The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-18
ARTIFICIAL LEGS.
Our disabled e--Confederates will read the fol
lowing circular Of Governor CSc with interest:

Our disabled e.-Confederates will read the fol
lowing circular Of Governor CiSsc with interest:
TO TIE CITIZENS OF THIS STATE WHO HAVE LOST
THEIR LEGS DURING THE RECENT WAR.
For the purpose Of carrying into effect the pro
visions of an Act entitled can Act to provide Art
fetal Legs for all citizens of the State who have
lost their legs during the recent war, +" approved
December Goth, 1866, caused notice to be pub
lished to all manufacturers of artificial LIMBS &c
exhibit their specimens in the city Of Columbia on
the fourth Monday in March, and appointed -
Board of Surgeons, composed Of Doctors A. N.
| Tallcy. Robert W. Gibbes and B. ". Taylor, to
examine the various specimens submitted.
Thev unanimously recommend the Army and
Navy Leg of Dr. Bly,, and his 'sAnatomicM Leg, u
as combining more advantages than any others
exhibited and I, therefore, concluded contract
with DR.. Bly, to furnish the citizens OF this State
with the s'Army and Navy Leg" at the price OF
$74 65 each, which amount is to be paid by the
State.
The cost of DR.. Bls's anatomical ball and socket
iointed leg precluded me from contracting for it,
| because tho sum appropriated by the Legislature
was insufficient to have furnished that leg to each
citizen; nevertheless, each person who chooses to
do so, may, by paying DR.. Bly, from his own means,
tho additional sum Of SIS 35 secure this more per-
! feet limb, the cost OF which is $3.50.
His Office will b, located in Charleston. and but
ono trip is necessary to be made there for the pur-
pose of having the limb properly adjusted to the
stump. Before its delivery each leg will be in
spoctcd by competent person.
adopted: -
l. No person other than a citizen Of this State is
entitled under tho Act Of the Legislature, to re-
ceive an artificial leg.
@ The person applying must appear before the
sides and satisfy that officer that he is citizen,
that he lost his leg during the recent war; and is
embraced within the provisions Of the Act OF the
Assembly aforesaid. The Clerk will thereupon give
afnn
under the seal Of the Court certifying that the
party is entitled to receive leg.
3. The Clerks of the Courts have had forwarded
to them blank forms for measuring the stump.
Each citizen will procure two Of these on obtaining
his certificates After carefully making the meas
urements, as directed in the form, he Will enclose
the original certificate and measurement to DR..
Douglass Bly,, Charleston. 8. c..
The>dupcate certificate he will retain in his pos
session. until he receives notice that his personal
presence is required, at DR.. Bly's Office, for the
purpose of adjusting the log to the stump. Upon
exhibiting this certificate to the conductors of the
several rsroads Of the State, they will doubtless
gyo him FREQ transportation, going and returning,
qnested the Railroad Companies to furnish trans
portation free of cost, and each conductor will
make such endorsement upon the certificate as will
prevent it from being fraudulently used again by
the Same or any other person.
DIR. Bly, will notify per sons at what time it will
be necessary for them to attend at his office in
Charleston for the purpose of fitting the leg to the
stump.
AS two hundred and fifty or more artificial limbs
are to be supplied considerable time will be neces-
sarily consumed in their manufacture, and you are
requested to practice patience in what may
seem to you an unreasonable delay in procuring
your limb.
Dr. Bly, advises that, unless some pressing
emergency exists, the now leg should not be fitted
to the stump during the warm season, and that
the patient himself will be most likely to obtain
satisfactory result by awaiting the return of cool
weather.
Tho Clerks Of the Court will be entitled to
charge their fees for their official certificate, but it
is presumed that they will, under the circun-
stances cheerfuy ronder the service gratuitously.
JAMES T.. ORR,
Governor Of South Carolina.