Chapter 115.
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CHAP. 115.— An act to provide a temporary home for certain persons discharged from the United States Navy.February 8, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Temporary homes for discharged seamen. R. S., sec. 1429, p. 252. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and be is hereby, authorized to permit any person receiving the honorable discharge authorized by section fourteen hundred and twenty-nine of the Revised Statutes to elect a home on board of any of the United States receiving-ships, during any portion of the three months granted by law as the limit of time within which to receive the pecuniary benefit of such discharge, the men so choosing a home to be entitled to one ration per day for their keepingRation, etc. while furnished with such home, but not to pay, other than that authorized by section fifteen hundred and seventy-three of the RevisedR.
S., sec. 1573, p. 269. Statutes of the United States upon reenlistment: *Provided*, That*Proviso*. the persons so furnished with a home shall be amenable to such regulationsRegulations. as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy or other competent authority. Approved, February 8, 1889.