Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 165:5

  • Armed forces: means the United States Army, Army Reserve, Navy, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps, Marine Corps Reserve, Air Force, Air Force Reserve, Space Force, Coast Guard, Coast Guard Reserve, Army National Guard, and the Air National Guard. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:50
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
  • United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
Whenever any person, resident in this state, who served in the armed forces of the United States, in any war, insurrection, campaign, or expedition, in which the United States was engaged, and who received an honorable discharge, not being under guardianship or legal restraint, shall become poor and unable to provide maintenance for himself and his dependent family, such person, his wife, widow, or minor children, shall be supported at the public expense in the town or city of their abode, at their own home or such place, other than a town or county almshouse, as the overseers of public welfare or the county commissioners shall deem proper.