Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1884 — Warriors’ Homes—Requirments For Admission. [ARTICLE]

Warriors’ Homes—Requirments For Admission.

So mush of interest centers in the Soldiers Homes throughput the country that the following, from a* circular relative to them, is given. The branches are located as follows: Central Branch, near Dayton, Ohio; Eastern Branch, near Augusta, Maine; Northwestern Branch, near Milwankee, Wisconsin; Southern Branch, near Fortress Monroe, Virginia. The requirmehts for admission are: 1. An honorable discharge from the volunteer service. 2. Disability by wounds received, or sickness contracted in the line of duty. 3. Applicants for admission will be required to stipulate and agree to abide by all the rules and regulations made by the Board of Managers, or by them order; to perform all duties required of them, and to obey all the lawful orders of the officers of the Home. Attention is called to the fact that by the act of Congress establishing the Home, the inmates are ■fhatle subject to the Buies and Articles of War. and will be governed thereby in the same manner as if they were in the army of the United States.

4. A soldier entitled, or having a pension, must forward with his application for admission, his discharge paper and pension certificate, or receipt therefor, before his application is considered, which papers will be retained at the branch to which the application is admitted, to be kept there for him, and returned to him when he is discharged. This rule is adopted to prevent the loss of such papers and certificates, and to hinder fraudulent practices. On admission he must also transfer his pension certificate to the home, and the moneys secured thereby, and empower the Treasurer of the home to draw said moneys, and to hold and dispose of the same, subject to laws of Congress and tbe rules, regulations, and orders which have been, or may hereafter be made by the Board of Managers of said National Home for disabled A r olunteer Soldiers. The managers of the National Home are, the President of the United States, the Chief Justice, the Secretary of War, exofficials; General "William H. Franklin, President, Hartford, Connecticut; Colonel Lenoard A. Harris, First Vice President, Cincinnati, Ohio: General John A. Martin, Second Vice President, Atchison, Kansas; General Martin T. McMahon, Secretary, No. 93 Nassau Street, New York City: Major David G. Fulton, Hudson, Wisconsin; General George B. McClellan, Orange, New Jersey; General John M. Palmer, Springfield, Illinois; Generar Charles AY. Roberts, Bangor, Maine; General James S. Negley, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania A __