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SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS . SESS. II. Cii. 849 . 1930 .

999 "(5) If the disabled person is so helpless as to be in need of a Nurse, etc ., allow . nurse or attendant, such additional sum shall be paid, but not ante, exceeding $50 per month, as the director may deem reasonable ." SE C. 14 . That subdivision (7) of section 202 of the World War Vol . 43,p.619. Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended (sections 480, 481, title 38, United u.s . 4'C.7p. 1221; States Code ), be hereby amended to read as follows :

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Post, p . 1016. "(7) W here any dis able d pe rson hav ing neit her wife , ch ild, nor Compensation for in- dependent parent shall, after July 1, 1924, have been maintained tained by Government by the Government of the United States for a period or periods for six months, etc • amounting to six months in an institution or institutions, and shall be deemed b y 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 in any case where the estate of such veteran Payments discontin- derived from funds paid under the War Risk Insurance Act, as ued if estate amounts amended, and/or the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended, to $3,000 . equals or exceeds $3,000, payment of the $20 per month shall be discontinued until the estate is reduced to $3,000 : Provided further Total payments t o be made if patient dis- That if such person shall recover his reason and shall be discharged charged as competent . from suc h in stit utio n as com pete nt, such add itio nal sum shal l be paid him as would equal the total sum by which his compensation has been reduced or discontinued through the provisions of this subdivision . "All or any part of the compensation of any mentally incompetent officer

to f inmate of an institution may, in the discretion of the director, be caring for patient . 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, To dependents . or d epen dent par ents in acco rdan ce w ith regu lati ons . "That an ex-service person shown to have had a tuberculous Compensation, if y

tube rcul ous dise ase ar- disease of a compensable degree, who in the judgment of the director rested . has reached a condition of complete arrest of his disease, shall receive Pronesos. compensation of not less than $50 per month : Provided, however, ingallopweeddn

total rat- 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 m nes ioactiv eripay- payments under this provision shall be retroactive, and the payments etc • hereunder s hall commence from the date of the passage of this Act or the date the disease reaches a condition of arrest, whichever be the later date .

Minimum rating for " The director is hereby authorized and directed to insert in the arrested, etc ., tubercu- rating schedule a minimum rating of permanent partial 25 per losis . centum for arrested or apparently cured tuberculosis ." SEC . 1 5 . (1) That so much of the second sentence of subdivision Vol 43, p.620. Vol.44,p.796. 10) of section 202 of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended u. S .C.,p. 1222 ; section 484, title 38, United States Code), as precedes the first supp.IV, p.533. proviso thereof, be hereby amended to read as follows "The director is further authorized so far as he shall find that hosp ital izat ion, etc ., for veterans of any war, existing Government facilities permit, to furnish hospitalization who served overseas as and necessary traveling expenses incident to hospitalization to vet- contract surgeons . erans of any war, military occupation, o r military expedition, including those women who served as Army nurses under contracts between April 21, 1898, and February 2, 1901, and including persons who serv ed o vers eas as c ontr act surg eons of the Army at any time duri ng t he S pani sh-A meri can War, not dis hono rabl y di scha rged , without regard to the nature or origin of their disabilities : " (2) That the following new paragraph be added to subdi- New matter . vision (10) of section 202 of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924,