Chapter 593. Relating to the payment and disposition of pension money due to inmates of the Government Hospital for the Insane
587 words·~3 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-33/chapter-593-3486472·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
CHAP. 593.— An Act Relating to the payment and disposition of pension money due to inmates of the Government Hospital for the Insane. February 20, 1905. [[H. R. 12152](/us/bill/58/hr/12152).] [[Public, No. 85](/us/pl/58/85).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the proviso in the Act Government Hospital for the Insane. Use of pensions of certain insane soldiers in. Vol. 22, p. 330, amended. [R.
S., sec. 4843, p. 939](/us/rs/s4843/p939). approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, appearing on page three hundred and thirty of the Twenty-second Statutes at Large, and relating to pensions of inmates of the Government Hospital for the Insane, is hereby stricken out and the following inserted: " “*Provided*, That in addition to the persons now entitled to admission Inmates from National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. to said hospital, any inmate of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers who is now or may hereafter become insane shall, upon an order of the president of the Board of Managers of the said National Home, be admitted to said hospital and treated therein.
During the Disbursement of pensions of. time that any pensioner shall be an inmate of the Government Hospital for the Insane all money due or becoming due upon his or her pension shall be paid by the pension agent to the superintendent of the hospital, upon a certificate by such superintendent that the pensioner is an inmate of the hospital and is living, and such pension money shall be by said superintendent disbursed and used, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, for the benefit of the pensioner, and, in the case of a male pensioner, his wife, minor children, and dependent parents, or, if a female pensioner, her minor children, if any, in the order named, and to pay his or her board and maintenance in the hospital; the remainder of such pension money, if any, to be placed to the credit of the pensioner and to be paid to the pensioner or the guardian of the pensioner in the event of 732 his or her discharge from the hospital; or, in the event of the death of said pensioner while an inmate of said hospital, shall, if a female pensioner, be paid to her minor children, and, in the case of a male pensioner, be paid to his wife, if living; if no wife survives him, then to his minor children; and in case there is no wife nor minor children, then the said unexpended balance to his or her credit shall be applied *Proviso*.
Use of funds credited to accounts of. to the general uses of said hospital: *Provided further*, That in the case of pensioners transferred to the hospital from the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, any pension money to his, credit at said Home at the time of his said transfer shall be transferred with him to said hospital and placed to his credit therein, to be expended as hereinbefore provided; and in case of his return from said hospital to the Home, any balance to his credit at said hospital shall, in like manner, be transferred to said Home, to be expended in accordance with the rules established in regard thereto.
This provision shall also be applicable to all unexpended pension money heretofore paid to the officers of the said hospital on account of pensioners who were but are not now inmates thereof.” " Approved, February 20, 1905.