Executive Order 9498—Amending Executive Order 9079 of February 26, 1942, Making Certain Public Health Service Hospitals Available for the Care and Treatment of Insane Persons

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 4 of the act of July 1, 1902, 32 Stat. 713, as modified by section 1 of the act of August 14, 1912, 37 Stat. 309 (U.S.C., Title 42, sec. 8), and by Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, approved December 18, 1941 (Public Law 354, 77th Congress), paragraph 4 of Executive Order 9079 of February 26, 1942, making certain Public Health Service hospitals available for the care and treatment of insane persons, is hereby amended to read as follows:

4. To the extent deemed necessary and proper by the Federal Security Administrator, and under his direction, payment may be made, either in advance or by reimbursement at the end of each month, to the appropriation for the operation and maintenance of said Public Health Service hospitals from the appropriation for the care and maintenance of patients at Saint Elizabeths Hospital.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
November 11, 1944.