That no claim shall be debarred if submitted within one year from the date of the passage of this Act. SEC. 3. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to members of the Fleet Naval Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, transferred thereto after sixteen, twenty or more years' service in the regular Navy or Marine Co rps . Approved, January 19, 1929 .