Chapter 184. To establish a branch soldiers’ home at or near Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee
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CHAP. 184.— An Act To establish a branch soldiers’ home at or near Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee. January 28, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Board of Managers Johnson City, Washington County, Tenn.Branch Soldiers’ Home established at.of the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers are hereby authorized and directed to locate a branch of the Home at Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee, or within a radius of five miles thereof.
The same shall not be located on a tract of land less than three hundred acres in extent. Sec. 2. That said branch home shall be located and the ground purchased Limit of time for location.unless the same be donated) 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, Erection of buildings.from the approval of this Act, the said Board of Managers shall commence the erection or purchase of a suitable building or buildings on the grounds so purchased for the use of said branch home.
That said building or buildings shall be completed at as early a day as possible. Sec. 4. That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is Appropriation.hereby 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 who served Who may be admitted to Home.in the war of the rebellion and the Spanish-American war, and the provisional army and the volunteer soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve and of the Mexican war, 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, January 28, 1901.