Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 2 Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home
For the support of the Soldiers' Home the following funds are set apart and appropriated: All stoppages or fines adjudged against soldiers by sentence of courts martial, over and above any amount that may be due for the reimbursement of Government, or of individuals; all forfeitures on account of desertion; and all moneys belonging to the estates of deceased soldiers, which may be unclaimed for the period of three years subsequent to the death of such soldiers, to be repaid by the commissioners of the institution, upon the demand of the heirs or legal representatives of the deceased.
(R.S. §4818; derived from Mar. 3, 1851, ch. 25, §7, 9 Stat. 596; July 5, 1862, ch. 133, §2, 12 Stat. 508; Sept. 24, 1980, Pub. L. 96–357, §7(a), 94 Stat. 1183; Repealed. Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title III, §347(1), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1422; See section 2772 of Title 10, Armed Forces)