Chapter CCCLIII. to amend an Act entitled “An Act supplementary to an Act to provide for furnishing Artificial Limbs to disabled Soldiers,” approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy
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CHAP. CCCLIII.— An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act supplementary to an Act to provide for furnishing Artificial Limbs to disabled Soldiers,” approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy.June 8, 1872.1870, ch. 132.Vol. xvi. p. 153.1870, ch. 179.Vol. xvi. p. 174. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the acts approved JuneArtificial limbs, to be furnished to all officers, and enlisted or hired men of the land and naval forces, who have lost limbs, or the use thereof, &c. seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy, and June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, for supplying artificial limbs, or commutation for the same, to officers, soldiers, and seamen, shall apply to all officers, non-commissioned officers, enlisted and hired men of the land and naval forces of the United States, who, in the line of their duty as such, shall have lost limbs or sustained bodily injuries depriving them of the use of any of their limbs, to be determined by the surgeon-general of the army.
Sec. 2. That the transportation allowed for having artificial limbs fittedTransportation. shall be furnished by the Quartermaster-General of the army, the cost of which shall be refunded from the appropriations for invalid pensions. Sec. 3. That the term of five years specified in the first section of theThe term of five years, when such limbs are to be supplied anew, when to commence. act approved June seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled “An act to provide for furnishing artificial limbs to disabled soldiers,” shall be339FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 353–356. 1872. held to commence in each case with the filing of the application under that act. Approved, June 8, 1872.