ered to Soldiers' Homes. Feb. 8, 1889, v. 25, p. 657. May be deliv; 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. Act of February 8, 1889 (25 Stat. L., 657). Documents to be furnished. 28, p. 159. State etc. 1773. That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of July 26, 1894, V. the House of Representatives shall cause to be sent to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Dayton, Ohio, and to the branches at Togus in Maine, Milwaukee in Wisconsin, Hampton in Virginia, Marion in Indiana, Leavenworth in Kansas, Santa Monica in California, and homes, to the homes for the widows and orphans of soldiers and sailors established and maintained by any State or Terri tory, and all soldiers and sailors' homes established by the authority of any State or Territory receiving aid from the United States under legislation of Congress, each, one sages, and Rec: Copy each of the following documents: The session laws of ord only to be Congress; the annual messages of the President, with Sec. 4837, R. S. accompanying documents in the abridgment thereof; the Laws, mes. sent. Mail matter to be sent fre?. V. 19, p. 335. Aug. 18, 1894, v. 28, p. 412. daily Congressional Record; and the Public Printer is hereby authorized and directed to furnish to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives the documents referred to in this section. Act of July 26, 1894 (28 Stat. L., 159). 1774. That the provisions of the fifth and sixth sections of the Act entitled "An Act establishing post-routes, and for other purposes, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven," for the transmission of official mailmatter, be, and they are hereby, extended and made applicable to all official mail-matter of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Act of August 18, 1894 (28 Stat. L., 412). CHAPTER XLII. THE GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. Par. Par. 1775. Establishment of the Gov- 1778. Discharge of patients upon ernment Hospital for the 1776. The superintendent. bond. 1779. Disbursement of appropria tions for the insane. 1777. Admission of insane persons 1780. Payment of pensions to inof the Army, Navy, Ma rine Corps, etc. mates. 1775. There shall be in the District of Columbia a Government Hospital for the Insane, and its objects shall be the most humane care and enlightened curative treatment of the insane of the Army and Navy of the United States and of the District of Columbia. 1776. The chief executive officer of the Hospital for the Insane shall be a superintendent, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall be entitled to a salary of four thousand dollars a year, and shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties, in such sum and with such securities as may be required by the Secretary of the Interior. The superintendent shall be a well-educated physician, possessing competent experience in the care and treatment of the insane; he shall reside on the premises, and devote his whole time to the welfare of the institution; he shall, subject to the approval of the visitors, engage and discharge all needful and usual employés in the care of the insane, and all laborers on the farm, and determine their wages and duties; he shall be the responsible disbursing agent of the institution, and shall be exofficio secretary of the board of visitors. Establishment of the Govern ment Hospital for Mar. 3, 1855. c. 199, s. 1, v. 10, p. the Insane. 682. Sec. 4838, R. S. The superin- tendent. Mar. 3, 1881, v. 21, p. 414. Sec. 4839, R. S. Admission of insane persons of Marine Corps, June 15, 1860. c. 1777. The superintendent, upon the order of the Secretary of War, of the Secretary of the Navy, and of the the Army, Navy, Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, shall receive, and etc. keep in custody until they are cured, or removed by the same 66. s. 1.v. 12. p. 23; authority which ordered their reception, insane persons of July 13, 1866. c. the following descriptions: pp. 93, 94; Mar. 3, 1875, c. 156, s. 5, v. 18, p. 486. Sec. 4843, R. S. 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. 179. ss. 1. 2, v. 14, Discharge of patients upon bond. Sec. 9, ibid. 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.1 1778. If any person will give bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the supreme court of the District of Sec. 4856, R. S. Columbia, or by any judge thereof in vacation, payable to the United States, with condition to restrain and take care of any independent or indigent insane person not charged with a breach of the peace, whether in the hospital or not, until the insane person is restored to sanity, such court or judge thereof may deliver such insane person to the party giving such boud. Disbursement for the insane. 683. of appropriations 1779. All appropriations of money by Congress for the Mar. 3, 1855, c. support of the Hospital for the Insane shall be drawn from 199, 8.7, v. 10, P. the Treasury on the requisition of the Secretary of the Sec. 4858, R.S. Interior, and shall be disbursed and accounted for in all respects according to the laws regulating ordinary disbursements of public money.2 Payment of pensions to in mates. Aug. 7, 1882, v. 22, p. 330. 1780. If any inmate of the Government Hospital for the Insane so admitted3 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. Act of August 7, 1882 (22 Stat. L., 330). The right to admission to the Asylum has been extended by statute to include the following classes of cases: (1) To insane convicts serving sentences of confinement imposed by United States courts. Act of June 23, 1874 (18 Stat. L., 251). (2) To persons in custody charged with crime against the United States. Act of August 7, 1882 (22 Stat. L., 202). (3) To inmates of the several branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers who may become insane. Act of August 7, 1882 (22 Stat. L., 302). (4) To inmates of the Soldiers' Home who may become insane. Act of July 7, 1884 (23 Stat. L., 194). The expense of maintenance to be paid from the Soldiers' Home Fund. 2 The act of March 3, 1881 (21 Stat. L., 458), vests the supervision of the Asylum and the control over its management in the Secretary of the Interior. In accordance with the act of August 7, 1882. See note 1, supra. 1781, 1782. General provisions. Chattanooga National Par. 1825-1829. The Antietam battle- 1830-1855. The Yellowstone Na- 1790-1814. The Gettysburg Na- 1856-1858. Forest reservations. tional Park. 1815-1824. The Shiloh National Military Park. NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS. May 15, 1896, v. Secretary of forces to be in structed. 1781. That in order to obtain practical benefits of great Use of national military parks value to the country from the establishment of national for maneuvers. military parks, said parks and their approaches are hereby 29, p. 120. declared to be national fields for military maneuvers for the Regular Army of the United States and the National Guard or Militia of the States: Provided, That the said parks shall be opened for such purposes only in the discretion of the Secretary of War, and under such regulations as he may prescribe. Act of May 15, 1896 (29 Stat. L., 120). 1782. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, war to designate within the limits of appropriations which may from time to time be available for such purpose, to assemble, at his discretion, in camp at such season of the year and for such period as he may designate, at such field of military maneuvers, such portions of the military forces of the United States as he may think best, to receive military instruction there. The Secretary of War is further authorized to make and publish regulations governing the assembling of the National Guard or Militia of the several States upon the maneuvering grounds, and he may detail instructors from the Regular Army for such forces during their exercises. Sec. 2, ibid. Sec. 2, ibid. Chickamauga and Chattanooga tary Park estab lished. Purpose. Conditions. Jurisdiction. clared ap parts of park. 26, p. 333. THE CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL 1783. That for the purpose of preserving and suitably National Mili marking for historical and professional military study the fields of some of the most remarkable maneuvers and most brilliant fighting in the war of the rebellion, and upon the ceding of jurisdiction to the United States by the States of Tennessee and Georgia, respectively, and the report of the Attorney-General of the United States that the title to the lands thus ceded is perfect, the following described Highways de highways in those States are hereby declared to be ap proaches to and proaches to and parts of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park as established by the second section of this act, to wit: First. The Missionary Ridge Aug. 19, 1890, v. Crest road from Sherman Heights at the north end of Missionary Ridge, in Tennessee, where the said road enters upon the ground occupied by the Army of the Tennessee under Major-General William T. Sherman, in the military operations of November twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three; thence along said road through the positions occupied by the army of General Braxton Bragg on November twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and which were assaulted by the Army of the Cumberland under Major-General George H. Thomas on that date, to where the said road crosses the southern boundary of the State of Tennessee, near Rossville Gap, Georgia, upon the ground occupied by the troops of Major-General Joseph Hooker, from the Army of the Potomac, and thence in the State of Georgia to the junction of said road with the Chattanooga and Lafayette or State road at Rossville Gap; second, the Lafayette or State road from Rossville, Georgia, to Lee and Gordon's Mills, Georgia; third, the road from Lee and Gordon's Mills, Georgia, to Crawfish Springs, Georgia; fourth, the road from Crawfish Springs, Georgia, to the crossing of the Chickamauga at Glass' Mills, Georgia; fifth, the Dry Valley road from Rossville, Georgia, to the southern limits of McFarland's Gap in Missionary Ridge; sixth, the Dry Valley and Crawfish Springs road from McFarland's Gap to the intersection of the road from Crawfish Springs to Lee and Gordon's Mills; seventh, the road from Ringold, Georgia, to Reed's Bridge on the Chickamauga River; eighth, the roads from the crossing of Lookout Creek across the northern slope of Lookout Mountain and thence to the old Summertown Road and to the valley on the east slope of the |