PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 373-JULY 1, 1944 Reimbursements. Ante, p. eS. PAt, . 8W. 710 USE OF IMMIGRATION STATION HOSPITALS SEC. 502. The Immigration and Naturalization Service may, by agreement of the heads of the departments concerned, permit the Public Health Service to use hospitals at immigration stations for the care of Public Health Service patients. The Surgeon General shall reimburse the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the actual cost of furnishing fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, which reimbursement shall be covered into the proper Immigration and Naturalization. Service appropriation, or such costs may be paid from working funds established as pro- vided by law, but no charge shall be made for the expense of physical upkeep of the hospitals. The Immigration and Naturalization Serv- ice shall reimburse the Surgeon General for the care and treatment of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service at the request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service unless such persons are entitled to care and treatment under section 322 (a). MONEY COLLECTED FOR CARE OF PATIENTS SEC. 503. Money collected as provided by law for expenses incurred in the care and treatment of foreign seamen, and money received for the care and treatment of pay patients, including any amounts received from any executive department on account of care and treatment of pay patients, shall be covered into the appropriation from which the expenses of such care and treatment were paid. CARE OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE PATIENTS AT SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL SEC. 504. Insane patients entitled to treatment by the Service shall be admitted, upon order of the Administrator, into Saint Elizabeths Hospital or, upon order of the Surgeon General, into any hospital, institution, or station of the Service especially equipped for the accommodation of such patients and shall be cared for and treated therein until cured or until ordered removed by the officer authoriz- ing such admittance. SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS SEC. 505. The Administrator may consider, ascertain, adjust, and determine any claim which shall accrue, on account of damages occasioned by collisions or incident to the operation of vessels of the Service, and for which damages such vessels are found by him to be responsible. To be considered for settlement under this sec- tion, claims must be presented to the Administrator within one year of their accrual. The amount ascertained and determined to be due any claimant, not exceeding $3,000 in any one case, shall be certified to Congress as a legal claim for payment out of appropriations that may be made therefor by Congress, together with a brief statement of the character of each claim, the amount claimed, and the amount allowed. Acceptance by any claimant of the amount determined to be due under this section shall be deemed to be in full and final settlement of such claim against the Government of the United States. TRANSPOTrATION OF REMAINS OF OFFICERS SEC. 506. Appropriations available for traveling expenses of the Service shall be available for meeting the cost of preparation for burial and of transportation to the place of burial of remains of commissioned officers, and of personnel specified in regulations, who die in line of duty. [58 STAT.
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