Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-04-24
(By w. II. Brady)

sion document 262, current annual re
port of the board of managers OF tn'
National Home for Disabled Voiun
teer Soldiers for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1909, recently issued
containe a mass of matter perain
ing to the conduct of the ten branches
that comprise the home and inc
thirty state homes which are aist
under its control.
Table b. OF the treasurer's report
shows statments of receipts and ex
renditures from organization 10
June 80, 1909, as follows:
RecapituIation.
BY treasury drafts, fines, forfeitures
etc, $6,923 ,262.09; by appropriations
$50, 29s ,67S03; by posthumous funds
sl52.232.63; by salt of bonds. $l,SIl,'
413.eO; by interest on bonds, $277 $751;
40; by donations, 2,192.54; by sale
of supplies, s2SS,503.56; by sale
of land. si9,4So.00; by outdoor relief
returned, sl,033,90; by overcharges
returned s35633; by railroad tickets
redeemed $500; by mortgages re-
deemed $500; by errors paid, $3.50;
by disallowed by accounting officers,
$4,000; by returned by branch treas
urers, 1854, 0s5.29. Total s4s,eo9,'
47211.
To maintenance, 1899 ,556.0S; to
buildings and appurtenances, $685.
2O6.S2; to purchase of land, $446,-
1884; to purchase of bonds, s2,c1l'-
33l.12; to excess of appropriations
returned to United States treasury,
S2,5S722; to allowance by accounting
officers, $500; to unexperded bal
onces deposited in United States
treasury, s4,O5O.o1S.6o; to balance
due the United States, s650,s10.43.
Total s94 sos, 472.11.
During the last fiscal year the ex-
penditures of the board to the branch
es of the home we're as follows:
To maintenance, 9S6,324.7s; to
buildings and appurtenances, $685.
1868; to unexpended balance de-
posted in United States treasury,
1919, 1916; making a grand total OF
S5,26S, 96S.6S.
During the year, the branch treas
urers returned to the treasurer OF the
board of managers a total OF $751;
976.17. The general cost per capita
for the year was s1S4.3S, an increase
of "a cents over the previous year.
During the last fiscal year 34,s3Z
soldiers and sailors were cared for in
the National Home, and 2O,615 in the
thirty state homes, a total OF 55,6ci.
which is an increase of 511 over the
number cared for during the previous
fiscal year.
The average present. was 32,4O2 in
both national and state homes, which
is 1,447 more than last year. The In
cease in the membership OF the state
homes was somewhat larger than I'M
the national homes.
During the year the board author
lied that salaries Of all chapiains
and officers OF the home receiving 81
200 per annum be increased to 81 800.
All receiving $500 to $1,000, all re-
ceiving less than $500 to $1,000 per
annum, to take effect July 1, 1909
The board also ordered that mem
bers of state homes who voluntsri-
ly take their discharge from such
state home shall not be admitted to
a national home until after the ex-
piration of six months from the date
of such discharge, should be re-
cinded. An important ruling by the
board states when a Governor of
any branch home requests from head
quarters an increased allowance oil
any article of subsistence supplies
provided for in the supply list, such
increase shall be allowed within the
discretion of the local manager and
the president Of the board OF man.
ayers. provided that the amounts re-
quested do not exceed the amounts
allowed by the government to the
army in garrison ration" At a meet
ing of the board on April 20, 1909,
the application of Henry Lyons, late
United States navy. for re-admissioH
70 the Southern branch was denied
The cost Of travelling expenses at
tending meetings of the board. in
spections and Official visits to the
several branches OF the national home
and state homes. board Of managers,
officers and employees. milage, rail-
road tickets. berths. sests. hotel
bills, carriages and meals enroute- OF
the gentlemen comprising the board