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 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 91. 1865. 509. ascertained and fixed for the purpose of determining the annual rent aforesaid. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts Repealing inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. °]“““· Approved, March 3, 1865. Cnr. KCI. —An Act to iuwéparalc a natémal milila and naval Asylum jbr the MRYGY1 3, 1865 of the totcdh disabled ficers and Men of the Irzaluntscr Forces of the United '————`——` Be it enacted by t/ac Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Uly[s]ses S. Grant, David _ A national mil- G. Farragut, Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson, Salmon P. Chase, Ed- £‘{Y;1;“?uQg;’:(}_ win M. Stanton, Gideon Welles, John A. Dix, George Bancroft, William raged, T. Sherman, John A. Andrew, Andrew G. Curtin, Oliver P. Morton, Cm-porators. Benjamin F. Butler, George G. Meade, John Brough, Nathaniel P. Banks, Joseph Hooker, Samuel R. Curtis, Richard J. Oglesby, David Tod, Henry Ward Beecher, Ambrose E. Burnside, John A. Logan, Daniel S. Dickinson, William A. Buckingham, Carl Schurz, Oliver O. Howard, Hamilton Fish, Frank Sigel, Francis Wayland, Austin Blair, Thomas C. Fletcher, Robert Breckinridge, Lovell H. Rousseau, Horace Greeley, George H. Stuart, Joseph Henry, John G. Barnard, Henry J. Raymond, William B. Astor, James Gordon Bennett, H. W. Halleck, William E. Dodge, William M. Evarts, James T. Brady, Gerritt Smith, Reuben E. Fenton, Bellamy Storer, George P. Mcllvaine, Galusha A. Grow, Henry W. Bellows, J. S. C. Abbott, Jay Cooke, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Israel Washburn, Jr., Ichabod Goodwin, Frederick Smyth, John Z. Goodrich, Charles Henry Davis, William Clailin, J. Wiley Edmands, Amos A. Lawrence, Edward S. Tobey, Thomas Russell, Charles G. Loring, George B. Upton, Charles G. Greene, J. M. S. Williams, George G. Stannard, Henry M. Rice, Granville M. Dodge, Morton M’Michae1, Thomas Webster, James M. Scovel, Nathaniel B. Baker, Richard J. Field, Henry C. Carey, John W. Forney, Bishop M. Simpson, G. S. Griffith, William Henry Channing, James E. Yeatman, Dwight Durkee, A.  Stewart, Barnabas Hobbs, Montgomery Blair, Joseph R. Barnes, E. B. Ward, Henry Benham, Frank Moore, Alfred Lee, Edward Solomon, Thomas C. Bryan, B. B. French, Samuel J. Crawford, James T. Pratt, Alfred H. Terry, Edward Tompkins, Moses F. Odell, and their successors, duly chosen, are hereby constituted and created a body corporate in the Dis4 trict of Columbia. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation hereby Corporation to constituted shall 00l1SiSt of One hundred members, They shall have power ;°¤5$$* of 0*18 to fill all vacancies created by death, resignation, or otherwise, and to bg;_r° mu" make by-laws, rules, and regulations: Provided, That such by—laws, rules, powers, gud regulations are not repugnant to the constitution or laws of the United tates. Sm. 3. And be it further enacted, That the business of said corporation Directors. shall be managed by a board of twelve directors, who shall elect from their number a president, two vicc-presidents, and a secretary; and seven of Omcm. the directors, of whom the president or one of the vice-presidents shall be one, shall form a quorum for the transaction of business at any special Quorum. meeting of the board of direcwrs. SEO. 4. And be it further enacted, That the board of directors "shall Site foramilihave authority to procure for early use, at a suitable place, a site for a t"'?' ’“‘Y1“"" military asylum for officers and men of the volunteer forces of the United States who have been or may hereafter be totally disabled by wounds received or sickness contracted while in the line of their duty during the present rebellion; and to have the necessary. buildings erected, having due Buildings. regard to the health of the location, facility of access, and competency to accommodate the persons provided for in this act. · 43 *