Chapter 562.
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CHAP. 562.— An act to amend section forty-seven hundred and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States.March 3, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Artificial limbs, etc., to he furnished every three years. R. S., sec. 4787, p. 929, amended. That section forty-seven hundred and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by striking out the word “five” where it occurs therein, and inserting in lieu thereof the word “three” so that when amended said section will read as follows:
Every officer, soldier, seaman, and marine who was disabled during the war for the suppression of the rebellion, in the military or naval service, and in the line of duty, or in consequence of wounds received or disease contracted therein, and who was furnished by the War Department since the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, with an artificial limb or apparatus for resection, who was entitled to receive such limb or apparatus since said date, shall be entitled to receive a new limb or apparatus at the expiration of every three years thereafter. under such regulations as have been or may be prescribed by the Surgeon-General of the Army.
Approved, March 3, 1891.