2030. Persons entitled to vocational rehabilitation.-That every person enlisted, enrolled, drafted, inducted, or appointed in the military or naval forces of the United States, including members of training camps authorized by law, who, since April 7, 1917, has resigned or has been discharged or furloughed therefrom under honorable conditions, having a disability incurred, increased, or aggravated while a member of such forces, or later developing a disability traceable in the opinion of the board to service with such forces, and who, in the opinion of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, is in need of Vocational rehabilitation to overcome the handicap of such disability, shall be furnished by the said board, where vocational rehabilitation is feasible, such course of vocational rehabilitation as the board shall prescribe and provide. Sec. 2, act of June 27, 1918 (40 Stat. 617), as amended by act of July 11, 1919 (41 Stat. 159). * Provided further, That no person who has been declared eligible for training under the provisions of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, for whom training has been prescribed, and who has been notified by the board to begin training shall be eligible to the benefits of said Act in the event of his failure to commence training within a reasonable time after notice has been sent such person by the board: Provided further, That except when such failure is due, in the opinion of the board, to physical incapacity, such time shall not be longer than twelve months after the passage of this Act for persons already declared eligible and notified to begin training, and twelve months after notice is given for persons hereafter declared eligible and notified to begin training. Act of Mar. 4, 1921 (41 Stat. 1379–1380), making appropriations for sundry civil expenses: Federal Board for Vocational Education. Whenever 2031. Vocational rehabilitation of patients in hospitals.— * training is employed as a therapeutic measure by the War Department or the Navy Department a plan may be established between these agencies and the board acting in an advisory capacity to insure, in so far as medical requirements permit, a proper process of training and the proper preparation of instructors for such training. Sec. 6, act of June 27, 1918 (40 Stat. 618). The board shall have the * 2032. Courses in vocational rehabilitation.- * power, and it shall be its duty, to furnish the persons included in this section suitable courses of vocational rehabilitation, to be prescribed and provided by the board; * * Sec. 2, act of June 27, 1918 (40 Stat. 617), as amended by act of July 11, 1919 (41 Stat. 159). That the board shall have the power and it shall be its duty to provide such facilities, instructors, and courses as may be necessary to insure proper training for such persons as are required to follow such courses as herein provided; to prescribe the courses to be followed by such persons; to pay, when in the discretion of the board such payment is necessary, the expense of travel, lodging, subsistence, and other necessary expenses of such persons while following the prescribed courses; to do all things necessary to insure vocational rehabilitation; to provide for the placement of rehabilitated persons in suitable or gainful occupations. * Sec. 4, act of June 27, 1918 (40 Stat. 618). 2033. Regulations by the Federal Board of Vocational Education.The board shall have the power to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the proper performance of its duties as prescribed by this Act, Sec. 4, act of June 27, 1918 (40 Stat. 618). 146345°-21-VOL 2-10 1069 2034. Placement of rehabilitated persons.- * $ * and is hereby authorized and directed to utilize, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, the facili ties of the Department of Labor, in so far as may be practicable, in the placement of rehabilitated persons in suitable or gainful occupations. Sec. 4, act of June 27, 1918 (40 Stat. 618). * 2035. Cooperation between the board and the War Department.- * The board shall, in establishing its plans and rules and regulations for vocational training, cooperate with the War Department and the Navy Department in so far as may be necessary to effect a continuous process of vocational training. Sec. 6, act of June 27, 1918 (40 Stat. 619). 2036. Medical and surgical treatment of vocational students.-That all medical and surgical work or other treatment necessary to give functional and mental restoration to disabled persons prior to their discharge from the military or naval forces of the United States shall be under the control of the War Department and the Navy Department, respectively. ** A plan may also be established between the War and Navy Departments and the board whereby these departments shall act in an advisory capacity with the board in the care of the health of the soldier and sailor after his discharge. act of June 27, 1918 (40 Stat. 618). * Sec. 6, 2037. Vocational rehabilitation without cost for instruction.-That the courses of vocational rehabilitation provided for under this Act shall, as far as praeticable and under such conditions as the board may prescribe, be made available without cost for instruction for the benefit of any person who is disabled under circumstances entitling him, after discharge from the military or naval forces of the United States, to compensation under Article III of said Act and who is not included in section two hereof. Sec. 3, act of June 27, 1918 (40 Stat. 618). 2038. Maintenance of vocational students.- * * and every person electing to follow such a course of vocational rehabilitation shall, while following the same, be paid monthly by the said board from the appropriation hereinafter provided such sum as in the judgment of the said board is necessary for his maintenance and support and for the maintenance and support of persons depending upon him, if any: Sec. 2, act of June 27, 1918 (40 Stat. 617), as amended by act of July 11, 1919 (41 Stat. 159). * ** * * * * Provided further, That the board may, after June 30, 1920. pay, subject to the conditions and limitations rescribed by section 2 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act as amended, to all trainees undergoing training under said section residing where maintenance and support is above the average and comparatively high, in lieu of the monthly payments for maintenance and support prescribed by section 2, as amended, such sum as in the judgment of the said board is necessary for his maintenance and support and for the maintenance and support of persons dependent upon him, if any: Provided, however, That in no event shall the sum so paid such person while pursuing such course be more than $100 per month for a single man without dependents, or for a man with dependents $120 per month, plus the several sums prescribed as family allowances under section 204 of Article II of the War Risk Insurance Act. Act of June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 1021), making appropriations to supply deficiencies. The maximum amounts previously allowed were $80 for a single man and $100 for a man with dependents. 2039. Compensation omitted or reduced during vocational rehabilitation.*** No compensation under Article III of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,'" approved October 6, 1917, shall be paid for the period during which any such person is being furnished by said board a course of vocational rehabilitation and support as herein authorized: Provided, however, That in the event any person pursuing a course of vocational rehabilitation is entitled under said Article III to compensation in an amount in excess of the payments made to him by the said board for his support and the support of his dependents, if any, the Bureau of War Risk Insurance shall pay monthly to such person such additional amount as may be necessary to equal the total compensation due under said Article III of said Act. Sec. 2, act of June 27, 1918 (40 Stat. 618), as amended by act of July 11, 1919 (41 Stat. 159). 2040. Reports upon vocational rehabilitation and placement for students.That it shall also be the duty of the board to make or cause to have made studies, investigations, and reports regarding the vocational rehabilitation of disabled persons and their placement in suitable or gainful occupations. When the board deems it advisable, such studies, investigations, and reports may be made in cooperation with or through other departments and bureaus of the Government, and the board in its discretion may cooperate with such public or private agencies as it may deem advisable in performing the duties imposed upon it by this Act. Sec. 5, act of June 27, 1918 (40 Stat. 618). 2041. Special fund for vocational rehabilitation.-That the board is hereby authorized and empowered to receive such gifts and donations from either public or private sources as may be offered unconditionally. All moneys received as gifts or donations shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, and shall constitute a permanent fund, to be called the "Special fund for vocational rehabilitation," to be used under the direction of the said board, in connection with the appropriations hereby made or hereafter to be made, to defray the expenses of providing and maintaining courses of vocational rehabilitation; and a full report of all gifts and donations offered and accepted, and all disbursements therefrom, shall be submitted annually to Congress by said board. Sec. 7, act of June 27, 1918 (40 Stat. 619). Sec. 214 (11), act of Feb. 24, 1919 (40 Stat. 1068), provided as follows: "Contributions or gifts made within the taxable year to the special fund for vocational rehabilitation authorized by section 7 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, to an amount not in excess of 15 per centum of the taxpayer's net income as computed without the benefit of this paragraph. Such contributions or gifts shall be allowable as deductions only if verified under rules and regulations prescribed by the Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary. In the case of a nonresident alien individual this deduction shall be allowed only as to contributions or gifts made to domestic corporations, or to such vocational rehabilitation fund." Additions were made to the above permanent fund and conditions of expenditure laid down in subsequent appropriation acts for deficiencies and sundry civil expenses in providing for the Federal Board for Vocational Education. 2042. Application of the special fund for vocational rehabilitation.-That the special fund for vocational education, authorized by section seven of the vocational rehabilitation Act, approved June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen, together with the items of appropriations made by said Act, are hereby made available, in addition to the purposes therein prescribed, for such other expenses as in the discretion of the board is deemed necessary and proper for the payment of necessary travel, lodging, subsistence, and other expenses of disabled men while under investigation by the board to determine their eligibility for training under the Act, and the purchase of supplies, equipment, and clothing for disabled men when ready to enter employment, and the traveling expenses of such men to place of employment and for supplementing any or all of the other items of appropriation made by said Act. Act of Feb. 26, 1919 (40 Stat. 1179). 2043. Saint Elizabeths Hospital established.-There shall be in the District of Columbia a Government Hospital for the Insane, and its objects shall be 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. R. S. 4838. After the passage of this Act the Government Hospital for the Insane shall be known and designated as Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Act of July 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 309), making appropriations for sundry civil expenses. Notes of Decisions. Hospital as a charitable institution.-The Government Hospital for the Insane is a charitable or eleemosynary institution, within act June 6, 1909, creating a Board of Charities for the District of Columbia, and such board has general supervision over it, and, under the order of the District Com missioners, has power of investigation with the duty of submitting a report and recommendation to Congress, but with this exception, the powers and duties of the Secretary of the Interior remain unchanged by the act. (1900), 23 Op. Atty. Gen. 287. 2044. Site of Saint Elizabeths Hospital.-The Secretary of War is authorized to grant a revocable permit to the Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the use of such portions of land as are at present not under lease and such other portions thereof as leases thereof expire, of that portion of land lying along Anacostia Flats which has been reclaimed by the War Department and is valuable for farming purposes. Act of Oct. 6, 1917 (40 Stat. 373). 2045. Officers of Saint Elizabeths Hospital.-The chief executive officer of the Government Hospital for the Insane shall be a superintendent, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, 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 board of visitors, appoint a responsible disbursing agent for the institution, who shall give a bond satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, and the said superintendent shall 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 also be an ex officio secretary of the board of visitors. R. S. 4839, as amended by sec. 1, act of Feb. 2, 1909 (35 Stat. 592). "The salary of the superintendent of the hospital is hereby fixed at five thousand dollars per annum." Act of Mar. 4, 1911 (36 Stat. 1422). 2046. Funds of Saint Elizabeths Hospital.-For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital of the insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States, civilians in the quartermaster's service of the Army, persons transferred from the Canal Zone, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, for the use of the superintendent, purchasing agent, and general hospital business, not exceeding $16,500; and not exceeding $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the general hospital business, $1,000,000; and not exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in the removal of patients to their friends, not exceeding $1,000 in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients. Act of Mar. 4, 1921 (41 Stat. 1408), making appropriations for sundry civil expenses: Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Similar provisions appear in previous appropriation acts. * 2047. Disbursement of funds of Saint Elizabeths Hospital.- * * The said disbursing agent, under the direction of the superintendent, shall have the custody of and pay out all moneys appropriated by Congress for the Government Hospital for the Insane, or otherwise received for the purposes of the hospital, and all moneys received by the superintendent in behalf of the hospital or its patients, and keep an accurate account or accounts thereof. The said disbursing agent shall deposit in the Treasury of the United States, under the direction of the superintendent, all funds now in the hands of the superintendent or which may hereafter be intrusted to him by or for the use of patients, which shall be kept in a separate account; and the said disbursing agent is authorized to draw therefrom, under the direction of the said superintendent, 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. R. S. 4839, as amended by sec. 1, act of Feb. 2, 1909 (35 Stat. 592). The superintendent was required to give a special bond for the faithful performance of his duties as custodian of the funds of patients intrusted to him, by a provision of act of July 1, 1898 (30 Stat. 623). Notes of Decisions. Disbursements and pensions.-The statute refers only to disbursements for the support of administrative expenses of the hos pital, and not to disbursements for new buildings. Evans v. U. S. (1909), 44 Ct. Cl. 549. * * 2048. Pensions of patients in Saint Elizabeths Hospital. During the time that any pensioner shall be an inmate of the Government Hospital for the Insane, all money due or becoming due upon his or her pension shall be paid by the pension agent to the superintendent or disbursing agent of the hospital, upon a certificate by such superintendent that the pensioner is an inmate of the hospital and is living, and such pension money shall be by said superintendent or disbursing agent disbursed and used, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, for the benefit of the pensioner, and, in case of a male pensioner, his wife, minor children, and dependent parents, or, if a female pensioner, her minor children, if any, in the order named, and to pay his or her board and maintenance in the hospital, the re |