Chapter 316. to provide for the location and erection of a branch home for disabled volunteer soldiers west o£ the Rocky Mountains
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CHAP. 316.— An Act to provide for the location and erection of a branch home for disabled volunteer soldiers west o£ the Rocky Mountains.March 2, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. That the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers are hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to locate, establish, construct, and Branch to be established west of Rocky Mountains.permanently maintain a branch of said National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to be by such Board located at such place in the States west of the Rocky Mountains as to said Board shall appear most desirable and advantageous; and that the sum of one hundred and fifty Appropriation.thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the said Board of Managers, and by them expended in carrying out the provisions of this act.
Sec. 2. That all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who servedAdmissions. in the regular and volunteer forces of the United States, and who are disabled by disease, wounds, or otherwise, and who have no adequate means of support, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning their living, shall be entitled to be admitted to said home for [R. S., sec. 4832, p. 937](/us/rs/t/s4832/p937).disabled volunteer soldiers, subject to like regulations as they are now admitted to existing branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
Sec. 3. That as soon thereafter as practicable from the approval ofBuilding to commence as soon as practicable. this act, the said Board of Managers shall secure the necessary lands and commence the erection of suitable buildings for the use of said branch. Sec. 4. That William Blanding, of San Francisco. California, be, andWilliam Blanding appointed a manager. he is hereby, appointed a manager of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, to serve until the second day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-two; and that hereafter the number of managers Number increased to ten.[R.
S., sec., 4826, p. 936](/us/rs/t/s4826/p936).of the said Home elected by Congress, shall be ten instead of nine, as at present, one of whom shall be a resident of a State or Territory west of the Rocky Mountains. Approved, March 2, 1887.