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[H.R. 1925 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.1925

                     One Hundred Sixteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and twenty


                                 An Act


 
  To designate the Manhattan Campus of the New York Harbor Health Care 
 System of the Department of Veterans Affairs as the ``Margaret Cochran 
       Corbin Campus of the New York Harbor Health Care System''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF MANHATTAN CAMPUS OF THE NEW YORK HARBOR 
HEALTH CARE SYSTEM OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, NEW YORK.
    (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
        (1) Margaret Cochran was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, 
    on November 12, 1751, and married John Corbin in 1772.
        (2) Three years after the marriage, when John Corbin left to 
    fight in the Revolutionary War as an artilleryman, Margaret Corbin 
    accompanied him to war to support the Revolutionary Army.
        (3) Margaret Corbin supported the Revolutionary Army by caring 
    for injured and sick soldiers as well as by cooking and cleaning. 
    During battle, she also helped her husband load the cannon he was 
    responsible for manning.
        (4) On November 16, 1776, John Corbin was manning a cannon 
    during the Battle of Fort Washington on Manhattan Island, New York, 
    when he was killed. Margaret Corbin heroically took her husband's 
    place, firing the cannon until she, too, was hit by enemy fire and 
    seriously wounded.
        (5) Having lost the use of her left arm, Margaret Corbin was 
    assigned to the ``Invalid Regiment'' at West Point, New York.
        (6) The Continental Congress awarded Margaret Corbin a lifelong 
    pension for her injuries, making her the first woman to receive a 
    pension from the United States by virtue of military service for 
    the United States.
        (7) Margaret Corbin died in 1789 in Highland Falls, New York. 
    She is honored nearby at West Point as a hero of the Revolutionary 
    War.
    (b) Designation.--The Manhattan Campus of the New York Harbor 
Health Care System of the Department of Veterans Affairs in New York, 
New York, shall after the date of the enactment of this Act be known 
and designated as the ``Margaret Cochran Corbin Campus of the New York 
Harbor Health Care System'' or the ``Margaret Cochran Corbin VA 
Campus''.
    (c) Reference.--Any reference in any law, regulation, map, 
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the Campus 
referred to in subsection (b) shall be deemed to be a reference to the 
Margaret Cochran Corbin Campus of the New York Harbor Health Care 
System.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.