In the Senate of the United States, May 15, 1854 ... an act making a grant of public lands to the several states of the union for the benefit of indigent insane persons
Contributors: Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887
Series: Senate ex. doc -- 33d Congress, 1st session, no. 44; Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) -- 33rd Congress, 1st session, no. 44.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1854
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Psychiatric hospitals; Asylums; Mentally ill; Care; Public land sales
Other titles: Act making a grant of public lands to the several states of the union for the benefit of indigent insane persons
Notes: "May 15, 1854"

First petitioned for by Dorothea Dix in 1848; act was vetoed by Franklin Pierce, but then was passed by the Senate March 8, 1854.