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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 798, 804, 805-JULY 2, 1948 [CHAPTER 798] AN ACT To extend the time for commencing the construction of a toll bridge across the Rio Grande at or near Rio Grande City, Texas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time for commencing the construction of a toll bridge across the Rio Grande at or near Rio Grande City, Texas, authorized to be built by Gus A. Guerra, his heirs, legal representatives and assigns, by an Act of Congress approved July 31, 1946, is hereby extended until July 31, 1949. Construction of such bridge shall be commenced on or before such date and shall be prosecuted with reasonable diligence until same is completed. SEc. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Ac is hereby reserved. Approved July 2, 1948. [CHAPTER 804] AN ACT To provide that the rates of compensation for disabilities incurred in active military or naval service other than in a period of war service shall be equal to 80 per centum of the rates payable for similar disabilities incurred during active service in time of war. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, effective the first day of the first month following the passage of this Act, paragraph II of part II of Veterans Regulation Numbered I (a), as amended, is amended to read as follows: "II. For the purposes of part II, paragraph I (a) hereof, if the disability results from injury or disease, the compensation shall be equal to 80 per centum of the compensation now or hereafter payable for the disability, had it been incurred in or aggravated by active military or naval service during a period of war service as provided in part I of this regulation." Approved July 2, 1948. [CHAPTER 805] AN ACT To provide increases of compensation for certain veterans with service-connected disabilities who have dependents. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person entitled to compensation at wartime rates for disability incurred in or aggravated by active service as provided in part I, or para- graph I (c), part II, Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended, or the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended, and restored with limitations by Plblic Law 141, Seventy-third Con- gress, March 28, 1934, as amended, and whose disability is rated not less than 60 per centum, shall be entitled to additional compensation for dependents in the following monthly amounts: (1) If and while rated totally disabled and- a) has a wife but no child living, $21; b has a wife and one child living, $35; c) has a wife and two children living, $45.50; d) has a wife and three or more children living, $56; e) has no wife but one child living, $14; (f) has no wife but two children living, $24.50; 1219 July 2, 1948 [H. R. 5252] [Public Law 875] Rio Grande. Bridge, time exten- sion. 60 Stat. 748. Rights reserved. July 2,1948 Is. 5951 [Public Law 876] Veterans. Disability compen- sation. 38 U. S. C. note foll. §739. p. 4265. July 2, 1948 [S. 2821] [Public Law 877] Disabled veterans. Additional compen- sation for dependents. 38 U. S. 0. note foil. §739, p.4264. Ante, pp. 581, 82, 1213. 43 Stat. 607; 48 Stat. 524. 38 U. . C. §C421, 473a, 471a, 722, 706, 366, 367, 501a, 709, 70, 723, 511a.

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