Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 2 Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home
The benefits of the Soldiers' Home shall not be extended to any soldier in the regular or volunteer service, convicted of felony or other disgraceful or infamous crimes of a civil nature after his admission into the service of the United States; nor shall any one who has been a deserter, mutineer, or habitual drunkard be received, without such evidence of subsequent service, good conduct, and reformation of character as is satisfactory to the commissioners.
(R.S. §4822; derived from Mar. 3, 1851, ch. 25 §6, 9 Stat. 596; Repealed. Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title XV, §1541(a), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1733; eff. Nov. 5, 1991)