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1 / <br /> I U9i' <br /> ' I " <br /> I• <br /> 18GG.—Chap. 1"72. <br /> i <br /> f AN ACT <br /> TO PROVIDE STATE AID FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS, AND <br /> THEIR FAMILIES, AND FOR THE FAMILIES OF THE SLAIN. <br /> y Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General <br /> Court assembled, and 4 the authority of the same, as follows:— <br /> SECT. 1. The treasurers of cities and towns shall, under <br /> the direction of the city council, or'selectmen thereof, pay <br /> monthly the sum of six dollars,from and after the first day <br /> of January in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to <br /> any person having a residence in said city or town, who has <br /> served in the army or navy of the United States, as an <br /> officer or as an enlisted or drafted man, to the credit of the <br /> state of Massachusetts, between the nineteenth day of April <br /> in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one and the first day <br /> of September in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, <br /> and who is now residing within this state, and who is <br /> wholly or partially disabled by reason of wounds received <br /> in said service, or by sickness or disability contracted <br /> therein; or who, being at the time of his enlistment and <br /> now an inhabitant of this state, has served as aforesaid to <br /> the credit of any other state between the said nineteenth <br /> day of April and the eighteenth day of March in the year <br /> eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and who is wholly or par- <br /> tially disabled by reason of wounds received in said service, <br /> j or by sickness or disability contracted therein: provided, <br /> I that said person has an honorable discharge from said ser- <br /> vice by reason of wounds; or disability, or expiration of his <br /> term of service, or has been duly mustered out of said <br /> I <br />