SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS . SEss . III. CHs . 267, 268. 1931 .
1203 775) : Provided, That in the event title to any privately owned land Toobe part of papago is acquired by purchase, the land so purchased shall become part of Indian Reservation, the Pa pago I ndian Reser vation : And provided further, That the State of Arizona may relinquish such tracts within the townships Option by Arizona . referred to in section 1 of this Act as it may see fit in favor of the Papago Indians, and shall have the right to select other unreserved and nonmineral public lands within the State of Arizona equal in area to that relinquished, said lieu selections to be made in the same Vol.36,p. 558. manner as is provided for in the Enabling Act of June 20, 1910 (36 Stat. L. 558) . Approved, February 21, 1931 . February 21, 1931 . CHAP. 268 .-An Act To aut hori ze the disp osi tion of eff ects of per sons dy ing [5 .4619.1 while subject to military law.
[public, No . 7101 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the effects in Array- Disposition sition of effects the possession of the General Accounting Office of persons dying of persons dying while while subject to military l aw, including papers of val ue, sabers, subject to military law' insignia, decorations, medals, watches, trinkets, manuscripts, and other articles valuable chiefly as keepsakes, including those of deceased inmat es of the Sol diers' Home d ying in any Un ited States military hospital, where sent from said home for treatment, and similar effects hereafter received by the War Department under the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat . L. 809 ; U. S. C., U.S. C., p8a9. title 10, sec . 1384), as amended, shall be delivered to the Soldiers' Home ; that wills or other papers involving property rights shall wills . be promptly delivered to proper courts of record
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Remaining effects. in- effects, if the heirs or legal representatives can not be ascertained, shall be retained by the home intact until three years from the date of the death of the person on whose behalf they were received shall have expired (in the event said period shall not have already elapsed), for the purpose of delivery to the widow or legal repre- sentative of the deceased, or to the son, daughter, father (provided the father had not abandoned the support of his family), mother, brother, sister, or the next of kin in the order named, or beneficiary named in the will of the deceased, upon the establishment to the satisfaction of the home of a right thereto . SEC . 2 . (a) That after t he expiration of three year s from date Sale after three years. of death of sa id deceased, the Soldiers' Home may sell , either at public or private sale, as deemed most advantageous,, all or any of such effects to which a right thereto shall not have been established on behalf of said deceased, his heirs, or legal representatives : Pro- Decorations, medals vided, That decorations, medals, and citations shall not be sold, but etc . shall be disposed of as in section (b) following . (b) That such of said effects as at the expiration of five years after five not s ld, etc ., from date of d eath of decea sed have neit her been sold nor a right thereto established on behalf of the deceased shall be finally disposed of by said home in such manner as in the interest of the public it deems most fit ting, helpful , and appropr iate, either b y permanent retention thereof, distribution to the Veterans' Administration, State or other military homes, museums, or other appropriate insti- tutions, or by their destruction, if, in the opinion of the board of commissioners thereof, they no longer possess any value . (c) That the net proceeds received by the home from the sale of proceeds to Soldiers' such effects shall be covered into the Treasury to the benefit of the Hom e permanent fund . fund " Soldiers' Home permanent fund (trust fund)," and such principal fund as thus augmented shall draw interest at 3 per centum per annum, payable quarterly to the treasurer of the home .
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