therein shall be subject to the laws respecting the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the offenders sent thereto for confinement and detention therein.—Ibid. 823. Convicting laws repealed. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.-Sec. 3, Ibid. VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION FOR SOLDIERS. 824. Instruction in agriculture or mechanic arts; civilian teachers to be employed. In addition to military training, soldiers while in the active service shall hereafter be given the opportunity to study and receive instruction upon educational lines of such character as to increase their military efficiency and enable them to return to civil life better equipped for industrial, commercial, and general business occupations. Civilian teachers may be employed to aid the Army officers in giving such instruction, and part of this instruction may consist of vocational education either in agriculture or the mechanic arts.-Sec. 27, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat., 186). 825. President to prescribe rules and regulations for conducting.-The Secretary of War, with the approval of the President, shall prescribe rules and regulations for conducting the instruction herein provided for, and the Secretary of War shall have the power at all times to suspend, increase, or decrease the amount of such instruction offered as may in his judgment be consistent with the requirements of military instruction and service of the soldiers.—Ibid. WAR-RISK INSURANCE. 826. Establishment of Bureau of War Risk Insurance. That there is es tablished in the Treasury Department a bureau to be known as the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, the director of which shall receive a salary at the rate of $5,000 per annum. That there be in such bureau a Division of Military and Naval Insurance in charge of a commissioner of Military and Naval Insurance.-Sec. 1, act of Oct. 6, 1917 (40 Stat., 398). * * * 827. Rules, regulations, methods, etc.-The director shall adopt reasonable and proper rules to govern the procedure of the divisions and to regulate and provide for the nature and extent of the proofs and evidence and the method of taking and furnishing the same in order to establish the right to benefits of allowance, allotment, compensation, or insurance provided for in this act, the forms of application of those claiming to be entitled to such benefits, the method of making investigations and medical eaxminations, and the manner and form of adjudication and awards.-Sec. 13, ibid. 828. Services of Army and Navy surgeons authorized. The bureau shall, by arrangement with the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, respectively, make use of the services of surgeons in the Army and Navy.-Sec. 14, ibid. 829. Information and reports to be furnished by departments, etc.-The director may obtain such information and such reports from officials and employees of the departments of the Government of the United States and of the States as may be agreed upon by the heads of the respective departments.-Sec. 15, ibid. 830. Estimates of appropriations to be submitted. That the director shall submit annually to the Secretary of the Treasury estimates of the appropriations necessary for the work of the bureau.-Sec. 16, ibid., p. 400. 831. Premiums collected for insurance to be deposited.-All premiums that may be collected for the insurance provided by the provisions of Article IV shall be deposited and covered into the Treasury to the credit of this appropriation (military and naval insurance).-Sec. 20, ibid. 832. Military and naval pay deposit fund. That there shall be set aside as a separate fund in the Treasury, to be known as the military and naval pay deposit fund, all sums held out of pay as provided by section two hundred and three of this act. Such fund, including all additions, is hereby made available for the payment of the sums so held and deposited, with interest, as provided in section two hundred and three, and the amount necessary to pay interest is hereby appropriated.-Sec. 21, ibid. 833. Marriage to be established.-That for the purpose of this amendatory act the marriage of the claimant to the person on account of whom the claim is made shall be shown (1) By a duly verified copy of a public or church record; or (2) By the affidavit of the clergyman or magistrate who officiated; or (4) By a duly verified copy of the church record of baptism of the children; or (5) By the testimony of two or more witnesses who know that the parties lived together as husband and wife, and were recognized as such, and who shall state how long, within their knowledge, such relation continued: Provided, That marriages, except such as are mentioned in section forty-seven hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, shall be proven in compensation or insurance cases to be legal marriages according to the law of the place where the parties resided at the time of marriage or at the time when the right to compensation or insurance accrued; and the open and notorious illicit cohabitation of a widow who is a claimant shall operate to terminate her right to compensation or insurance from the commencement of such cohabitation: Provided further, That for the purpose of the administration of Article II of this act marriage shall be conclusively presumed, in the absence of proof, that there is a legal spouse living, if the man and woman have lived together in the openly acknowledged relation of husband and wife during the two years immediately preceding the date of the declaration of war, or the date of enlistment or of entrance into or employment in active service in the military or naval forces of the United States if subsequent to such declaration. In Articles II, III, and IV of this act unless the context otherwise requires"(1) The term 'child' includes "(a) A legitimate child. "(b) A child legally adopted more than six months before the enactment of this amendatory act or before enlistment or entrance into or employment in active service in the military or naval forces of the United States, whichever of these dates is the later. "(c) A stepchild, if a member of the man's household. "(d) An illegitimate child, but, as to the father, only, if acknowledged by instrument in writing signed by him, or if he has been judicially ordered or decreed to contribute to such child's support, and if such child, if born after 49392-18- -10* December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall have been born in the United States, or in its insular possessions. "(2) The term 'grandchild' means a child as above defined of a child as above defined. "(3) Except as used in section four hundred and one and in section four hundred and two the terms 'child' and 'grandchild' are limited to unmarried persons either (a) under eighteen years of age, or (b) of any age, if insane, idiotic, or otherwise permanently helpless. "(4) The term 'parent' includes a father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, stepfather, and stepmother, either of the person in the service or of the spouse. "(5) The terms 'brother' and 'sister' include brothers and sisters of the half blood as well as those of the whole blood, stepbrothers and stepsisters, and brothers and sisters through adoption. "(6) The term 'commissioned officer' includes a warrant officer, but includes only an officer in active service in the military or naval forces of the United States. "(7) The terms 'man' and 'enlisted man' mean a person, whether male or female, and whether enlisted, enrolled, or drafted into active service in the military or naval forces of the United States, and include noncommissioned and petty officers, and members of training camps authorized by law. "(8) The term 'enlistment' includes voluntary enlistment, draft, and enrollment in active service in the military or naval forces of the United States. "(9) The term 'commissioner' means the Commissioner of Military and Naval Insurance. "(10) The term 'injury' includes disease. "(11) The term 'pay' means the pay for service in the United States according to grade and length of service, excluding all allowances. "(12) The term 'military or naval forces' means the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Naval Reserves, the National Naval Volunteers, and any other branch of the United States service while serving pursuant to law with the Army or the Navy."-Sec. 22, ibid. 834. Bureau of War Risk Insurance to act for persons in military and naval service with reference to all contracts for insurance.-That the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, so far as practicable, shall upon request furnish information to and act for persons in the military or naval service, with respect to any contracts of insurance whether with the Government or otherwise, as may be prescribed by regulations. Said bureau may upon request procure from and keep a record of the amount and kind of insurance held by every commissioned and appointive officer and of every enlisted man in the military or naval service of the United States, including the name and principal place of business of the company, society, or organization in which such insurance is held, the date of the policy, amount of premium, name and relationship of the beneficiary, and such other data as may be deemed of service in protecting the interests of the insured and beneficiaries.-Sec. 24, ibid., 402. 835. False statements; penalty.-That whoever in any claim for family allowance, compensation, or insurance, or in any document required by this act or by regulation made under this act, 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 five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both.-Sec. 25, ibid. 836. Acceptance of fraudulent payment; penalty.-That if any person entitled to payment of family allowance or compensation under this act, whose right to such payment under this act ceases upon the happening of any contingency, thereafter fraudulently accepts any such payment, he shall be punished by a fine of not more than two thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.-Sec. 26, ibid. ARTICLE II. ALLOTMENTS AND FAMILY ALLOWANCES. 837. Provisions to apply to all enlisted men.-That the provisions of this article shall apply to all enlisted men of the military and naval forces of the United States.-Sec. 200, ibid., p. 402. 838. To whom provisions apply; release from, etc.-That allotments of pay shall, subject to the conditions, limitations, and exceptions hereinafter specified, be compulsory as to wife, a former wife divorced who has not remarried and to whom alimony has been decreed, and a child, and voluntary as to any other person; but on the written consent of the wife or former wife divorced, supported by evidence satisfactory to the bureau of her ability to support herself and the children in her custody, the allotment for her and for such children may be waived; and on the enlisted man's application or otherwise for good cause shown, exemption from the allotment may be granted upon such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations.-Sec. 201, ibid. 839. Amount of monthly allotment.-The monthly compulsory allotment shall be in an amount equal to the family allowance hereinafter specified except that it shall not be more than one-half the pay, or less than $15; but for a wife living separate and apart under court order or written agreement or for a former wife divorced, it shall not exceed the amount specified in the court order, decree, or written agreement to be paid to her. For an illegitimate child, to whose support the father has been judicially ordered or decreed to contribute, it shall not exceed the amount fixed in the order or decree. If there be an allotment for a wife or child, a former wife divorced and who has not remarried shall be entitled to a compulsory allotment only out of the difference, if any, between the allotment for the wife or child or both and one-half of the pay.-Ibid. 840. Allotments to persons other than wife or children.-That the enlisted man may allot any proportion or proportions or any fixed amount or amounts of his monthly pay or of the proportion thereof remaining after the compulsory allotment, for such purposes and for the benefit of such person or persons as he may direct, subject, however, to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed under regulations to be made by the Secretary of War.-Sec. 202, ibid., p. 403. * * * 841. Compulsory deposit where half of pay is not allotted.-That in case onehalf of an enlisted man's monthly pay is not allotted, regulations to be made by the Secretary of War may require, under such circumstances and conditions as may be prescribed in such regulations, that any proportion of such one-half pay as is not allotted shall be deposited to his credit, to be held during such period of his service as may be prescribed. Such deposits shall bear interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, with semiannual rests, and, when payable, shall be paid principal and interest to the enlisted man, if living, otherwise to any beneficiary or beneficiaries he may have designated, or if there be no such beneficiary, then to the person or persons who would under the laws of the State of his residence be entitled to his personal property in case of intestacy.-Sec. 203 Ibid. 842. Family allowance; maximum amount of.-That a family allowance of not exceeding fifty dollars per month shall be granted and paid by the United States upon written application to the bureau by such enlisted man or by or on behalf of any prospective beneficiary, in accordance with and subject to the conditions, limitations, and exceptions hereinafter specified.-Sec. 204 ibid. 843. Payment of.—The family allowance shall be paid from the time of enlistment to death in or one month after discharge from the service, but not for more than one month after the termination of the present war emergency. No family allowance shall be made for any period preceding November first, nineteen hundred and seventeen. The payment shall be subject to such regulations as may be prescribed relative to cases of desertion and imprisonment and of missing men.-Ibid. 844. Amount payable monthly.—Subject to the conditions, limitations, and exceptions hereinabove and hereinafter specified, the family allowance payable per month shall be as follows: Class A. In the case of a man, to his wife (including a former wife divorced) and to his child or children (a) If there be a wife but no child, fifteen dollars. (b) If there be a wife and one child, twenty-five dollars. (c) If there be a wife and two children, thirty-two dollars and fifty cents, with five dollars per month additional for each additional child. (d) If there be no wife, but one child, five dollars. (e) If there be no wife, but two children, twelve dollars and fifty cents. (f) If there be no wife, but three children, twenty dollars. (g) If there be no wife, but four children, thirty dollars, with five dollars per month additional for each additional child. Class B. In the case of a man or woman, to a grandchild, a parent, brother, or sister (a) If there be one parent, ten dollars. (b) If there be two parents, twenty dollars. (c) For each grandchild, brother, sister, and additional parent, five dollars. In the case of a woman, to a child or children (d) If there be one child, five dollars. (e) If there be two children, twelve dollars and fifty cents. (f) If there be three children, twenty dollars. (g) If there be four children, thirty dollars, with five dollars per month additional for each additional child.—Ibid. 845. To whom same shall be paid under Class A.-That family allowances for members of Class A shall be paid only if and while a compulsory allotment is made to a member or members of such class. The monthly family allowance to a former wife divorced shall be payable only out of the difference, if any, between the monthly family allowance to the other members of Class A and the sum of fifty dollars, and only then if alimony shall have been decreed to her. For a wife living separate and apart under court order or written agreement or to a former wife divorced the monthly allowance, together with the allotment, if any, shall not exceed the amount specified in the court order, |