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punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each such offense.

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 The following Acts are hereby repealed, subject to the limitations provided in section 602 of this title: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 'An 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 That the following Acts are hereby repealed.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 sections 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.

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 time 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 competent 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.

Approved, June 7, 1924.

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[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 45-68TH CONGRESS]

[S. J. Res. 61]

Joint Resolution Authorizing the Director of the United States Veterans' Bureau to grant a right of way over United States Veterans' Bureau Hospital reservation at Knoxville, Iowa.

Whereas it is desired to close the public highway passing through the United States Veterans' Bureau Hospital reservation at Knoxville, Iowa, and to open a new public highway over a different portion of said reservation: Now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Director of the United States Veterans' Bureau is hereby authorized to grant to the State and municipal authorities for use as a public highway so much of said reservation as may be necessary therefor; and to make, execute, and deliver all needful conveyances. The director is further authorized in his discretion to receive on the part of the United States a grant of the land covered by the highway to be closed.

Approved, January 26, 1925.

[S. 2746]

An Act Regulating the recovery of allotments and allowances heretofore paid to designated beneficiaries.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of section 210 of the War Risk Insurance Act, as amended by the Act of August 9, 1921 (Forty-second Statutes, page 153), as precludes the recovery of an award of allotment, or allowance, or both, paid to, or on behalf of a person designated as beneficiary of an allotment under the War Risk Insurance Act prior to August 9, 1921, shall hereafter be applicable to allotments paid prior to August 9, 1921, to beneficiaries designated under the Army allotment system by any person who served in the Army.

Approved, February 24, 1925.

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