, 1899-02-20
CHAPTER IL.
House Bill No. 81.

House Bill No. 2L.
WYOMING SOLDIERS AND SAILORS HOME.
An Act to amend and re-enact Chapter SO of the Session Laws of
1895, the same being entitled "An Act to temporarily establish
and maintain the Wyoming Soldiers and Sailors Home APP
proved February 18th, A. D. 1895,
Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section l. That Chapter 80 of the Session Laws of 1885,,
being an Act entitled Gan Act to temporarily establish and
maintain the Wyoming Soldiers and Sailors Home" APP
proved February 18th, A. ID. 1895, be and the same Is herepy
amended and reenacted SO as to read as follows:
"Section 1. The State Board of Charities and Reform
~ barohv empowered TO temporarily establish and main
tain at some convenient point in the State of Wyoming the
Wyoming Soldiers and Sailors Home, for the care and
treatment of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and ma
rines who served in the Union armies, between the Eth dy
of April, 1861, and the 9th day of April, 1865, veterans OF
the Mexican war; the soldiers and sailors of all wars in
which the United States has been or may be engaged, and
members of the State National Guard disabled while on
duty, who by reason Of wounds, disease, old age or other
infrmities are unable to earn their living and have no ade--
quate means of support, who have been bona fde residents
of this State for at least one year next preceding their appni--
cation for admission to such Home: Said Board sha!lt nave
power to admit dependents of soldiers, sailors or disabled
members of the National Guard, if after full examination
of all the facts they shall deem it proper"
Sec. 9. Said Board shall have the right on behalf of
the State, to accept donations of lands, or money or other
valuables and to temporarily locate said Home wherever
in the Judgment of the members thereof it will be most bene-
fetal to the soldiers, sailors and marines and their depend
ents and to the State. All titles to lands and all improve
ments thereon shall be vested in the name of the State and
all lands SO vested shall be without purchase cost to the
State.
said Home, make all necessary and needful rules and regula.
lions for the government of said Home, appoint and, in their
discretion, remove any and all persons employed therein
and from time to time fill any vacancies occurring as occa-
sion may require, and determine their duties and compensa-
ton. 1t shall be the duty of said Board to furnish medical
attendance and medicine for all inmates of said Home and
to provide a place of burial and to bury deceaced inmates,
the expense of which shall be paid out of the Soldiers Home
Fund provided by this Act. They shall report annually to
the Governor upon the first Monday in December a full and
complete account of the work performed at the Home, which
shall include accounts of all moneys received from all
sources and a detailed account of the expense for mainte-
nance; the names, place OF birth, full record OF service in
the army, navy, or marines, or National Guard OF persons
admitted and upon whose record any dependent may be adj
mitted, and last place of residence before such admissions;
all deaths, discharges and removals, with the cause thereof;
and the names of persons making donations, with descrp-
Sec. 4. Whenever the Board shall deem it necessary
they shall have power to appoint a commandant Of said
Home. The Commandant shall hold. the rank of Major of
Infantry, Wyoming National Guard, and the Adjutant shall
hold the rank of First Lieutenant of Infantry, Wyoming
National Guard, both to be commissioned by the Governor
to hold Office for the term of four years, or until their sue.
cessors shall be appointed and qualified. The Commandant
shall receive a salary as fixed by the Board, not to exceed
se~ventyfye dollars per month, and rations. The Adjutant
shall receive a salary not to EXCEED fifty dollars per month,
her of the Home he shall receive a compensation not to ex-
coed, fifteen dollars per month.
Sec. 8. The Soldiers and Sailors Home shall be at
all, times subject to the inspection of the Board of Charities
and Reform, or any member thereof.
Sec. 6. To carry into effect the provisions of this Act,
there is hereby appropriated and set aside 10000 acres of
land, not otherwise appropriated, out Of the 100000 acres Of
land granted to the State of Wyoming for state, charitable,
educational, penal and reformatory institutions, under the
provisions of Section II, of an Act Of Congress entitled Gan
Act to provide for the admission of the State of Wyoming
into the Union, and for other purposes" approved July 10th,
1890. The selection, location, care, leasing and control of
the lands herein set aside shall be made as has heretofore
or may hereafter be provided by the Legislature of Wyo-
ming, for the selection, care, leasing and control of the pub
lie lands Of the State of Wyoming.
Sec. Z. In case there shall at any time be a surplus in
the funds realized from the sale or leasing of lands set aside
for the support Of the Home, said surplus shall be used to
reimburse the State for moneys appropriated out Of the
State fund until all amounts SO appropriated from said
State fund shall have been repaid.
Sec. 8. All lands granted or that may hereafter be
granted by the United States or by the State Of Wyoming,
or by the Constitution of the State set apart for the support
Of a Soldiers Home in the State Of Wyoming, and all the
proceeds from the sales thereof are hereby pledged as a per.
petual fund for the use and benefit Of said Soldiers Home as
herein provided. All money that may arise from the inter.
est received on all moneys derived from the sale of lands as
herenbefore or that may hereafter be appropriated for said
Home, including all money that may be received from the
renting of said lands, and all moneys that may be hereafter
appropriated for said Home by the State Of Wyoming, in.
Guiding all money raised in any other manner or donated to
said Home, shall be deposited with the State Treasurer, to
be By him kept in q separate fund which shall be known as
the soldiers' Home Fund, and be used exclusively for said
Home as herein provided.
Sec. Q. The State Treasurer il hereby directed to re-
ceipt to the Board Of Managers Of the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for such sum or sans of money
~ may from time to time be allowed as aid to the "Wyo-
ming SOLDIER and Sailors Home" which said sum or sums
~ moHey ARE hereby appropriated for the Wyoming Boil
9ieEF and Gailors' Home Fund.
Sec. 10. The pneFpended balance Of such sum o.. sums