---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 U.S.C. § 6"
title: "24"
title_heading: "Hospitals and Asylums"
number: "6"
heading: "Pension paid to fund for benefit of naval hospital"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/24/6"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others"
---

# §6. Pension paid to fund for benefit of naval hospital


Whenever any officer, seaman, or marine entitled to a pension is admitted to a naval hospital, his pension, while he remains there, shall be deducted from his accounts and paid to the Secretary of the Navy for the benefit of the [fund](/usc/24/401.md?p=2) from which such hospital is maintained.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 4813; May 4, 1898, ch. 234, 30 Stat. 377; Mar. 3, 1899, ch. 421, 30 Stat. 1027; June 30, 1914, ch. 130, 38 Stat. 398.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 4813 derived from act Feb. 26, 1811, ch. 26, § 5, 2 Stat. 650.