Volume 15 · 2
Public Law 40–IV
to clothe the maimed and destitute Soldiers.
Approved March 22, 1867
Statutory text
An Act
to clothe the maimed and destitute Soldiers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War be,
Secretary of War to furnish one complete suit of clothing to each invalid soldier, an inmate of any regularly constituted “Soldiers’ Home.”
and is hereby, authorized and required to furnish one complete suit of clothing to each invalid soldier who is an inmate of any regularly constituted “Soldiers’ Home” in the United States, out of the stock on hand in the quartermaster’s department.
FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 4, 5, 6. 1867.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted,
Clothing, how to be delivered.
That such clothing shall be delivered to the managers of such institutions upon their requisition therefor, accompanied with such certificates as to numbers and condition as the Secretary of War may prescribe.
Approved, .