Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 2 Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home
§47 Custodian of funds; transfer of funds for outdoor relief
The Treasurer of the United States is authorized and directed to receive and keep on deposit, subject to the checks or drafts of the treasurer of the Soldiers' Home in the District of Columbia, all funds which may be furnished the said treasurer of the Soldiers' Home or in any manner come into his possession for use in defraying the current expenses of maintaining the said Soldiers' Home, and, upon the request of said treasurer of the Soldiers' Home, there shall be transferred, from funds to his credit with the United States Treasurer, and placed to his credit with the designated depository of the United States in New York City, New York, such sums as he may require monthly or quarterly for payments on account of “outdoor relief” to members of said Soldiers' Home residing at a distance therefrom.
(Jan. 16, 1891, ch. 74, 26 Stat. 718; May 29, 1920, ch. 214, 41 Stat. 655; Repealed. Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title III, §347(3), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1422)