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PUBLIC LAW 85-56-JUNE 17, 1957

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Oroya fever Pinta Plague Schistosomiasis Yaws Yellow fever and such other tropical diseases as the Administrator may add to this list. SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO WIDOWS

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gj,^^ 3Q2, No compensation shall be paid to the widow of a veteran under this title unless she was married to him— (1) before the exf)iration of ten years after the termination of the period of service in which the injuiy or disease causing the death of the veteran was incurred or aggravated; or (2) for ten or more years. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any widow who, with respect to date of marriage, could have qualified as a widow for death compensation under any law administered by the Veterans' Administration in effect on the day before the effective date of this Act. PART B — W A R T I M E DISABILITY COMPENSATION BASIC ENTITLEMENT

SEC. 310. For disability resulting from personal injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty, or for aggravation of a preexisting injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty, in the active military, naval, or air service, during a period of war, the United States will pay to any veteran thus disabled and who was discharged under conditions other than dishonorable from the period of service in which said injury or disease was incurred, or preexisting injury or disease was aggravated, compensation as hereinafter provided in this part, but no compensation shall be paid if the disability is the result of the veteran's own willful misconduct. PROVISIONAL A C C E P T A N C E

SEC. 311. Any person who, after April 5, 1917, and before November 12, 1918, (1) applied for enlistment or enrollment in the active military, naval, or air service and was provisionally accepted and directed or ordered to report to a place for final acceptance into such service, or (2) was drafted for military, naval, or air service and after reporting pursuant to the call of his local draft board and prior to rejection, or (3) after being called into the Federal service as a member of the National Guard but before being enrolled for the Federal service, suffered an injury or contracted a disease in line of duty and not the result of his own misconduct, will be considered to have incurred such disability in the active military, naval, or air service. Such person and the survivors of any such person who died from such disability before January 1, 1957, will be entitled to compensation provided by this title for veterans of World W a r I and their dependents. P R E S U M P T I O N OF S O U N D CONDITION

SEC. 312. For the purposes of section 310, every veteran shall be taken to have been in sound condition when examined, accepted, and enrolled for service, except as to defects, infirmities, or disorders noted at the time of the examination, acceptance, and enrollment, or where clear and unmistakable evidence demonstrates that the injury or

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