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§ 9279. (R. S. § 4835.) Inmates subject to Articles of War.

All inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be subject to the Rules and Articles of War, and in the same manner as if they were in the Army.

Act March 21, 1866, c. 21, § 9, 14 Stat. 11. Act Jan. 23, 1873, c. 51, § 1, 17 Stat. 417.

§ 9280. (Act Aug. 18, 1894, c. 301, § 1.) Annual inspection; report. Hereafter, once in each fiscal year, the Secretary of War shall cause a thorough inspection to be made of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, its records, disbursements, management, discipline, and condition, such inspection to be made by an officer of the Inspector-General's Department, who shall report thereon in writing, and said report shall be transmitted to Congress at the first session thereafter. (28 Stat. 412.)

This was a provision accompanying appropriations for the support of the Home in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1895, cited above.

§ 9281. (Act June 11, 1896, c. 420.) Medical supplies.

Hereafter upon proper application therefor, the Medical Department of the Army is authorized to sell medical and hospital supplies at its contract prices to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. (29 Stat. 445.)

This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1897, cited above.

§ 9282. (R. S. § 4836.) Amendment, etc., of laws.

Congress may at any time alter, amend, or repeal the laws relating to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

Act March 21, 1866, c. 21, § 13, 14 Stat. 11. Act Jan. 23, 1873, c. 51, § 1, 17 Stat. 417.

(R. S. § 4837. Superseded.)

This section provided for the distribution of certain public documents to certain Homes. It was repealed and re-enacted by Act Feb. 8, 1881, c. 35, 21 Stat. 322, and as amended it was repealed and re-enacted by Act July 26, 1894, c. 168, 28 Stat. 159. It was superseded by the provisions for distribution of such public documents of the Printing and Binding Act of Jan. 12, 1895, c. 23, § 73, ante, §§ 7053-7095.

§ 9283. (Act June 23, 1879, c. 35, § 1.) Headstones at Central Branch.

For maintaining and improving national cemeteries.

And

the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers may charge the regulation stone to be used in the Central Branch at a cost not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents additional for each one. (21 Stat. 33.)

This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1880, cited above.

Provisions relating to headstones in national cemeteries were made by R. S. § 4877, post, § 9371.

§ 9284. (Act March 22, 1906, c. 1127, § 1.) Battle Mountain Sanitarium Reserve; establishment; rights acquired to lands, not affected.

There are hereby reserved from settlement, entry, sale, or other

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disposal all those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of South Dakota and within the boundaries particularly described as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of section eighteen, township seven south, range six east, Black Hills meridian; thence east to the southeast corner of said section eighteen; thence south to the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of section twenty; thence east to the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section twenty-one; thence north to the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section nine; thence west to the center of section seven; thence south to the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of section seven; thence west to the northwest corner of section eighteen; thence south to the place of beginning, all in township seven south, range six east, Black Hills meridian, in Fall River County, South Dakota: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any valid rights acquired in connection with any of the lands embraced within the limits of said reserve. Stat. 83.)

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This section and the three sections next following were an act entitled "An act to set apart certain lands in the State of South Dakota to be known as the Battle Mountain Sanitarium Reserve."

§ 9285. (Act March 22, 1906, c. 1127, § 2.) Name of reservation; control, rules and regulations.

Said reserve shall be known as the Battle Mountain Sanitarium Reserve, and shall be under the exclusive control of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in connection with the Battle Mountain Sanitarium at Hot Springs, South Dakota, whose duty it shall be to prescribe such rules and regulations and establish such service as they may deem necessary for the care and management of the same. (34 Stat. 83.)

Violation of the rules and regulations prescribed was made punishable, by section 4 of this act, post, § 9287.

§ 9286. (Act March 22, 1906, c. 1127, § 3.) Perfecting bona fide claims to lands; exchange of private lands; selection by State of land in lieu of portions of section 16 included.

In all cases of unperfected bona fide claims lying within the said boundaries of said reserve, which claims have been properly initiated prior to September second, nineteen hundred and two, said claims may be perfected upon compliance with the requirements of the laws respecting settlement, residence, improvements, and so forth, in the same manner in all respects as claims are perfected to other Government lands: Provided, That to the extent that the lands within said reserve are held in private ownership the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized in his discretion to exchange therefor public lands. of like area and value, which are surveyed, vacant, unappropriated, not mineral, not timbered, and not required for reservoir sites or other public uses or purposes. The private owners must, at their expense and by appropriate instruments of conveyance, surrender to the Government a full and unencumbered right and title to the private lands included in any exchange before patents are issued for or any rights attached to the public lands included therein, and no charge of any

kind shall be made for issuing such patents. Upon completion of any exchange the lands surrendered to the Government shall become a part of said reserve in a like manner as if they had been public lands at the time of the establishment of said reserve. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the issuance of any land scrip, and the State of South Dakota is granted the privilege of selecting from the public lands in said State an equal quantity of land in lieu of such portions of section sixteen included within said reserve as have not been sold or disposed of by said State and are not covered by an unperfected bona fide claim as above mentioned. (34 Stat. 83.) § 9287. (Act March 22, 1906, c. 1127, § 4.) Unlawful intrusion, etc., or violation of rules and regulations, punishable.

All persons who shall unlawfully intrude upon said reserve, or who shall without permission appropriate any object therein or commit unauthorized injury or waste in any form whatever upon the lands or other public property therein, or who shall violate any of the rules and regulations prescribed hereunder, shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned for a period not more than twelve months, or shall suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. (34 Stat. 83.)

§ 9288. (Act Aug. 27, 1888, c. 914, § 1.) Aid to State Homes; regulations by managers of National Home; inspection.

All States or Territories which have established, or which shall hereafter establish, State homes for disabled soldiers and sailors. of the United States who served in the war of the rebellion, or in any previous 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 be admitted and cared for in such home at the rate of one hundred dollars 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 State 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, have 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. (25 Stat. 450.)

The sundry civil appropriation acts and various deficiency appropriation acts for several years preceding the fiscal year 1905, made appropriations for continuing aid to State or Territory Homes, in conformity with this section, with a proviso annexed to each appropriation that one-half of any sum or sums retained by State Homes on account of pensions received from inmates should be deducted from the aid so provided for. To the similar appropriations for the year 1905 and subsequent years to and including 1909, a differ

ent proviso relating to the regulations of such Homes respecting pensions of inmates was annexed, and also a further proviso forbidding apportionment of any part of the appropriation to any such Home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold. To the appropriations for the fiscal years 1910 and subsequent years, two provisos are annexed, as follows: "Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any state or territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold: Provided further, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner 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." The provision for the fiscal year 1914 was by Act June 23, 1913, c. 3, § 1, 38 Stat. 43.

Section 2 of this act made an appropriation to carry out the provisions of the act. It is omitted, as temporary merely.

§ 9289. (Act Feb. 8, 1889, c. 116.) Issue of obsolete cannon to National or State Homes.

The Secretary of War be, and hereby is, authorized and directed, subject to such regulations as he may prescribe, to deliver to any of the "National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers" already established or hereafter established and to any of the State Homes for soldiers and sailors or either now or hereafter duly established and maintained under State authority, such obsolete serviceable cannon, bronze or iron, suitable for firing salutes, as may be on hand undisposed of, not exceeding two to any one Home. (25 Stat. 657.)

Provisions authorizing the issuance of obsolete or condemned ordnance, etc., to Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, were made by Act May 26, 1900, c. 586, post, § 9290.

§ 9290. (Act May 26, 1900, c. 586.) Issue of obsolete or condemned ordnance to Homes.

Hereafter the Chief of Ordnance is authorized to issue such obsolete or condemned ordnance, gun carriages, and ordnance stores as may be needed for ornamental purposes to the Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, the Homes to pay for transportation out of any appropriation for current expenses. (31 Stat. 216.)

This was a provision of the army appropriation act for the fiscal year 1901, cited above.

A similar provision was made by the similar appropriation act, for the preceding year, Act March 3, 1899, c. 423, 30 Stat. 1064.

Provisions authorizing the issuance of obsolete cannon to National and to State Homes were made by Act Feb. 8, 1889, c. 116, ante, § 9289.

§ 9291. (Act March 3, 1901, c. 853.) Jurisdiction over sites of certain Branch Homes ceded to States.

The jurisdiction over the places purchased and used for the location of the Branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, under and by the authority of an Act of Congress approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin, and upon which said Branch Home is located, and by authority of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in the county of Leavenworth, State of Kansas, and upon which said Branch Home is located,

is hereby ceded to the respective States in which said Branches are located and relinquished by the United States, and the United States shall claim or exercise no jurisdiction over said places after the passage of this Act: Provided, That nothing contained herein shall be construed to impair the powers or rights heretofore conferred upon or exercised by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in and on said places. (31 Stat. 1175.)

This was a provision accompanying appropriations for the support of the Home in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1902, cited above.

Act March 21, 1866, c. 21, mentioned in this section, was incorporated into R. S. 88 4825-4836, included in this chapter.

July 5, 1884, c. 223, evidently intended to be referred to in this section instead of Act July 5, 1888, mentioned therein, authorized the establishment of a branch Home in Kansas.

Sec.

CHAPTER FOUR

The Government Hospital for the Insane

9292. Establishment of the Government Hospital for the Insane.

9293. The superintendent; appointment
and duties of disbursing agent;
disbursement of pension money
of inmates.

9294. Salary of superintendent.
9295. Supervision of funds of patients;
special bond of superintendent.
9296. Determining per capita cost of

patients.

9297. Report of superintendent. 9298. Board of visitors.

9299. President of board of visitors.
9300. Powers and duties of the board of
visitors.

9301. Admission of insane persons of
the Army, Navy, Marine Corps,
etc.
9302. Admission of insane patients of
Public Health Service.

9303. Admission of insane inmates of
Soldiers' Home.

9304. Admission of insane inmates of National Home for Disabled Volunteers.

9305. Care of Army insane and of in-
mates of National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers on
Pacific Coast.

9306. Care of insane natives of Philip-
pine Islands serving in Army,
at asylum in Islands.
9307. Admission of the indigent insane
of the District of Columbia.
9308. Admission of indigent insane only
upon order of executive author-
ity of District.

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9316. Return of indigent non-residents:
costs.

9317. Proceedings in lunacy on petition
of Commissioners of District of
Columbia; jurors; appointment
of committee or trustee of per-
son adjudged insane having
property, and reimbursement of
costs and expenses incurred.
9318. Discharge of person adjudged of
unsound mind, as cured; sworn
statement and order of court
thereon restoring such person
to former legal status.
9319. Admission of insane persons ac-
cused of crime.

9320. Insane convicts.
9321. Transfer of insane convicts to
Hospital.

9322. Accommodation in State asylums;

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