Chapter 695. to authorize the location of a branch home for volunteer disabled soldiers in Grant County, Indiana, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 695.— An Act to authorize the location of a branch home for volunteer disabled soldiers in Grant County, Indiana, and for other purposes.July 23, 1888. *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 Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers are hereby authorized and directed to locate a branch of the Home at some suitable point in Grant County.
State of Indiana. The same shall not beBranch to be located in Grant County, hid. located on a tract of land less than two hundred acres in extent. Sec. 2. That said branch home shall be located, and the groundLocation. purchased by said board of managers, within three months, or as soon thereafter as practicable, from the approval of this act. Sec. 3. That within six months, or as soon thereafter as practicable, from the approval ofBuilding. 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: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Gas. That the citizens of said county shall drill a natural gas well or wells on said grounds, of sufficient capacity to furnish gas for heating and lighting said buildings, and shall supply an adequate quantity of such gas free of cost to the Government. Sec. 4. That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars is herebyAppropriation. 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 whoAdmission. served in the war of the rebellion, 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. Approved, July 23, 1888.