THE WORLD WAR 
 VETERANS’ ACT: 1924 
 
 WITH AMENDMENTS PRIOR TO 
 
 JULY 3, 1926 
 
 An act to consolidate, codify, revise, and reenact the 
 laws affecting the establishment of the United States 
 Veterans’ Bureau and the administration of the War 
 Risk Insurance Act, as amended, and the Vocational 
 Rehabilitation Act, as amended 
 
 ISSUED BY 
 
 UNITED STATES VETERANS’ BUREAU 
 WASHINGTON, D. G. 
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF ILLIMOIS 
 
 WASHINGTON 
 
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 Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
 United States of A'ineHca in Congress assembled. 
 
 Title I.— General. 
 
 Section 1. This Act may be cited as the “ World War Veterans’ 
 Act, 1924.” 
 
 Sec. 2. When used in this Act— 
 
 The term “ bureau ” means the United States Veterans’ Bureau. 
 
 The term “ director ” means the Director of the United States 
 Veterans’ Bureau. 
 
 Sec. 3. In Titles II, III, and IV of this Act unless the context 
 otherwise requires— 
 
 (1) The term “ child ” includes— 
 
 (a) A legitimate child. 
 
 (b) A child legally adopted. 
 
 (c) A stepchild, if a member of the man’s household. 
 
 (d) An illegitimate child, but, as to the father only, if acknowl¬ 
 edged in writing signed by him, or if he has been judicially ordered 
 or decreed to contribute to such child’s support, or has been judicially 
 decreed to be the putative father of such child. 
 
 (2) The term “ grandchild ” means a child as above defined of a 
 child as above defined. 
 
 (3) Except as used in section 300 the terms “child” and “grand¬ 
 child” are limited to unmarried persons either (a) under eighteen 
 years of age, or (b) of any age, if permanently incapable of self- 
 support by reason of mental or physical defect. 
 
 (4) The term “ parent ” includes a father, mother, grandfather, 
 grandmother, father through adoption, mother through adoption, 
 stepfather, and stepmother, either of the persons in the service or of 
 the spouse. 
 
 (5) The terms “father” and “mother” include stepfathers and 
 stepmothers, fathers and mothers through adoption, and persons 
 who have stood in loco parentis to a member of the military or 
 naval forces at any time prior to his enlistment or induction for a 
 period of not less than one year. 
 
 (6) The terms “brother” and “sister” include brothers and sis¬ 
 ters of the half blood as well as those of the whole blood, step¬ 
 brothers and stepsisters, and brothers and sisters through adoption. 
 
 (7) The terms “brother” and “sister” include the children of a 
 person wlio, for a period of not less than one year, stood in loco 
 parentis to a member of the military or naval forces of the United 
 States at any time prior to his enlistment or induction, or another 
 member of the same household as to whom such person during such 
 period likewise stood in loco parentis. 
 
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 (8) The term “commissioned officer” includes a warrant officer, 
 but includes only an officer in active service in the military or naval 
 forces of the United States. 
 
 (9) The terms “man” and “enlisted man” mean a person, 
 whether male or female and Avhether enlisted, enrolled, or drafted 
 into active service in the military or naval forces of the United 
 States, and include noncommissioned and petty officers and members 
 of training camps authorized by law. 
 
 (10) The term “ enlistment ” includes voluntary enlistment, draft, 
 and enrollment in actiA^e service in the military or naval forces of the 
 United States. 
 
 (11) The term “ injury ” includes disease. 
 
 (12) The term “ pa}^ ” means the pay for service in the United 
 States according to grade and length of service, excluding all allow¬ 
 ances. 
 
 (13) The term “military or naA^al forces” means the Army, the 
 NaA^y, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Naval lieserA^es, the 
 National NaA^al Volunteers, and any other branch of the United 
 States serAuce Avhile serving pursuant to laAv Avith the Army or the 
 NaAy. 
 
 (14) The terms “Vforld War,” “during the period of the war,” 
 and “ during the World War ” mean the period beginning April 6, 
 1917, and ending July 2, 1921. 
 
 (15) The terms “date of termination of the war” and “termi¬ 
 nation of the war ” mean July 2, 1921. 
 
 Sec. 4. There is established an independent bureau under the 
 President to be known as the United States Veterans’ Bureau, the 
 director of which shall be appointed by the President by and with 
 the advice and consent of the Senate. The Director of the United 
 States Veterans’ Bureau shall receiA'e a salary of $12,000 per annum, 
 payable monthly. 
 
 There shall be included on the technical and administratiA^e staff 
 of the director such staff officers, experts, inspectors, and assistants 
 as the director shall prescribe; and there shall be in the United States 
 Veterans’ Bureau such sections and subdiAusions thereof as the di¬ 
 rector shall prescribe. With such exceptions as the President may 
 deem advisable, all employees shall be subject to the civil-service law 
 and regulations made thereunder. 
 
 Sec. 5. The director, subject to the general direction of the 
 President, shall administer, execute, and enforce the provisions of 
 this Act, and for that purpose shall haA^e full power and authority to 
 make rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the proAusions of 
 this Act, which are necessary or appropriate to carry out its pur¬ 
 poses, and shall decide all questions arising under this Act and all 
 decisions of questions of fact affecting any claimant to the benelits 
 of Titles II, III, or IV of this Act, shall be conclusiA^e except as 
 otherAvise proAuded herein. All officers and employees of the bureau 
 shall perform such duties as may be assigned them by the director. 
 All official acts performed by such officers or employees specially 
 designated therefor by the director shall have the same force and 
 effect as though performed by the director in person. IVhereA^er 
 under any provision or provisions of the Act regulations are directed 
 or authorized to be made, such regulations, unless the context other¬ 
 Avise requires, shall or may be made by the director. The director 
 
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 shall adopt reasonable and proper rules to govern the procedure of 
 the divisions and to regulate and provide for the nature and extent 
 of the proofs and evidence and the method of taking and furnish¬ 
 ing the same in order to establish the right to benefits of compensa¬ 
 tion, insurance, vocational training or maintenance and support al¬ 
 lowance provided for in this Act, the forms of application of those 
 claiming to be entitled to such benefits, the methods of making in¬ 
 vestigations and medical examinations, and the manner and form of 
 adjudications and awards. 
 
 Sec. 6 . That the bureau shall have the power, and it shall be its 
 duty, to provide for the placement of rehabilitated persons in suita¬ 
 ble or gainful occupations. The director is authorized and directed 
 to utilize, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, the facilities 
 of the Department of Labor, in so far as may be practicable, in the 
 placement of rehabilitated persons in suitable or gainful occupations. 
 
 Sec. 7. The director shall establish a central office in the District 
 of Columbia, and such regional offices and suboffices, not exceeding 
 one hundred in number, within the territory of the United States and 
 its outlying possessions as may be deemed necessary by him and in 
 the best interests of the work committed to the Veterans’ Bureau 
 and to carry out the purposes of this Act. Such regional offices and 
 suboffices, may, subject to final action by the director in case of an 
 appeal, and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed 
 by the director, exercise such powers for hearing complaints and for 
 examining, rating, and awarding compensation claims, granting 
 medical, surgical, dental, and hospital care, convalescent care, and 
 necessary and reasonable after care, granting vocational training 
 and all other matters delegated to them, or some of them, by the 
 director as could be performed lawfully under this Act by the cen¬ 
 tral office. 
 
 The director may abolish any regional offices or suboffices when 
 in his judgment this may be done without detriment to the adminis¬ 
 tration of this Act, and upon such termination all records and 
 supplies pertaining thereto shall be delivered to the central office, 
 or as the director shall otherwise prescribe. 
 
 Sec. 8. That for the purposes of this Act the director, and such 
 persons as the director may designate, shall have the power to issue 
 subpoenas for and compel the attendance of witnesses within a radius 
 of one hundred miles from the place of hearing, to require the pro¬ 
 duction of books, papers, documents, and other evidence, to admin¬ 
 ister oaths, and to examine witnesses 'upon any matter within the 
 jurisdiction of the bureau. In case of disobedience to a subpoena 
 the bureau may invoke the aid of any district court of the United 
 States in requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and 
 the production of documentary evidence, and such court, within the 
 jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on, may, in case of con¬ 
 tumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any officer, agent, or- 
 employee of any corporation or other person, issue an order requir¬ 
 ing such corporation or other person to appear before the bureau 
 or to give evidence touching tlie matter in question; and any failure 
 to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a 
 contempt thereof. Any person so required to attend as a witness 
 shall be allowed and paid the same fees and mileage as are paid 
 witnesses in the district courts of the United States. 
 
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 For the purpose of this Act, the director is authorized to detail 
 from time to time clerks or persons employed in the bureau to make 
 examinations into the merits of compensation and insurance claims, 
 whether pending or adjudicated, as he may deem proper, and to aid 
 in the preparation, presentation, or examination of such claims; 
 and any such person so detailed shall have power to administer 
 oaths, take affidavits, and certify to the correctness of the papers 
 and documents pertaining to the administration of this Act. 
 
 Sec. 9. In addition to the services of the legal assistants employed 
 by the bureau, the Director ma}’ require the opinion of the Attorney 
 General on any questions of law arising in the administration of the 
 bureau. 
 
 Sec. 10. The director, subject to the general directions of the 
 President, shall be responsible for the proper examination, medi¬ 
 cal care, treatment, hospitalization, dispensary, and convalescent 
 care necessary and reasonable aftercare, welfare of, nursing, voca¬ 
 tional training, and such other services as may be necessary in the 
 carrying out of the provisions of this Act, and for that purpose is 
 hereby authorized, at the direction of the President or with the 
 api^roval of the head of the department concerned, to utilize the 
 now existing or future facilities of the United States Public Health 
 Service, the War Department, the Navy Department, the Interior 
 Department, the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers., 
 and such other governmental facilities as may be made available 
 for the purposes set forth in this Act; and such governmental 
 agencies are hereby authorized to furnish €uch facilities, including 
 personnel, equipment, medical, surgical, and hospital services and 
 supplies as the director may deem necessary and advisable in carrying 
 out the provisions of this Act, in addition to such governmental 
 facilities as are hereby made available. 
 
 When, in the opinion of the director, the facilities and services 
 utilized for the hospitalization, medical care, and treatment for 
 beneficiaries under this Act are unsatisfactory, the director shall 
 make arrangements for the further hospitalization, care, and treat¬ 
 ment of such beneficiaries by other means: Provided^ That the 
 director is hereby authorized to hospitalize women veterans entitled 
 to hospitalization under the provisions of this Act and amendments 
 thereto, in other than Government hospitals. 
 
 In the event that there are not sufficient and satisfactory Govern¬ 
 ment hospital and out-patient dispensary facilities for the proper 
 medical care and treatment of beneficiaries under this Act, and the 
 director deems it necessary and advisable to improve existing 
 facilities or to secure additional Government facilities, he may, 
 within the limits of appropriations made for carrying out the 
 provisions of this paragraph, alter, improve, or extend existing 
 governmental facilities, or acquire additional facilities by purchase 
 * or otherwise: Provided^ however^ That no alteration, improvement, 
 or extension which will materially increase the bed capacity for 
 patients of any hospital or institution shall be made, nor shall any 
 new facilities be acquired without the approval of the President. 
 Such new property and structures as may be improved, extended, or 
 acquired shall become part of the permanent equipment of the 
 United States Veterans’ Bureau or of some one of the now existing 
 agencies of the Government, including the War Department, Navy 
 
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 Department, Interior Department, Treasury Department, the 
 National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, in such way as will 
 best serve the present emergency, taking into consideration the future 
 services to be rendered the veterans of the World War, including the 
 beneficiaries under this Act. 
 
 In the event Government hospital facilities are insufficient or 
 inadequate the director may contract with State, municipal, or, in 
 exceptional cases, with private hospitals for such medical, surgical, 
 and hospital services and supplies as may be required, and such 
 contracts may be m^ade for a period of not exceeding three years and 
 may be for the use of a ward or other hospital unit or on such other 
 basis as may be in the best interest of the beneficiaries under this 
 Act. 
 
 There are hereby permanently transferred to the Veterans’Bureau 
 all hospitals now or formerly under the jurisdiction of the Public 
 Health Service or of the Treasury Department, the operation, man¬ 
 agement, or control of which have heretofore been transferred by 
 the President to said bureau pursuant to the authority contained in 
 section 9 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to establish a Veterans’ Bureau 
 and to improve the facilities and service of such bureau and further 
 to amend and modify the War Risk Insurance Act,” approved 
 August 9, 1921. 
 
 Sec. 11. The director is hereby authorized to make such rules 
 and regulations as may be deemed necessary in order to promote 
 good conduct on the part of persons who are receiving care or treat- 
 m.ent in hospitals, homes, or institutions as patients or beneficiaries 
 of said bureau during their stay in such hospitals, homes, institu¬ 
 tions, or training centers. Penalties for the breach of such rules and 
 regulations may, with the approval of the director, extend to a for¬ 
 feiture by the offender of such portion of the compensation payable 
 to him, not exceeding three-fourths of the monthly installment per 
 month for three months, for a breach committed while receiving 
 treatment in such hospital, home, institution, or training center as 
 may be prescribed by such rules and regulations. 
 
 Sec. 12. That the bureau is hereby authorized and empowered 
 to receive, for purposes of benefits provided by Title IV hereof, 
 such gifts and donations from either public or private sources as 
 may be offered unconditionally. All moneys so received as gifts 
 or donations shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, 
 and shall constitute a permanent fund, to be called the “Special 
 fund for vocational reiiabilitation,” to be used under the direction 
 of the said bureau in connection with the appropriations hereby made 
 or hereafter to be made, to defray the expenses of providing and 
 maintaining courses of vocational rehabilitation; and a full report of 
 all gifts and donations offered and accepted and all disbursements 
 therefrom shall be submitted annually to Congress by the director. 
 
 Sec. 13. All sums heretofore appropriated for use by the Federal 
 Board for Vocational Education as a revolving fund, not exceeding 
 $500,000, may be used by the bureau as a revolving fund for the 
 purpose of making advancement to persons commencing or undergo¬ 
 ing training under Title IV hereof, such advancements to bear no 
 interest and to be reimbursed in such installments as may be deter¬ 
 mined by the director by proper deductions from the monthly main¬ 
 tenance and support allowances allowed by this Act. 
 
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 THE WORLD WAR \’ETEEAHS’ ACT, 1924 
 
 Sec. 14. That the director of the United States Veterans’ Bureau 
 shall on the first Monday in December of each year file with the 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the 
 Senate a full and complete report of all activities of the United 
 States Veterans’ Bureau, shovving in detail the number of claimants 
 and the amount of compensation paid, tlie number of veterans of the 
 various wars and expeditions receiving hospitalization and medical 
 treatment, the number of dependents drawing compensation and the 
 amount of such compensation, the number of persons holding and 
 paying for Government life insurance, and a full and itemized 
 statement of all moneys received and disbursed by the director, 
 or any of his agents, for the preceding year. 
 
 Sec. 15. All sums heretofore appropriated for carrying out the 
 provisions of the VvAr Risk Insurance Act and amendments thereto 
 and to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to pro¬ 
 vide for vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of 
 disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the 
 United States, and for other purposes,” approved June 27, 1918, 
 and amendments thereto, and all sums heretofore appropriated foi 
 carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish 
 a Veterans’ Bureau and to improve the facilities and service of such 
 bureau, and further to amend and modifv the War Risk Insurance 
 Act,” approved August 9, 1921. and amendments thereto shall, 
 where unexpended, be made available for the bureau and may be 
 expended in such manner as the director deems necessary in carrying 
 out the purposes of this Act. 
 
 Sec. 16. All sums heretofore appropriated for the military and 
 naval insurance appropriation and all premfiums collected for the 
 yearl}^ renewable term insurance provided by the provisions of Title 
 III deposited and covered into the Treasury to the credit of this 
 appropriation, shall, where unexpended, be made available for the 
 bureau. All premiums that may hereafter be collected for the 
 yearly renewable term insurance provided by the provisions of Title 
 III hereof shall be deposited and covered into the Treasury for the 
 credit of this appropriation. Such sum including all premium pa\- 
 ments is made available for the payment of the liabilities of the 
 United States incurred under contracts of yearly renewable term 
 insurance made under the provisions of Title III, including such 
 liabilities as shall have been or shall hereafter be reduced to judg¬ 
 ment in a district court of the United States or in the Supreme Court 
 of the District of Columbia. Pajunents from this appropriation 
 shall be made upon and in accordance with the awards by the 
 director. 
 
 Sec. 17. That all premiums paid on account of insurance converted 
 under the provisions of Title III hereof shall be deposited and cov¬ 
 ered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States Government 
 life insurance fund and shall be available for the payment of losses, 
 dividends, refunds, and other benefits provided for under such in¬ 
 surance, including such liabilities as shall have been or shall here¬ 
 after be reduced to judgment in a district court of the United States 
 or in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Pa5nnents 
 from this fund shall be made upon and in accordance with awards 
 by the director. 
 
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 The bureau is authorized to set aside out of the fund so collected 
 such reserve funds as may be required, under accepted actuarial 
 principles, to meet all liabilities under such insurance; and the Sec¬ 
 retary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to invest and reinvest 
 the said United States Government life insurance fund, or any part 
 thereof, in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or bonds 
 of the Federal farm-loan banks and to sell said obligations of the 
 United States or the bonds of the Federal farm-loan banks for the 
 purposes of such fund. 
 
 Sec, 18, That the Comptroller General of the United States is 
 hereby authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of the 
 disbursing clerk of the bureau for all payments of insurance install¬ 
 ments hereafter made, without verification of the deduction on the 
 pay rolls, of such premiums as maj^ have accrued prior to January 1, 
 1921, while the insured was in the service. 
 
 Sec. 19. In the event of disagreement as to claim under a contract 
 of insurance between the Bureau and any person or persons claiming 
 thereunder an action on the claim may be brought against the United 
 States either in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia or 
 in the District Court of the United States in and for the district in 
 which such persons or any one of them resides, and jurisdiction is 
 hereby conferred upon such courts to hear and determine all such 
 controversies. The procedure in such suits shall be the same as that 
 provided in sections 5 and 6 of the Act entitled “ An Act to provide 
 for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United 
 States,” approved March 3, 1887, and section 10 thereof insofar 
 as applicable. All persons having or claiming to have an interest 
 in such insurance may be made parties to such siiit, and such as 
 are not inhabitants of or found within the district An which suit 
 is brought may be brought in by order of the court to be served 
 personally or by publication or in such other reasonable manner as 
 the court may direct. In all cases where the bureau acknowledges 
 the indebtedness of the United States upon any such contract of 
 insurance and there is a dispute as to the person or persons entitled 
 to payment, a suit in the nature of a bill of interpleader may be 
 brought by the bureau in the name of the United States against ail 
 persons having or claiming to have any interest in such insurance in 
 the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia or in the district 
 court in and for the district in which any of such claimants reside: 
 Provided^ That not less than thirty days prior to instituting such 
 suit the bureau shall mail a notice of such intention to each of the 
 persons to be made parties to the suit. The circuit courts of appeal 
 and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia shall respec¬ 
 tively exercise ap])ellate jurisdiction and, except as provided in 
 sections 239 and 240 of the Judicial Code, the decrees of the circuit 
 courts of appeal and the Court of Appeals of the District of Colum¬ 
 bia shall be final. This section shall apply to all suits now pending 
 against the United States under the provisions of the War Rusk 
 Insurance Act as amended, or of the World War Veterans’ Act, 
 1924, and amendments thereto. 
 
 Sec. 20. That for the purj)ose of this Act the marriage of the 
 claimant to the person on account of whom the claim is made shall 
 be shown by such testimony as the director may prescribe by regula¬ 
 tions. 
 
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 Sec. 21. (1) That where any payment under this Act is to be 
 made to a minor, other than a person in the military or naval forces 
 of the United States, or to a person mentally incompetent, or under 
 other legal disability adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction, 
 such payment may be made to the person who is constituted guardian, 
 curator, or conservator by the laws of the State of residence of 
 claimant, or is otherwise legally vested wdth the care of the claimant 
 or his estate: Provided., That as to cases arising in the District of 
 Columbia where in the opinion of the director any guardian, curator, 
 conservator, or other person is acting as fiduciary in such a number 
 of cases as to make it impracticable to conserve properly the estates 
 or to supervise the persons of the wards, the director is hereby 
 authorized to refuse to make future payments in such number of 
 cases as he may deem proper: Promded further., That prior to 
 receipt of notice by the bureau that any such person is under such 
 other legal disability adjudged by some court of competent juris¬ 
 diction, payment may be made to such person direct: Promded 
 further., That for the purpose of payments of benefits under Title 
 II hereof, where no guardian, curator, or conservator of the person 
 under a legal disability has been appointed under the laws of the 
 State of residence of the claimant, the director shall d.etermine the 
 person who is otherwise legally vested with the care of the claimant 
 or his estate. 
 
 (2) Whenever it appears that any guardian, curator, conservator, 
 or other person is not in the opinion of the director properly 
 executing the duties of his trust or has colleeted or is attempting to 
 collect fees, commissions, or allowances that are inequitable or are 
 in excess of those allowed by law for the duties performed or 
 expenses incurred, or has failed to make such payments as may be 
 necessary for the benefit of the ward or the dependents of the ward, 
 then and in that event the director is hereby empowered by his 
 duly authorized attorney to appear in the court which has ai>pointed 
 such fiduciary and make proper presentation of such matters to the 
 court: Provided., That the director in his discretion may suspend 
 payments to any such guardian, curator, conservator, or other person 
 who shall neglect or refuse, after reasonable notice, to render an 
 account to the director from time to time shownng the application 
 of such payments for the benefit of such minor or incompetent 
 beneficiary. 
 
 Authority is hereby granted for the payment of any court or other 
 expenses incident to any investigation or court proceeding for the 
 ai^pointment or removal of any guardian, curator, conservator, or 
 other person legally vested with the care of the claimant or his 
 estate, or in connection with the administration of such estates by 
 such fiduciaries, when such payment is authorized by the director. 
 
 Sec. 22. That the compensation, insurance, and maintenance and 
 support allowance payable under Titles II, III, and IV, respec¬ 
 tively, shall not be assignable; shall not be subject to the claims of 
 creditors of any person to whom an award is made under Titles II, 
 III, or IV; and shall be exempt from all taxation: Provided., That 
 such compensation, insurance, and maintenance and support allow¬ 
 ance shall be subject to any claims which the United States may 
 have, under Titles II, III^ IV, and V, against the person on whose 
 
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 account the compensation, insurance, or maintenance and support 
 allowance is payable. 
 
 That the provisions of this section shall not be construed to pro¬ 
 hibit the assignment by any person to whom converted insurance 
 shall be payable under Title III of such Act of his interest in such 
 insurance to any other member of the permitted class of beneficiaries. 
 
 Sec. 23 . The discharge or dismissal of any person from the 
 military or naval forces on the ground that he was guilty of mutiny, 
 treason, spying, or any offense involving moral turpitude, or willful 
 and persistent misconduct, of which he was found guilty by a court- 
 martial, or that he was an alien, conscientious objector who refused 
 to perform military duty or refused to wear the uniform, or a 
 deserter, shall bar all rights to any compensation under Title II, 
 or any training, or any maintenance and support allowance under 
 Title IV: Provided^ That this section shall not apply to an alien 
 who volunteered or who was drafted into or who served in the Army, 
 Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States during the IVorld War, 
 who was discharged subsequent to November 11, 1918, or who was not 
 discharged from the service on or prior to November 11, 1918, on 
 his own application or solicitation by reason of his being an alien, 
 and whose service was honest and faithful: Provided f urther^ That 
 in case any person has been discharged or dismissed from the military 
 or naval forces as a result of a court-martial trial, and it is thereafter 
 established to the satisfaction of the director that at the time of the 
 commission of the offense resulting in such court-martial trial and 
 discharge such person was insane, such person shall be entitled to 
 the compensation and vocational training benefits under Titles II 
 and IV hereof: Provided, further^ That discharge or dismissal or 
 finding of guilt for any of the offenses specified in this section shall 
 not affect the payment of compensation or maintenance and support 
 allowance for disabilities incurred in or aggravated by service in 
 any prior or subsequent enlistment: Provided further^ That no 
 compensation or insurance shall be payable for death inflicted as a 
 lawful punishment for crime or military offense, except when 
 inflicted by the enemy: Provided^ That as to converted insurance 
 the cash surrender value hereof, if any, on the date of such death 
 shall be paid to the designated beneficiary if living, or if there be 
 no designated beneficiary alive at the death of the insured the said 
 value shall be paid to the estate of the insured: Provided further^ 
 That the discharge of a person for having concealed the fact that 
 he was a minor at the time of his enlistment shall not bar him from 
 the benefits of this Act if his service was otherwise honorable: 
 Provided further^ That this section, shall be deemed to be in effect 
 as of April (), 1917, and the director is hereby authorized and directed 
 to make provision by bureau regulation for payment of any insurance 
 clahn or adjustment in insurance premium account of any insurance 
 contract which would not now be affected by this section as amended. 
 
 Sec. 24. That if after induction by the local draft board, or after 
 being called into Federal seiwice as a member of the National Guard, 
 but before being accepted and enrolled for active service, the person 
 died or became disabled as a result of disease contracted or injuiy 
 suffered in the line of duty and not due to his own willful mis¬ 
 conduct involving moral turpitude, or as a result of the aggrava¬ 
 tion, in the line of duty and not because of his own willful 
 
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 THE WORLD WAR VETERANS ’ ACT, l&SI 
 
 misconduct involving moral turpitude, of an existing disease or 
 injur}^, he or those entitled thereto shall receive the benefits of 
 compensation i^ayable under Title II; and any insurance applica¬ 
 tion made by such person after induction by the local draft board 
 but before being accepted and enrolled for active service shall be 
 deemed valid. 
 
 Sec. 25. Any person who between the 6th day of April, 1917, 
 and the 11th day of November, 1918, applied for enlistment or 
 enrollment in the military or naval forces, and who was accepted 
 provisionally and directed or ordered to a camp, post, station, or 
 other place for final acceptance into such service, shall be deemed 
 to have the same status as an inducted man not yet accepted and 
 enrolled for active service during the period while such person was 
 complying with such order or direction, and during such compliance, 
 and until his final acceptance or rejection for enlistment or enroll¬ 
 ment into the military or naval forces, shall be entitled to the same 
 benefits under Titles II and III hereof as an inducted man not yet 
 accepted and enrolled for active service. 
 
 Sec. 26. That the amount of the monthly installments of com¬ 
 pensation, yearly renewable term insurance, or accrued maintenance 
 and support allowance which has become payable under the pro¬ 
 visions of Titles II, III, or lY hereof, but which has not been 
 paid prior to the death of the person entitled to receive the same, 
 may be pa^^able to the personal representatives of such perspn, or in 
 the absence of a duly appointed legal representative where the 
 combined amounts payable are $1,000 or less, the director shall 
 allow and pay such sum to such person or persons as would under 
 the laws of the State of residence of the decedent be entitled to his 
 personal property in case of intestacy: Provided^ That in cases 
 where the estate of the decedent would escheat under the laws of 
 the place of his residence, such installments shall not be paid to the 
 estate of the decedent but shall escheat to the United States and 
 shall be credited to the appropriation from which the original 
 award was made. 
 
 Sec. 27. That all payments of compensation and insurance hereto¬ 
 fore made pursuant to a regulation permitting permanent and total 
 disability to be presumed from hospitalization or ratings of less 
 than permanent total disability shall be deemed valid and no re¬ 
 covery thereof shall be made: Provided^ That nothing herein shall 
 operate to validate insurance not in force on the date an award 
 thereof was approved, except where premiums haAX been thereafter 
 accepted. 
 
 Sec. 28. There shall be no recovery of payinents from any 
 beneficiary who, in the judgment of the director, is without fault 
 on his part, and where, in the judgment of the director, such recov¬ 
 ery would defeat the purpose of benefits otherwise authorized or 
 would be against equity and good conscience. 
 
 When under the provisions of this section the recovery of a 
 pavment made from the United States Gcveriiment life insurance 
 fund is waived, the United States Government life insurance fund 
 shall be reimbursed for the amount involved from the current appro¬ 
 priation for military and naval insurance. 
 
 Sec. 29. The director is authorized, in his discretion, to sell, lease, 
 or exchange surplus equipment, supplies, products, or waste mate- 
 
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 11 
 
 rials belonging to the bureau or any of its plants or institutions; and 
 to lease for a term, not exceeding three years, lands or buildings, or 
 parts or parcels thereof, belonging to the United States and under 
 the control of the bureau. The net proceeds of all such sales, leases, 
 or exchanges shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States 
 as miscellaneous receipts. 
 
 Sec. 30. That all files, records, reports, and other papers and docu¬ 
 ments pertaining to any claim for the benefits of this Act, whether 
 pending or adjudicated, shall be deemed confidential and privileged 
 and no disclosure thereof shall be made except as follows: 
 
 (a) To a claimant or his duly authorized representative, as to 
 matters concerning himself alone, wdien in the judgment of the 
 director such disclosure would not be injurious to the physical or 
 mental health of the claimant; 
 
 (b) Where required by the process of a United States court to be 
 produced in any suit or proceeding therein pending; or when such 
 production is deemed by the director to be necessary in any suit or 
 proceeding brought under the provisions of this Act; 
 
 (c) In all proceedings in the nature of an inquest into the mental 
 competency of a claimant, and in all other judicial proceedings, 
 when in the judgment of the director such disclosure is deemed 
 necessary and proper; 
 
 (d) The amount of compensation or training allowance of any 
 beneficiary shall be made known to any person who applies for such 
 information. 
 
 Wherever the production of a file, record, report, or other docu¬ 
 ment is required or permitted by this section a certified copy thereof 
 may be produced in lieu of the original, and such certified copy shall 
 be received in evidence with like force and effect as the original. 
 
 Sec. 31. The Veterans’ Bureau shall, under regulations to be 
 prescribed by the director, reimburse beneficiaries hospitalized or 
 v/ho have been hospitalized in Veterans’ Bureau hospitals for any 
 loss of personal effects heretofore or hereafter sustained by fire 
 while such effects are or were stored in designated locations in 
 Veterans’ Bureau hospitals. 
 
 Sec. 32. Payment may be made for official telephone service and 
 rental in the field wherever incurred in case of official telephones 
 for medical officers of the Bureau where such teiephones are 
 installed in private residences or private apartments or quarters 
 when authorized under regulations established by the director. 
 
 Sec. 33. The director, in his discretion, may provide courses of 
 instruction for the professional personnel of the bureau and may 
 detail employees to attend the same, and may detail not more than 
 2 per centum of such professional personnel to attend professional 
 coui’ses conducted by other than bureau agencies, and such employees 
 in addition to their salaries shall be entitled to the payment of 
 expenses incident to such detail, including transportation: Provided^ 
 hov'ever^ That travel or instruction outside the continental limits 
 of the United States shall not be authorized under this section. 
 
 Title II.— Compensation and Treatment. 
 
 Sec. 200. For death or disability resulting from personal injury 
 suffered or disease contracted in the military or naval service on or 
 after April 6, 1917, and before July 2, 1921, or for an aggravation 
 
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 THE WORLD WAR VETERANS ’ ACT, 1924 
 
 or recurrence of a disability existing prior to examination, accept¬ 
 ance, and enrollment for service, when such aggravation was sulfered 
 or contracted in, or such recurrence was caused by, the military or 
 naval service on or after April 6, 1917, and before July 2, 1921, by 
 any commissioned officer or enlisted man, or by any member of the 
 Army Nurse Corps (female), or of the Navy Nurse Corps (female), 
 when employed in the active service under the Yv ar Department or 
 Nav}^ Department, the United States shall pay to such commissioned 
 officer or enlisted man, member of the Army Nurse Corps (female), 
 or of the Navy Nurse Corps (female), or women citizens of the 
 United States who were taken from the United States by the United 
 States Government and who served in base hospitals overseas, or, 
 in the discretion of the director, separately to his or her dependents, 
 compensation as hereinafter provided; but no compensation shall 
 be paid if the injury, disease, aggravation, or recurrence has been 
 caused by his own willful misconduct: Provided^ That no person 
 suffering from paral 3 'sis, paresis, or blindness shall be denied coin- 
 pensation by reason of willful misconduct, nor shall any person who 
 is helpless or bedridden as a result of any disability be denied com¬ 
 pensation by reason of willful misconduct. That for the purposes 
 of this Act every such officer, enlisted man, or other member 
 employed in the active service under the War Department or Navy 
 Department who vras discharged or who resigned prior to July 2, 
 1921, and every such officer, enlisted man, or other member emplo 3 ^ed 
 in the active service under the War Department or Navy Department 
 on or before November 11, 1918, who on or after July 2, 1921, is 
 discharged or resigns, shall be conclusively held and taken to have 
 been in sound condition when examined, accepted, and enrolled 
 for service, except as to defects, disorders, or infirmities made of 
 record in any manner by proper authorities of the United States 
 at the time of, or prior to, inception of active service, to the extent 
 to which any such defect, disorder, or infirmit 3 ^ was so made of 
 record: Provided^ That an ex-service man who is shown to have 
 or, if deceased, to have had, prior to January 1, 1925, neurops 3 Uni- 
 atric disease and spinal meningitis, an active tuberculosis disease, 
 paral 3 "sis agitans, encephalitis lethargica, or amoebic dysentery 
 developing a 10 per centum degree of disability or more in 
 accordance with the provisions of subdivision (4) of section 202 
 of this Act, shall be presumed to have acquired his disability in 
 such service between April 6, 1917, and July 2, 1921, or to have 
 suffered an aggravation of a preexisting neuropsychiatric disease 
 and spinal meningitis, tuberculosis, paralysis agitans, encephalitis 
 lethargica, or amoebic dysentery in such service between said dates, 
 and said presumption shall be conclusive in cases of active tubercu¬ 
 losis disease and spinal meningitis, but in all other cases said 
 presumption shall be rebuttable by clear and convincing evidence; 
 but nothing in this proviso shall be construed to prevent a claimant 
 from receiving the benefits of compensation and medical care and 
 treatment for a disability due to these diseases of more than 10 per 
 centum degree (in accordance with the provisions of subdivision 
 (4) of section 202 of this act) on or subsequent to Januar 3 ^ 1, 1925, 
 if the facts in the case substantiate his claim. 
 
 Sec. 201. That if death results from injury— 
 
THE WORLD WAR VETERANS^ ACT, 1924 
 
 13 
 
 If the deceased leaves a widow or child, or if he leaves a mother 
 or father either or both dependent upon him for support, the monthly 
 compensation shall be the following amounts: 
 
 (a) If there is a Avidow but no child, $30. 
 
 (b) If there is a widow and one child, $40, with $G for each 
 additional child. 
 
 (c) If there is no widow, but one child, $20. 
 
 (d) If there is no widow, but two children, $30. 
 
 (e) If there is no Avidow, but three children, $40, with $5 for 
 each additional child. 
 
 (f) If there is a dependent mother (or dependent father), $20, 
 or both, $30. The amount payable under this subdivision shall not 
 exceed the difference betAveen the total amount payable to the widow 
 and children and the sum of $75. Such compensation shall be 
 payable, Avhether the dependency of the father or mother or both 
 arises before or after the death of the person, but no compensation 
 shall be payable if the dependency arises more than five years after 
 the death of the person. 
 
 (1) If death occur or shall liaA^e occurred subsequent to April 6, 
 1917, and before discharge or resignation from the service, the United 
 States Veterans’ Bureau shall pay for burial and funeral expenses 
 and the return of body to his home a sum not to exceed $100, as 
 may be fixed by regulation. Where a veteran of any war, including 
 those Avomen AAdio serA^ed as Army nurses under contracts between 
 April 21, 1898, and February 2, 1901, Avho was not dishonorably 
 discharged, dies after discharge or resignation from the service and 
 does not leaA^e assets which, in the judgment of the director, should 
 be applied to meet the expenses of burial and funeral and the 
 transportation of the body (the decision of the director to be binding 
 for all purposes), the United States Veterans’ Bureau shall pay the 
 following sums: For a flag to drape the casket, and after burial 
 to be giA^en to the next of kin of the deceased, a sum not exceeding 
 $7; also, for burial and funeral expenses and the transportation of 
 the body (including preparation of the body) to the place of burial, 
 a sum not exceeding $100 to cover such items and to be paid to such 
 person or persons as may be fixed by regulations: Provided^ That 
 when such person dies Avhile receiving from the bureau compensation 
 or A’ocatlonal training, tlie above benefits shall be payable in all 
 cases: Provided further^ That where such person, while receiving 
 from the bureau medical, surgical, or hospital treatment, or Amcation- 
 al training, dies aAvay from home and at the place to which he was 
 ordered by the bureau, or Avhile traveling under orders of the bu¬ 
 reau, the above benefits shall be pa^^able in all cases and in addition 
 thereto the actual and necessary cost of the transportation of the body 
 of the person (including preparation of the body) to the place of 
 burial, within the continental limits of the United States, its Terri¬ 
 tories, or possessions, and including also, in the discretion of the 
 director, the actual and necessary cost of transportation of an 
 attendant: And 'provided fu'rther^ That no accrued pension, compen¬ 
 sation, or insurance due at the time of death shall be deducted from 
 the sum alloAved. 
 
 (2) The payment of cojnpensation to a Avidow shall continue until 
 her death or remarriage, and the ])ayment of compensation to a 
 parent shall continue to the death of such parent. 
 
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 THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 1924 
 
 (3) The payment of compensation to or for a child shall continue 
 until such child reaches the age of eighteen ^^ears or marries, or if 
 such child be jDermanentiy incapable of self-support by reason of 
 mental or ph 3 ^sical defect, then during such incapacity. 
 
 (4) Whenever the compensation pa 3 'able to or for the benefit 
 of any person under the provisions of this section is terminated 
 by the happening of the contingenc}^ upon which it is limited, the 
 compensation thereafter for the remaining beneficiary or benefici¬ 
 aries, if any, shall be the amount which would have been payable 
 to them if they had been the sole original beneficiaries. 
 
 (5) As between the widow and the children not in her custody, 
 and as between children, the amount of compensation shall be 
 apportioned as ma}^ be prescribed by regulation. 
 
 (6) The term ‘‘widow,” as used in this section, shall not.include 
 one who shall have married the deceased later than ten years after 
 July 2, 1921, and shall include widower, whenever his condition is 
 such that if the deceased person Vv^ere living he would have been 
 dependent upon her for support. 
 
 (7) That this section shall be deelned to be in effect as of April 
 6, 1917: Provided^ however^ That the receipt of a gratuity, pension, 
 or compensation, including adjusted compensation, by wddow, child, 
 or parent, on account of the death, disability, or service of any 
 person shall not bar the pa 3 mient of compensation on account of the 
 death or disability of any other person: Provided^ That before 
 compensation under this section shall be paid the claimant shall 
 first surrender all claim to any gratuity or pension pa 3 ^able under 
 any other law on account of the death of the same person: Provided 
 further^ That no changes in rates or compensation made by this 
 Act shall be retroactive in effect. 
 
 Sec. 202. That if disabilit 3 ^ results from the injury— 
 
 (1) If and while the disability is rated as total and temporary, 
 the monthly compensation shall be the following amounts, pa 3 ^able 
 monthly or semimonthly as the director ma 3 ‘ priori be: 
 
 (a) If the disabled person has neither ^vife nor child living, $80. 
 
 (b) If he has a wife but no child living, $90. 
 
 (c) If he has a wife and one child living, $95, and $5 for each 
 additional child. 
 
 (d) If he has no wife and one child living, $90, with $5 for each 
 additional child. 
 
 (e) If he has a mother or father, either or both dependent on him 
 for support, then, in addition to the above amounts, $10 for each 
 parent so dependent. 
 
 (2) If and while the disability is rated as partial and temporary, 
 the monthly compensation shall be a percentage of the compensation 
 that would be pa 3 "able for his total and temporary disability, equal 
 to the degree of the reduction in earning capacity resulting from the 
 disability, but no compensation shall be payable for a reduction in 
 earning capacit 3 ^ rated at less than 10 per centum. 
 
 That an 3 " ex-service man shown to have had a tubercular disease 
 of compensable degree, and who has been hosj^italized for a period 
 of one 3 'ear, and who in the judgment of the director has reached a 
 condition of complete arrest of his disease, and who shall be dis¬ 
 charged from further hospitalization, shall be rated as temporarily 
 
THE WORLD WAR VETERANS ’ ACT, 1924 15 
 
 totally disabled, and such rating shall not be decreased within a 
 period of six months. 
 
 (3) If and while the disability is rated as total and permanent, 
 the rate of compensation shall be $100 per month: Provided^ how¬ 
 ever^ That the permanent loss of the use of both feet, or both hands, 
 or of both eyes, or of one foot and one hand, or of one foot and one 
 eye, or of one hand and one eye, or the loss of hearing of both ears, 
 or the organic loss of speech, or becoming permanently helpless or 
 permanently bedridden, shall be deemed to be total, permanent dis¬ 
 ability: Provided further^ That the compensation for the loss of 
 the use of both eyes shall be $150 per month, and that compensation 
 for the loss of the use of both eves and one or more limbs shall be 
 $200 per month: Provided further^ That for double total, per¬ 
 manent disability the rate of compensation shall be $200 per month. 
 
 That any ex-service man shown to have a tuberculous disease of 
 compensable degree, and who has been hospitalized for a period of 
 one year, and who in the judgment of the director will not reach a 
 condition of arrest by further hospitalization, and whose discharge 
 from hospitalization will not be prejudicial to the beneficiary or his 
 family, and who is not, in the judgment of the director, feasible for 
 training, shall, upon his request, be discharged from hospitalization 
 and rated as temporarily totally disabled, said rating to continue for 
 the period of three 3 ^ears: Provided^ however^ That nothing in this 
 subdivision shall deny the beneficiary the right, upon presentation 
 of satisfactory evidence, to be adjudged to be permanent^ and 
 totally disabled: Provided further^ That in addition to the compen¬ 
 sation above provided, the injured person shall be furnished by the 
 United States such reasonable governmental medical, surgical, and 
 hospital services, including payment of court costs and other expenses 
 incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commit¬ 
 ment of mentally" incompetent persons to hospitals for care and 
 treatment of the insane, anvd shall be furnished with such supplies, 
 including wheel chairs, artificial limbs, trusses, and similar appli¬ 
 ances, as the director ma}^ determine to be useful and reasonably 
 necessar}’^, which wheel chairs, artificial limbs, trusses, and similar 
 appliances may be procured by the bureau in such manner, either 
 by purchase or manufacture, as the director may determine to be 
 advantageoas and reasonably necessary: Provided^ That nothing in 
 this Act shall be construed to affect the necessary military control 
 over an}^ member of the Militar}^ or Naval Establishments before he 
 shall have been discharged from the military or naval service: Pro¬ 
 vided further^ That where any person entitled to the benefits of 
 this paragraph has heretofore been hospitalized in a State institution, 
 the United States Veterans’ Bureau is herebv authorized to reimburse 
 such person, or his estate, where payment has been made to the 
 State out of the funds of such person, or to reimburse the State or 
 an^' subdivision thereof where no pa^unent has been made for the 
 reasonable cost of such services from the date of admission. 
 
 (4) If and while the disability is rated as partial and permanent, 
 the monthly" compensation shall be a percentage of the compensation 
 that would be pa^^able for his total and permanent disability eijual 
 to the degree of the reduction in earning capacity" resulting from 
 
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 THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 1924 
 
 the disability, but no compensation shall be payable for a reduction 
 in earning capacity rated at less than 10 per centum. 
 
 A schedule of ratings of reductions in earning capacity from in¬ 
 juries or combinations of injuries shall be adopted and applied by 
 the bureau. Ratings may be as high as 100 per centum. The rat¬ 
 ings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impair¬ 
 ments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil 
 occupations similar to the occupation of the injured man at the time 
 of enlistment and not upon the impairment in earning capacity in 
 each individual case, so that there shall be no reduction in the rate 
 of compensation for individual success in overcoming the handicap 
 of an injury. The bureau in adopting the schedule of ratings of 
 reduction in earning capacity shall consider the impairment in 
 ability to secure employment Avhich results from such injuries. The 
 bureau shall from time to time readjust this schedule of ratings 
 whenever actual experience shall show that it is unjust to the dis¬ 
 abled veteran. 
 
 (5) If the disabled person is so helpless as to be in constant need 
 of a nurse or attendant, such additional sum shall be paid, but not 
 exceeding $50 per month, as the director may deem reasonable, 
 
 (6) In addition to the compensation above provided, the injured 
 person shall be furnished by the United States Veterans’ Bureau 
 such reasonable governmental cafe or medical, surgical, dental, and 
 hospital services, including payment of court costs and other 
 expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for the 
 commitment of mentally incompetent persons to institutions for the 
 care or treatment of the insane, and shall be furnished with such 
 supplies including dental appliances, wheel chairs, artificial limbs, 
 trusses, and similar appliances, including special clothing made 
 necessary by the wearing of prosthetic appliances prescribed by the 
 bureau, as the director may determine to be useful and reasonably 
 necessary, wRich dental appliances, wReel chairs, artificial limbs, 
 trusses, special clothing, and similar appliances may be procured 
 by the bureau in such manner, either by purchase or manufacture, 
 as the director may determine to be advantageous and reasonably 
 necessary: Provided^ That nothing in this Act shall be construed 
 to affect the necessary military control over any member of the Mili¬ 
 tary or Naval Establishments before he shall have been discharged 
 from the military or naval service. 
 
 (7) lAHiere any disabled person having neither wife, child, nor 
 dependent parent shall, after July 1, 1924, have be*en maintained by 
 the Government of the United States for a period or periods amount¬ 
 ing to six months in an institution or institutions, and shall be 
 deemed b}^ the director to be insane, the compensation for such 
 person shall thereafter be $20 per month so long as he shall there¬ 
 after be maintained by the bureau in an institution; and such com¬ 
 pensation may, in the discretion of the director, be paid to the chief 
 officer of said institution to be used for the benefit of such person : 
 Provided^ however^ That if such person shall recover his reason and 
 shall be discharged from such institution as competent, such addi¬ 
 tional sum shall be paid him as would equal the total sum by wRich 
 his compensation has been reduced through the provisions of this 
 subdivision. 
 
THE WOELD WAE VETERANS^ ACT, 1924 
 
 17 
 
 All or any part of the compensation, of any mentally incompetent 
 inmate of an institution, may, in the discretion of the director, be 
 paid to the chief officer of said institution to be properly accounted 
 for and to be used for the benefit of such inmate, or may, in the 
 discretion of the director, be apportioned to wife, child, or children, 
 or dependent parents, in accordance with regulations. 
 
 That any ex-service person shown to have had a tuberculous 
 disease of a compensable degree, who in the judgment of the director 
 has reached a condition of complete arrest of his disease, shall receive 
 compensation of not less than $50 per month; Provided^ however^ 
 That nothing in this provision shall deny a beneficiary the right to 
 receive a temporary total rating for six months after discharge from 
 a one year\s period of hospitalization: Provided further^ That no 
 payments under this provision shall be retroactive and the payments 
 hereunder shall commence from the date of the passage of this Act 
 or the date the disease reaches a condition of arrest, Vvhichever be 
 the later date. 
 
 After June 30, 1927, the monthlv rate of comnensation for all 
 veterans (other than those totally and permanently disabled), vdio 
 are being maintained by the bureau in an institution of any descrip¬ 
 tion, aiivd Vvdio are witliout wife, child, or dependent parents, shall 
 not exceed $40. 
 
 (8) The director shall prescribe by regulation the conditions and 
 limitations whereby ail patients or beneficiaries of the bureau who 
 are receiving treatment through the bureau as patients in a hospital 
 may allot any proportion or proportions or any fixed amount or 
 amounts of their monthly compensation for such purposes and for 
 the benefit of such person or persons as they may direct. 
 
 In case such patient has not allotted three-fourths of his monthly 
 compensation and in case the director shall find that by gross dis¬ 
 sipation he is retarding his own progress to recovery, then regulations 
 to be made by the director may provide that (except in the case of 
 neuropsychiatric patients who are within the terms of the first 
 paragraph of subdivision (7) hereof) any unallotted portion of such 
 three-fourths compensation shall be deposited to the patients’ credit 
 with the Treasurer of the United States to accumulate at such 
 rate of interest as the Secretarv of the Treasury mav determine but 
 at a rate never le.ss than 3^ per centum per annum, and when such 
 patient shall be discharged by the bureau from hospital care, the 
 said deposit and interest shall be paid to such patient if living, 
 otherwise to any beneficiary or beneficiaries he may have designated, 
 or if there be no such beneficiary, then to the executor or adminis¬ 
 trator of the estate of such deceased person: Pro vided^ That this 
 paragraph shall not be so construed as to prevent payment by the 
 bureau from the amounts due to the decedent’s estate of his funeral 
 expenses, expenses of last illness, board, rent, lodging, or other 
 household expenses for which the decedent is liable, provided a claim 
 therefor is presented by the creditors or by the person or persons 
 who actually paid the same before settlement by the bureau. 
 
 The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to invest and 
 reinvest the said allotments deposited with him, or any part thereof, 
 in interest-bearing obligations of the United States and to sell the 
 obligations for the purposes of said funds. 
 
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 THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 1924 : 
 
 (9) In addition to the care, treatment, and appliances now 
 authorized by law, said bureau shall also provide, without charge 
 therefor, hospital, dental, medical, surgical, and convalescent care 
 and treatment and prosthetic appliances (including such dental 
 appliances as may be found reasonably necessary by the director) 
 for any member of the military or naval forces of the United States, 
 not dishonorably discharged, disabled by reason of any wound or 
 injury received or disease contracted, or by reason of any aggrava¬ 
 tion of a preexisting injury or disease, specifically noted at examina¬ 
 tion for entrance into or employment in the active military or naval 
 service while in the active military or naval service of the United 
 States on or after April 6, 1917, and before July 2, 1921: Provided^ 
 That the wound or injury received or disease contracted or aggrava¬ 
 tion of a preexisting injury or disease, for which such hospital, 
 dental, medical, surgical, and convalescent care and treatment and 
 prosthetic appliances (including such dental appliances as may be 
 found reasonably necessary by the director) shall be furnished, was 
 incurred in the military or naval service and not caused by his own 
 willful misconduct: Provided^ That where a beneficiary of the bureau 
 suffers or has suffered an injury or contracted a disease in service 
 entitling him to the benefits of this subdivision, and an emergency 
 develops or has developed requiring immediate treatment or hospi¬ 
 talization on account of such injury or disease, and no bureau 
 facilities are or were then feasibly available and in the judgment of 
 the director delay would be or would have been hazardous, the 
 director is authorized to reimburse such beneficiary the reasonable 
 value of such service received from sources other than the bureau. 
 
 (10) That all hospital facilities under the control and jurisdiction 
 of the bureau shall be available for every honorably discharged 
 veteran of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine insurrection, 
 the Boxer rebellion, or the World War suffering from neuropsychiatric 
 or tubercular ailments and diseases, paralysis agitans, encephalitis 
 lethargica, or amoebic dysentery, or the loss of sight of both eyes, 
 regardless whether such ailments or diseases are due to military 
 service or otherwise, including traveling expenses as granted to 
 those receiving compensation and hospitalization under this Act. 
 The director is further authorized, so far as he shall find that exist¬ 
 ing Government facilities permit, to furnish hospitalization and 
 necessary traveling expenses incident to hospitalization to veterans 
 of any war, military occupation, or military expedition, including 
 those women who served as Army nurses under contracts betw^een 
 April 21, 1898, and February 2, 1901, not dishonorably discharged, 
 without regard to the nature or origin of their disabilities: Provided^ 
 That any and all laws applicable to women who belonged to the 
 Nurse Corps of the Army after February 2, 1901, shall apply 
 equa,!!}^ to members of the Army Nurse Corps who served under con¬ 
 tract between April 21, 1898, and February 2, 1901, including all 
 'women who served honorably as nurses, chief nurses, or superin¬ 
 tendent of said corps in said period: Promded^^ That preference to 
 admission to any Government hospital for hospitalization under the 
 provisions of this subdivision shall be given to those veterans who 
 are financially unable to pay for hospitalization and their necessary 
 traveling expenses: Provided further^ That where a veteran hospital¬ 
 ized under the authority of this subdivision is financially unable to 
 
THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 1924 
 
 19 
 
 supply himself with clothing, he shall also be furnished with s’uch 
 clothing as the director may deem necessary: Provided further^ 
 That where a veteran entitled to hospitalization under this sub¬ 
 division is suffering with a disease or injury necessitating the wear¬ 
 ing of a prosthetic appliance and is financially unable to supply him¬ 
 self with same, upon an affidavit to that effect the director is hereby 
 authorized to furnish such appliance and to effect necessary repairs 
 to the same without cost to the veteran: And p-rovided further^ That 
 the pension of a veteran entitled to hospitalization under this sub¬ 
 division shall not be subject to deduction, while such veteran is 
 hospitalized in any Government hospital, for board, maintenance, 
 or any other purpose incident to hospitalization: Provided further^ 
 That the Act of May 4, 1898, entitled “An Act making appropria¬ 
 tions for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, 
 and for other purposes,” the Act of February 28, 1861, as amended 
 by the Act of February 2, 1909, relative to the Government Hospital 
 for the Insane in the District of Columbia, or any other Act, in 
 so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this section 
 be, and they are, hereby modified accordingly. 
 
 In the insular possessions or Terrifories of the United States 
 the director is further authorized to furnish hospitalization in otJier 
 than Government hospitals. 
 
 (11) The director shall have the same power, and shall be subject 
 to the same limitations, in the sale of surplus or condemned supplies, 
 material, and other personal property as now pertains to the 
 Secretary of War. The Director is authorized to make regulations 
 governing the disposal of articles produced by patients of such 
 bureau in the course of their curative treatment, or to allow the 
 patients to sell or to retain such articles. 
 
 (12) Where the disabled person is a patient in a hospital or 
 where for any other reason the disabled person and his wife are not 
 living together, or where the children are not in the custody of the 
 disabled person, the amount of the compensation shall be apportioned 
 as may be prescribed by regulations. 
 
 (13) The term “wife” as used in this section shall include 
 “ husband ” if the husband is dependent upon the wife for support. 
 
 (14) That the bureau is authorized to furnish transportation, 
 also the medical, surgical, and hospital services and the supplies 
 and appliances provided by subdivision (6) hereof, to discharged 
 members of the military or naval forces of those governments 
 which have been associated in war with the United States since 
 April 6, 1917, and come within the provisions of laws of such gov¬ 
 ernments similar to this Act, at such rates and under such regula¬ 
 tions as the director may prescribe; and the bureau is hereby author¬ 
 ized to utilize the similar services, supplies, and appliances provided 
 for the discharged members of the military and naval forces 
 of those governments which have been associated in war with the 
 United States since April 6, 1917, by the laws of such governments 
 similar to this Act, in furnishing the discharged members of the 
 military and naval forces of the United States who live within the 
 territorial limits of such governments and come within the pro¬ 
 visions of subdivision (6) hereof, with the services, supplies, and 
 appliances provided for in such subdivision; and any appropriations 
 that have been or may hereafter be made for the purpose of furnish- 
 
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 THE WORLD WAR VETERANS ’ ACT, 1924 
 
 ing the services, supplies, and appliances provided for by subdivision 
 (6) hereof are hereby made available for the payment to such gov¬ 
 ernments or their agencies for the services, supplies, and appliances 
 so furnished at such rates and under such regulations as the director 
 may prescribe. 
 
 (15) That any person who is now receiving a gratuity or pension 
 from the United States under existing law shall not receive com¬ 
 pensation under this section unless he shall first surrender all claim 
 to further payments of such gratuity or pension, except as* provided 
 in subdivision 7 of section 201. 
 
 (16) No compensation hereunder shall be paid for the period 
 during which any such person is being furnished by the bureau a 
 course of vocational rehabilitation and support as authorized in 
 Title IV hereof: Provided^ however^ That in the event any person 
 pursuing a course of vocational rehabilitation is entitled under 
 Title II of this Act to compensation in an amount in excess of the 
 payments made to him under Title IV hereof for his support and 
 the support of his dependents, if any, the bureau shall pay monthly 
 to such person such additional amount as may be necessary to equal 
 the total compensation duemnder Title II hereof. 
 
 (17) That no changes in rates of compensation made by this Act 
 shall be retroactive in effect. 
 
 Sec. 203. That every person applying for or in receipt of 
 compensation for disability under the provisions of this title and 
 eveiy person applying for treatment under the provisions of sub¬ 
 divisions (9) or (10) of section 202 hereof, shall, as frequently and 
 at such times and places as may be reasonably required, submit 
 himself to examination by a medical officer of the United States or 
 by a duly qualified physician designated or approved by the director. 
 He may have a duly qualified physician designated and paid by 
 him present to participate in such examination. For all examina¬ 
 tions he shall, in the discretion of the director, be paid his reasonable 
 traveling and other expenses and also a per diem allowance of $2.65 
 per day for the period of travel and observation. If he shall neglect 
 or refuse to submit to such examination, or shall in any way obstruct 
 the same, his right to claim compensation under this title shall be 
 suspended until such neglect, refusal, or obstruction ceases. No 
 compensation shall be payable while such neglect, refusal, or obstruc¬ 
 tion continues, and no compensation shall be payable for the inter¬ 
 vening period. 
 
 Sec. 204. Every person in receipt of compensation for disability 
 shall submit to any reasonable medical or surgical treatment fur¬ 
 nished by the bureau whenever requested by the bureau; and the 
 consequences of unreasonable refusal to submit to any such treat¬ 
 ment shall not be deemed to result from the injury compensated for. 
 
 Sec. 205. Upon its own motion or upon application the bureau 
 may at any time review an award and, in accordance with the 
 facts found upon such review, may end, diminish, or increase the 
 compensation previously awarded, or, if compensation is increased, 
 or if compensation has been refused, reduced, or discontinued, may 
 (subject to the provisions of section 210 hereof) award compen¬ 
 sation in proportion to the degree of disability sustained as of the 
 date such degree of disability began, but not earlier than the date 
 of discharge or resignation. Except in cases of fraud partici- 
 
THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 1924 
 
 21 
 
 pated in by the beneficiary, no reduction in compensation shall be 
 made retroactive, and no reduction or discontinuance of compensa¬ 
 tion shall be effective until the 1st day of the third calendar month 
 next succeeding that in which such reduction or discontinuance is 
 determined. 
 
 Sec. 206 . That no compensation shall be payable for death or 
 disability Tvhich does not occur prior .to or within one year after 
 discharge or resignation from the service, excej^t as provided in 
 section 200 of this Act, and except where there is an official record 
 of the injury during service or at the time of separation from active 
 service, or wdiere within three years from the approval of this Act, 
 satisfactory evidence is furnished the bureau to establish that the 
 injury was suffered or aggravated during active service. Where 
 there is official record of injury during service compensation shall be 
 payable in accordance with the provisions of this title, for death 
 or disability whenever occurring, proximately resulting from such 
 injury. 
 
 Sec. 207. That compensation shall not be payable for death in 
 the course of the service until the death be officially recorded in 
 the department under which the person may be serving. No com¬ 
 pensation shall be payable for a period during which the man 
 has been reported ‘‘ missing ” and a family allowance has been paid 
 for him under the provisions of Article II of the Act of October 6, 
 1917. 
 
 Sec. 208. For the purpose of maintaining law and order and of 
 protecting persons and property at United States Veterans’ Bureau 
 Hospitals the Director is liereby authorized to designate at such 
 hospitals persons who shall hav^e authority to make arrests for any 
 crime or offense against the United States committed on the hospital 
 reservation. Any person so arrested shall be taken forthwith before 
 the nearest United States Commissioner, within whose jurisdiction 
 the hospital is located. Travel and transportation expenses incident 
 to carrying out the provisions of this section shall be paid from the 
 appropriation for administrative expenses. 
 
 Sec. 209. That no compensation shall be payable and that (ex¬ 
 cept as provided by subdivision (10) of section 202 hereof) no treat¬ 
 ment shall be furnished unless a claim therefor be filed in case of 
 disability within fiv^e years after discharge or resignation from the 
 service, or in case of death during the service, within five years after 
 such death is officially recorded in the department under which he 
 may be serving: Prcnmled, however^ That where compensation is 
 payable for death or disability occurring after discharge or resigna¬ 
 tion from the service, claim must be made within five years after 
 such death or the beginning of such disability. 
 
 The time herein provided may be extended by the director not 
 to exceed five years for good cause shown. If at the time that any 
 right accrues to any person under the provisions of this title such 
 person is a minor, or is of unsound mind or physically unable to 
 make a claim, the time herein provided shall not begin to run until 
 such disability ceases. 
 
 Sec. 210. That no compensation shall be payalffe for any period 
 more than one year prior to the date of claim therefor, nor shall 
 increased compensation be awarded to revert back more than six 
 months prior to the date of claim therefor. Fxcept in case of fraud 
 
22 
 
 THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 1^24 
 
 participated in by the beneficiary, no reduction in compensation 
 shall be made retroactive. 
 
 Sec. 211. Compensation because of disability or death of members 
 of the Army Nurse Corps (female) or of the Navy Nurse Corps 
 (female) shall be in lieu of any compensation for such disability or 
 death under the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for 
 employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the per¬ 
 formance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved Sep¬ 
 tember 7, 1916. 
 
 Sec. 212. This Act is intended to provide a system for the relief 
 of persons who were disabled, and for the dependents of those who 
 died as a result of disability suffered in the military service of the 
 United States between April 6, 1917, and July 2, 1921. For such 
 disabilities and deaths no other pension law or laws providing for 
 gratuities or payments in the event of death in the service shall be 
 applicable: Provided^ however^ That the laws relating to the retire¬ 
 ment of persons in the regular military or naval service shall not 
 be considered to be lav/s providing for pensions, gratuities, or pay¬ 
 ments within the meaning of this section: And provided further^ 
 That compensation under this title shall not be paid while the 
 person is in receipt of active service or retirement pay, this proviso 
 to be effective as of April 6, 1917. Titles II and IV of this Act 
 shall not be applicable Jo any disability or resultant death in the 
 service if such disability occurred as a result of service prior to 
 April 6, 1917, or after July 2, 1921: Provided^ hoioever^ That the 
 schedule of ratings provided by section 202 (4) of this statute shall 
 hereafter be applicable to disabilities occurring as a result of service 
 prior to April 6, 1917, or after July 2, 1921, v^rherever a person has 
 an accrued right to compensation under section 602 of the World 
 War Veterans’ Act, 1924. 
 
 Sec. 213. Where any beneficiary suffers or has suffered an injury 
 or an aggravation of an existing injury as the result of training, 
 hospitalization, or medical or surgical treatment, awarded to him 
 under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act as amended, the War Risk 
 Insurance Act as amended, or this Act, or as a result of having sub¬ 
 mitted to examination under authority of section 303 of the War 
 Risk Insurance Act or section 203 of this Act, and not the result of 
 his misconduct, and such injury or aggravation of an existing injury 
 results in additional disability to or the death of such beneficiary, 
 the benefits of this title shall be awarded in the same manner as 
 though such disability, aggravation, or death was the result of 
 inilitarv seiAuce during the World War. The benefits of this section 
 shall be in lieu of the benefits under the Act entitled “An Act to- 
 provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering 
 injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other 
 purposes,” approved September 7, 1916 : Provided^ That application 
 be made for such benefits within two years after such injury or 
 aggravation was suffered or such death occurred or after the passage 
 of this Act whichever is the later date: Provided further^ That the 
 provisions of section 313 of the War Risk Insurance Act as amended, 
 relating to subrogation, shall be applicable to beneficiaries under this 
 section. 
 
 (Secs. 313 and 314 of Title III, Compensation for death or dis¬ 
 ability of the War Risk Insurance Act, as amended, were saved 
 
THE WORLD WAR VETERANS^ ACT, 1924 
 
 23 
 
 and excepted from repeal by sec. 600 (5) of Title VI, Miscellaneous 
 provisions, World War Veterans’ Act, 1924. These two sections 
 are therefore included as a part of Title II, Compensation and 
 treatment, in this copy of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as 
 amended.) 
 
 Sec. 313. (1) That if an injury or death for which compensa¬ 
 tion is payable under this article is caused under circumstances 
 creating a legal liability upon some person other than the United 
 States or the enemy to pay damages therefor, the director, as a 
 condition to payment of compensation by the United States, may 
 require the beneficiary to assign to the United States any right of 
 action he may have to enforce such liability of such other person, 
 or if it appears to be for the best interests of the beneficiary the di¬ 
 rector may require him to prosecute the said action in his own name, 
 subject to regulations. The director may require such assignment or 
 prosecution at any time after the injury or death, and the failure on 
 the part of the beneficiary to so assign or to prosecute said cause of 
 action in his own name within a reasonable time, to be fixed by the 
 director, shall bar any right to compensation on account of the same 
 injury or death. The cause of action so assigned to the United States 
 may be prosecuted or compromised by the director, and any money 
 realized or collected thereon, less the reasonable expenses of such 
 realization or collection, shall be placed to the credit of the military 
 and naval compensation appropriation. If the amount placed to the 
 credit of such appropriation in such case is in excess of the amount 
 of the award of compensation, if any, such excess shall be paid to 
 the beneficiary after any compensation award for the same injury or 
 death is made. 
 
 (Amendment June 25, 1918.) 
 
 If a beneficiary or conditional beneficiary shall have recovered, as 
 a result of a suit brought by him or on his behalf, or as a result of a 
 settlement made by him or on his behalf, any money or other prop¬ 
 erty in satisfaction of the liability of such other person, such money 
 or other property so recovered shall be credited upon any compensa¬ 
 tion payable, or which may become payable, to such beneficiary, or 
 conditional beneficiary by the United States on account of the same 
 injury or death. 
 
 (2) If an injury or death for which compensation may be pay¬ 
 able under this article is caused under circumstances creating a 
 legal liability upon some person, other than the United States or 
 the enemy, to pay damages therefor, then, in order to preserve the 
 right of action, the director may require the conditional beneficiary 
 at any time after the injury or death, to assign such right of action 
 to the United States, or, if it appears to be for the best interests 
 of such conditional beneficiary, to prosecute the said cause of action 
 in his own name, subject to regulations. The failure on the part 
 of the beneficiary to so assign or to prosecute the said cause of action 
 in his own name within a reasonable time, to be fixed by the director, 
 shall bar any right to compensation on account of the same injury or 
 death. The cause of action so assigned may be prosecuted or com¬ 
 promised by the director, and any money realized or collected 
 thereon, less the reasonable expenses of such realization or collec¬ 
 tion, shall be paid to such beneficiary, and be credited upon any 
 
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24 
 
 THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 1924 
 
 future compensation which may become payable to such beneficiary 
 by the United States on account of the same injury or death. 
 
 (Amendment August 9, 1921.) 
 
 (2a) The Veterans’ Bureau is hereby authorized to pay the bene¬ 
 ficiary or other person or persons in whose name an action may have 
 been commenced or prosecuted, and to all witnesses in such action, 
 fees and mileage, the same as is now paid and allowed to witnesses 
 in the United States courts, in going to, remaining at, and returning 
 from place of trial, and without any regard to whether the action, 
 if any, is brought or prosecuted in a court of the United States or 
 some other court. 
 
 In all cases of assignment of causes of action under this section, 
 whether the assignment be heretofore or hereafter made, where it 
 shall appear to the director to be to the best interests of the bene¬ 
 ficiary so to do, the director, acting for and in the name of the United 
 States, may assign the cause of action back to the beneficiary or to 
 his personal representatives. 
 
 (Amendment June 25, 1918.) 
 
 (3) The bureau shall make all necessary regulations for carrying 
 out the purposes of this section. For the purpose of computation 
 only under this section the total amount of compensation due any 
 beneficiary shall be deemed to be equivalent to a lump sum equal to 
 the present value of all future payments of compensation computed 
 as of the date of the award of compensation at four per centum, true 
 discount, compounded annually. The probabilit}^ of the beneficiary’s 
 death before the expiration of the period during which he is entitled 
 to compensation shall be determined according to the American 
 Experience Table of Mortality. 
 
 A conditional beneficiary is any person who may become entitled 
 to compensation under this article on or after the death of the injured 
 person. 
 
 Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose any adminis¬ 
 trative duties upon the War or Navy Departments. 
 
 (Act October 6, 1917.) 
 
 Sec. 314. That from and after the passage of this Act the rate of 
 pension for a widow.of an officer or enlisted man of the Armjq Navy, 
 or Marine Corps of the United States who served in the Civil War, 
 the War with Spain, or the Philippine Insurrection, now on the pen¬ 
 sion roll or hereafter to be placed on the pension roll, and entitled to 
 receive a less rate than hereinafter provided, shall be $25 per month; 
 and nothing herein shall be construed to affect the additional allow¬ 
 ance provided by existing pension laws on account of a helpless child 
 or child under sixteen years of age: Provided^ however^ That this 
 Act shall not be so construed as to reduce any pension under any 
 Act, public or private: And provided further^ That the provisions 
 of this section shall be administered, executed, and enforced by the 
 Commissioner of Pensions. 
 
 Title III.— Insurance. 
 
 Sec. 300. In order to give to every commissioned officer and 
 enlisted man and to every member of the Army Nurse Corps 
 (female) and of the Navy Nurse Corps (female) when employed in 
 
THE WORLD WAR VETERANS ’ ACT, 1924 
 
 25 
 
 active service under the War Department or Navy Department 
 protection for themselves and their dependents, the United States, 
 upon application to the bureau and without medical examination, 
 shall grant United States Government life insurance (converted 
 insurance) against the death or total permanent disability of any 
 such person in any multiple of $500, and not less than $1,000 or 
 more than $10,000, upon the payment of the premiums as herein¬ 
 after provided. Such insurance must be applied for within one 
 hundred and twenty days after enlistment or after entrance into or 
 employment in the active service and before discharge or resignation: 
 Provided^ That any member of the reserve forces whose application 
 was accepted at a time when he was in attendance at a military or 
 naval training camp or station, and from whom premiums were 
 collected, and who becomes or has become totally or permanently 
 disabled, or dies or has died, shall be deemed to have made valid 
 application therefor. This proviso shall not authorize the granting 
 of more than $10,000 insurance to any one person: Provided further^ 
 That each officer and enlisted man of the Coast Guard who is serving 
 on active duty at the time of the passage of this amendatory Act, 
 or who subsequent thereto enters the Coast Guard Service, shall be 
 granted insurance in accordance with the terms of this section 
 upon application within one hundred and twenty days of the pas¬ 
 sage of this amendatory Act, or date of enlistment or entry into the 
 Coast Guard, whichever is the later date, and before retirement, 
 discharge, or resignation. 
 
 The insurance shall be payable only to a spouse, child, grand¬ 
 child, parent, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, brother-in- 
 law, or sister-in-law, or to any or all of them, and also during total 
 and permanent disability to the injured person. 
 
 Where a beneficiary at the time of designation by the insured is 
 within the permitted class of beneficiaries and is the designated 
 beneficiary at the time of the maturity of the insurance because of 
 the death of the insured, such beneficiary shall be deemed to be 
 within the permitted class even though the status of such beneficiary 
 shall have been changed. 
 
 The United States shall bear the expenses of administration 
 and the excess mortality and disability cost resulting from the 
 hazards of war. The premium rates shall be the net rates based 
 upon the American Experience Table of Mortality and interest at 
 31/^ per centum per annum. This section shall be deemed to be in 
 effect as of June T, 1924. 
 
 Sec. 301. Except as provided in the second paragraph of this 
 section, not later than July 2, 1927, all term yearly renewable 
 insurance held by persons who were in the military service after 
 April 6, 1917, shall be converted, without medical examination, into 
 such form or forms of insurance as may be prescribed by regulations 
 and as the insured may request. Eegulations shall provide for the 
 right to convert into ordinary life, twenty-paylnent life, endowment 
 maturing at age sixty-two, five-year level premium term, and into 
 other usual forms of insurance, and for reconversion of any such 
 policies to a higher premium rate in accordance with regulations to 
 be issued by the director, and shall prescribe the time and method 
 of payment of the premiums thereon, but payments of premiums in 
 advance shall not be required for periods of more than one month 
 
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 THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 1924 
 
 each, and may be deducted from the pay or deposit of the insured 
 or be otherwise made at his election. 
 
 All yearly renewable term insurance shall cease on July 2, 1927, 
 except when death or total permanent disability shall have occurred 
 before July 2, 1927: Provided^ how'Bver^ That the director may by 
 regulation extend the time for the continuing of yearly renewable 
 term insurance and the conversion thereof in any case where on 
 July 2, 1927, conversion of such yearly renewable term insurance is 
 impracticable or impossible due to the mental condition or disap¬ 
 pearance of the insured. 
 
 In case where an insured whose yearly renewable term insurance 
 has matured by reason of total permanent disability is found and 
 declared to be no longer permanently and totally disabled, and where 
 the insured is required under regulations to renew payment of 
 premiums on said term insurance, and where this contingency is 
 extended beyond the period during which said yearly renewable 
 term insurance otherwise must be converted, there shall be given 
 such insured an additional period of two years from the date on 
 which he is required to renew payment of premiums in which to 
 convert said term insurance as hereinbefore provided: Provided^ 
 That where the time for conversion has been extended under the 
 second paragraph of this section because of the mental condition or 
 disappearance of the insured, there shall be allowed to the insured 
 an additional period of two years from the date on which he recovers 
 from his mental disability or reappears in which to convert. 
 
 The insurance except as provided herein shall be payable in two 
 hundred and forty equal monthly installments: Provided^ That when 
 the amount of an individual monthly payment is less than $5, such 
 amount may in the discretion of the director be allowed to accumulate 
 without interest and be disbursed annually. Provisions for ma¬ 
 turity at certain ages, for continuous installments during the life 
 of the insured or beneficiaries, or both, for cash, loan, paid up and 
 extended values, dividends from gains and savings, and such other 
 provisions for the protection and advantage of and for alternative 
 benefits to the insured and the beneficiaries as may be found to be 
 reasonable and practicable, may be provided for in the contract of 
 insurance, or from time to time by regulations. All calculations shall 
 be based upon the American Experience Table of Mortality and 
 interest at 3% per centum per annum, except that no deduction 
 shall be made for continuous installments during the life of the 
 insured in case his total and permanent disability continues more 
 than two hundred and forty months. Subject to regulations, the 
 insured shall at all times have the right to change the beneficiary or 
 beneficiaries without the consent of such beneficiary or beneficiaries, 
 but only within the classes herein provided. 
 
 If no beneficiary within the permitted class be designated by 
 the insured as beneficiary for converted insurance granted under the 
 provisions of Article IV of the War Kisk Insurance Act, or Title 
 III of this Act, either in his lifetime or by his last will and testament, 
 or if the designated beneficiary does not survive the insured, then 
 there shall be paid to the estate of the insured the present value of 
 the remaining unpaid monthly installments; or if the designated 
 beneficiary survives the insured and dies before receiving all of the 
 installments of converted insurance payable and applicable, then 
 
THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 192t 27 
 
 there shall be paid to the estate of such beneficiary the present value 
 of the remaining unpaid monthly installments: Provided^ That no 
 payments shall be made to any estate which under the laws of the 
 residence of the insured or the beneficiary, as the case may be, would 
 escheat, but same shall escheat to the Unite(J States and be credited 
 to the United States Government life insurance fund. 
 
 The bureau may make provision in the contract for converted 
 insurance for optional settlements, to be selected by the insured, 
 whereby such insurance may be made payable either in one sum or 
 in installments for thirty-six months or more. The bureau may also 
 include in said contract a provision authorizing the beneficiary to 
 elect to receive payment of the insurance in installments for thirty- 
 six months or more, but only if the insured has not exercised the 
 right of election as hereinbefore provided; and even though the 
 insured may have exercised his right of election the said contract 
 may authorize the beneficiary to elect to receive such insurance in 
 installments spread over a greater period of time than that selected 
 by the insured. This section shall be deemed to be in effect as of 
 June 7, 1924. 
 
 Sec. 302. Whenever benefits under United States Government 
 life insurance (converted insurance) become, or have become, payable 
 because of total permanent disability of the insured or because of 
 the death of the insured as a result of disease or injury traceable 
 to the extra hazard of the military or naval service, as such hazard 
 may be determined by the director, the liability shall be borne by 
 the United States, and the director is hereby autiiorized and 
 directed to transfer from the military and naval insurance 
 appropriation to the United States Government life-insurance 
 fund a sum which, together with the reserve of the policy at the 
 time of maturity by total permanent disability or death, w^ill equal 
 the then value of such benefits. When a person receiving total 
 permanent disability benefits under a United States Government 
 life policy (converted policy), recovers from such disability, and 
 is then entitled to continue a reduced amount of insurance, the 
 director is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to the military 
 and naval insurance appropriation all of the loss reserve to the 
 credit of such policy claim except a sum sufficient to set up the then 
 required reserve on the reduced amount of the insurance that may 
 be continued, which sum shall be retained in the United States 
 Government life-insurance fund for the purpose of such reserve. 
 
 Sec. 303. If no person within the permitted class be designated 
 as beneficiary for yearly renewable term insurance by the insured 
 either in his lifetime or by his last will and testament or if the 
 designated beneficiary does not survive the insured or survives the 
 insured and dies prior to receiving all of the two hundred and forty 
 installments or all such as are payable and applicable, there shall 
 be paid to the estate of the insured the present value of the monthly 
 installments thereafter payable, said value to be computed as of 
 date of last payment made under any existing award: Provided^ 
 That all awards of yearly renewable term insurance which are in 
 course of pa^unent on tlie date of the approval of this Act shall 
 continue until the death of the person receiving such payments, or 
 
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 THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 1924 
 
 until he forfeits same under the provisions of this Act. When any 
 person to whom such insurance is now awarded dies or forfeits his 
 rights to such insurance then there sliall be paid to the estate of the 
 insured the present value of the remaining unpaid monthly install¬ 
 ments of the insurance so awarded to such person: Provided further^ 
 That no award of yearly renewable term insurance which, has been 
 made to the estate of a last surviving beneficiarv shall be affected 
 by this amendment: Provided further^ That in cases when the 
 estate of an insured would escheat under the laws of the place of 
 his residence tlie insurance shall not be paid to the estate but shall 
 escheat to the United States and be credited to the militarv and 
 naval insurance appropriation. This section shall be deemed to be 
 in effect as of October 6, 1917. 
 
 Sec. 304. In the event that all provisions of the rules and regula¬ 
 tions other than the recjuirements as to the physical condition of the 
 applicant for insurance have been complied with an application for 
 reinstatement, in whole or in part, of lapsed or canceled yearly re¬ 
 newable term insurance or United States Government life insurance 
 (converted insurance) hereafter made may be approved if made 
 within one i^ear after the passa.ge of this amendatory Act or within 
 two years after the date of lapse or cancellation: Provided^ That 
 the applicant’s disability is the result of an injury or disease, or of 
 an aggravation thereof, suffered or contracted in the active mili- 
 tar}^ or naval service during the World War: Provided further^ 
 That the applicant during his lifetime submits proof satisfactory to 
 the director showing that he is not totally and permanently disabled. 
 As a condition, however, to the acceptance of an application for the 
 reinstatement of lapsed or canceled yearly renewable term insurance, 
 where the requirements as to the physical condition of the applicant 
 have not been complied with, or, for the reinstatement of the United 
 States Government life insurance (converted insurance), the appli¬ 
 cant shall be required to pay all the back monthly premiums which 
 would have become payable if such insurance had not lapsed, 
 together with interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum, com¬ 
 pounded annually, on each premium from the date said premium is 
 due by the terms of the policy: Provided further^ That where within 
 one year of this amendatory Act all of the requirements for reinstate¬ 
 ment of yearly renewable term insurance under this section are 
 complied with, except the payment of unpaid premiums with interest, 
 and proof satisfactory to the director is furnished showdng the 
 applicant is unable to pay such premiums with interest or some part 
 thereof, the application may be approved, and the amount of unpaid 
 premiums with interest as provided in this section shall be placed 
 as an interest-bearing indebtedness against the insurance, such 
 indebtedness to bear interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum, 
 compounded annuall}^, to be deducted in any settlement thereunder: 
 And 'provided further^ That no yearly renewable term insurance 
 shall be reinstated after July 2, 1927. 
 
 Sec. 305. Where any person has heretofore allowed his insur¬ 
 ance to lapse, or has canceled or reduced all or any part of such 
 insurance, while suffering from a compensable disability for wlrch 
 compensation was not collected and dies or has died, or becomes or 
 
THE WORLD WAR VETERANS^ ACT, 1924 
 
 29 
 
 has become permanently and totally disabled and at the time of such 
 death or permanent total disability was or is entitled to compensa¬ 
 tion remaining uncollected, then and in that event so much of his 
 insurance as said uncollected compensation, computed in all cases 
 at the rate provided by section 302 of the War Risk Insurance Act 
 as amended December 24, 1919, would purchase if applied as pre¬ 
 miums when due, shall not be considered as lapsed, canceled or re¬ 
 duced; and the United States Veterans’ Bureau is hereby authorized 
 and directed to pay to said soldier, or his beneficiaries, as the case 
 may be, the amount of said insurance less the unpaid premiums and 
 interest thereon at 5 per centum per annum compounded annually 
 in installments as provided by law: Provided^ That insurance here¬ 
 after revived under this section and section 309 by reason of perma¬ 
 nent and total disability or by death of the insured, shall be paid 
 only to the insured, his widow, child or children, dependent mother 
 or father, and in the order named unless otherwise designated by 
 the insured during his lifetilne or by last will and testament. 
 
 Sec. 306. The bureau is authorized to make provisions in 
 accordance with regulations, whereby the payment of premiums 
 on yearly renewable term insurance and United States Government 
 life insurance (converted insurance) on the due date thereof may be 
 waived and the insurance may be deemed not to lapse in the cases 
 of the following persons, to wit: (a) Those who are confined in 
 hospital under said bureau for a compensable disability during the 
 period while they are so confined; (b) those who are rated as 
 temporarily totally disabled by reason of any injury or disease 
 entitling them to compensation during the period of such total 
 disability and while they are so rated; (c) those who, vvhile mentally 
 incompetent and for whom no legal guardian had been or has been 
 appointed, allowed or may allow their insurance to lapse while such 
 rating is effective during the period for which they have been or 
 hereafter may be so rated, or until a guardian has notified the 
 bureau of his qualification, but not later than six months after 
 appointment as guardian, the waiver in such cases to be made with¬ 
 out application and retroactive when necessary: Provided^ That such 
 relief from payment of premiums on yearly renewable term insur¬ 
 ance on the due date thereof shall be for full calendar months, be¬ 
 ginning with the month in which said confinement to hospital, tem¬ 
 porary total disability rating, or in cases of mental incompetents 
 for v/hom no guardian has been appointed with the month in which 
 such rating or mental incompetency began or begins and ending 
 with that month during the half or major fraction of which the 
 person is confined in hospital is rated as temporarily totally disabled 
 or had or has no legal guardian while rated as mentally incompetent 
 or until a guardian has notified the bureau of his qualification, but 
 not later than six months after appointment as guardian: Pro¬ 
 vided further^ That all premiums the payment of which when due is 
 waived as above provided shall bear interest at the rate of 5 per 
 • centum per annum, compounded annually from the due date of each 
 premium, and if not paid by the insured shall be deducted from the 
 insurance in any settlement thereunder or when the same matures 
 either because of permanent total disability or death: And provided 
 further^ That in the event any lien or other indebtedness established 
 
30 
 
 THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 1924 
 
 b}' this Act exists against any policy of converted insurance in excess 
 oi the then cash surrender value thereof at the time of the termi¬ 
 nation of such policy of converted insurance for any reason other 
 than by death or total permanent disability the director is hereby 
 authorized to transfer and pay from the military or naval insurance 
 appropriation to the United States Government life insurance fund 
 a sum equal to the amount such lien or indebtedness exceeds the 
 then cash surrender value. 
 
 Sec. 307. All such policies of insurance heretofore or hereafter 
 issued shall be incontestable after the insurance has been in force 
 six months from the date of issuance or reinstatement, except for 
 fraud or nonpayment of premiums and subject to the provisions of 
 section 23: Provided^ That a letter mailed by the bureau to the 
 insured at his last known address informing* him of the invalidity 
 of his insurance shall be deemed a contest within the meaning of 
 this section: Provided further^ That this section shall be deemed to 
 be in effect as of Anril 6, 1917. • 
 
 Sec. 308. UTierever yearly renewable term insurance or United 
 States Government life (converted) insurance has heretofore lapsed 
 for the nonpayment of premiums, and the insured has forwarded 
 to the United States Veterans’ Bureau, not later than the seventh 
 day of the month following the month for which the unpaid pre¬ 
 mium was due, an amount sufficient to reinstate the insurance under 
 bureau regulations heretofore or hereafter issued, the director of 
 the bureau is hereb}^ authorized and directed to reinstate such insur¬ 
 ance whenever it is shown to his satisfaction that the insured was at 
 the time of the making of the remittance in the state of health 
 required by bureau regulations. 
 
 Sec. 309. Where any person allowed his insurance to lapse and 
 died after February 24, 1919, and prior to collecting the $60 bonus 
 provided by the Act of February 24, 1919 (Fortieth Statutes at 
 Large, page 1151), then and in that event his insurance shall not be 
 considered as lapsed during such period as said uncollected bonus 
 would, if applied to the payment of premiums when due, equal 
 or exceed the same, and the United States Veterans’ Bureau is 
 hereby authorized and directed to pay to his beneficiaries under said 
 policy the amount of said insurance, less the premiums and interest 
 thereon at 5 per centum per annum, compounded annually, in. 
 installments, as provided by law. 
 
 Title IV. 
 
 Sec. 400. That every person who was enlisted, enrolled, drafted, 
 inducted, or appointed in the military or naval forces of the United 
 States, including members of training camps authorized by law and 
 who, has resigned or has been discharged or 'furloughed therefrom, 
 having a disability incurred, increased, or aggravated after April 6, 
 1917, and before July 2, 1921, in the military or naval service and 
 not the result of his own willful misconduct, while a member of such 
 forces, or later developing a disability traceable in the opinion of 
 the director to service during said period with such forces, and not 
 the result of his own willful misconduct, and who, in the opinion 
 of the director, is in need of vocational rehabilitation to overcome 
 
THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 1D24 
 
 31 
 
 the handicap of such disability, shall be furnished by the bureau, 
 where vocational rehabilitation is feasible, such course of vocational 
 rehabilitation as the bureau shall prescribe and provide: Provided^ 
 That nothing in this section shall operate to terminate any course 
 of vocational training heretofore prescribed and actually commenced 
 under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act as originally enacted and 
 subsequently amended where such course was actually commenced 
 prior to the approval of this Act. 
 
 Sec. 401. The bureau shall have the power, and it shall be its 
 duty until June 30, 1926, to furnish the persons included in section 
 400 hereof suitable courses of vocational rehabilitation, to be pre¬ 
 scribed and provided by the bureau; and every person electing to 
 follow such a course of vocational rehabilitation shall, while following 
 the same, be paid by the bureau monthly or semimonthly as the 
 director may prescribe such sum as in the judgment of the director 
 is necessary for his maintenance and support and for the maintenance 
 and support of persons depending upon him, if any: Provided^ 
 however^ That in no event shall the sum so paid such person while 
 pursuing such course be more than $80 per month for a single man 
 without dependents, or for a man with dependents $100 per month 
 plus the following family allowances: 
 
 (a) If there is a wife, but no child, $15. 
 
 (b) If there is a wife and one child, $25, with $5 per month addi¬ 
 tional for each additional child. 
 
 (c) If there is no wife, but one child, $10. 
 
 (d) If there is no wife, but two children, $15, with $5 per month 
 additional for each additional child. 
 
 That the bureau may pay, subject to the conditions and limita¬ 
 tions prescribed by this title, to all trainees undergoing training 
 hereunder, residing where the cost of maintenance and s'upport is 
 above the average and comparatively high, in lieu of the monthly 
 payments for maintenance and support prescribed by this title, such 
 sum as in the judgment of the director is necessary for the trainee’s 
 maintenance and support and for the iiAaintenance and support of 
 persons dependent upon him, if any: Provided^ however^ That in 
 no event shall the sum so paid such person while pursuing such 
 course be more than $100 per month for a single man without de¬ 
 pendents or for a man with dependents $120 per month, plus the 
 several sums prescribed as family allowances under this section: 
 Provided further^ That payments for the support and maintenance 
 of persons dependent upon any trainee of the bureau as provided 
 herein may, in the discretion of the director, be paid either direct 
 to such dependent or dependents or to the trainee upon whom 
 they are dependent. 
 
 Sec. 402. That until June 30, 1926, the courses of vocational 
 training provided for under this Act shall, as far as practicable, and 
 under such conditions as the director may prescribe, be made avail¬ 
 able without cost for instruction for the benefit of any person who 
 is disabled under circumstances entitling him, after discharge from 
 the military or naval forces of the United States, to compensation 
 under Title II hereof and who is not included in section 400 hereof. 
 
32 
 
 THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 1924 
 
 Sec. 403. That no person who has been declared eligible for 
 training under the provisions of this title, for whom training has 
 been prescribed, and who has been notified by the bureau to begin 
 training, shall be eligible to the benefits of this title in the event 
 of his failure to commence training within a reasonable time after 
 notice has been sent such person by the bureau: Provided further^ 
 That, except when such failure is due, in the opinion of the director, 
 to physical incapacity, such time shall not be longer than twelve 
 months after notice shall have been given for persons declared 
 eligible and notified to begin training: And frovided further. That 
 no training shall be furnished to any person under any of the pro¬ 
 visions of this title unless such person shall actually commence 
 such training on or before June 30, 1925. 
 
 Sec. 404. The test of rehabilitation shall be employability, to 
 be determined by the director. The allowance for maintenance 
 and support provided by this title shall be payable for two months 
 after the employability of the rehabilitated person is determined, 
 and thereuDon all dutv and obligation of the United States toward 
 such person with respect to his vocational rehabilitation shall cease 
 and determine. 
 
 Sec. 405. That vocational training provided by this Act shall be 
 granted to persons entitled under the provisions of said title only 
 where application therefor has been made on or prior to June 30, 
 1923. 
 
 Sec. 40G. That no vocational training shall be granted after 
 June 30, 1926, and except as provided by section 404 hereof, no 
 training allowance shall thereafter be paid to au}^ person: Provided^ 
 That any person who is receiving placement training on June 30, 
 1926, may be continued in such training to January 1, 1927, and any 
 j^erson receiving educational training in schools or institutions on 
 June 30, 1926, ma}^ be continued in training for not more than two 
 years after the passage of this amendatory Act, and may be paid 
 the maintenance and support allowance provided by sections 401 and 
 404 hereof. For the purposes of this section the unexpended balance 
 of the appropriation for vocational rehabilitation for the fiscal year, 
 1926, shall be available. 
 
 Sec. 407. The director is authorized to make provisions by regu¬ 
 lation whereby trainees of the United States Veterans’ Bureau 
 who have successfully completed their courses or such part of their 
 courses as enables them to enter employment or business in line with 
 their training shall be allowed to retain such equipment, supplies, 
 and books as the director tnay by regulation prescribe. 
 
 Title V.— Penalties. 
 
 Sec. 500. Except in the event of legal proceedings under section 
 19 of Title I of this Act, no claim agent or attorne}^ except the 
 recognized representatives of the American Bed Cross, the American 
 Legion, the Disabled American Veterans, and Veterans of Foreign 
 Wars, and such other organizations as shall be approved by the 
 director shall be recognized in the presentation or adjudication of 
 claims under Titles II, III, and IV of this Act, and payment to 
 any attorney or agent for such assistance as may be required in the 
 
THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 1924 
 
 33 
 
 preparation and execution of the necessary papers in any application 
 to the bureau shall not exceed $10 in any one case: Provided^ 
 howevery That wherever a judgment or decree shall be rendered 
 in an action brought pursuant to section 19 of Title I of this Act 
 the court, as a part of its judgment or decree, shall determine and 
 allow reasonable fees for the attorneys of the successful party or 
 parties and apportion same if proper, said fees not to exceed 10 per 
 centum of the amount recovered and to be paid by the bureau out 
 of the payments to be made under the judgment or decree at a rate 
 not exceeding one-tenth of each of such payments until paid. Any 
 person who shall, directly or indirectly, solicit, contract for, charge, 
 or receive, or who shall attempt to solicit, contract for, charge, or 
 receive any fee or compensation, except as herein provided, shall be 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each and every offense shall be 
 punishable by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment at 
 hard labor for not more than two years, or b}^ both such fine and 
 imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 501. That whoever in any claim for compensation, insurance, 
 or maintenance and support allowance, or in any document required 
 by this Act, or by regulation made under this Act, makes any 
 sworn statement of a material fact knowing it to be false, shall 
 be guilty of perjury and shall be punished by a fine of not more 
 than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or 
 both. 
 
 Sec. 502. That if any person entitled to payment of compensation, 
 or maintenance and support allowance under this Act, whose right 
 to such pa 3 nient under this Act ceases upon the happening of any 
 contingency, thereafter fraudulently accepts any such pa^unent, he 
 shall be punished by a fine of not more than $2,h00 or by imprison¬ 
 ment for not more than one J^ear, or both. 
 
 Sec. 503. That whoever shall obtain or receive any money, check, 
 compensation, insurance, or maintenance and support allowance 
 under the War Kisk Insurance Act as amended, the Vocational 
 Rehabilitation Act as amended, or the World War Veterans’ Act, 
 1924, and any amendments thereto_without being entitled to the same, 
 and with intent to defraud the United States or any beneficiary of 
 the United States Veterans’ Bureau shall be punished by a fine of 
 not more than $2,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one 
 3 ^ear, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 504. Any person who shall knowingly make or cause to be 
 made, or conspire, combine, aid, or assist in, agree to, arrange for, 
 or in any wise procure the making or presentation of a false or 
 fraudulent affidavit, declaration, certificate, statement, voucher, or 
 paper, or writing purporting to be such, concerning any claim or the 
 approval of any claim for compensation or maintenance and support 
 allowance, or the payment of any money, for himself or for any 
 other person, under Titles II or IV hereof, shall forfeit ail rights, 
 claims, and benefits under said titles, and, in addition to any and 
 all other penalties imposed by law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
 and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more 
 than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than one }^ear, or by both 
 such fine and imprisonment, for each such offense. 
 
34 
 
 THE WORLD WAR VETERANS’ ACT, 1924 
 
 Sec. 505. Every guardian, curator, conservator, committee, or 
 person legally vested with the responsibility or care of the claimant 
 or his estate, having charge and custody in a fiduciary capacity of 
 money paid, under the War Risk Insurance Act as amended, or 
 under the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, for the benefit of any 
 minor or incompetent claimant, who shall embezzle the same in 
 violation of his trust or fraudulently convert the same to his own 
 use, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $2,000 or imprisonment 
 at hard labor for a term not exceeding five years, or both. 
 
 Sec. 506. The provisions of this title shall be applicable to the 
 administration of this Act in the Philippine Islands. 
 
 Title VI. —Miscellaneous Provisions. 
 
 Sec. 600. The following Acts are hereby repealed, subject to the 
 limitations provided in section 602 of this title: 
 
 (1) An Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a 
 Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” 
 approved September 2, 1914. 
 
 (2) An Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled Wn Act 
 to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in 
 the Treasury Department,’ approved September 2, 1914,” approved 
 August 11, 1916. 
 
 (3) An Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to 
 authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in 
 the Treasury Department,’ approved September 2, 1914,” approved 
 March 3, 1917. 
 
 (4) An Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to 
 authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in 
 the Treasury Department,’ approved September 2, 1914, and for 
 other purposes,” approved June 12, 1917. 
 
 (5) An Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to 
 authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in 
 the Treasury Department,’ approved September 2, 1914, and for 
 other purposes,” approved October 6, 1917; saving and excepting 
 from repeal sections 313 and 314 of Article III of said Act. 
 
 (6) An Act entitled “An Act to amend the War Risk Insurance 
 Act,” approved July 11, 1918. 
 
 Sec. 601. That the following Acts are hereby repealed. The sec¬ 
 tions of this codification herein applicable thereto shall be in force 
 in lieu thereof, subject to the limitations contained in this title. 
 
 (1) The War Risk Insurance Act as amended. 
 
 (2) The Vocational Rehabilitation Act as amended. 
 
 (3) The Act entitled “An Act to establish a Veterans’ Bureau and 
 to improve the facilities and service of such bureau, and, further, to 
 amend and modify the War Risk Insurance Act.” 
 
 Sec. 602. The repeal of the several Acts as provided in sections 
 600 and 601 hereof shall not affect any act done or any right or 
 liability accrued, or any suit commenced before the said repeal, but 
 all such rights and liabilities under said Acts shall continue and may 
 be enforced in the same manner as if said repeal had not been made; 
 nor shall said repeal in any manner affect the right to any office 
 or change the term or tenure thereof. 
 
THE WORLD WAR VETERANS ’ ACT, 1924 
 
 35 
 
 Sec. 603. All offenses committed and all penalties or forfeiture 
 incurred under any law embraced in this codification prior to said 
 repeal may be prosecuted and punished in the same manner and 
 with the same effect as if said repeal had not been made. 
 
 Sec. 604. All Acts of limitation, whether applicable to civil causes 
 and proceedings or to the prosecution of offenses embraced in this 
 codification and covered by said repeal, shall not be affected thereby, 
 but all suits, proceedings, or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, 
 for causes arising or acts done or committed prior to said repeal, 
 may be commenced and prosecuted within the same tim.e as if said 
 repeal had not been made. 
 
 Sec. 605. That if any clause, section, paragraph, or part of this 
 Act shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competvsnt 
 jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, 
 or invalidate the remainder of this Act but shall be confined in its 
 operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly 
 involved in the controversy in which such judgment has been 
 rendered. 
 
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INDEX 
 
 Accrued installments- 
 
 Accrued rights and liabilities- 
 
 Action against the United States- 
 
 Action against the United States commenced before June 7, 1924_ 
 
 Active service: 
 
 Application for insurance while in_ 
 
 Compensation_ 
 
 Disability contracted in_ 
 
 Induction_ 
 
 Insurance_ 
 
 Pay as affecting compensation_ 
 
 Provisional acceptance status deiined_ 
 
 Acts of limitation_ 
 
 Acts, repealed_ 
 
 Adjudication_ 
 
 Adjudication, by regional and subdistrict offices 
 
 Adoption_ 
 
 Affidavit: 
 
 False, punishable by fine or imprisonment- 
 
 Personnel designated to take_ 
 
 Aggravation: 
 
 After induction before final acceptance_ 
 
 Preexisting injury or disease. 
 
 Agitans (paralysis)- 
 
 Alien enemy, discharge of_ 
 
 Allies, benefits allowed discharged ex-service men who were 
 Allotment, of compensation by patients in hospital_ 
 
 Allowance: 
 
 Claims, false statement regarding. 
 For maintenance and support_ 
 
 Fraudulent, acceptance of_ 
 
 Maximum to trainees with and without dependents_ 
 
 Payable trainee, after rehabilitation_ 
 
 Barred, reasons for_ 
 
 Training, direontinued after June 30, 1926_ 
 
 Widow of Civil or Spanish War or Philipxune Insurrection^_ 
 
 American Legion, representatives of_ 
 
 American Red Cross, representatives of_ 
 
 Amoebic dysentery; 
 
 Presumed service connection_ 
 
 Treatment, when not service connected_ 
 
 Annual report: 
 
 Private gifts_ 
 
 Specific directions for_ 
 
 Appliances: 
 
 Provided disabled ex-service men (prosthetic)_ 
 
 Supplied allied ex-service men_ 
 
 Application: 
 
 Compensation and treatment_ 
 
 { 
 
 Enlistments entitling to benefits_ 
 
 For benefits within one year after injury or death due to hos¬ 
 pitalization or training_ 
 
 For training_ 
 
 For insurance_ 
 
 Setc. 
 
 26 
 
 602 
 
 19 
 
 602 
 
 300 
 
 200 
 
 SOI 
 
 24 
 
 soo 
 
 212 
 
 25 
 604 
 600 
 601 
 
 5 
 
 7 
 3 
 
 501 
 
 8 
 
 24 
 
 200 
 
 213 
 
 213 
 
 23 
 
 202 
 
 202 
 
 501 
 401 
 
 502 
 
 503 
 401 
 404 
 
 23 
 
 406 
 
 314 
 
 500 
 
 500 
 
 200 
 
 202 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 202 
 
 203 
 
 213 
 
 25 
 
 213 
 
 405 
 
 301 
 
 Page 
 
 10 
 
 34 
 
 7 
 
 34 
 
 24 
 
 11 
 
 28 
 
 9 
 
 24 
 
 22 
 
 10 
 
 34 
 
 34 
 
 34 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 33 
 
 O 
 
 9 
 
 11 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 9 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 83 
 
 31 
 
 33 
 
 33 
 
 31 
 
 32 
 9 
 
 32 
 
 24 
 
 32 
 
 32 
 
 11 
 
 14 
 
 6 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 20 
 
 22 
 
 10 
 
 22 
 
 32 
 
 25 
 
 MV. R. I. Act, 
 
 37 
 
38 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Application—Continued. 
 
 For insurance within 120 days_ 
 
 Preparation of, by attorney_ 
 
 Time for filing comi>ensation_ 
 
 Apportionment: 
 
 Compensation_ 
 
 Maintenance and support allowance 
 Appropriation : 
 
 Military and naval insurance_ 
 
 Transfer to Veterans’ Bureau_ 
 
 Unexpended sums_ 
 
 Vocational training_ 
 
 { 
 
 { 
 
 Army Nurse Corps: 
 
 Comi>ensation in lieu of employment compensation act 
 
 Entitled to insurance_ 
 
 Arrest on hospital reservations_ 
 
 Arrested tuberculosis, compensation $50 monthly_ 
 
 Articles, made by patients, disposal of_ 
 
 Artificial limbs furnished by the bureau_ 
 
 Assignment of benefits not permitted_ 
 
 Assignment of converted insurance_ 
 
 Assignment of right of action_ 
 
 Attorney General, opinion of_ 
 
 Attorney’s fees_ 
 
 { 
 
 Aunts, beneficiaries_ 
 
 Average reduction in earning capacity_ 
 
 Award of compensation: 
 
 Effective date of_ 
 
 Reduction of_ 
 
 Bedridden_ 
 
 Beneficiaries, permitted class for insurance_ 
 
 Beneficiaries, women_ 
 
 Benefits, provisional acceptance in military and naval forces within 
 period named entitles to_ 
 
 Blindness, comi>ensation for. 
 
 Bonus, uncollected, applied as premium on lapsed insurance where 
 
 death occurs after February 24, 1919_ 
 
 Boxer rebellion, treatment of veterans of_ 
 
 Brother, beneficiary_ 
 
 Brother-in-law, beneficiary_ 
 
 Buildings, United States, under control of bureau, lease of_ 
 
 Burial expenses_ 
 
 Care, medical and convalescent_ 
 
 { 
 
 Cash value, insurance_ 
 
 Chief officer of hospital, payment compensation to_ 
 
 Child, additional maintenance and support allowance for 
 
 Adopted_ 
 
 Compensation apportioned_ 
 
 Comi>ensation for— 
 
 In case of death of soldier_ 
 
 In case of disability of soldier_ 
 
 Illegitimate_ 
 
 Insurance payable to_;_ 
 
 Legitimate_ 
 
 Stepchild_ 
 
 Unmarried and under 18 years_ 
 
 Civil service: 
 
 Employees shall be appointed from list of- 
 
 Exceptions on approval of President- 
 
 Sec. 
 
 Page 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 500 
 
 32 
 
 209 
 
 21 
 
 205 
 
 20 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 401 
 
 31 
 
 302 
 
 27 
 
 15 
 
 6 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 15 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 5 
 
 13 
 
 5 
 
 211 
 
 22 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 208 
 
 21 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 22 
 
 8 
 
 22 
 
 8 
 
 313 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 4 
 
 19 
 
 7 
 
 500 
 
 32 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 205 
 
 20 
 
 205 
 
 20 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 25 
 
 10 
 
 2CK) 
 
 11 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 309 
 
 30 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 29 
 
 10 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 401 
 
 31 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 o 
 
 O 
 
 1 
 
 4 2 
 
 4 2 
 
INDEX 
 
 39 
 
 Claim: Sec. 
 
 Adjudication' by field offices_ 7 
 
 Against United States_ 19 
 
 Compensation, claims for___ 209 
 
 Examination of_ 8 
 
 Extension of time in which to apply_ 209 
 
 False statement as to_ 501 
 
 Retroactive_ 210 
 
 Time for filing_ 209-405 
 
 Claim agents, recognition of_ 500 
 
 Clothing, necessary, furnished indigent hospital patients_ 202 
 
 Coast Guard_ 3 
 
 Commissioned officer: 
 
 Death or disability, compensation_ 
 
 Definition of_ 
 
 May apply for insurance_ 
 
 Commissioner, United States_ 
 
 Commitment, insane, court cost allowed_ 
 
 Ccmpensatiofi: 
 
 Additional, on account of death of more than one person 
 
 Allotment of, by patients in hospital_ 
 
 Allo-wance for nurse or attendant_ 
 
 Amount of, for nurse or attendant_ 
 
 Application for_ 
 
 Apportionment- 
 
 Army Nurse Corps (female)_ 
 
 Arrested tuberculosis, $50 monthly_ 
 
 Artificial limbs_ 
 
 Award_ 
 
 Award, predated for one year, prior to claim 
 
 Barred, reasons for_ 
 
 Beneficiaries_ 
 
 Benefits of, allowed for disabilities specified_ 
 
 Burial expenses_ 
 
 Cliief officer of hospital for insane patients_ 
 
 Death_ 
 
 Funeral expenses_ 
 
 Inflicted as piniishment_ 
 
 Officially recorded_ 
 
 Resulting from injury officially recorded_ 
 
 Return of body to home_ 
 
 Within five years after_ 
 
 Within one year after discharge_ 
 
 Decreased, may be in accord with facts_ 
 
 Deduction for gross dissipation in hospital_ 
 
 Disability— 
 
 Caused by own wilful misconduct_ 
 
 Disability—double permanent total_ 
 
 Not occurring within one year after discharge_ 
 
 Resulting from failure to submit to surgical treatment_ 
 
 Total and helpless_:_ 
 
 Disabled person and wife_ 
 
 Discharge—■ 
 
 Death before, funeral expenses_ 
 
 Death or disability one year after_ 
 
 Time for filing claims after_ 
 
 Earning capacity affecting_ 
 
 Effective date of reduction or termination__ 
 
 Enlisted men, death or disability_ 
 
 Examination, persons in i*ecoipt of, must submit to_ 
 
 Failure or neglect to submit to examination_ 
 
 Father, amount of, for, in case of death_ 
 
 Foreign governments, medical services and transportation fur¬ 
 nished, discharged member of_ 
 
 Federal employee’s liability, in lieu of_ 
 
 200 
 
 3 
 
 300 
 
 208 
 
 202 
 
 201 
 
 202 
 
 202 
 
 202 
 
 209 
 201 
 202 
 200 
 202 
 202 
 205 
 
 210 
 23 
 
 201 
 
 200 
 
 201 
 
 202 
 
 201 
 
 201 
 
 23 
 
 207 
 203 
 201 
 209 
 
 208 
 205 
 202 
 
 200 
 202 
 203 
 * 204 
 202 
 202 
 
 201 
 
 206 
 
 209 
 
 202 
 
 202 
 
 205 
 
 200 
 
 203 
 
 203 
 
 201 
 
 202 
 
 212 
 
 Page 
 
 3 
 
 7 
 
 21 
 
 3 
 
 21 
 
 33 
 
 21 
 
 21-32 
 
 32 
 
 14 
 
 1 
 
 11 
 
 1 
 
 24 
 
 21 
 
 14 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 21 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 11 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 
 9 
 
 12 
 
 11 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 9 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 
 12 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 
 20 
 
 14 
 
 11 
 
 14 
 
 21 
 
 20 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 12 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 20 
 
 11 
 
 20 
 
 20 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
INDEX 
 
 Compensation—Continued. 
 
 For no period more than one year prior to date of claim_ 
 
 Frauds_ 
 
 Gratuities, while receiving- 
 
 Gross dissipation may prevent payment of- 
 
 Hospital service_ 
 
 Husband, of injured person, compensation for_ 
 
 Increased, payable six months prior to claim_ 
 
 Injury, death from_ 
 
 Injury received during treatment, hospitalization, or voca¬ 
 tional training_ 
 
 In receipt of retirement pay_ 
 
 Insane— 
 
 Inability to make claim, extension of time_ 
 
 Permanently, no dependents, amount of_ 
 
 Insanity of adult child_ 
 
 Marriage of widow, terminates_ 
 
 Medical, surgical, hospital service, in addition to_ 
 
 Military offenses, death inflicted for, not payable_ 
 
 Minor, time extension_ 
 
 Missing men_ 
 
 Monthly rate of, for veterans hospitalized_ 
 
 Mother, amount of, for_ 
 
 Nurse or attendant_;_ 
 
 Nurse Corps_ 
 
 Paid to guardian_ 
 
 Partial and temporary_ 
 
 Payments to guardian, suspended_ 
 
 Pension or gratuity_ 
 
 Recovery of pajmients not permitted_ 
 
 Refusal to submit to examination, consequences of_ 
 
 Retroactive, in cases of fraud, reduction to be_ 
 
 { 
 
 { 
 
 Permanent total, right to prove_ 
 
 Proximate cause_ 
 
 Ratings, schedule of_ 
 
 Reduction in, effective date of_ 
 
 Retirement pay, while in receipt of_ 
 
 Review of award_ 
 
 Right to— 
 
 Barred_ 
 
 Forfeited_ 
 
 Suspended_ 
 
 Semimonthly payments_ 
 
 Sound condition_ 
 
 Suspended, refusing or neglecting to submit to examination_ 
 
 Temporary total disability, amount of_ 
 
 Termination of_ 
 
 Time for filing claims___ 
 
 Total and permanent disability_ 
 
 Traveling expenses, persons submitting to medical examina¬ 
 tion_ 
 
 Treatment, refusal to submit_ 
 
 Tuberculosis, arrested after hospitalization_ 
 
 Tuberculosis, not arrested after hospitalization_ 
 
 Unassignable, not subject to claims of creditors, exempt from 
 
 taxation_ 
 
 Uncollected, applied as premiums_ 
 
 Wheeled chairs, supplied by bureau_ 
 
 Widow_ 
 
 Widower, beneficiary 
 Wife_ 
 
 Willful failure to follow course of treatment 
 Willful misconduct, death or disability_ 
 
 Sec. 
 
 Page 
 
 210 
 
 21 
 
 500 
 
 32 
 
 212 
 
 22 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 210 
 
 21 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 213 
 
 22 
 
 212 
 
 22 
 
 209 
 
 21 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 209 
 
 21 
 
 207 
 
 21 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 27 
 
 10 
 
 25; 
 
 10 
 
 204 
 
 20 
 
 205 
 
 20 
 
 210 
 
 21 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 203 
 
 21 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 2m 
 
 20 
 
 210 
 
 21 
 
 212 
 
 22 
 
 205 
 
 20 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 504 
 
 33 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 209 
 
 21 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 22 
 
 8 
 
 305 
 
 28 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 204 
 
 20 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
INDEX 
 
 41 
 
 Comptroller General authorized to allow credit for insurance 
 
 installments-- 
 
 Confidential files--- 
 
 Confined in hospital, premiums, waiver of--- 
 
 Conscientious objector. 
 
 Conservator_ 
 
 Contract hospitals__ 
 
 Contract nurses_ 
 
 Contract nurses, hospitalization of, and compensation for_ 
 
 Contracts, with State, municipal, and private hospitals_ 
 
 Convalescent care_ 
 
 Conversion of term insurance prior to July 2, 1927_ 
 
 Copy (certified) of bureau records, as evidence_ 
 
 Court cost, payment of, fee commitment of insane patients_ 
 
 Court costs and other expenses incident to appointment or removal 
 of guardian_ 
 
 Court-martial trial, discharge as result of_ 
 
 Creditors, benefits not subject to claims of_ 
 
 Crime, death inflicted for_ 
 
 Crime, offense against United States-^_ 
 
 Curator_ 
 
 { 
 
 { 
 
 { 
 
 Deafness, total, rating of_ 
 
 Death : 
 
 Burial expenses_ 
 
 Compensation, beneficiaries_______ 
 
 Compensation for_ 
 
 Inflicted as punishment_ 
 
 Injury or disease, causing compensation for_ 
 
 Injury, result of training, hospitalization, or treatment, result¬ 
 ing in--- 
 
 Record (official)_ 
 
 Resulting from hospitalization, treatment or training_ 
 
 While receiving compensation or vocational training, benefits 
 
 allowed_ 
 
 Within one year after discharge_:_ 
 
 Within five years after_ 
 
 Decedent, accrued payments due to escheat to United States_ 
 
 Payable to personal representative_ 
 
 Decentralization_ 
 
 Deduction of compensation for gross dissipation in hospital_ 
 
 Definitions_ 
 
 Defraud_ 
 
 Delegation of authority_ 
 
 Dental care_ 
 
 Dependency: 
 
 Husband of an insane person_ 
 
 Must arise within five years after death of soldier_ 
 
 Parents___ 
 
 Parents of insane patient__ 
 
 Deserter, discharged on ground of, terminates rights_ 
 
 Desertion, bars rights to_ 
 
 Designation of beneficiary_ 
 
 D<'tailed clerks, to make examination_ 
 
 Director: 
 
 Jurisdiction, salary, etc_ 
 
 Power and authority_ 
 
 Veterans’ Bureau, duties and powers of_ 
 
 { 
 
 { 
 
 See. 
 
 18 
 
 30 
 306 
 
 23 
 
 31 
 505 
 
 21 
 
 202 
 
 201 
 
 202 
 
 10 
 
 202 
 
 301 
 
 30 
 
 202 
 
 21 
 
 23 
 
 203 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 23 
 
 21 
 
 505 
 
 202 
 
 201 
 
 201 
 
 200 
 
 23 
 
 200 
 
 201 
 
 213 
 
 207 
 
 213 
 
 201 
 
 206 
 
 209 
 
 26 
 
 303 
 
 26 
 
 7 
 
 202 
 
 5 
 
 202 
 
 21 
 
 201 
 
 201 
 
 21 
 
 23 
 
 23 
 
 300 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 11 
 
 Page 
 
 7 
 
 11 
 
 29 
 
 9 
 
 11 
 
 34 
 
 8 
 14 
 12 
 14 
 
 4 
 
 14 
 
 25 
 
 11 
 
 14 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 20 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 8 
 
 34 
 
 14 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 11 
 
 9 
 
 11 
 
 12 
 
 22 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 12 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 
 10 
 
 27 
 
 10 
 
 8 
 
 14 
 
 1 
 
 33 
 
 2 
 
 14 
 
 8 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 24 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 
42 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Disability: 
 
 Compensation for_ 
 
 Compensation, one year after discharge_:_ 
 
 Permanent total, insurance, conversion_ 
 
 Physical, extension of time to begin training, on account of_ 
 
 Proof of service origin_ 
 
 Resulting from hospitalization, treatment, or training_ 
 
 Resulting from injury shown at time of discharge_ 
 
 vService connected_ 
 
 Temporary total amount of compensation_ 
 
 TemporaiT total premiums waived_ 
 
 Total permanent, insurance against_ 
 
 Within one year after discharge__ 
 
 Disabled American veterans, representatives of_ 
 
 Discharge: 
 
 Alienage_ 
 
 Alien enemy_ 
 
 Application before_ 
 
 Death before, funeral expenses allowed_ 
 
 Death or disability, one year after__ 
 
 Time for filing claims after_ 
 
 Diseases, list of, treated without reference to origin_ 
 
 Disease or injury, after induction, before final acceptance and com¬ 
 pensation_ 
 
 Dismissal of alien enemy_ 
 
 Dissipation, gross, payment of compensation withheld because of_ 
 
 District court_ 
 
 Documents: 
 
 False statements in_ 
 
 Producing of, can be compelled by subpoenas_ 
 
 Donations, for vocational training_ 
 
 Double total permanent, compensation in case of_ 
 
 Due date, waiver of premiums, insurance_ 
 
 Duties of employees_ 
 
 Dysentery, amoebic, presumption of service connection, rebuttable_ 
 
 Earning capacity, partial and temporary disability_ 
 
 Ears, loss of both_ 
 
 Effective date: 
 
 Death or disability, compensation_ 
 
 Reduction of compensation first day of third calendar month_ 
 
 Effects, personal, loss of by fire while beneficiary is hospitalized_ 
 
 Embezzlement_ 
 
 Emergency treatment, reimbursement for_ 
 
 Employability, test of rehabilitation_ 
 
 Encephalitis lethargica: 
 
 Presumption of service connection rebuttable_ 
 
 Treatment for, when not service connected_ 
 
 Endowment, conversion of ordinary life into_ 
 
 Enemy alien__ 
 
 Enlisted men: 
 
 Death or disability, compensation_ 
 
 Definition of_ 
 
 Entitled to apply for insurance_ 
 
 Enlistment, application after_^_ 
 
 Enlistment or induction_ 
 
 Equipment, surplus, disposition of_ 
 
 Escheat to United States, insurance term, compensation accrued 
 maintenance, support, no beneficiary_ 
 
 Estate, no survivors, paid to_ 
 
 Evidence, compel submission of_ 
 
 Proofs, rules governing_ 
 
 { 
 
 { 
 
 { 
 
 Sec. 
 
 Page 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 206 
 
 21 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 403 
 
 32 
 
 304 
 
 28 
 
 213 
 
 22 
 
 206 
 
 21 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 306 
 
 29 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 206 
 
 21 
 
 500 
 
 32 
 
 31 
 
 11 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 206 
 
 21 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 209 
 
 21 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 500 
 
 32 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 12 
 
 5 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 306 
 
 29 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 205 
 
 20 
 
 31 
 
 11 
 
 505 
 
 34 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 404 
 
 32 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 29 
 
 10 
 
 26 
 
 10 
 
 303 
 
 27 
 
 26 
 
 10 
 
 303 
 
 27 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
INDEX 
 
 43 
 
 Examination: 
 
 Clerks detailed for- 
 
 Persons claiming compensation or treatment- 
 
 Physical— 
 
 Exemption from for insurance- 
 
 Per diem of $2.65 when reporting for- 
 
 Persons in receipt of compensation must submit to_ 
 
 Excess mortality, United States to bear expense of- 
 
 Executive officer of insane asjdum- 
 
 Experts, appointed by director- 
 
 Exioenses: 
 
 Burial- 
 
 Claimants, account of examination_ 
 
 Court costs_ 
 
 Funeral___ 
 
 Traveling and hospitalization_ 
 
 Eyes, loss of both_ 
 
 False statements, punishment for- 
 
 Father: 
 
 Amount of compensation, death of son_ 
 
 Compensation for temporary total disability of son_ 
 
 Federal employee’s liability, compensation in lieu of_ 
 
 Fees and mileage of witnesses_ 
 
 Fees, attorneys or claim agents_ 
 
 Feet, loss of both_ 
 
 Field offices, number of_ 
 
 Files, records, documents, disclosure of_ 
 
 Fire, loss of personal effects of hospitalized beneficiaries_ 
 
 Flag to drape casket- 
 
 Foreign governments, medical services and transportation fur¬ 
 nished beneficiaries of_ 
 
 Forfeiture of compensation_^_ 
 
 Iforms of applications_ 
 
 Foster parent--- 
 
 Frauds: 
 
 Compensation_ 
 
 Punishment for_ 
 
 Fund; 
 
 Military and naval appropriation_ 
 
 Reserve_ 
 
 Revolving_ 
 
 Special fund, for vocational rehabilitation_ 
 
 Unexpended _ 
 
 United States Government life insurance_ 
 
 Funds in Treasury in trust for mentally incompetent_ 
 
 Funeral expenses, veteran of any war_ 
 
 Gifts, receipt of, from private sources_ 
 
 Good conduct, patients in hospitals, promotion of_ 
 
 Government hospital, preference for admission to_ 
 
 Grandchild_ 
 
 Permitted class_ 
 
 Gratuities: 
 
 Compensation while receiving_ 
 
 Persons receiving may not receive compensation_ 
 
 Guardians: 
 
 Court costs and other expenses incident to appointment or 
 
 removal_ 
 
 Failure to perform duties under guardianship_ 
 
 Guardians_ 
 
 Limitation of the number of wards who may be served_ 
 
 Payments to, suspended_ 
 
 Waiver of insurance premiums pending appointment of_ 
 
 Hands, loss of both___ 
 
 Hazards of war, mortality and disability resulting from_ 
 
 Hearings, authority to conduct_ 
 
 Home treatment of tuberculosis diseases_ 
 
 Hospitalization, compensation rates after June 30, 1027__ 
 
 Bsc. 
 
 Page 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
 303 
 
 27 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 201 
 
 • 12 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 501 
 
 S3 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 211 
 
 22 
 
 8 
 
 *) 
 
 O 
 
 500 
 
 32 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 
 <> 
 
 i 
 
 O 
 
 30 
 
 11 
 
 31 
 
 11 
 
 201 
 
 ]2 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 11 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 210 
 
 21 
 
 502 
 
 33 
 
 302 
 
 27 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 13 
 
 5 
 
 12 
 
 5 
 
 15 
 
 6 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 5 
 
 11 
 
 5 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 O 
 
 O 
 
 1 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 212 
 
 22 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 505 
 
 34 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 306 
 
 20 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 SOO 
 
 24 
 
 o 
 
 202 
 
 o 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 . 14 
 
44 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Hospitals: 
 
 Confined in, premium waived in case of_ 
 
 Contract_ 
 
 Reimbursement of beneficiaries for loss of personal effects by 
 
 fire while in hospital_ 
 
 State, municipal, private contracts with_ 
 
 Transfer of_ 
 
 Women who served in base hospitals overseas_ 
 
 Hospitalization: 
 
 Contract nurses_ 
 
 Emergency reimbursement for_ 
 
 * Furnished any veteran discharged since 1897_ 
 
 Indigent patients are furnished necessary clothing_ 
 
 Husband, of injured person, compensation for_ 
 
 Illegitimate children_ 
 
 Impairment of earning capacity_ 
 
 Imprisonment: 
 
 Claim agent_ 
 
 False statements_ 
 
 Frauds_ 
 
 Intent to defraud- 
 
 In loco parentis_ 
 
 Incompetents_ 
 
 Limitation of the number served by one guardian_ 
 
 Incontestability, insurance, term and converted_ 
 
 Inducted man not accepted for service_ 
 
 Induction: 
 
 Before final acceptance effecting compensation and insurance_ 
 
 By local draft board___ 
 
 Provisional acceptance_ 
 
 Induction or enlistment_;- 
 
 Injury: 
 
 Compensation for disability from_ 
 
 Death from, compensation beneficiaries_ 
 
 Includes disease_ 
 
 Ofliciaily recorded_ 
 
 Result of training, hospitalization, treatment_ 
 
 Insane: 
 
 Commitment of_ 
 
 Compensation for_ 
 
 Inability to make claim, extension of time_ 
 
 Payments to chief of hospitals_ 
 
 Waiver of insurance premiums_ 
 
 Insanity of child, compensation continues after 18 years of age_ 
 
 Inspectors, appointment of- 
 
 Instruction, courses of, for professional personnel_ 
 
 Insurance: 
 
 Active service, must be in, to be entitled to_ 
 
 Additional two years to convert, total and permanent disa¬ 
 bility cases_ 
 
 American Experience Table of Mortality- 
 
 Amount of_ 
 
 Application, after induction, before final acceptance_ 
 
 Application, within 120 days- 
 
 Army Nurse Corps- 
 
 Application of member of reserve forces while attending train¬ 
 ing camp_ 
 
 Aunts_ 
 
 Awards on converted policies- 
 
 Beneficiary— 
 
 Designation of_ 
 
 Death of_ 
 
 None, escheat to United States_ 
 
 Sec. 
 
 Page 
 
 306 
 
 29 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 31 
 
 11 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 500 
 
 32 
 
 501 
 
 33 
 
 502 
 
 33 
 
 503 
 
 33 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 209 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 307 
 
 SO 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 25 
 
 10 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 206 
 
 21 
 
 213 
 
 22 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 209 
 
 21 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 306 
 
 29 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 33 
 
 11 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 303 
 
 27 
 
 303 
 
 27 
 
lOTEX 
 
 Insurance—Continued. 
 
 Benefits prior to final acceptance- 
 
 Brother__ 
 
 Brother-in-law- 
 
 Cash value_ 
 
 Child, beneficiary- 
 
 Commissioned officer- 
 
 Converted___ 
 
 Dependents, for protection of- 
 
 Disability— 
 
 Benefits, transfer of funds_ 
 
 Total permanent, insurance against_ 
 
 Permanent total conversion_ 
 
 Discharge, application before_ ^ -- 
 
 Endowment converted into_ 
 
 Discontinuance of- 
 
 Enlisted men- 
 
 Enlistment, application after_ 
 
 Examination, exemption from_ 
 
 Estate— 
 
 No survivors, paid to_ 
 
 Grandchild_ 
 
 Hazards of war, mortality and disability, resulting from 
 
 Induction by local draft board_ 
 
 Incontestable after six months__ 
 
 Intestacy, distribution_ 
 
 Lapsed, while entitled to compensation_ 
 
 Lien or indebtedness on_ 
 
 Local draft board, induction by_ 
 
 Maturity, provisions for at certain ages_ 
 
 Medical examination, granted without_ 
 
 Navy Nurse Corps_ 
 
 Nephews_ 
 
 Nieces_ 
 
 One hundred and twenty days, application within_ 
 
 Optional settlement_ 
 
 Ordinary life, converted into_ 
 
 Parent_ 
 
 Payments, disposition of, in case no beneficiary survives in¬ 
 sured _ 
 
 Pay or deposit premiums from_ 
 
 Permitted class of beneficiaries_ 
 
 Policies, incontestable after six months, except for fraud_ 
 
 Premiums— 
 
 Back, interest 5 per cent per annum_ 
 
 Payment of_ 
 
 Covered into Treasury_ 
 
 Granted upon payment of_ 
 
 Waiver of_ 
 
 Regulations, Conversion_ 
 
 Reinstatement, physical condition_ 
 
 Reserve fund_ 
 
 Reserve value_ 
 
 Residence, place of_ 
 
 Right of election, payment of proceeds___ 
 
 Sister__ 
 
 Sister-in-law_ _ _ 
 
 Termination of, for reasons specified_ 
 
 Term until converted_ 
 
 Time, extension of, to convert_ 
 
 Total permanent disability_ 
 
 Total permanent disability ceases, additional two years to con¬ 
 vert_ 
 
 { 
 
 Unassignable, except within permitted class 
 
 Sec. 
 
 45 
 
 Page 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 302 
 
 27 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 27 
 
 303 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 307 
 
 30 
 
 303 
 
 27 
 
 305 
 
 28 
 
 30G 
 
 29 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 303 
 
 27 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 307 
 
 30 
 
 304 
 
 28 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 306 
 
 29 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 304 
 
 28 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 302 
 
 27 
 
 303 
 
 27 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 302 
 
 27 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 22 
 
 8 
 
 
46 
 
 I]SrDEX 
 
 Insurance—Continued. 
 
 Uncles_ 
 
 Uncollected bonus applied as premium on lapsed insurance 
 
 where death occurs after February 24, 1919_ 
 
 Interior Department facilities, available for Veterans’ Bureau_ 
 
 Intestacy, distribution in case of_ 
 
 Investments, of allotment of compensation_ 
 
 Lands, United States, under control of bureau, sale or lease of_ 
 
 Lapsed insurance, term while entitled to compensation_ 
 
 Laws, pension, not applicable to claimants_ 
 
 Lease, surplus property, authorized_ 
 
 Legal advice of Attorney General_ 
 
 Legitimate_:_ 
 
 Liability, legal_ 
 
 Liaison representatives, recognition of_ 
 
 Limiting the number of wards to be served by one guardian_ 
 
 Line of duty, injury contracted in, after induction, insurance and 
 
 compensation_ 
 
 Local draft board, induction by, affecting compensation and insur¬ 
 ance _ 
 
 Loss of sight of both eyes: 
 
 Compensation for_ 
 
 Treatment where not service connected_ 
 
 Maintenance and support allowance: 
 
 Barred, reasons for_ 
 
 Claim, false statement regarding_ 
 
 Fraudulent acceptance of_ 
 
 Maximum to trainees with and without dependents_ 
 
 Not assignable, not subject to claims of creditors except from 
 
 taxation_ 
 
 Payable trainee, after rehabilitation_ 
 
 Payments for_ 
 
 Maintenance pay, termination of_ 
 
 Marriage: 
 
 Must be within 10 years from date of injury_ 
 
 Of soldier’s widow, stops compensation_ 
 
 Proof of_ 
 
 Maturity, of insurance, provisions for at certain ages_ 
 
 Medical examination_ 
 
 Insurance granted, without_ 
 
 Medical surgical hospital service furnished_ 
 
 Mentally incompetent: 
 
 Guardian for_ 
 
 Waiver of insurance premiums for_ 
 
 Mileage, payment of, to witness_ 
 
 Military and naval forces, definition of_ 
 
 Military and naval fund, converted insurance, disability benefits_ 
 
 Minor: 
 
 Inability to make claim, time extension_1_ 
 
 Payments to guardian or legal custodian of_.i_ 
 
 Misconduct: 
 
 { 
 
 Willful- 
 
 Affecting compensation_ 
 
 Affecting treatment_ 
 
 Willful and persistent_ 
 
 Missing men, compensation during period of_ 
 
 Moral turpitude, guilty of any offense involving- 
 
 Mother: 
 
 Amount of compensation, death of son- 
 
 Compensation, temporary total disability- 
 
 Definition of_ 
 
 Mutiny, guilty of_ 
 
 National Guard, member of_ 
 
 National Home for Disabled Soldiers facilities, available for Vet¬ 
 erans’ Bureau_ 
 
 Sec. 
 
 Page 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 309 
 
 30 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 303 
 
 27 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 29 
 
 10 
 
 305 
 
 28 
 
 212 
 
 22 
 
 29 
 
 10 
 
 9 
 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 313 
 
 23 
 
 500 
 
 82 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 501 
 
 33 
 
 502 
 
 33 
 
 503 
 
 33 
 
 401 
 
 31 
 
 22 
 
 8 
 
 404 
 
 32 
 
 401 
 
 31 
 
 404 
 
 32 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 20 
 
 7 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 306 
 
 29 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 302 
 
 27 
 
 209 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 
 8 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 207 
 
 21 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 s 
 
 IW. R. I. Act. 
 
INDEX 
 
 Navy Department facilities, available for Veterans’ Bureau. 
 
 Navy Nurse Corps, entitled to benefits_ 
 
 Neglect to submit to examination_ 
 
 Net proceeds of sales covered into miscellaneous receipts_ 
 
 Nephews, beneficiaries_ 
 
 Neuropsycliiatric, disease contracted in line of duty_ 
 
 nected_ 
 
 Nieces, beneficiary_ 
 
 Nurse or attendant in disability cases_ 
 
 Nurse Corps, death or disability, compensation_ 
 
 Nurses, contract_ 
 
 Oaths, administration of_ 
 
 Ofteiises, penalties, forfeiture_ 
 
 Official record of injury, basis for compensation_ 
 
 One hundred and twenty days, application for insurance. 
 
 Optional settlement, converted insurance_ 
 
 Ordinary life, converted into_ 
 
 Paralysis agitans: 
 
 Presumption of service connection, rebuttable_ 
 
 Treatment for when not service connected_ 
 
 Parent, beneficiary. 
 
 Paresis, when considered of service origin_ 
 
 Partial and temporary disability, compensation in case of. 
 Partial and permanent disability, compensation in case of. 
 
 Patients effects loss by fire, v/hile hospitalized_ 
 
 Pay, definition of_ 
 
 Payments; 
 
 Compensation and insurance, recovery of_ 
 
 Monthly, semimonthly compensation_ 
 
 Support and maintenance_ 
 
 Pay, termination of maintenance_ 
 
 Pay or deposit, premiums from_ 
 
 Penalties _ 
 
 Penalties are applicable in Philippine Islands_ 
 
 Penalties for breach of good conduct_ 
 
 Pensions___ 
 
 Per diem, $2.65 when reporting for physical examination_ 
 
 Period of the war_ 
 
 Perjury, punishment_ 
 
 Permanent disability, insurance against_ 
 
 Permanent total, right to prove disability_ 
 
 Permitted class of insurance benefits_ 
 
 Permitted class of insurance beneficiaries, none___ 
 
 Personal effects, loss by fire wdiile beneficiary is hospitalized. 
 
 Personal representative payments to_ 
 
 Personnel: 
 
 Appointment of_ 
 
 Authority of___ 
 
 Professional, courses of instruction for_ 
 
 Petty officers, included in the term “ enlisted men ”_ 
 
 Philippine insurrection, treatment of veterans of_ 
 
 Philippine Islands, penalties of Title V are applicable_ 
 
 Physical condition of applicant, reinstatement of Insurance- 
 
 Preexisting disease or injury, aggravation of_ 
 
 Premiums: 
 
 Covered into Treasury to credit of insurance fund. 
 
 
 47 
 
 Sec. 
 
 Page 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 _ 203 
 
 20 
 
 29 
 
 10 
 
 300 
 
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 200 
 
 11 
 
 n- 
 
 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 - 603 
 
 35 
 
 — 208 
 
 21 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 - 301 
 
 25 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 < 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 31 
 
 11 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 r 27 
 
 10 
 
 ■ 1 28 
 
 10 
 
 ._ 202 
 
 14 
 
 ._ 401 
 
 31 
 
 404 
 
 82 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 500-504 32-33 
 
 506 
 
 34 
 
 11 
 
 5 
 
 212 
 
 22 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 501 
 
 83 
 
 _ 300 
 
 24 
 
 
 27 
 
 10 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 _ 303 
 
 27 
 
 31 
 
 11 
 
 26 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 o 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 33 
 
 n 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 _ 506 
 
 34 
 
 _ 304 
 
 28 
 
 f 200 
 
 11 
 
 \ 202 
 
 14 
 
 / 305 
 
 28 
 
 
 306 
 
 29 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
48 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Premiums—Continued. 
 
 Covered into Treasury unexpended_ 
 
 Deducted _ 
 
 In advance_ 
 
 Insurance granted upon payment of___ 
 
 Interest, deductible from proceeds_ 
 
 Rates based on American Experience Table of Mortality_ 
 
 Uncollected bonus, applied as premium on lapsed insurance 
 
 where death occurs after February 24, 1019_ 
 
 Waiver of in case of disability_ 
 
 Private gifts for vocational training_ 
 
 Private hospitals, contracts with_ 
 
 Private treatment, reim])ursement for emergency-_ 
 
 Professional personnel, courses of instruction for_ 
 
 Prosecution of actions at law_ 
 
 Prosthetic appliances_ 
 
 Provisional acceptance for service, benefits under_ 
 
 Public Health Service facilities transferred_ 
 
 Purchase or maHufacture, artificial limbs, etc_^_ 
 
 Ratings, schedule of_ 
 
 Rebuttable, presumption of service connection_ 
 
 Records, files, documents, disclosure of_ 
 
 Records, disposition of, in offices abolished_ 
 
 Recovery from disability, transfer of funds_ 
 
 Recovery of erroneous payments_ 
 
 Red Cross, representatives of_ 
 
 Refusal to submit to examination_ 
 
 Regional offices, powers and duties of_ 
 
 Regional offices and suboffices, termination of_ 
 
 Regulations: 
 
 Authority of director to make_ 
 
 Conversion of insurance_ 
 
 Furnishing medical services to discharged service men of 
 
 foreign government_ 
 
 Rehabilitation : 
 
 Employability test of_ 
 
 Maintenance and support allowance payable after employ- 
 
 ability establislred_ 
 
 Reimbursement for emergency treatments_ 
 
 Reimbursement of hospitalized beneficiaries for loss of personal 
 
 effects by fire_ 
 
 Reinstatement of term insurance required prior to July 2, 1927_ 
 
 Reinstatement, physical condition of applicant_ 
 
 Repeal of prior laws_J- 
 
 Report of private gifts and donations_ 
 
 Report to Congress_ 
 
 Reserve forces, insurance application while attending training 
 
 camp_ 
 
 Reserve value, converted insurance- 
 
 Retirement pay, compensation while in receipt of_ 
 
 { 
 
 { 
 
 { 
 
 Retroactive, pajmient of claim 
 
 Retroactive, rates of compensation not to be_ 
 
 Review reward, bureau ma 3 '’ at any time_ 
 
 Revolving fund for vocational training- 
 
 Right of election, payment of proceeds- 
 
 Rights and liabilities_ 
 
 Rules and regulations_ 
 
 Sale of surplus property_ 
 
 Schedule of ratings, reductions in earning capacity 
 
 Semimonthly payments_ 
 
 Sec. 
 
 Page 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 305 
 
 28 
 
 306 
 
 29 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 309 
 
 30 
 
 308 
 
 29 
 
 12 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 33 
 
 11 
 
 500 
 
 32 
 
 604 
 
 35 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 25 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 30 
 
 11 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 302 
 
 27 
 
 28 
 
 10 
 
 27 
 
 10 
 
 500 
 
 32 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 404 
 
 32 
 
 404 
 
 32 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 31 
 
 11 
 
 304 
 
 28 
 
 304 
 
 28 
 
 601 
 
 34 
 
 12 
 
 5 
 
 14 
 
 6 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 302 
 
 27 
 
 212 
 
 22 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 205 
 
 20 
 
 210 
 
 21 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 205 
 
 20 
 
 13 
 
 5 
 
 301 
 
 25 
 
 602 
 
 34 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 11 
 
 5 
 
 29 
 
 10 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 401 
 
 31 
 
 
 ♦ 
 
 V 
 
INDEX 
 
 49 
 
 Service connection, dates of limited_ 
 
 Service connection, presumption of, diseases specified 
 
 Sister, beneficiary- 
 
 Sister-in-law, beneficiary_ 
 
 Sound condition, held to have been in, vrben accepted 
 
 Spanish-American War veterans, treatment of_ 
 
 Spinal meningitis_ 
 
 Step brother and sister, brother and sister include- 
 
 Stepchild, beneficiary- 
 
 Stepmother, beneficiary- 
 
 Stepfather, beneficiary_ 
 
 Subofiices, powers and duties of_ 
 
 Subpoenas, power to issue_ 
 
 Suits against the United States_ 
 
 Suits at law. 
 
 Commenced prior to June 7, 1924__ 
 
 Supplies of abolished offices, disposition of_ e_ 
 
 Supplies retained by trainees_ 
 
 Supplies, surplus, sale of_ 
 
 Surplus property and equipment, to be disposed of by director_ 
 
 Suspended compensation, refusing to submit to examination_ 
 
 Taxation, compensation, insurance, maintenance and support al¬ 
 lowance, exempt from_ 
 
 Telephone service for medical officers_ 
 
 Temporary total disability: 
 
 Amount of compensation_ 
 
 Premium, w'aiver of__ 
 
 Termination of maintenance pay_ 
 
 Termination of war, date__ 
 
 Termination of compensation 
 
 Testimony of witnesses_ 
 
 Time: 
 
 For filing claim, extension of__ 
 
 Of disability_ 
 
 Total and permanent disability: 
 
 Compensation in case of_ 
 
 Insurance against_ 
 
 Trainee: 
 
 Deiiendents_ 
 
 Eligibility of_ 
 
 Maintenance and support allov/ance._ 
 
 Retention of supplies_ 
 
 Training: 
 
 Allowance, termination of_ 
 
 Application for_ 
 
 Burial expenses of beneficiary in_ 
 
 Camp, insurance application while reserve forces were at¬ 
 tending_ 
 
 Commencement of_ 
 
 Courses available_ 
 
 Discontinuance of all courses of_ 
 
 Gifts received for_ 
 
 Injury, while receiving_ 
 
 Transfer of hospitals to the Veterans’ Bureau_ 
 
 Transportation to disabled soldiers of foreign governments_ 
 
 Traveling expenses and hospitalization furnished any veterans 
 
 discharged since 1897_ 
 
 Traveling expenses, persons submitting to medical examination_ 
 
 Treason, guilty of, termination of rights_ 
 
 Treatment: 
 
 Application for_ 
 
 Emergency, reimbursement for_ 
 
 Examination required of applicants for_ 
 
 Refusal or neglect to submit_ 
 
 Sec. 
 
 Page 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 200 
 
 11 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 19 
 
 7 
 
 500 
 
 32 
 
 604 
 
 35 
 
 602 
 
 34 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 407 
 
 32 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 29 
 
 10 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
 22 
 
 8 
 
 32 
 
 11 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 306 
 
 29 
 
 404 
 
 32 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 .1- 
 
 205 
 
 20 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 8 
 
 O 
 
 O 
 
 209 
 
 21 
 
 206 
 
 21 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 302 
 
 27 
 
 401 
 
 31 
 
 4G3 
 
 32 
 
 401 
 
 31 
 
 407 
 
 32 
 
 406 
 
 32 
 
 405 
 
 32 
 
 201 
 
 12 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 403 
 
 32 
 
 402 
 
 31 
 
 406 
 
 32 
 
 12 
 
 5 
 
 213 
 
 22 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
 23 
 
 9 
 
 209 
 
 21 
 
 202 
 
 14 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
 203 
 
 20 
 
50 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Tuberculosis: . Sec. Page 
 
 Arrested, compensation of $50 monthly_ 202 14 
 
 Arrested, discharged from hospital, rating of_ 202 14 
 
 Compensation for_ 202 14 
 
 Contracted in line of duty_ 200 11 
 
 Hospitalization and training expenses provided_ 202 14 
 
 Not arrested, discharged from hospital, rating of_ 202 14 
 
 Treatment for, not service connected_ 202 14 
 
 Two years additional to convert, total and pennanent rating 
 
 changed - 301 25 
 
 Uncles, beneficiary _ 300 24 
 
 United States Government life insurance fund, use of_ 302 27 
 
 . United States Veterans’ Bureau, establishment of_ 4 2 
 
 Validity of act_ 605 35 
 
 Veterans of foreign wars, representations of_ 500 32 
 
 Vocational training: 
 
 Authorized - 400 30 
 
 Commencement of_ 403 32 
 
 Private gifts for- 12 5 
 
 ' 400 30 
 
 Termination of_ 402 31 
 
 406 32 
 
 Prohibited prior to completion of course actually com¬ 
 menced __ ’ 400 30 
 
 WaiA’er of premiums, insurance, term and converted_ 306 29 
 
 War Department’s hospitals available for Veterans’ Bureau_ 10 4 
 
 Wheeled chairs, supplied by bureau _ 202 14 
 
 Widow: 
 
 Amount, compensation death of soldier _ 201 12 
 
 One who marries deceased not later than 10 years after injury. 201 12 
 
 Widower, same rights as widow - 201 12 
 
 Wife _ 401 31 
 
 Compensation, apportionment _ 203 20 
 
 Compensation case of temporary total disability _ 202 14 
 
 Includes husband _ ® -- 202 14 
 
 Willful misconduct _ 24 9 
 
 Death or disability, no compensation - 200 11 
 
 Witness : 
 
 Authority to subpoena - 8 3 
 
 Compel attendance of - 8 3 
 
 Women, beneficiaries _ 200 11 
 
 Women, service in base hospitals overseas- 200 11 
 
 World War, term defined - 3 1 
 
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