Chapter 223. to authorize the location of a branch home for disabled volunteer soldiers and sailors in either the State of Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri or Nebraska, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 223.— An Act to authorize the location of a branch home for disabled volunteer soldiers and sailors in either the State of Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri or Nebraska, and for other purposes.July 5, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Branch home for disabled volunteer soldiers and sailors authorized. That the Board of Managers of the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers are hereby authorized and directed to locate a branch of the home at some suitable point in either the States of Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, or Nebraska.
The same shall not be located on a tract of land less Location.than three hundred and twenty acres in extent. 121 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 223, 224. 1884. Sec. 2. That said branch home shall be located and the ground purchased,Board of Mana-Sers of Home for disabled volunteer Soldiers to select site, etc., *proviso*. unless the same be donated, by said Board of Managers within three months, or as soon thereafter as practicable from the approval of this act: *Provided*, That said Board of Managers may select any Government property suitable for such home, by and with the consent of the Secretary of War.
Sec. 3. That within six months, or as soon thereafter as practicable,Selection to be made and erection of buildings commenced within six months, etc. from the approval of this act, the said Board of Managers shall commence the erection of a suitable building or buildings on the ground so purchased for the use of said branch home. That said building or buildings shall be completed at as early a day as possible. Sec. 4. That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars isAppropriation. hereby appropriated for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned and the improvement of the grounds of said branch home.
Sec. 5. That all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who servedPersons eligible to admission to branch home, etc. in the war of the rebellion, and the volunteer soldiers and sailors of the war eighteen hundred and twelve and of the Mexican war, who are disabled by age, disease or otherwise, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning a living, shall be admitted into the home for disabled volunteer soldiers. *Provided* such disability was not incurred in*Proviso*. service against the United States.
Sec. 6. That the Board of Managers of the Home for Disabled VolunteerBoard of Managers authorized to inquire into expediency of establishing other branch homes for disabled volunteer soldiers, etc. Soldiers is hereby authorized to inquire into the expediency of establishing a branch of the home in the State of California for the Pacific coast; and to that end the said Board is authorized to receive propositions from the managers of the “Veteran Home” located in Napa County, California, for the transfer of the buildings, grounds, and property of said “Veterans’ Home” to the United States, for use as a branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and to report to Congress in respect to the propriety and expediency of accepting said “Veterans Home” for such branch; but this section shall not interfere with the establishing of the home provided for in this act.
And also that the Board of Managers of the Soldiers’ Home be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a branch soldiers’ home in the State of Michigan, and also as to the use of the Fort Dearborn Military Reservation, and the building thereon, for that purpose, and to report to Congress thereon at an early day; but this provision shall not interfere with the establishment of the home provided for in this act Approved, July 5, 1884.