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 450FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Ssss. I. CHS. 913-915. 1888. now paid in case of such disability, the sum of thirty dollars, in cases of total deafness, and such proportion thereof in cases of partial deafness as the Secretary of the Interior may deem equitable; the amount paid to be determined by the degree of disabi ity existing in each case. ’ Approved, August 27, 1888. August S7, IR. f .d91TéTAn agt tolprovglp to Sétpgeipg Territorial homes for the support >···—·····—·· 0 e so 'ers an said orso nit s. · Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re Jresentatives of the Disablcdsoldiers vmd United States of America in Congress assembledf That all States or "‘_tL?§‘·w smc homes Territories which have established, or which shall hereafter estabfer- lish, 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, rovi ed such disability was not incurred in service against the Suited States, shall be aid for every such disabled soldier or sailor who may be admittedp 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 OfBg;¤g0g;,*{{§;g°;g shall be ascertained by the Board of Managers of the National méemesm Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, under such regulations as it may prescribe, but the said State or Territorial homes shall be ex- R.S..sec.4825,p.QB. clusively under the control of the respective State or Territorial authorities, and the Board of Mana ers 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 I¤¤¤°°°*°'* 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. A1>1>¤>v¤¤¤¤¤- Sec. 2. That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the provisions of this act. and ayments to the States or Territories under it shall be made quarterly Ibv the said Board of Managers for the National Home for Disabled Volunteers to the officers of the resplective States or Territories entitled, duly authorized to receive Pnymems suc payments. and shall be accounted for as are the appro riations for the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Approved, August 27, 1888. August 27.1BB. CHAP. 915. —An act for the erection of a marine hospital at Evansville. Indiana. Be it enacted by the Senate and Ihmse of Representatives of the §:[;¤ps»·p; HEL United States of .-1 merico i n Congress assembled. That the Secretary "‘“° p' of the Treasury be, and he is hereby. authorized and directed to nn-- chase a site for, and cause to be erected thereon. a suitable building for a marine hospital at the city of Evansville, Indiana. The plans, Sim r·¤¤¤S· M- Specifications, and full estimates for said building shall be previously made and approved according to law, and shall not exceed. for the site and bui ing complete, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; mmm nor shall any site betpurchased until estimates for the erection of the building which will urnish sufficient accommodations for such hospital, and which shall not exceed in cost the balance of the sum herein imited, after the site shall have been purchased and aid for and gmx approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, Tlilat no money l * ‘ appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to