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Appropriation for 1886 $1,500 oo

Appropriation for 1887 1,500 oo

Act 32, approved June 29, 1888, directs that the unexpended bal- ances, amounting to eight hundred and forty-five dollars and ninety- one cents, appropriated by Act 115, Acts of 1886, be transferred to and appropriated out of the general fund of 1888, to supply the citizens of this Stale who lost a limb or limbs in the military service of the Confederate States, with substantial artificial limbs, and those whose disabilities are such, through wounds, surgical orpera- tions, or injuries received in the line of duty as soldiers in the service of the Confederate States, that an artificial limb would be of no prac- tical use, may have the benefit of the pro rata share of this appro- priation, as hereinafter provided.

For the loss of the use of a leg, eighty dollars ; for the loss of the use of an arm, sixty-five dollars ; for the loss of the sight of an eye, sixty-five dollars; for the loss of hearing in one ear, twenty dollars ; for the loss of the voice, eighty dollars ; for the paralysis of any portion of the body, causing disability, sixty- five dollars. All such cases of disability to be established by the certificate of two medical practitioners of good standing in the parish or district where the beneficiary resides ; all applications for relief to be approved by the proper officer of the association of the Army of Northern Virginia, or the Army of Tennessee; that all war- rants issued under Act 32 are made receivable for any licenses or taxes due and payable to the general fund of the year in which they are issued.

Appropriation for 1888 $845 91

Act 50, approved July 10, 1888, appropriates six thousand dollars out of the general fund for the year 1889, and nine thousand dollars out of the general fund of 1889 to supply and keep supplied with substantial artificial limbs the citizens of this State who lost a limb or limbs in the military service of the Confederate States, under provisions similar to those expressed in Act 69 of 1880 and Act 46 of 1884.

Appropriation for 1888 $6,000 oo

The artificial limbs manufactured and furnished by Mr. A. McDer- mott, of New Orleans, under Acts 69 and 72, for the years 1880,