58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 201,202-MAY 20, 23, 1944 case of windstorms) in 1944 and to service loans made under such appropriation in connection with the 1943 floods: Provided, That not to exceed $3,000,000 of such amount shall be used for grants. Approved May 20, 1944. [CHAPTER 2021 AN ACT To regulate the furnishing of artificial limbs or other appliances to retired officers and enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard and to certain civilian employees of the military and naval forces of the Regular Establishment. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4 of Public Law Numbered 198, Seventy-sixth Congress, approved July 19, 1939, as amended by Public Law Numbered 365, Seventy-seventh Congress, approved December 22, 1941, is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEc. 4. In the administration of laws pertaining to veterans, retired officers, and enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, who served honorably during a war period as recognized by the Veterans' Administration, shall be, and are entitled to hospitalization and domiciliary care in the same manner and to the same extent as veterans of any war are now or may hereafter be furnished hospitalization or domiciliary care by the Veterans' Administration and subject to those provisions of paragraph VI (A) of Veterans Regulation Numbered 6 (c), which provide for reduction of monetary benefits to veterans having neither wife, child, nor dependent parent while being furnished hospital treatment, institutional, or domiciliary care. "Any retired officer or enlisted man of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, who lost a limb or the use thereof through injury or disease incurred or contracted in line of duty in the military or naval service at any time, may be provided with an artificial limb or other appliance found by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to be reasonably necessary in medical judgment for such injury or disease, including necessary transportation to effect the fitting thereof upon receipt of claim under such regulations as the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs may prescribe. Ro commutation in lieu of such artificial limb or other appliance shall be payable on and after the date of this enactment." SEa 2. The United States Employees' Compensation Commission, under such regulations as the Commission may prescribe, is hereby authorized to furnish any civilian employee of the military or naval service Regular Establishment, who lost a limb or the use thereof through injury or disease incurred or contracted in line of duty as such prior to September 7, 1916, with an artificial limb or other appliance, or commutation in lieu thereof, at least once in every three years, upon the application of the person entitled thereto, or some- one on his behalf, including necessary transportation to effect the fitting thereof and the compensation fund, established pursuant to section 35 of the Act approved September 7, 1916 (U. S .C ., title 5, sec. 785), shall be available for expenditures under this section: Pro- vided, That the commutation payable to any civilian employee in lieu of such artificial limb or other appliance shal be in the amount last paid to such employee under laws repealed by section 3 of this Act May 23, 1944 [H. R. 3176] [Public Law 3081 53 Stat. 1070; 55 Stat. 850 . 38 U. 8. C., Supp. III, I 706b. Hospitalization and domiciliary care. Retired officers and enlisted men. 38 U. . C. notefoll. 724; Supp. I, note foll. i 732. Artificial limbs or other appliances. Civilian employees of Military and Naval Establishments Artificial lmb, eta 39 Stat. 74 . Commutation in lieu thereoL 9660-45- -wr. s-15 225
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