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 be retroactive and the provisions hereof shall take effect upon date of approval thereof, except as otherwise provided for herein, and all Acts or parts of Acts contrary to the provisions of this Act or inconsistent therewith be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Approved, July 2, 1926

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Director of the United States Veterans' Bureau is authorized to grant on behalf of the United States to the Tuskegee Railroad Company, without compensation, an easement over such strip of land fifty feet in width as the director may designate in the tract now occupied in part by the United States Veterans' Hospital Numbered 91, Tuskegee, Alabama; such easement to be subject to such reasonable requirements as the director may impose for the protection of the hospital and the interests of the United States, and to continue as long as such strip of land is actually occupied and used by the grantee, its successors or assigns, for the construction or operation and maintenance of an extension of its railroad.

Approved, July 2, 1926.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 10 of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, approved June 7, 1924, is hereby amended to read as follows:

The director, subject to the general directions of the President, shall be responsible for the proper examination, medical care, treatment, hospitalization, dispensary, and convalescent care necessary and reasonable aftercare, welfare of, nursing, vocational training, and such other services as may be necessary in the carrying out of the provisions of this Act, and for that purpose is hereby authorized, at the direction of the President or with the approval of the head of the department concerned, to utilize the now existing or future facilities of the United States Public Health Service, the War Department, the Navy Department, the Interior Department, the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and such other governmental facilities as may be made available for the purposes set forth in this Act; and such governmental agencies are hereby authorized to furnish such facilities, including personnel, equipment, medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies as the director may deem necessary and advisable in carrying out the provisions of the Act, in addition to such governmental facilities as are hereby made available.

"When in the opinion of the director, the facilities and services utilized for the hospitalization, medical care, and treatment for beneficiaries under this Act are unsatisfactory, the director shall make arrangements for the further hospitalization, care, and treatment of such beneficiaries by other means: Provided, That the director is hereby authorized to hospitalize women veterans entitled to hospitalization under the provisions of this Act and amendments thereto, in other than Government hospitals.

"In the event that there are not sufficient and satisfactory Government hospital and out-patient dispensary facilities for the proper