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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. I. CHS. 705, 706 . 1928 . 715 service, or regardless of the length of service was discharged for dis- ability incurred in service and in the line of duty, such widow or former widow having been married to the soldier, sailor, or marine prior to the 27th day of June, 1905, who is now or may here after attain the age of 75 years and is pensioned as such widow or former widow under the general pension law, or whose name may here after be placed on the pension roll under existing laws, shall be paid a pension at the rate of $40 a month, but nothing in this Act shall be construed as decreasing the rate of pension granted by any other Act. SEC. 2. That the pension or increase of the rate of pension herein now co on mmencement, if pension roll. provided for, as to all persons whose names are now on the pension roll, or who are now in receipt of a pension unde r exis ting law, shall commence at the r ate h erein provi ded, on the fourth day of the month next after the approval of t his Act ; and as to person s of new applicants. whose names are not now on the pension roll, or who are not now in receipt of a pension under existing law but who may be entitled to a pension unde r the gener al pe nsion laws, such pensi ons s hall commence from the date of filing application therefor in the Bureau of Pensions after the approval of this Act in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior : Provided, That the issue payment of check of a check in payment of a pension for which the execution and sub- issued to pensioner on mission of a voucher was not required shall constitute payment in day of death. the event of the death of the pensioner on or after the last day of the period covered by such check, and it shall not be canceled, but shall become an asset of the estate of the deceased pensioner. SEC. 3 . That no claim agent, attorney or other person shall demand, Fee s ,etc.,p rohibited. receive or accept fees or compensation for the presentation or prepara- tion of any such claim for increase in pension under this Act, or be recognized as agent or attorney in the prosecution or adjudication Puni shment for v io. of a claim for increase under this Act, and any such person who shall la tions. violate any of the provisions of this section, or wrongfully withholds from a pensi oner the whole or any part of the pension allowed or due a pensioner und er th is Ac t, shall be deemed guilty ofa m is- demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall, for each and every offense, be fined not to exceed $500 or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both, in the discretion of th e court. Inco nsistent la ws SEC. 4. That all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with or incon- modified. sistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby modified and amended only so far and to the extent herein specifically provided and stated. App rove d, May 23, 1928 . CHAP. 706 .-An Act To authorize an appropriation to provide additional May 23,1928. hospital, domiciliary, and out-patient dispensary facilities for persons entitled to fix . R. 12821.] hospitalization under the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended, and for [Public, No. 480 .] other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to Hospital, etc ., facil- ities for mentally af- prov ide suff icient h ospital, domicil iary, an d out-pat ient dis pensary fl itt ed, e tc ., Veterans' facilities to care for the increasing load of mentally afflicted World BAdditional fi facilities War vet er ans and to enable the United States Veterans' Bureau to to be provided in care for its benefic iaries i n Vetera ns' Bure au hospit als rath er than Bureau h ospitals. in contract temporary facilities and other institutions, the Director of the United States Veterans' Bureau, subject to the approval of the President, is hereby authorized to provide additional hospital, domiciliary, and out-patient dispensary facilities for persons entitled to hospitalization under the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as ,54835'-29-PT 1-49

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