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title_name: "HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS"
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# 24 U.S.C. § 161 - Repealed. Pub. L. 98–621, § 10(a), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3379

## Notes

Section, R.S. § 4838; July 1, 1916, ch. 209, 39 Stat. 309; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 201, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1098, related to establishment of Saint Elizabeths Hospital.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of RepealRepeal effective Oct. 1, 1987, see section 12(b) of Pub. L. 98–621, set out as an Effective Date note under section 225 of this title.