Chapter 173.
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CHAP. 173.— An act to amend the act entitled “An act to provide for furnishing trusses to disabled soldiers”, approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. March 3, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section one of the act1872, ch. 228,[17 Stat., 164](/us/stat/17/164). entitled “An act to provide for furnishing trusses to disabled soldiers ”, approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so that said section shall read as follows:
That every soldier of the Union Army, or petty-officer, seaman, orTrusses for soldiers and sailors. marine in the naval sendee, who was ruptured while in the line of duty during the late war for the suppression of the rebellion, or who shall be so raptured thereafter in any war, shall be entitled to receive a. single or double truss of such style as may be designated by the Surgeon-General of the United States Army as best suited for such disability; and wheneverRenewals. the said truss or trusses so furnished shall become useless from wear, destruction, or loss, such soldier, petty-officer, seaman, or marine shall be supplied with another truss on making a like application as provided for in section two of the original act of which this is an amendment: *Provided,* That such application shall not be made more than once*Proviso*. in two years and six months: *And provided further,* That sections two and three of the said act of May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred andExtension of act. seventy-two, shall be construed so as to apply to petty-officers, seamen, and marines of the naval service, as well as to soldiers of the Army.
Approved, March 3, 1879,