Incompetent Dependents of Service Men

Woodward, Deputy Attorney General,

We have your request for advice concerning the authority of a superintendent of a State mental hospital over checks received from the Federal Government drawn to the order of the hospital in relation to the accounts of patients whose husbands are in military service.

In support of your request, you state that there are several mental patients at the Harrisburg State Hospital whose husbands are in the military service and who are receiving checks from the Federal Government for $50 per month; and that these checks are being drawn to the order of the Harrisburg…