24 USC § 16 - Allowance of rations to Navy hospitals

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identifier: "/us/usc/t24/s16"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "24 USC § 16 - Allowance of rations to Navy hospitals"
title_number: 24
title_name: "HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS"
section_number: "16"
section_name: "Allowance of rations to Navy hospitals"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "NAVY HOSPITALS, ARMY AND NAVY HOSPITAL, AND HOSPITAL RELIEF FOR SEAMEN AND OTHERS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2025-09-29"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(R.S. § 4812.)"
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# § 16. Allowance of rations to Navy hospitals

For every Navy officer, seaman, or marine admitted into a Navy hospital, 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.

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**Source Credit**: (R.S. § 4812.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 4812 derived from , .