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PUBLIC LAW 85-285-SEPT. 4, 1957

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Public Law 85-285 September 4, 1957 [H. R. 8918]

Sibley Memorial Hospital. Site.

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AN ACT To further amend the Act of August 7, 1946 (60 Stat. 896), as amended by the Act of October 25, 1951 (65 Stat. 657), to provide for the exchange of lands of the United States as a site for the pew Sibley Memorial Hospital; to provide for the transfer of the property of the Hahnemann Hospital of the District of Columbia, formerly the National Homeopathic Association, a corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia, to the Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses and Missionaries, including Sibley Memorial Hospital, a corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subparagraph (c) of section 1 of the Act of August 7, 1946 (60 Stat. 896), as amended by the Act of October 25, 1951 (65 Stat. 657), is further amended by inserting immediately after the word "otherwise" and before the closing parenthesis in the first clause thereof the following language: "including the transfer to the Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses and Missionaries, including Sibley Memorial Hospital, a corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia, hereinafter referred to as 'Sibley Memorial Hospital', of so much of the lands of the United States reserved for a site for the National Training School for Girls by the Act of July 14, 1892 (27 Stat. 165), as amended, not exceeding twelve acres, as the Administrator determines will provide an adequate site for the new Sibley Memorial Hospital and Nurses Home project, in exchange for the transfer by the Sibley Memorial Hospital, as hereinafter provided, of the land and buildings comprising the site of the hospital and nurses home now held by the Hahnemann Hospital of the District of Columbia, formerly the National Homeopathic Association, a corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia, hereinafter referred to as Hahnemann Hospital, upon such terms and conditions as the Administrator determines to be in the public interest: Provided, That the exchange of properties herein authorized shall not be made until the Administrator determines the fair market value of the respective properties to be exchanged and credits in the grant agreement to be executed between the United States of America and the Sibley Memorial Hospital to the appropriate transferee the amount by whicn the value of one property exceeds the value of the other property: Provided further, That the value of any interest in the properties to be exchanged which the District of Columbia may have, as determined by the Administrator of General Services, shall be credited against the amount repayable by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia pursuant to section 5 of this Act: Provided further, That the Administrator may, in his discretion, with the consent of the Sibley Memorial Hospital, defer the exchange of deeds to such properties until such time as construction of the new Sibley Memorial Hospital and Nurses Home is determined by him to have been substantially completed: And provided further, That the board of trustees of the Hahnemann Hospital are hereby empowered to transfer and convey to the Sibley Memorial Hospital, upon such terms as may be approved by the Administrator, all the property, real, personal, and mixed of the Hahnemann Hospital, and dissolve the same; and the Sibley Memorial Hospital is hereby empowered to lease, sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of all such property and apply the proceeds to the objects for which the Sibley Memorial Hospital is incorporated: Provided, however, That the provisions of this Act shall not be construed to make the United States liable in any way on account of said

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