§ 19-5 Unclaimed intestate funds — restoration to claimant.

If the estate of an intestate shall be paid to the Board of School Commissioners under this law, and any legal representatives of the intestate of no remoter degrees among collaterals than brothers’ or sisters’ children, shall at any time appear and prove him, her or themselves to be such legal representatives, the Board of School Commissioners who received such estate, or their successors, if the same shall be in their hands or shall have been applied to the use of the public schools, shall restore the same to such legal representatives out of the school fund under their direction.