Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 2 Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home
§49 Persons entitled to membership in and benefits of home
The following persons shall be members of the Soldiers' Home, and entitled to the rights and benefits conferred, in this chapter and no others:
First. Every soldier of the Army of the United State who has served, or may serve, honestly and faithfully twenty years in the same.
Second. Every soldiers and every discharged soldiers, whether regular or volunteer, who has suffered, or may suffer, by reason of disease or wounds incurred in the service and in the line of his duty, rendering him incapable of further military service, if such disability was not occasioned by his own misconduct.
Third. The invalid and disabled soldier, whether regulars or volunteers, of all wars.
(R.S. §4814; derived from Mar. 3, 1851, ch. 25, §1, 9 Stat. 595; Mar. 3, 1859, ch. 83, §5, 7, 11 Stat. 434; R.S. §4821 derived from Mar. 3, 1851, ch. 25, §5, 9 Stat. 595; Mar. 3, 1859, ch. 83, §5, 11 Stat. 434; Repealed. Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title XV, §1532(b)(1), (2), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1733; eff. Nov. 5, 1991)