Chapter LI. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate a national military and naval Asylum for the Relief of the totally disabled Officers and Men of the Volunteer Forces of the United States,” approved March twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-sir, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. LI.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate a national military and naval Asylum for the Relief of the totally disabled Officers and Men of the Volunteer Forces of the United States,” approved March twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-sir, and for other Purposes*. Jan. 23, 1873.1865, ch. 91.Vol. xiii. p. 509.1806, ch. 21.Vol. xiv. p. 10. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, The word “home” substituted for “asylum” in the act named.
That the said act be so amended that wherever the word “asylum” occurs therein, the word “home” shall be inserted instead thereof. Sec. 2. A suit of clothing, or, &c., to be given to each soldier who, &c.That the act approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled “An act for the relief of maimed and destitute soldiers,” shall be construed to extend to all soldiers who have been, or are, in the national asylum, so as to give to each one a suit of clothing, or its equivalent in clothing, from the stock on hand in the Quartermaster’s1867, ch. 4.Vol. xv. p. 1.Managers of the National, &c., Home. department; and that Frederick Smythe, of New Hampshire, Benjamin F.
Butler, of Massachusetts, and Thomas O. Osborn, of Illinois, shall be managers of said corporation. Approved, January 23, 1873.