2400 Act of the Massachusetts legislature, "An Act to Provide State Aid for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors...", 1866

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44a e 8 ST#E AID. poses set forth in this act and all persons entitled to aid under the provisions of this act, who do not apply for the same within three months from the passage hereof, shall not receive said aid prior to the date of their application. SECT. 12. Any person who has served in the army or navy of the United States, as an officer or enlisted or drafted man, to the credit of the state of Massachusetts, between the nineteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the first day of September in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and who resides in any other of the United States, and who, at the time of enlist- ment, had been a resident of the state during the month immediately preceding said enlistment, who is wholly or, partially disabled by reason of wounds received in said service, or by sickness or disability contracted therein, may • apply to the commission provided for in the fifth section of this act, and upon furnishing to said commission satisfactory evidence of his service as aforesaid in the army or navy, shall be entitled to receive the sum of six dollars per month from the treasury of the Commonwealth, for the period of three years from the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six : provided, that said person has an honorable discharge from said service by reason of wounds or disability, or expiration of his time of service, or has been duly mustered out of said service; and does not receive aid from any other state. If any person entitled to receive aid under this section shall be convicted of-any criminal offence at common law, or under the statutes of this Commonwealth or of any other state, such aid shall be discontinued to said person, unless or until said commission shall, in their discretion, otherwise determine. SECT. 13. The operations of this act shall cease upon the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-ones. SECT. 14. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved April 23, 1866.