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dred dollars; on leave, or waiting orders, one thousand two hundred dollars.

15 July, 1870, s. 3, v. 16, p. 331.

24 Feb., 1874, v. 18, p. 17.

3 March, 1871, ss. 5, 6, v. 16. p. 535.

3 March, 1873, s. 1, v. 17, p. 555.

Detail of engifor col

neers

For the purpose of promoting a knowledge of steam-engineering and 26 Feb., 1879. iron-ship building among the young men of the United States, the President may, upon the application of an established scientific school or college within the United States, detail an officer from the Engineer leges. Corps of the Navy as professor in such school or college: Provided, That the number of officers so detailed shall not at any time exceed twentyfive, and such details shall be governed by rules to be prescribed from time to time by the President: And provided further, That such details may be withheld or withdrawn whenever, in the judgment of the President, the interests of the public service shall so require. 26 Feb., 1879, v. 20, p. 322.

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SEC. 1614. The Secretary of the Navy shall deduct from the pay due Title 15, Chap. 9. each of the officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps at the rate of Deduction for twenty cents per month for every officer and marine, to be applied to hospitals. the fund for Navy hospitals.

2 March, 1799, s. 2, v. 1, p. 729.

26 Feb., 1811, s. 1, v. 2, p. 650.

SEC. 4807. The Secretary of the Navy shall have the general charge Title 59, Chap. 1. and superintendence of Navy hospitals.

26 Feb., 1811, s. 1, v. 2, p. 650.

10 July, 1832, s. 5, v. 4. p. 573.

SEC. 4808. The Secretary of the Navy shall deduct from the pay due each officer, seaman and marine, in the Navy, at the rate of twenty cents per month for each person, to be applied to the fund for Navy hospitals.

2 March, 1799, s. 2, v. 1, p. 729.

26 Feb.. 1811, s. 1, v. 2, p. 650.

SEC. 4809. All fines imposed on Navy officers, seamen, and marines shall be paid to the Secretary of the Navy, for the maintenance of Navy hospitals.

26 Feb., 1811, s. 2, v. 2, p. 650.

10 July, 1832. s. 5, v. 4, p. 573.

Superin tendence of Navy hospitals. Deduction from pay of seamen, &c., for Navyhospital fund.

Appropriation

of fines.

SEC. 4810. The Secretary of the Navy shall procure at suitable places Purchase and proper sites for Navy hospitals, and if the necessary buildings are not erection of Navy hospitals. procured with the site, shall cause such to be erected, having due regard to economy, and giving preference to such plans as with most conven⚫ience and least cost will admit of subsequent additions, when the funds permit and circumstances require; and shall provide, at one of the establishments, a permanent asylum for disabled and decrepit Navy officers, seaman, and marines. [Naval Asylum now located at Philadelphia.] 26 Feb., 1811, s. 3, v. 2, p. 650.

10 July, 1832, s. 5, v. 4, p. 573.

Government of

SEC. 4811. The asylum for disabled and decrepit Navy officers, seamen, and marines shall be governed in accordance with the rules and Naval Asylum. regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. [See section 5757, naval pension fund, as to provision for those preferring pension to the asylum.]

26 Feb., 1811, s. 4, v. 2, p. 650.

Allowance of

hospitals.

SEC. 4812. For every Navy officer, seaman, or marine admitted into a Navy hospital, the institution shall be allowed one ration per day dur- rations to Navy ing his continuance therein, to be deducted from the account of the United States with such officer, seaman, or marine.

Ibid., s. 5.

Allowance from

pension.

30 June, 1882.

SEC. 4813. Whenever any Navy officer, seaman, or marine, entitled to a pension, is admitted to a Navy hospital, the pension, during his continuance in the hospital, shall be paid to the Secretary of the Navy and deducted from the account of such pensioner.

Ibid.

Provided, That one hundred thousand dollars be, and hereby is, appro Army and Navy priated for the erection of an Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, hospital at Hot Arkansas, which shall be erected by and under the direction of the SecSprings, Ark. retary of War, in accordance with plans and specifications to be prepared and submitted to the Secretary of War by the Surgeons-General of the Army and Navy; which hospital, when in a condition to receive patients, shall be subject to such rules, regulations, and restrictions as shall be provided by the President of the United States: Provided further, That such hospital shall be erected on the government reservation at or near Hot Springs, Arkansas.

3 March, 1883.

pitals.

30 June, 1882, P. E. L., p. 121. [Army appropriation act.]

And if the Secretary of the Navy shall not be able to maintain propClosing of hos. perly the whole number of naval hospitals now kept open on the amounts hereby appropriated for the maintenance of and civil establishment at naval hospitals, he shall close those which are least necessary to the service, and provide for the patients now cared for therein ch other naval hospitals as may be most convenient.

Sec.

5 Aug., 1882, and 3 March, 1883. [Naval appropriation acts.]

INSANE OF THE NAVY-GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL.

1551. Authority of the Secretary of the Navy, &c. 4838. Establishment of the Government Hospital for the Insane.

4843. Admission of insane persons of the Army Navy, &c.

Title 15, Chap. 7.
Insane of the
Navy.

Sec.

Limit to admission.

Transfer of insane convicts, &c.

Admission of insane inmates of National
Home for Disabled Volunteers.

SEC. 1551. The Secretary of the Navy may cause persons in the naval service or Marine Corps, who become insane while in the service, to be placed in such hospital for the insane as, in his opinion, will be most convenient and best calculated to promise a restoration of reason. And he may pay to any such hospital, other than the Government Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia, the pay which may from time to time be due to such insane person, and he may, in addition thereto, pay to such institution, from the annual appropriation for the naval service, under the head of contingent enumerated, any deficiency of a reasonable expense, not exceeding one hundred dollars per annum.

3 Aug., 1848, s. 13, v. 9, p. 272.

2 July, 1864, s. 2, v. 13, p. 348.

Title 59, Chap. 4. SEC. 4838. There shall be in the District of Columbia a Government Hospital for the insane, and its objects shall be the most humane care Hospital for the and enlightened curative treatment of the insane of the Army and Navy of the United States and of the District of Columbia.

Government

Insane.

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3 March, 1855, s. 1, v. 10, p. 682.

SEC. 4843. The superintendent, upon the order of the Secretary of War, of the Secretary of the Navy, and of the Secretary of the Treas ry, respectively, shall receive, and keep in custody until they are cured, or removed by the same authority which ordered their reception, insane persons of the following descriptions:

First. Insane persons belonging to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and revenue-cutter service.

Second. Civilians employed in the Quartermaster's and Subsistence Departments of the Army who may be, or may hereafter become, insane while in such employment.

Third. Men who, while in the service of the United States, in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, have been admitted to the hospital, and have been thereafter discharged from it on the supposition that they have recovered their reason, and have, within three years after such discharge, become again insane from causes existing at the time of such discharge, and have no adequate means of support.

Fourth. Indigent insane persons who have been in either of the said

services and been discharged therefrom on account of disability arising from such insanity.

Fifth. Indigent insane persons who have become insane within three years after their discharge from such service, from causes which arose during and were produced by said service.

15 June, 1860, s. 1, v. 12, p. 23.

13 July, 1866, ss. 1, 2, v. 14, pp. 93, 94.

16 June, 1880.

Limit to admis

Hereafter the admission to the hospital shall be limited to such persons as are entitled to treatment therein under the provisions of title 59, chap. 4, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and under sion. the act approved March 3, 1875, chap. 156. [See notes.]

16 June, 1880, v. 21, p. 259.

That upon the application of the Attorney-General the Secretary of Aug. 7, 1882. the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer to Transfer of inthe Government Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia all sane convicts, persons who, having been charged with offenses against the United &c., to GovernStates, are in the actual custody of its officers, and all persons who have ment Hospital. been or shall be convicted of any offense in a court of the United States and are imprisoned in any State prison or penitentiary of any State or Territory, and who during the term of their imprisonment have or shall become and be insane.

23 June, 1874, s. 1, v. 18, p. 251.
Aug. 7, 1882, P. E., p. 330.

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tional Home for

In addition to the persons now entitled to admission to said hospital, Admission any inmate of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, who insane from Nais now or may hereafter become insane shall, upon an order of the Disabled Volun president of the board of managers of the said National Home, be ad- teers. mitted to said hospital and treated therein; and if any inmate so admitted from said National Home is or thereafter becomes a pensioner, and has neither wife, minor child, nor parent dependent on him, in whole or in part, for support, his arrears of pension and his pension money accruing during the period he shall remain in said hospital shall be applied to his support in said hospital, and be paid over to the proper officer of said institution for the general uses thereof.

7 Aug., 1882, P. E. L., p. 330.

NOTES Volunteer soldiers who have become insane within a period of more than three years after their discharge from service may be admitted to the Government Asylum for the Insane in the District of Columbia, whether at the time they became insane they were inmates of any volunteer soldiers asylum or not.Op. XIV, p. 225, Williams, April 23, 1873. But see act of 16 June, 1880, ante. An act approved March 3, 1875, v. 18, p. 485, chap. 156, sec. 5, provides that insane patients of the Marine Hospital Service may be admitted to the Gov. ernment Hospital for the Insane upon the order of the Secretary of the Treas. ury, at a charge not exceeding four dollars and fifty cents a week.

An act approved June 23, 1874, 18 Stat., 251, provides for the admission of insane convicts to the insane asylum in the District of Columbia.

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SEC. 4832. The following persons only shall be entitled to the benefits Title 59, Chap. 3. of the National Home for disabled volunteer soldiers, and may be adWhat persons mitted thereto, upon the recommendation of three of the board of man- entitled to adagers, namely: All officers and soldiers who served in the late war for mission, &c. the suppression of the rebellion, and the volunteer soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve and of the Mexican war, and not provided for by existing laws, who have been or may be dis abled by wounds received or sickness contracted in the line of their duty; and such of these as have neither wife, child, nor parent dependent upon them, on becoming inmates of this home, or receiving relief therefrom, shall assign thereto their pensions when required by the board of managers, during the time they shall remain therein or receive its benefits. [These homes are at Augusta, Me., Milwaukee, Wis., Dayton, Ohio, Knightstown, Ind., and Hampton, Va.]

21 March, 1866, s. 7, v. 14, p. 11.
28 Feb., 1871, Res. 45. v. 16, p. 599.
23 Jan., 1873, s. 1, v. 17, p. 417.

such institutions.

Ang. 7, 1882. That all pensions and arrears of pensions payable or to be paid to Pensions of in- Pensioners who are or may become inmates of the National Home for mates of homes Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be paid to the treasurers of said home, to be paid to to be applied by such treasurers as provided by law, under the rules treasurers of and regulations of said home. Said payments shall be made by the pension agent upon a certificate of the proper officer of the home that the pensioner is an inmate thereof on the day to which said pension is drawn. The treasurers of said home, respectively, shall give security, to the satisfaction of the managers of said home, for the payment and application by them of all arrears of pension and pension-moneys they may receive under the aforesaid provision. And section two of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for deficiencies, and for other purposes," approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, is hereby revived and continued in force.*

Sec.

Aug. 7, 1882, P. E., p. 322. [Sundry civil act].

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, TRUSSES, AND APPLIANCES.

1176. Trusses, to whom furnished.

1177. Applications for trusses.

1178. Purchase of trusses.

4787. Artificial limbs to be furnished every five years.

4788. Commutation rates in money value for limb,

&c.

Title 14, Chap. 1.
Trusses, to

Sec.

4789. Money commutation, how paid.

4790. Commutation to persons who cannot use ar-
tificial limbs.

4791. Transportation for persons to whom artifi-
cial limbs are furnished.
Surgical appliances.

SEC. 1176. That every soldier of the Union Army, or petty-officer, seaman, or marine in the naval service, who was ruptured while in the whom furnished. line of duty during the late war for the suppression of the rebellion, or who shall be so ruptured thereafter in any war, shall be entitled to receive a single or double truss of such style as may be designated by the Surgeon-General of the United States Army as best suited for such disability; and whenever the said truss or trusses so furnished shall become useless from wear, destruction, or loss, such soldier, petty-officer, seaman, or marine shall be supplied with another truss on making a like application as provided for in section two of the original act of which this is an amendment: Provided, That such application shall not be made more than once in two years and six months: And provided further, That sections two and three [secs. 1177 and 1178 R. S.] of the said act of May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, shall be construed so as to apply to petty-officers, seamen, and marines of the naval service, as well as to soldiers of the Army. [Amended section.]

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Title 57.

Artificial

28 May, 1872, s. 1. v. 17, p. 164. 3 March, 1879, v. 20, p. 353. NOTE. It is left with the Surgeon-General of the Army to adopt one style, or different styles, keeping in view the selection of that which in his judgment is best adapted to the purpose for which intended.-Op. XIV, 72. July 30, 1872. SEC. 1177. Application for such truss shall be made by the ruptured soldier, to an examining surgeon for pensions, whose duty it shall be to examine the applicant, and when found to have a rupture or hernia, to prepare and forward to the Surgeon-General an application for such truss without charge to the soldier. [See § 4787.]

28 May, 1872, s. 2, v. 17, p. 164.

SEC. 1178. The Surgeon-General is authorized and directed to purchase the trusses required for such soldiers, at wholesale prices, and the cost of the same shall be paid upon the requisition of the Surgeon-General out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

28 May, 1872, s. 3, v. 17, p. 164.

SEC. 4787. Every officer, soldier, seaman, and marine, who was disabled, during the war for the suppression of the rebellion, in the mililimbs, &c., to be tary or naval service, and in the line of duty, or in consequence of furnished every wounds received or disease contracted therein, and who was furnished five years. by the War Department, since the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, with an artificial limb or apparatus for resection, *Under the act of Feb. 26, 1881, the pensions are to be paid over to the treasurer, without deduction for fines or penalties. Any balance on discharge of inmate is to be paid over to him; in case of death to his widow, children, or legal representatives.

or 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 five years thereafter, under such regulations as have been or may be prescribed by the Surgeon-General of the Army.

The provisions of this section shall apply to all officers, non-commis- Persons sioned officers, enlisted and hired men of the land and naval forces of tled. the United States, who, in the line of their duty as such, shall have lost limbs or sustained bodily injuries depriving them of the use of any of their limbs, to be determined by the Surgeon-General of the Army; and the term of five years herein specified shall be held to commence in each case with the filing of the application for the benefits of this section.

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NOTE.-Held by the War Department that desertion does not affect the rights of a person disabled, as this section indicates, to artificial limbs or apparatus, and that it might be properly construed to include the mechanics and laborers employed at the arsenals under Title XVII, R. S.-Winthrop's Digest, 122.

The act of Aug. 15, 1876, v. 19, page 203, allows commutation for an artificial limb or appliances every five years.

enti

value for limb.

SEC. 4788. Every person entitled to the benefits of the preceding sec- Com mutation tion may, if he so elects, receive, instead of such limb or apparatus, the rates in money money value thereof, at the following rates, namely: For artificial legs, seventy-five dollars; for arms, fifty dollars; for feet, fifty dollars; for apparatus for resection, fifty dollars.

17 June, 1870, s. 1, v. 16, p. 153. 15 Aug., 1876, v. 19, p. 203.

SEC. 4789. The Surgeon-General shall certify to the Commissioner of Money commuPensions a list of all soldiers who elect to receive money commutation tation, how to be instead of limbs or apparatus, with the amount due to each, and the paid. Commissioner of Pensions shall cause the same to be paid to such soldiers in the same manner as pensions are paid.

17 June, 1870, s. 2, v. 16, p. 153.

to those who cannot use

SEC. 4790. Every person in the military or naval service who lost a Money commulimb during the war of the rebellion, or is entitled to the benefits of tation section forty-seven hundred and eighty-seven, but from the nature of artificial limb. his injury is not able to use an artificial limb, shall be entitled to the benefits of section forty-seven hundred and eighty-eight, and shall receive money commutation as therein provided.

17 June, 1870, s. 2, v. 16, p. 153. 27 Feb., 1877, v. 19, p. 252.

persons to whom artificial

SEC. 4791. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to furnish Transportation to the persons embraced by the provisions of section forty-seven hundred for and eighty-seven, transportation to and from their homes and the place limbs are fur where they may be required to go to obtain artificial limbs provided for nished. them under authority of law. The transportation allowed for having artificial limbs fitted shall be furnished by the Quartermaster-General of the Army, the cost of which shall be refunded from the appropriations for invalid pensions.

28 July, 1866, v. 14, p. 342.

23 March, 1876, v. 19, p. 8.

15 Aug., 1876, s. 2. v. 19. p. 204.

27 Feb., 1877, v. 19, p. 252.

The sundry civil act, approved March 3, 1883, appropriates two Surgical applithousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary ances. of War, "for providing surgical appliances for persons disabled in the

military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs."

CEMETERIES-NATIONAL.

Sec.

4877. Inclosures, headstones, &c.

| Sec.

4878. Who may be buried in national cemeteries.

SEC. 4877. In the arrangement of the national cemeteries established Title 59, Chap. 6. for the burial of deceased soldiers and sailors, the Secretary of War is Inclosures, hereby directed to have the same inclosed with a good and substantial headstones, and stone or iron fence; and to cause each grave to be marked with a small registers. headstone or block, which shall be of durable stone, and of such design and weight as shall keep it in place when set, and shall bear the name of the soldier and the name of his State inscribed thereon, when the

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