Volume 50
Public Law 75–628
To amend the Adjusted Compensation Payment Act, 1936, to provide for the escheat to the United States of certain amounts.
Approved August 14, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Adjusted Compensation Payment Act, 1936, to provide for the escheat to the United States of certain amounts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 4 of
Adjusted Compensation Payment Act, 1936, amendment.
38 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 686c.
the Adjusted Compensation Payment Act, 1936, as amended, is hereby further amended by striking out the period at the end of the first sentence added by the Act approved June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1982), and inserting a colon and the following: “ Provided, That the amount of any such payment (including any payment
Payments; escheat to United States, certain amounts which would otherwise escheat to State, etc.
heretofore made) which, under the law of the State or country pursuant to which the estate of the deceased veteran would be distributed, would otherwise escheat to such State or country, shall escheat to the United States and shall be covered into the general fund of the Treasury.”
Approved, August 14, 1937.