Chapter 316. To amend section forty-eight hundred and thirty-three, Revised Statutes, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 316.— An Act To amend section forty-eight hundred and thirty-three, Revised Statutes, and for other purposes.August 23, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,National Home for Volunteer Soldiers. That section forty-eight hundred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 4833. The Managers of the National Home for Disabled VolunteerOutdoor relief.
R. S., sec. 4833. p. 937, amended. Soldiers are authorized to aid persons who are entitled to its benefits by outdoor relief, in such manner and to such extent as they may deem proper, but such relief shall not exceed the average cost of *Proviso*. Use of funds to transfer inmates, in case of Are, etc.maintaining an inmate of the Home: *Provided*, That in the even t that buildings at any Branch of the Home shall be destroyed by tire or rendered unfit for habitation because of pestilence or by the elements, then and in that event the Board of Managers shall have authority to remove the members of said Branch so afflicted or destroyed to any other Branch not so affected, and to do this, they may use any funds appropriated for the Home, notwithstanding they may have been specifically appropriated for other purposes, to the extent that such funds shall be necessary to effect such a transfer and the maintenance and support thereafter of said members so transferred, and shall report their doings therein to the Con gross and their expenditures Limit.as in other eases of expenditures: *Provided further*, That the appropriations for any fiscal year shall not be exceeded.
” " Sec. 2. That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved, August 23, 1894.