be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations 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 a permanent injury. The bureau in adopting the schedule of ratings of reduction in earning capacity shall consider the impairment in ability to secure employment which results from such injuries. The bureau shall from time to time readjust this schedule of ratings in accordance with actual experience. "(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 $20 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 such reasonable governmental medical, surgical, and hospital services and with such supplies, including wheeled chairs, artificial limbs, trusses. and similar appliances, as the director may determine to be useful and reasonably necessary, which wheeled chairs, artificial limbs, trusses, and similar appliances may be procured by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance 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 military or naval establishments before he shall have been discharged from the military or naval service. "(7) Where 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. "(8) The term ' wife' as used in this section shall include 'husband' if the husband is dependent upon the wife for support. "(9) That the Bureau of War Risk Insurance is hereby 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 Governments similar to the War Risk Insurance Act, at such rates and under such regulations as the Director of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance may prescribe; and the Bureau of War Risk Insurance is hereby authorized 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 the War Risk Insurance 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 provisions 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 furnishing the services, supplies, and appliances provided for by subdivision (6) hereof are hereby made available for the payment to such Governments or their agencies for the services, supplies, and appliances so furnished at such rates and under such regulations as the Director of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance may prescribe. "(10) That section 302 of the War Risk Insurance Act as amended shall be deemed to be in effect as of April 6, 1917: Provided, That any person who is now receiving a gratuity or pension under existing law shall not receive com pensation under this Act unless he shall first surrender all claim to such gratuity or pension." [41 Stat. L. -.] For section 302 here amended, see 9 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 1319; 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. (1st ed.) 910. SEC. 12. [Time for application death before application.] That section 401 of the War Risk Insurance Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 401. That 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, except that those persons who are in the active war service at the time of the publication of the terms and conditions of such contract of insurance may apply at any time within one hundred and twenty days thereafter and while in such service: Provided, That any person in the active service on or after the 6th day of April, 1917, and before the 11th day of November, 1918, who while in such active service made application for insurance after the expiration of more than one hundred and twenty days after October 15, 1917, or more than one hundred and twenty days after entrance into or employment in the active service, and whose application was accepted and a policy issued thereon, and from whom premiums were collected, and who becomes or had become totally and permanently disabled, or dies or has died, shall be deemed to have made legal application for such insurance and the policy issued on such application shall be valid. Any person in the active service on or after the 6th day of April, 1917, and before the 11th day of November, 1918, who, while in such service, and before the expiration of one hundred and twenty days after October 15, 1917, or one hundred and twenty days after entrance into or employment in the active service, becomes or has become totally and permanently disabled, or dies or has died, without having applied for insurance, shall be deemed to have applied for and to have been granted insurance, payable to such person during his life in monthly installments of $25 each; and any person inducted into the service by a local draft board after the 6th day of April, 1917, and before the 11th day of November, 1918, who, while in such service, and before being accepted and enrolled for active military or naval service, becomes or has become totally and permanently disabled, or dies or has died, without having applied for insurance, shall be deemed to have applied for and to have been granted insurance, payable to such person during his life in monthly installments of $25 each. If he shall die either before he shall have received any of such monthly installments or before he shall have received two hundred and forty of such monthly installments, then $25 per month shall be paid to his widow from the time of his death and during her widowhood; or if there is no widow surviving him, then to his child or children; or if there is no child surviving him, then to his mother; or if there be no mother surviving him, then to his father, if and while they survive him: Provided, however, That no more than two hundred and forty of such monthly installments, including those received by such person during his total and permanent disability, shall be so paid. The amount of the monthly installments shall be apportioned between children as may be provided by regulations: Provided further, That each officer and enlisted man attached to the United States ship Cyclops on the 4th day of March, 1918, and every officer and enlisted man who on said date was a passenger on said vessel shall be deemed to have been granted insurance in the sum of $5 000 permitted under the War Risk Insurance Act." [41 Stat. L.-] For section 401 here amended, see 9 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 1325; 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. (1st ed.) 916. SEC. 13. [Beneficiaries enlargement of class-section 402 amended.] That the permitted class of beneficiaries for insurance as specified in section 402 of the War Risk Insurance Act is hereby enlarged so as to include, in addition to the persons therein enumerated, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, brother-in-law and sister-in-law of the insured. This section shall be deemed to be in effect as of October 6, 1917: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to interfere with the payment of the monthly installments authorized to be made under the provisions of said War Risk Insurance Act, as originally enacted and subsequently amended, up to and including the second calendar month after the passage of this Act: Provided further, That all awards of insurance under the provisions of the said War Risk Insurance Act, as originally enacted and subsequently amended, shall be revised as of the first day of the third calendar month after the passage of this Act, in accordance with the provisions of the said War Risk Insurance Act as modified by this amendatory Act. [41 Stat. L. -] For section 402 here amended, see 9 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 1326; 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. (1st ed.) 917. SEC. 14. [Failure of beneficiaries to survive insured-effect on monthly installments.] That if no person within the permitted class of beneficiaries survive the insured, then there shall be paid to the estate of the insured the monthly installments payable and applicable under the provisions of Article IV of the War Risk Insurance Act. [41 Stat. L. -] For Article IV mentioned in the text, see 9 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 1325; 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. (1st ed.) 916. SEC. 15. [Death of person awarded yearly renewable term insurancemonthly installments to whom payable.] That if any person to whom such yearly renewable term insurance has been awarded dies, or his rights are otherwise terminated after the death of the insured, but before all of the two hundred and forty monthly installments have been paid, then the monthly installments payable and applicable shall be payable to such person or persons within the permitted class of beneficiaries as would, under the laws of the State of residence of the insured, be entitled to his personal property in case of intestacy; and if the permitted class of beneficiaries be exhausted before all of the two hundred and forty monthly installments have been paid, then there shall be paid to the estate of the last surviving person within the permitted class the remaining unpaid monthly installments. [41 Stat. L. —.] SEC. 16. [Converted insurance - no designated beneficiary effect.] That 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, 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 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 remaining unpaid monthly installments. [41 Stat. L.-.] For Article IV mentioned in the text, see 9 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 1325; 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. (1st ed.) 916. SEC. 17. [Converted insurance — optional settlements — installments.] That the Bureau of War Risk Insurance 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. [41 Stat. L.-.] SEC. 18. [Premiums paid on account of converted insurance — disposition.] That all premiums paid on account of insurance converted under the provisions of Article IV of the War Risk Insurance Act shall be deposited and covered 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 insurance. Payments from this fund shall be made upon and in accordance with awards by the director. The Bureau of War Risk Insurance is hereby authorized to set aside out of the funds so collected such reserve funds as may be required, under accepted actuarial principles, to meet all liabilities under such insurance; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to invest and reinvest the said United States Government life insurance fund, or any part thereof, in interestbearing obligations of the United States and to sell the obligations for the purposes of the said fund. [41 Stat. L. —.] For Article IV mentioned in the text, see 9 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 1325; 1918 Supp. Fed Stat. Ann. (1st ed.) 916. SEC. 19. [Monthly installments-death of person entitled to receive same payment to personal representatives.] That the amount of the monthly installments of allotment and family allowance, compensation, or yearly renewable term insurance which has become payable under the provisions of the War Risk Insurance Act but which has not been paid prior to the death of the person entitled to receive the same may be payable to the personal representatives of the deceased person. [41 Stat. L. -.] WAR FINANCE CORPORATION WAR RISK INSURANCE See VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; WAR DEPARTMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES See PUBLIC DEBT WAREHOUSES Act of July 24, 1919, ch. 26, 391. United States Warehouse Act Amendments Bond for License - Contents of [United States Warehouse Act-amendments-bond for license - contents of receipt.] That, effective on and after the passage of this Act, section 6 of said United States Warehouse Act is hereby amended by striking out of the first sentence of said section the words "other than personal security", and by striking out at the end of the second sentence of said section the words" including the requirements of fire insurance "; and section 18 of said Act is hereby amended by striking out at the end of said section the words "if it have plainly and conspicuously embodied in its written or printed terms a provision that such receipt is not negotiable" (Acts August 11, 1916, volume 39, pages 486-491, sections 1-33; October 1, 1918, volume 40, page 1003, section 1.) [41 Stat. L. 266.] This is from the Agricultural Appropriation Act of July 24, 1919, ch. 26. Sec. 1. Reclamation of Arid Public Lands in Nevada - Exploration for Water -Irrigation Permits, 392. 2. Designation of Lands Subject to Disposal - Application for Permit Upon Land Not Designated, 392. 3. Filing of Permit Affidavit Grant of Permit, 393. 4. Conditions Affecting Permit - Cancellation, 393. 5. Issuance of Patent to Successful Explorer - Area Included, 393. 6. Area Not Included in Patent Disposition, 393. 7. Receipts from Sale of Land - Disposition, 394. 8. Reservation of Coal and Other Mineral Deposits, 394. 9. Rules and Regulations Authority to Prescribe, 394. CROSS-REFERENCES See also RAILROADS; RIVERS, HARBORS AND CANALS; SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION. [SEC. 1.] [Reclamation lands withdrawn - proceeds of lease or sale of products-reclamation fund.] The proceeds heretofore or hereafter received from the lease of any lands reserved or withdrawn under the reclama |