---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 U.S.C. § 222"
title: "24"
title_heading: "Hospitals and Asylums"
number: "222"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 98–621, § 10(a), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3379"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/24/222"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Saint Elizabeths Hospital"
  - "Subchapter II — Inmates; Burden of Expenses Thereof; Detention of Insane"
---

# [§222. Repealed. Pub. L. 98–621, § 10(a), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3379 — repealed]



## Notes

Section 221, R.S. § 4856; June 25, 1936, ch. 804, 49 Stat. 1921; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 32(b), 62 Stat. 991; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 127, 63 Stat. 107, related to discharge of insane patients on bond.

Section 222, R.S. § 4857, provided that no insane person not charged with any breach of the peace should ever be confined in the United States jail in the District of Columbia.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal 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.