An Act to provide for medical services to non-Indians in Indian hospitals, and for other purposes
PL 82-291 (H.R.1043), enacted 04/03/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 291—APR. 3, 1952 
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tion with the supervision, custody of, and accounting for, articles 
imported under the provisions of this Act, shall be reimbursed by 
the International House, Incorporated, a corporation, to the Govern-
ment of the United States under regulations to be prescribed by the 
Secretary of the Treasury, and that receipts from such reimburse-
ments shall be deposited as refunds to the appropriation from which 
paid, in the manner provided for in section 524, Tariff Act of 1930, 
as amended (U. S. C, 1946 edition, title 19, sec. 1524). 
Approved April 3, 1952. 
D e p o s i t of re-
ceipts. 
46 Stat. 741. 
Public Law 291 
CHAPTER 129 
AN ACT 
April 3, 1952 
To provide for medical services to non-Indians in Indian hospitals, and for 
[H.R. i043] 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That in any areas 
where there are inadequate hospital beds and health facilities available 
to serve the non-Indian population, the Secretary of the Interior is 
authorized in his discretion to make available to non-Indians, hospital 
and health facilities operated by the Indian Bureau which are not 
being utilized for Indians, at such fees and under such terms and 
conditions as he may prescribe: Provided, That the fees charged will 
not be less than the per diem cost per patient of operating and main-
taining the hospital or the health activity. 
SEC. 2. Whenever the health needs of the Indians can be better met 
thereby, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized in his discretion 
to enter into contracts with any State, Territory, or political sub-
division thereof, or any appropriate Federal, State, Territory, or polit-
ical subdivision thereof, or private nonprofit corporation, agency, or 
institution providing for the transfer by the Indian Bureau of Indian 
hospitals or other health facilities, including initial operating equip-
ment and supplies. It shall be a condition of each such transfer that 
all facilities transferred shall be available to meet the health needs of 
the Indians and that sucli health needs shall be given priority over 
those of the non-Indian population. No hospital or health facility that 
has been constructed or maintained for a specific tribe of Indians, or 
for a specific group of tribes, shall be transferred to a non-Indian entity 
or organization under this section unless such action has been approved 
by the governing body of the tribe, or by the governing bodies of a 
majority of the tribes, for which such hospital or health facility has 
been constructed or maintained. 
SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Interior is also authorized to enter into 
contracts with any physicians duly licensed by any State or Territory 
to provide medical attention or services to Indians, and to expend under 
such contract funds appropriated by Congress for medical attention 
to Indians. 
SEC. 4. Any contracts entered into pursuant to this Act shall provide 
that the standards of services to be rendered to Indians shall not be 
less than the standards established by the Secretary of the Interior; 
that the same services shall be rendered to Indian patients as is ren-
dered to other j)atients and that Indian patients shall not be segregated 
from other patients. 
SEC. 5. The Secretary of the Interior is also authorized to make such 
other regulations as he deems desirable to carry out the provisions 
of this Act. 
Indian hospital s. 
Services to non-
Indians. 
T r a n s f e r s of 
Indian hospitals. 
Condition. 
Restriction. 
Contracts 
physicians. 
S t a n d a r d s of 
services. 
Regulations. 
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Proceeds. 
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SEC. 6. Proceeds to be derived under section 1 sluiU be deposited in 
the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from which the hos-
pitalization or medical services are provided, and shall be available for 
expenditure for the purposes for which the appropriation was made. 
Approved April 3, 1952. 
Public Law 292 
CHAPTER 130 
April 3, 1952 
[H.R. 3954] 
Salt L a k e City, 
Utah. 
Conveyance. 
AN ACT 
Deed of convey-
ance. 
To iiutliorize the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association of Salt Lake City, Utah, 
to grant and convey to Salt Lake City, Ctah, a portion of the lands hereto-
fore granted to such association by the United States. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Hovxe of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the Mount 
Olivet Cemetery Association of Salt Lake City, Utah, is hereby au-
thorized to ^rant and convey to Salt Lake City, a municipal corpora-
tion of the State of I^^tah, for use for street or highway purposes, 
a tract of land situated in the southwest corner of the Mount Olivet 
Ometery, more i)articularly described as follows: 
Be<i:innin<»; at the southwest corner of the Mount Olivet Cemetery 
Association property (said ])oint being one hundred feet north of the 
original southwest corner of the Fort Douglas Military Reservation, 
and in the north line of Sunnyside Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah) ; 
running thence north no degrees no minutes twenty-eight seconds east 
along the west line of the cemetery property three hundred sixty-two 
and sixty-seven one-hundredths feet; thence southeasterly along a 
six hundred eighty-nine and fifty one-hundredths feet radius curve to 
the right, tangent to which bears south sixty-five degrees seven minutes 
seven seconds east a distance of two hundred eighty and twenty-
two one-hundredths feet to a point of reverse curve; thence along a 
six hundred ten and fifteen one-hundredths feet radius curve to the 
left, tangent to which bears south forty-one degrees forty-nine min-
utes fifty-nine seconds east, a distance of four hundred twenty-five 
and ninety-one one-hundredths feet to a ])oint in the south line of the 
cemetery property which is the north line of Sunnyside Avenue; thence 
south eighty-nine degrees fifty-nine minutes fifty seconds west along 
said line five hundred ninety-one and fifty-eight one-hundredths feet 
to point of beginning, containing two and eighteen one-hundredths 
acres. 
SEC. 2. The deed of conveyance of the tract of land described in 
the first section hereof shall contain a provision that such tract shall 
be used for street or highway ])urposes and that so long as the said 
Salt Lake City uses the tract of land for such purposes, the reversion-
ary clause set forth in the Act of January 23, 1909 (35 Stat. 589), 
shall not be operable with respect to that tract. 
SEC. 3. This Act shall not alter or affect Mount Olivet Cemetery 
Association's ownership of, or its rights and privileges with respect to, 
the remainder of the lands heretofore granted to it by the United 
States. 
Approved April 3, 1952.