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Practice in the Executive Departments of the Government Under the Pension, Bounty, and Prize Laws of the United States
Practice in the Executive Departments of the Government Under the Pension Bounty and Prize Laws of the United States Author:Robert Sewell Subtitle: With Forms and Instructions for Collecting Arrears of Pay, Bounty, and Prize Money, and for Obtaining Pensions General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1865 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and Co. Subjects: Military pensions Bounties, Military Prize money Prize law Forms (Law) Pensions, Militar... more »y History / Military / Veterans Law / General Law / Maritime Reference / Genealogy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS AND TRUSSES. LIMBS. Non-commissioned officers and soldiers in the army, and seamen in the navy, who have lost a limb while in the service of the United States in the line of duty, are entitled to be supplied with an artificial limb, out of the appropriation in the act of Congress approved February 9th, 1863, for that purpose. The application should be made to any of the Department medical directors, who, if satisfied of the correctness of the claim, will order a limb from any one -of the manufacturers who are authorized to supply such limbs. The Department medical directors, to any one of whom application may be made, are located at the following places: New York, Chicago, I11., Philadelphia, Pa., St. Louis, Mo., Baltimore, Md., New Orleans, La., Washington, D. C., Louisville, Ky., Cincinnati, Ohio. Thirty-seventh Congress, session 8, chap. 25. The applicant for a limb may select any one of the following manufacturers from whom to receive it: Douglas Ely, New York, Rochester, and Cincinnati. E. D. Hudson, New York. Frank B. Palmer, New York and Philadelphia. B. W. Jewett, Washington, D. 0. Charles Stafford, Chicago, III. H. A. Gti. dea, Philadelphia, Pa. The application may be made by the sold...« less