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SIXTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 723. 1926. who have been hospitalized in Veterans Bureau hospitals for any loss of personal effects heretofore or hereafter sustained by fire while such effects are or were stored in designated locations in Veterans Bureau hospitals.“

{{USStatSidenote|New section. Vol. 43, p. 1304, amended.} Sec. 6. That a new section be added to Title 1 of the World War Veterans Act, 1994, as amended, to be known as section 33, and to read as follows T

“Sec. 33. The director, in his discretion, may provide courses of instruction for the professional personnel of the bureau and may detail employees to attend the same, and may detail not more than 2 per centum of such professional personnel to attend professional courses conducted by other than bureau agencies, and such employees in addition to their salaries shall be entitled to the payment of expenses incident to such detail, including transportation

Provided, however, That travel or instruction outside the continental limits of the United States shall not be authorized under this section."

Sec. 7. That section 200 of the World War Veterans Act, 1924, approved June 7, 1924, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 200. For death or disability resulting from personal injury suffered or disease contracted in the military or naval service on or after April 6, 1917, and before July 2, 1921, or for an aggravation or recurrence of a disability existing prior to examination, accept ance, and enrollment for service, when such aggravation was suffered or contracted in, or such recurrence was caused by, the military.or naval service on or after April 6, 1917, and before July 2, 1926 by any commissioned officer or enlisted man, or by any member of the Army Nurse Corps (female), or of the Navy Nurse Corps (female), when employed in the active service under the War Department or Navy Department, the United States shall pay to such commissioned

officer or enlisted man, member of the Army Nurse Corps (female), or of the Navy Nurse Corps (female), or women citizens of the United States who were taken from the United States by the United States Government and who served in base hospitals overseas, or, in the discretion of the director, separately to his or her dependents, compensation as hereinafter provided;

but no compensation shall be paid if the injury, disease, aggravation, or recurrence has been caused by his own willful misconduct:

Provided, That no person suffering from paralysis, paresis, or blindness shall be denied compensation by reason of willful misconduct, nor shall any person who is helpless or bedridden as a result of any disability be denied compensation by reason of willful misconduct.

That for the purposes of this Act every such officer, enlisted man, or other member active service prior to employed in the active service under the War Department or Navy Department who was discharged or who resigned prior to July 2, 1921, and every such officer, enlisted man, or other member employed in the active service under the War Department or Navy Department on or before November 11, 1918, who on or after July 2, 1921, is discharged or resigns, shall be conclusively held and taken to have been in sound condition when examined, accepted and enrolled

for service, except as to defects, disorders, or infirmities made of record in any manner by proper authorities of the United States at the time of, or prior to, inception of active service, to the extent to which any such defect, disorder, or infirmity was so made of record:

Provided, That an ex-service man who is shown to have or, if deceased, to have had, prior to January 1, 1925, neuropsychiatric disease and spinal meningitis, an active tuberculosis, disease, paralysis agitans, encephalitis lethargica, of amoebic dysentery developing a 10 per centum degree of disability or more in accordance with the provisions of subdivision (49 of section 202