Chapter 56. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States,” approved August 27, 1888, as amended March 2, 1889
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CHAP. 56.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States,” approved August 27, 1888, as amended March 2, 1889. January 27, 1920. [[H. R. 1216](/us/bill/66/hr/1216).] [[Public, No. 126](/us/pl/66/126).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That section 1 of an ActState or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers.Vol. 25, pp. 450, 975, amended. entitled “An Act to provide aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States,” approved August 27, 1888, as amended March 2, 1889, is hereby amended to read as follows:
" “That all States or Territories which have established, or whichFederal aid to.Service of inmates extended to all wars. shall hereafter establish, State homes for disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States who served in the Civil War or in any previous or subsequent war who are disabled by age, disease, or otherwise, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning a living, provided such disability was not incurred in service against the United States, shall be paid for every such disabled soldier or sailor who may beAmount increased.Ascertainment of number of inmates. admitted and cared for in such home at the rate of $120 per annum.
“The number of such persons for whose care any State or Territory shall receive the said payment under this Act shall be ascertained by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers under such regulations as it may prescribe, but the said StateControl of State or Territory exclusive. or Territorial homes shall be exclusively under the control of the respective State or Territorial authorities, and the board of managers shall not have nor assume any management or control of said State or Territorial homes.
“The board of managers of the national home shall, however, haveInspection, etc. power to have the said State or Territorial homes inspected at such times as it may consider necessary, and shall report the result of such inspections to Congress in its annual report: *Provided*, That no State*Provisos*.Allowance limited. shall be paid a sum exceeding one-half the cost of maintenance of each soldier or sailor by such State: *Provided further*, That one-half of anyReduction for sums received from pensions. sum or sums retained by State homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for.
That no money shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial homeIntoxicants forbidden. that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold: *Provided further*, That for any sum or sums collected in any mannerDeduction for money collected from inmates.Exception. from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained.
” " Approved, January 27, 1920.