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Act, 1924.

[S. 3997]

An Act To amend section 301 of the World War Veterans'

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 301 of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, approved June 7, 1924, as amended March 4, 1925, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"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. Regulations shall provide for the right to convert into ordinary life, twenty-payment 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 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, however, 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 disappearance 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.

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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 maturity 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 32 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.

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"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 Risk 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 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 United States and be credited to the United States Government life insurance fund.

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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 thirtysix 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."

Approved, June 2, 1926.

[H. R. 7889]

An Act To regulate subsistence expenses of civilian officers and employees while absent from their designated posts of duty on official business.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Subsistence Expense Act of 1926.” SEC. 2. When used in this Act

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The term "departments and establishments means any executive department, independent commission, board, bureau, office, agency, or other establishment of the Government, including the municipal government of the District of Columbia.

The term "subsistence means lodging, meals, and other necessary expenses incidental to the personal sustenance or comfort of the traveler.

The term "actual expenses " means the actual amounts necessarily expended by the traveler for subsistence and itemized in accounts for reimbursement.

The term " per diem allowance" means a daily flat rate of payment in lieu of actual expenses.

SEC. 3. Civilian officers and employees of the departments and establishments while traveling on official business and away from their designated posts of duty shall be allowed their actual necessary expenses in an amount not to exceed $7 each for any one calendar day.

SEC. 4. The heads of departments and establishments, in lieu of the actual expenses authorized by section 3, may prescribe a per diem allowance not to exceed $6 for any one calendar day or portions thereof for absences of less than twenty-four hours.

SEC. 5. Civilian officers and employees of the departments and establishments while traveling on official business beyond the limits of the continental United States shall be allowed their actual expenses in an amount to be prescribed by the heads of departments and establishments not to exceed an average of $8 per day during the travel, exclusive of absence on leave.

Actual expenses and per diem allowance under this section for any travel performed within the limits of continental United States. shall be in accordance with the rates prescribed in sections 3 and 4 of this Act.

SEC. 6. The heads of departments and establishments may prescribe a per diem allowance of not to exceed $7, in lieu of the actual expenses authorized by section 5.

SEC. 7. The allowance and payment of actual expenses and the fixing and payment of per diem allowance, or portions thereof, shall be in accordance with regulations which shall be promulgated by the heads of departments and establishments and which shall be standardized as far as practicable and shall not be effective until approved by the President of the United States.

SEC. 8. The heads of departments and establishments, under regulations which shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury for the protection of the United States, may advance through the proper disbursing officers from applicable appropriations to any person entitled to actual expenses or per diem allowance under this Act such sums as may be deemed advisable considering the character and probable duration of the travel to be performed. Any sums so advanced shall be recovered from the person to whom advanced, or his estate, by deduction from any amount due from the United States or by such other legal method of recovery as may be necessary.

SEC. 9. All laws or parts of laws which are inconsistent with or in conflict with the provisions of this Act except such laws or parts of laws as specially fix or now permit rates higher than the maximum rates established in this Act are hereby repealed or modified only to the extent of such inconsistency or conflict.

SEC. 10. This Act shall not be construed to modify or repeal the Act providing for the traveling expenses of the President of the United States or any Acts (including appropriations for the fiscal year 1927) specifically fixing or permitting mileage rates for travel and/or subsistence expenses.

SEC. 11. This Act shall not be construed to modify or repeal the per diem travel allowances granted railway postal clerks, acting railway postal clerks, and substitute railway postal clerks in section. 7, Title I, of the Act approved February 28, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1062).

SEC. 12. Appropriations for the fiscal year 1927 which contain specific rates of actual expenses or per diem allowance inconsistent with the rates permitted by this Act are hereby modified to the extent required to permit the application of the provisions of this Act to such appropriations.

SEC. 13. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1926, but any increases deemed necessary to be made in the rates of actual expenses or per diem allowance under the authority of this Act shall not be authorized by heads of departments and establishments to the extent of incurring a deficiency in appropriations available for the payment thereof during the fiscal year 1927.

Approved, June 3, 1926.

[H. R. 12175]

An Act To amend the World War Veterans' Act, 1924.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 10 of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, approved June 7, 1924, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 10. The director, subject to the general directions of the President, shall be responsible for the proper examination, medical care, treatment, hospitalization, dispensary, and convalescent care necessary and reasonable aftercare, welfare of, nursing, vocational 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 approval 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 such 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 treatment 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 Government 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

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