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" A historic decision took place in 1854 when President Franklin Pierce vetoed legislation that provided for federal aid to states in the form of land for the construction of facilities for care and treatment of the insane. Pierce said that such legislation... "
Health, education, and welfare
by United States. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare - 1968 - 136 pages
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Alaska Mental Health: Hearings, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1956 - 350 pages
...$6,500,000 to enable the Public Health Service to make special construction grants to the Territory for the construction of facilities for the care and treatment of the mentally ill ; and (e) make a grant of land to the Territory of not to exceed 1 million acres to enable...
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Alaska Mental Health: Hearings, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1956 - 348 pages
...$6,500,000 to enable the Public Health Service to make special construction grants to the Territory for the construction of facilities for the care and treatment of the mentally ill; and (e) make a grant of land to the Territory of not to exceed 1 million acres to enable...
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Mental Health. Hearings ... 88-1 ... Mar. 26, 27, 28, 1963

United States. Congress. House Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1963 - 490 pages
...necessary cost of construction. HR 4663 would also authorize grants to public and nonprofit institutions for the construction of facilities for the care and treatment of the mentally retarded, including facilities connected with college and university hospitals or other appropriate...
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President Carter's social security proposals: hearings before the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security - 1977 - 588 pages
...in 1854 when President Franklin Pierce vetoed legislation which would have provided federal aid to states in the form of land for the construction of facilities for the care and treatment of the insane Pierce felt that the legislation would establish a precedent in the care of the indigent that...
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Welfare reform proposals: hearings before the Subcommittee on Public ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Public Assistance - 1978 - 890 pages
...message on welfare was President Pierce's veto in 1954 of legislation which provided for federal aid to states in the form of land for the construction of...care and treatment of the insane. President Pierce vetoed the bill on the grounds that it would set a precedent •which might lead "to transfer to the...
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Oral testimony, May 2 and 4, 1978, and communications

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Public Assistance - 1978 - 296 pages
...with the problem of the mentally ill led to the passage of legislation in Congress in 1854 to provide federal aid to the states in the form of land for the construction of facilities for the care of the insane. President Franklin Pierce vetoed the bill on the grounds that it would set a precedent...
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