sec. 2, act of Mar. 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1085), amending ch. 6, Title XIV, Revised Statutes; U. S. C. 10: 1453.

By paragraph 33 of sec. 1, act of May 29, 1928 (45 Stat. 988), the requirement as to annual report mentioned in this section was repealed.

1058. Same; duties of commandant.-The commandant of the United States Disciplinary Barracks shall have command thereof and charge and custody of all offenders sent thereto for confinement and detention therein; shall govern such offenders and cause them to be employed at such labor and in such trades and to perform such duties as may be deemed best for their health and reformation and with a view to their honorable restoration to duty or their reenlistment as hereinafter authorized; shall cause note to be taken and a record to be made of the conduct of such offenders; and may shorten the daily time of hard labor of those who by their obedience, honesty, industry, and general good conduct earn such favors-all under such regulations as the Secretary of War may from time to time prescribe. Par. 5, sec. 2, act of Mar. 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1085), amending ch. 6, Title XIV, Revised Statutes; U. S. C. 10: 1455.

1059. Water-power projects; requisition in time of emergency.That when in the opinion of the President of the United States, evidenced by a written order addressed to the holder of any license hereunder, the safety of the United States demands it, the United States shall have the right to enter upon and take possession of any project, or part thereof, constructed, maintained, or operated under said license, for the purpose of manufacturing nitrates, explosives, or munitions of war, or for any other purpose involving the safety of the United States, to retain possession, management, and control thereof for such length of time as may appear to the President to be necessary to accomplish said purposes, and then to restore possession and control to the party or parties entitled thereto; and in the event that the United States shall exercise such right it shall pay to the party or parties entitled thereto just and fair compensation for the use of said property as may be fixed by the commission upon the basis of a reasonable profit in time of peace, and the cost of restoring said property to as good condition as existed at the time of the taking over thereof, less the reasonable value of any improvements that may be made thereto by the United States and which are valuable and serviceable to the licensee. Sec. 16, act of June 10, 1920 (41 Stat. 1072); U. S. C. 16: 809.

The act from which this section is derived authorizes the Federal Power Commission to issue licenses for water-power projects. See 1882, post.

partment or Navy Department protection for themselves and their dependents, the United States upon application to the bureau and without medical examination, shall grant United States Government life insurance (converted insurance) against the death or total permanent disability of any such person in any multiple of $500, and not less than $1,000 or more than $10,000 upon the payment of the premiums as hereinafter provided. Such insurance must be applied for within one hundred and twenty days after enlistment or after entrance into or employment in the active service and before discharge or resignation: Provided, That any member of the reserve forces whose application was accepted at a time when he was in attendance at a military or paval training camp or station, and from whom premiums were collected, and who becomes or has become totally and permanently disabled, or dies or has died, shall be deemed to have made valid application therefor. This proviso shall not authorize the granting of more than $10,000 insurance to any one person: Provided further, That each officer and enlisted man of the Coast Guard who is serving on active duty at the time of the passage of this amendatory Act, or who subsequent thereto enters the Coast Guard service, shall be granted insurance in accordance with the terms of this section upon application within one hundred and twenty days of the passage of this amendatory Act, or date of enlistment or entry into the Coast Guard, whichever is the later date, and before retirement, discharge, or resignation.

Yearly renewable term insurance shall be payable only to a spouse, child. grandchild, parent, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law, or to any or all of them, and also during total and permanent disability to the injured person.

Where the beneficiary for yearly renewable term insurance at the time of designation by the insured is within the permitted class of beneficiaries and is the designated beneficiary at the time of the maturity of the insurance because of the death of the insured, such beneficiary shall be deemed to be within the permitted class even though the status of such beneficiary shall have been changed.

The pre

The United States shall bear the expenses of administration and the excess mortality and disability cost resulting from the hazards of war. mium rates shall be the net rates based upon the American Experience Table of Mortality and interest at 32 per centum per annum. This section, as amended, shall be deemed to be in effect as of June 7, 1924. June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 624), as amended by sec. 12, act of Mar. 4, 1925 (43 Stat. 1308), as amended by sec. 14, act of July 2, 1926 (44 Stat. 798), as amended by sec. 13, act of May 29, 1928 (45 Stat. 967); U. S. C. 38: 511.

Sec. 300, act of

1063. Vocational training. That every person who was enlisted, enrolled. drafted, inducted, or appointed in the military or naval forces of the United States, including members of training camps authorized by law, and who has resigned or has been discharged or furloughed therefrom, having a disability incurred, increased, or aggravated after April 6, 1917, and before July 2, 1921, in the military or naval service and not the result of his own willful misconduct while a member of such forces, or later developing a disability traceable in the opinion of the director to service during said period with such forces, and not the result of his own willful misconduct, and who, in the opinion of the director, is in need of vocational rehabilitation to overcome the handicap of such disability, shall be furnished by the bureau, where vocational rehabilitation is feasible, such course of vocational rehabilitation as the bureau shall prescribe and provide: Provided, That nothing in this section shall operate to terminate any course of vocational training heretofore prescribed and actually

commenced under the vocational rehabilitation Act as originally enacted and subsequently amended where such course was actually commenced prior to the approval of this Act. Sec. 400, act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 627); U. S. C. 38: 531.

1064. Artificial limbs and appliances furnished by War Department.-That every officer, soldier, seaman, and marine who, in the line of duty in the military or naval service of the United States, shall have lost a limb or sustained bodily injuries depriving him of the use of any of his limbs, shall receive once every five years an artificial limb or appliance, or commutation therefor. as provided and limited by existing laws, under such regulations as the Surgeon General of the Army may prescribe; and the period of five years shall be held to commence with the filing of the first application after the seventeenth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy. Sec. 1, act of Aug. 15, 1876 (19 Stat. 203); U. S. C. 38: 241.

Every officer, soldier, seaman, and marine who was disabled during the war for the suppression of the rebellion, in the military or naval service, and in the line of duty, or in consequence of wounds received or disease contracted therein, and who was furnished by the War Department since the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, with an artificial limb or apparatus for resection, who was entitled to received such limb or apparatus since said date, shall be entitled to receive a new limb or apparatus at the expiration of every three years thereafter, under such regulations as have been or may be prescribed by the Surgeon General of the Army. R. S. 4787, as amended by the act of Mar. 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1103) ; U. S. C. 38: 242.

* Provided, That the Surgeon General of the Army is authorized to pay not exceeding $125 for each artificial limb or apparatus for resection furnished in kind hereafter under the provisions of section 4787, Revised Statutes, as amended. Sec. 1, act of June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 901); U. 8. C. 38: 242.

Notes of Decisions

Construction and operation.-The amendment substituting "three years for "five years" was not retrospective, so as to entitle a person who had been receiving commutation money at intervals of five years to back pay equivalent to the same sums at three-year intervals. Fuller v. U. S. (D. C. 1891), 48 Fed. 654.

When due application has been made under the statute and the regulations made by the Surgeon General, the applicant becomes entitled to an artificial limb or the money commutation therefor, and every five years thereafter he is entitled to another artificial limb or the money value thereof; for the word "thereafter" only indicates the time when the period fixed in the

statute begins to run in favor of the appllcant. Id.

Commutation for an artificial limb or apparatus is demandable under this section every three years instead of five, and the money commutation for such limb or apparatus, under 1065, post, is also demandable every three years, which periods run from the dates when such artificial limb was furnished, and not from June 17, 1870. (1891) 20 Op. Atty. Gen. 83.

Expenditure of appropriation. The appropriation of $175,000 for artificial limbs, etc., made by the act of Mar. 3, 1881 (21 Stat. 435, 447), should be expended under the direction of the War Department. (1881) 17 Op. Atty. Gen. 233.

1065. Same; commutation.-Every person entitled to the benefits of the preceding section may, if he so elects, receive, instead of such limb or apparatus, the money value thereof, at the following rates, namely: For artificial legs, $125; for arms, $100; for feet, $100; for apparatus for resection, $100. R. S. 4788, as amended by sec. 2, act of Feb. 11, 1927 (44 Stat. 1080); U. 8. C. 38: 243.

Every person in the military or naval service who lost a limb during the war of the rebellion or is entitled to the benefits of section forty-seven hundred and eighty-seven, but from the nature of his injury is not able to use an