NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUN-
TEER SOLDIERS.

MANAGERS.

EX OFFICIO.

His Excellency, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
The Honorable, THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES.
The Honorable, THE SECRETARY OF WAR.

MANAGERS ELECTED BY CONGRESS.

Maj. Gen. WM. B. FRANKLIN, President.
Col. LEONARD A. HARRIS, 1st Vice-President..
Gen. RICHARD COULTER, 2d Vice-President..

Gen. MARTIN T. MCMAHON, Sec., 93 Nausau street..
Col. JOHN A. MARTIN

Hartford, Conn.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Greensburg, Pa.
New York City.
Atchison, Kansas.
Hudson, Wis.
Orange, N. J.
Springfield, Ill.
Bangor, Maine.

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Governor and Treasurer.
Secretary.
Surgeon.

The building of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, located near Milwaukee, December 7, 1865, is called the Northwestern branch of that National Institution. The Central Home is located at Dayton, Ohio. Other branches are located at Augusta, Maine, and Hampton, Virginia. The whole are under the same board of managers.

THE NORTHWESTERN BRANCH

It is a

is beautifully situated, three miles from the city of Milwaukee.
capacious brick building, containing accommodations for 1,030 inmates.
In addition to this building which contains the main halls, eating apartment,
offices, dormitory and engine room, are shops, granaries, stables and other
out-buildings. The Home farm contains 410 acres, of which over one-half
is cultivated. The remainder is a wooded park traversed by shaded walks
and drives, beautifully undulating. The main line of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St. Paul railroad runs through the farm, and the track of the northern
division passes beside it.

WHO ARE ADMITTED AND HOW.

Soldiers who were disabled in the service of the United States in the war of the rebellion, the Mexican war, or the war of 1812, and have been honorably discharged, are entitled to admission to the Soldiers' Home.

Admission is procured on a certificate, of which blank forms are furnished to every applicant, setting forth his enlistment, with date, rank, place of muster, and the company, regiment or other organization to which he belonged, and the date and cause of discharge; and that he is receiving a pension. His identity is set forth in the same certificate, and a surgeon's statement of his disability and its nature.

These certificates in blank, with full directions for filling them out, may be procured by applying therefor either in person or by mail, to Gen. JACOB SHARPE, Milwaukee, the commandant of the National Home for Disabled Soldiers.

Disabled soldiers, or their friends, county, city and town authorities, police officers, guardians of the poor and almshouses, trustees of benevolent institutions and public or private hospitals throughout the state and country, having knowledge of disabled soldiers, or such persons in their charge, are cordially invited to address the commandant of the Home, by whom the necessary blanks and instructions will be sent by return mail. On the application and certificate thus made out, an order for the admission of the disabled soldier is indorsed, and an order for free transportation by railroad to the Home is furnished.

LABOR, INSTRUCTION AND AMUSEMENT.

Such inmates as are able to do so, have the opportunity to practice various mechanical trades, or to work on the Home farm, for which they are paid a compensation of from $6 to $15 a month, averaging, all around, about 40 cents per day. Skilled laborers earn more than these wages. The trades practiced are, boot and shoe making, carpenter and joiner work, tin-smithing, plastering and stone masonry, gas-fitting, printing, book-binding and harness-making. Farming is largely carried on, and some of the finest products exhibited at the State fairs have been from the fields and gardens cultivated by the soldiers. All the labor of the institution, including care of the buildings, repairs which are found necessary, and farming operations, is done by

the inmates.

The institution has an excellent library of 3,900 volumes, contributed by friends of the soldiers in various parts of the country. The reading room contains newspapers and magazines, all of which are in constant use and requisition by the inmates.

This institution is not a public charity, and the disabled soldiers of the country should understand it. The money that supports it has been forforfeited by bad soldiers, and has been made, by the law of congress, the absolute property of the disabled soldiers of the country. They do not place themselves in the list of paupers by becoming inmates of the Home.

The State Library had its origin in the generous appropriation of $5,000 out of the general treasury, by Congress, contained in the seventeenth section of the organic act creating the Territory of Wisconsin. At the first session of the Territorial Legislature, held at Belmont in 1836, a joint resolution was adopted appointing the Hon. JOHN M. CLAYTON, of Delaware (through whose instrumentality the clause in the organic act making the appropriation was inserted), Hon. LEWIS F. LINN, of Missouri, Hon. G. W. JONES, then delegate in Congress from this Territory (which at that time included what now constitutes the State of Iowa, as well as Wisconsin) and Hon. PETER HILL ENGLE, the speaker of the first Territorial House of Representatives, a committee to select and purchase a library for the use of the Territory. JAMES CLARKE, publisher of the Belmont Gazette, and the first Territorial printer, was the first Librarian.

The first appropriation by the State, to replenish the library, was made in 1851. The sum of $2,500 was then appropriated for the purchase of law books. In 1854, the sum of $3,000 was appropriated for law and miscellaneous works; and in 1857, the additional appropriation of $1,000 was made for the same purpose, together with a standing appropriation of $250 for such additions to the law and miscellaneous departments of the library as might from time to time be deemed desirable.

In 1864, the annual appropriation was increased to $500, and in 1866 the additional sum of $600 per annum was placed at the disposal of the Governor for the purpose of supplying deficiencies in the law department of the library. These appropriations were continued until 1877, when the annual appropriation was increased to $1,500.

In 1875, the Legislature directed the transfer of the miscellaneous books in the State Library to the State Historical Society.

The needs of the library, as a law library, are increasing rather than diminishing. The rapidity with which treatises, digests, reports, statutes, etc., increase, makes it impossible for the library, with its limited funds, to meet many of the demands made upon it. Its principal wants are the Scotch reports, the reports of the courts of the British colonies; the early statutes and session laws of the several States and Territories; reports of important criminal trials; works on legal bibliography; histories of the law and of courts; legal biographies and speeches; works on the civil law, and the laws of foreign countries, including the codes, and collections of statutes in force in all civilized countries and colonies.

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