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PUBLIC LAW 8 5 - 5 6 - J U N E 17, 1957

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(b) Mileage may be paid under this section in ccftinection with vocational rehabilitation, or upon termination of examination, treatment, or care, before the completion of travel. (c) When any person entitled to mileage under this section requires an attendant (other than an employee of the Veterans' Administration) in order to perform such travel, the attendant may be allowed expenses of travel upon the same basis as such person. (d) The Administrator may provide for the purchase of printed reduced-fare requests for use by veterans and their authorized attendants when traveling at their own expense to or from any Veterans' Administration facility. SEVEN-YEAR ABSENCE PRESUMPTION OF DEATH

SEC. 2102. (a) No State law providing for presumption of death shall be applicable to claims for benefits under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration. (b) If evidence satisfactory to the Administrator is submitted establishing the continued and unexplained absence of any individual from his home and family for seven or more years, and establishing that after diligent search no evidence of his existence after the date of disappearance has been found or received, the death of such individual as of the date of the expiration of such period shall be considered as sufficiently proved, (c) Except in a suit brought pursuant to section 19 of the World W a r Veterans' Act, 1924 (38 U.S.C. sec. 445) of section 617 of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940 (38 U.S.C. sec. 817), the finding of death made by the Administrator shall be final and conclusive.

54 stat^ 659.
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C E R T I F I C A T I O N OF R E C O R D S O F DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SEC. 2103. When a copy of any public record of the District of Columbia is required by the Veterans' Administration to be used in determining the eligibility of any person for benefits under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration, the official custodian of such public record shall without charge provide the applicant for such benefits or any person (including any veterans' organization) acting on his behalf or the authorized representative of the Veterans' Administration with a certified copy of such record. CERTAIN SERVICE DEEMED TO BE ACTIVE SERVICE

SEC. 2104. (a) Service as a cadet at the United States Military Academy or United States Coast Guard Academy, or as a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, after December 6, 1941, and before January 1, 1947, shall be considered active military or naval service for the purposes of all laws administered by the Veterans' Administration. (b)(1) Service as a member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps for ninety days or more by any woman who before October 1, 1943, was honorably discharged for service-connected disability which rendered lier physically unfit to perform further service in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps or the Women's Army Corps shall be considered active military service for the purposes of all laws administered by the Veterans' Administration. (2) Any person entitled to compensation or pension by reason of this subsection and to compensation based upon the same service under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act must elect which benefit 1 Ml • ^ s h e Will r e c e i v e.

39 Stat. 742; 63 Stat. 865. 5 USC 751.

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