Volume 22
Public Law 47–477
to authorize the transfer of the property of the National Soldiers and Sailors' Orphan Home to the Garfield Memorial Hospital.
Approved August 8, 1882
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the transfer of the property of the National Soldiers and Sailors' Orphan Home to the Garfield Memorial Hospital.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the board of trustees of the National Soldiers anti Sailors’ Orphan Home of the District of Columbia arc hereby empowered to transfer
Transfer of property of National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home, etc., to.
and convey all the property, real, personal and mixed, of the said National Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphan Home to the Garfield Memorial Hospital, located in said district; and the said Garfield Memorial Hospital is hereby empowered to sell and convey the same and apply the proceeds to the object for
Proviso.
which it was incorporated: Provided: That this act shall not be construed, to make the United States liable in any way on account of said transfer, or the changing of the direction of the trust.
Approved, August 8, 1882.