may prescribe, the same amount, for the remainder of the said year, that said artisan or laborer would be entitled to receive as pay if such employee were alive and continued to be employed: Provided, That if the widow shall die at any time during the said year her portion of said amount shall be added to the amount to be paid to the remaining beneficiaries under the provisions of this section, if there be any. [35 Stat. L. 556.]

SEC. 3. [Reports of injuries character of reports.] That whenever an accident occurs to any employee embraced within the terms of the first section of this Act, and which results in death or a probable incapacity for work, it shall be the duty of the official superior of such employee to at once report such accident and the injury resulting therefrom to the head of his Bureati or independent office, and his report shall be immediately communicated through regular official channels to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Such report shall state, first, the time, cause, and nature of the accident and injury and the probable duration of the injury resulting therefrom; second, whether the accident arose out of or in the course of the injured person's employment; third, whether the accident was due to negligence or misconduct on the part of the employee injured; fourth, any other matters required by such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe. The head of each Department or independent office shall have power, however, to charge a special official with the duty of making such reports. [35 Stat. L. 557.]

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SEC. 4. [Affidavit filed in case of death time limit physician's certifi cate affidavit in case of injury-determining compensation.] That in the case of any accident which shall result in death, the persons entitled to compensation under this Act or their legal representatives shall, within ninety days after such death, file with the Secretary of Commerce and Labor an affidavit setting forth their relationship to the deceased and the ground of their claim for compensation under the provisions of this Act. This shall be accompanied by the certificate of the attending physician setting forth the fact and cause of death, or the nonproduction of the certificate shall be satisfactorily accounted for. In the case of incapacity for work lasting more than fifteen days, the injured party desiring to take the benefit of this Act shall, within a reasonable period after the expiration of such time, file with his official superior, to be forwarded through regular official channels to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, an affidavit setting forth the grounds of his claim for compensation, to be accompanied by a certificate of the attending physician as to the cause and nature of the injury and probable duration of the incapacity, or the nonproduction of the certificate shall be satisfactorily accounted for. If the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall find from the report and affidavit or other evidence produced by the claimant or his or her legal representatives, or from such additional investigation as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may direct, that a claim for compensation is established under this Act, the compensation to be paid shall be determined as provided under this Act and approved for payment by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. [35 Stat. L. 557.]

SEC. 5. [Medical examination.] That the employee shall, whenever and as often as required by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, at least once in six months, submit to medical examination, to be provided and paid for under the direction of the Secretary, and if such employee refuses to submit to or obstructs such examination his or her right to compensation shall be lost for the period covered by the continuance of such refusal or obstruction. [35 Stat. L. 557.]

SEC. 6. [Payments to beneficiaries, etc.] That payments under this Act are only to be made to the beneficiaries or their legal representatives other than assignees, and shall not be subject to the claims of creditors. [35 Stat. L. 557.]

SEC. 7. [Contracts exempting from liability void.] That the United States shall not exempt itself from liability under this Act by any contract, agreement, rule, or regulation, and any such contract, agreement, rule, or regulation shall be pro tanto void. [35 Stat. L. 558.]

SEC. 8. [Repeal.] That all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith or providing a different scale of compensation or otherwise regulating its payment are hereby repealed. [35 Stat. L. 558.]

LAND OFFICES.

See PUBLIC LANDS.

LARCENY.

See PENAL LAWS.
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LIFE SAVING.

Act of April 19, 1906, Ch. 1640, 333

Sec. i. Life-saving Service Station Established Near Neah Bay, Wash., 3332. First-class Ocean-going Tug, 333.

3. Regulations, 333

Act of June 19, 1906, Ch. 8481, 334.

Life-saving Service Station Established at Greenhill, R. I., 334Act of March 26, 1908, Ch. 99, 334

Sec. 1. Life-saving Service - District Superintendents, etc. - Compensation Increased, 334.

2. Rations, 334.

3. Death of Keeper or Member of Crew - Provision for Dependents, 334. 4. Repeal, 335

Act of May 27, 1908, Ch. 200, 335.

Computing Pay of Surfmen, 335.

Act of Dec. 11, 1908, Ch. 1, 335

Life-saving Stations -Books from Treasury Department Library to Be
Transferred to, 335.

CROSS-REFERENCE.

Appliances on Steam Vessels, see STEAM VESSELS.

An Act Providing for the establishment of a life-saving station at or near Neah Bay, in the State of Washington, and for the construction of a first-class ocean-going tug to be used in connection therewith, for life-saving purposes in the vicinity of the north Pacific coast of the United States, and so forth.

[Act of April 19, 1906, ch. 1640, 34 Stat. L. 123.]

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[SEC. 1.] [Life-saving service station established near Neah Bay, Wash.] That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized to establish a life-saving station at or near Neah Bay, in the State of Washington, at such point as the general superintendent of the Life-Saving Service may recommend, said station, in addition to the usual equipment, to be supplied with two self-righting and self-bailing lifeboats, at a cost not to exceed thirty thousand dollars. [34 Stat. L. 123.]

SEC. 2. [First-class ocean-going tug.] That there shall be constructed, for and under the supervision of the Revenue-Cutter Service, a first-class oceangoing tug, for service in saving life and property in the vicinity of the north Pacific coast of the United States, which said tug shall be equipped with wireless-telegraph apparatus, surfboats, and such other modern life and property saving appliances as may be deemed useful in assisting vessels and rescuing persons and property from the perils of the sea at a cost not to exceed one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. [34 Stat. L. 123.]

SEC. 3. [Regulations.] That said tug shall be manned and operated by the Revenue-Cutter Service, and, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, shall cooperate with the life-saving station hereby authorized to be established. [34 Stat. L. 123.]

An Act To provide a life-saving station at or near Greenhill, on the coast of South Kingston, in the State of Rhode Island.

[Act of June 19, 1906, ch. 3431, 84 Stat. L. 298.]

[Life-saving service

station established at Greenhill, R. 1.] That there be established a life-saving station at or near Greenhill, on the coast of South Kingston, in the State of Rhode Island; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to provide for such establishment and supply the same with the necessary life-saving crew and furnishings as provided by law in like cases. [34 Stat. L. 298.]

An Act To increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Life-Saving Service of the United States.

[Act of March 26, 1908, ch. 99, 35 Stat. L. 46.]

[SEC. 1.] [Life-saving service district superintendents, etc.— compensation increased.] That from and after the passage of this Act the compensation of district superintendents in the United States Life-Saving Service shall be as follows: For the superintendents of the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth districts, two thousand two hundred dollars per annum each; for the superintendents of the third and ninth districts, two thousand dollars per annum each; for the superintendent of the eighth district, one thousand nine hundred dollars per annum. That the pay

of keepers of life-saving stations shall be one thousand dollars per annum each, and that the pay of the number one surfman in each of the crews of the lifesaving stations shall be at the rate of seventy dollars per month. [35 Stat. L. 46.]

SEC. 2. [Rations.] That every keeper of a life-saving station and every surfman in the Life-Saving Service of the United States shall be entitled to receive one ration per day or, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, commutation therefor at the rate of thirty cents per ration. [35 Stat. L. 46.]

SEC. 3. [Death of keeper or member of crew-provision for dependents.] That section eight of the Act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An Act to promote the efficiency of the Life-Saving Service and to encourage the saving of life from shipwreck," is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 8. That if any keeper or member of a crew of a life-saving station shall hereafter die by reason of perilous service or any wound or injury received or disease contracted in the Life-Saving Service in the line of duty, leaving a widow, or a child or children under sixteen years of age, or a dependent mother, such widow and child or children and dependent mother shall be entitled to receive, in equal portions, during a period of two years, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, the same amount, payable quarterly as far as practicable, that the husband or father or son would be entitled to receive as pay if he were alive and continued in the Service; Provided, That if the widow shall remarry at any time during the said two years her portion of said amount shall cease to be paid to her from the date of her remarriage, but shall be added to the amount to be paid to the remaining beneficiaries under the provisions of this section, if there be any; and if any child shall arrive at the age of sixteen years during the said two years, the portion of such child shall cease to be paid to such child from the date on which such age

shall be attained, but shall be added to the amount to be paid to the remaining beneficiaries, if there be any." [35 Stat. L. 46.]

Section 8 of the Act of May 4, 1882, hereby amended, is given in 4 Fed. Stat. Annot. 819.

SEC. 4. [Repeal,] That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. [35 Stat. L. 47.]

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[Computing pay of surfmen.] * Hereafter the pay of surfmen in the Life-Saving Service shall be computed according to the number of days in each month, respectively, and not as required by section six of the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven. [35 Stat. L. 321,]

This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of May 27, 1908, ch. 200.

Section 6 of the Act of June 30, 1906, above referred to, is given post, under the title PUBLIC OFFICERS.

An Act To authorize the transfer of books from the Treasury Department library to lifesaving stations of the United States.

[Act of Dec. 11, 1908, ch. 1, 35 Stat. L. 581.]

[Life-saving stations-books from Treasury Department library to be transferred to.] That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to transfer, from time to time, from the Treasury Department library to the life-saving stations of the United States, such books as in his judgment may be no longer needed for use in said library. [35 Stat. L. 581.]