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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 443-JUNE 23, 1942 authorized by him as the result of his gross negligence or with the intent to defraud the United States. SEC. 113. Any appropriations heretofore or hereafter made to the department concerned for the pay of enlisted men shall be available for the payment of the family allowances payable under the provisions of this title. SEC. 114. The Director of the Selective Service System is authorized and directed to cooperate with the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy by providing them with such information in the posses- sion of, or available to, the Selective Service System as may be neces- sary to enable them to efficiently administer the provisions of this title. SEC. 115. The monthly family allowances payable under the provi- sions of this title shall not be assignable; shall not be subject to the claims of creditors of any person to whom or on behalf of whom they are paid; and shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever. SEC. 116. Whoever shall obtain or receive any money, check, or family allowance under this title, without being entitled thereto and with intent to defraud, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $2,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. SEC. 117. Whoever in any claim for family allowance or in any document required by this title or by regulation made under this title makes any 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. 118. Any person who has been entitled to payment of a family allowance under this title and whose entitlement to payment of such allowance has ceased shall, if he thereafter accepts payment of such allowance with the intent to defraud, be punished by a fine of not more than $2,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. SEC. 119. No part of any amount paid pursuant to the provisions of this title shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with any family allowance payable under this title, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than $100 nor more than $1,000. SEC. 120. As used in this title- (a) The term "wife" means a lawful wife. (b) The term "former wife divorced" means a former wife divorced who has not remarried and to whom alimony has been decreed and is still payable. (c) The term "child" includes- (1) a legitimate child; 2) a child legally adopted; (3) a stepchild, if a member of the man's household, including a stepchild who continues as a member of the man's household after death of the mother or termination of the marriage; and (4) an illegitimate child, but only if the man has been judicially ordered or decreed to contribute to such child's support; has been judicially decreed to be the putative father of such child; or, has acknowledged under oath in writing, that he is the father of such child. (d) The term "grandchild" means a child as above defined of a child as above defined, and is limited to persons to whom the 65714 °-43-PT. I-25 385 Appropriations available. Selective Service System. Cooperation of Director. Allowances not as- signable, etc. Penal provisions. Unlawful receipt of allowance. Perjury. Fraudulent accept- ance by former payee. Agent's or attorney's fees, prohibition. " Wife." "Former wife di- vorced." " Child. " "Grandchild. "