Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 72 Part 1.djvu/1301

 72

STAT.]

PUBLIC LAW 85-857~SEPT. 2, 1958

1259

by the records of the Veterans' Administration. If none such appears from said records, similar notice shall be posted at the facility where the death occurred or property shall have been found (if in existence) and at the place where such property is situated at the time of such notice, and also at the place where probate notices are posted in the county wherein the sale is to be had. The person posting such notice shall make an affidavit setting forth the time and place of such posting and attaching thereto a copy, of such notice, and such affidavit shall be prima facie evidence of such posting and admissible in evidence as proof of the same. § 5207. Payment of small shipping charges Upon receipt of a proper claim for such property under the provisions of this subchapter the Administrator is hereby authorized, in his discretion and in accordance with regulations by him promulgated, to pay mailing or shipping charges not to exceed $25 in the case of each deceased veteran as hereinabove defined. § 5208. Relinquishment of Federal jurisdiction Subject to the provisions of this subchapter and to the extent necessary to effectuate the purposes of this subchapter, there is hereby relinquished to the respective State or dependency of the United States such jurisdiction pertaining to the administration of estates of decedents as may have been ceded to the United States by said State or dependency of the United States respecting the Federal reservation on which is situated any Veterans' Administration facility while such facility is operated by the Veterans' Administration; such jurisdiction with respect to any such property on any such reservation to be to the same extent as if such premises had not been ceded to the United States. Nothing in this section shall be construed to deprive any State or dependency of the United States of any jurisdiction which it now has nor to give any State, possession, or dependency of the United States authority over any Federal official as such on such premises or otherwise. § 5209. Definitions The term "facility" or "Veterans' Administration facility" as used in this subchapter means those facilities over which the Veterans' Administration has direct and exclusive administrative jurisdiction, picluding hospitals or other facilities on property owned or leased by the United States while operated by the Veterans' Administration. § 5210. Finality of decisions Decisions by the Administrator under this subchapter shall not be reviewable administratively by any other officer of the United States. Subchapter II—Death While Inmate of Veterans' Administration Facility § 5220. Vesting of property left by decedents (a) Whenever any veteran (admitted as a veteran) shall die while a member or patient in any facility, or any hospital while being furnished care or treatment therein by the Veterans' Administration, and shall not leave surviving him any spouse, next of kin, or heirs entitled, under the laws of his domicile, to his personal property as to which he dies intestate, all such property, including money and choses in action, owned by him at the time of death and not disposed of by will or otherwise, shall immediately vest in and become the property of the United States as trustee for the sole use and benefit of the General Post Fund (hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the " F u n d "), a trust fund prescribed by section 725s (a) (45) of title 31.

3i use 7258.

�