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Tit. IX, Ch. 2. SOLDIERS' HOME. §§ 1915-1926,
4 reformatory. The board shall procure and furnish the agents with
5 office room and such furniture, books, blanks and supplies as may be
6 necessary for the proper discharge of their duties, in the same manner
7 as supplies are now furnished other officers of the board. The board
8 may furnish such office room and supplies to said agents at one or
9 more of the institutions for which they are to act, and may require
1-0 the institutions to furnish the agents with room, board and facilities
11 for transacting business when stopping therein, without charge.
[S. S., '15, § 2692-a; 37 G. A., ch. 54, § 1 ; 37 G. A., ch. 349,
§ 1 ; 37 G. A., ch. 370, § 1 ; 37 G. A., ch. 427, § 1 ; 38 G.
A., ch. 105, § 1 ; 39 G. A., ch. 209, § 22.]
SEC. 1915. Expense—money advanced.
1 The board of control may cause to be advanced from the funds
2 appropriated to each agent from time to time the sums to be used in
3 defraying the official expenses of such agent, but the aggregate amount
4 of money so advanced and not expended at any time shall not exceed
5 the sum of two hundred fifty dollars, and the agent shall give security
6 to be approved by the board for the proper use and accounting each
7 month of all money so advanced.
[S. S., '15, § 2692-c; 37 G. A., ch. 349, § 2 ; 37 G. A., ch. 370,
§ 2 ; 38 G. A., ch. 105, §§ 2, 3 ; 39 G. A., ch. 209, § 23.]
CHAPTER 2.
SOLDIERS' HOME.
SECTION 1916. Object.
1 The Iowa soldiers' home, located at Marshalltown, shall be main-
2 tained for dependent honorably discharged United States soldiers,
3 sailors or marines and army and navy nurses, their dependent widows
4 and wives.
[C., '97, § 2601 ; S., '13, § 2601 ; 39 G. A., ch. 148, § 1.]
SEC. 1917. Admission.
1 All persons named in the preceding section, not having sufficient
2 means for his or her support, who are disabled by disease, wounds,
3 old age or otherwise, who served in Iowa regiments or batteries, or
4 were accredited to the state of Iowa, or who were residents of the
5 state of Iowa at the time of his or her enlistment or induction into the
6 United States army, navy, marine or nurses corps, or who have been
7 residents of the state for three years next preceding the date of appli-
8 cation, shall be eligible to admission into said home.
[C, '97, § 2602; S., '13, § 2602; 39 G. A., ch. 148, § 2.]
SEC. 1920. Bules for admission.
1 The board of control of state institutions may receive into the
2 home, under such rules and regulations, and subject to such conditions
3 as said board may prescribe, the dependent persons not having suffi-
4 cient means or ability to support themselves, designated as follows :
5 1. Honorably discharged United States soldiers, sailors, marines
6 and army and navy nurses.
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