[PUBLIC-No. 5-73D CONGRESS] [S. 598] AN ACT For the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes. SEC. 3. Insofar as applicable, the benefits of the Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended, shall extend to persons given employment under the provisions of this Act. Approved, March 31, 1933. (EXTRACT FROM) [PUBLIC-No. 163-75TH CONGRESS] [H. R. 6551] AN ACT To establish a Civilian Conservation Corps, and for other purposes. SEC. 10. Enrollees shall be provided, in addition to the monthly rates of pay, with such quarters, subsistence, and clothing, or commutation in lieu thereof, medical attention, hospitalization, and transportation as the Director may deem necessary: Provided, That burial, embalming, and transportation expenses of deceased enrolled members of the Corps, regardless of the cause and place of death, shall be paid in accordance with regulations of the Employees' Compensation Commission: Provided further, That the provisions of the Act of February 15, 1934 (U. S. C., 1934 ed., title 5, sec. 796), relating to disability or death compensation and benefits shall apply to the enrolled personnel of the Corps. SEC. 16. The Director and, under his supervision, the heads of cooperating departments and agencies are authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay from the funds appropriated by Congress to carry out the provisions of this Act any claim arising out of operations authorized by the Act accruing after the effective date thereof on account of damage to or loss of property or on account of personal injuries to persons not provided for by section 10 of this Act, caused by the negligence of any enrollee or employee of the Corps while acting within the scope of his employment: Provided, That the amount allowed on account of personal injury shall be limited to necessary medical and hospital expenses: Provided further, That this section shall not apply to any claim on account of personal injury for which a remedy is provided by section 10 of this Act: Provided further, That no claim shall be considered hereunder which is in excess of $500, or which is not presented in writing within one year from the date of accrual thereof: Provided further, That acceptance by any claimant of the amount allowed on account of his claim shall be deemed to be in full settlement thereof, and the action of the Director or of the head of a cooperating department or agency upon such claim so accepted by the claimant shall be conslusive. Approved, June 28, 1937. (EXTRACT FROM) [PUBLIO NO. 98-73D CONGRESS] [H.R. 7527] AN ACT Making an additional appropriation to carry out the purposes of the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933, for continuation of the Civil-Works program, and for other purposes. Provided further, That the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916 (U.S.C., title 5, sec. 785), as amended, are hereby extended, so far as they may be applicable, to employees of the Federal Civil Works Administration only for disability or death resulting from traumatic injury while in the performance of duty, subject, however, to the following conditions and limitations: (a) that the total aggregate compensation in any individual case shall not exceed the sum of $3,500, and that the monthly compensation shall not in any event exceed the rate of $25, both exclusive of medical costs; (b) that the minimum limit on monthly compensation for disability, established by section 6, and the minimum limit on the monthly pay on which death compensation is to be computed, established by clause (K) of section 10, shall not apply; (c) that the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, with the approval of the President, shall establish a special schedule of compensation for death and/or for the loss or loss of use of members or functions of the body, which compensation shall be in lieu of all other compensation in such cases; (d) that the rights of any person employed by the Federal Civil Works Administration to compensation or other benefits which may have accrued prior to and including the date of approval of this Act under the provisions of the Act of September 7, 1916, as amended (U.S.C., title 5, chap. 15), and/or the rules and regulations of the Federal Civil Works Administration shall terminate upon the date of the approval of this Act; and thereafter compensation and other benefits to any such person for death or disability arising before or after the date of the approval of this Act shall be paid in accordance with the provisions hereof; (e) that the said Commission is hereby authorized in its discretion to provide for the initial payments of compensation and the furnishing of immediate medical attention as herein provided through the local representatives of the Federal Civil Works Administration; (f) that no claim for legal services or for any other services rendered in respect of a claim or award for compensation, to or on account of any person, shall be valid unless approved by the Commission; and any person who receives any fee, other consideration, or any gratuity on account of services so rendered, unless such consideration or gratuity is approved by the Commission, or, who makes it a business to solicit employment for a lawyer or for himself in respect of any claim or award for compensation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall, for each offense, be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment not to exceed one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment: Provided further, That traumatic injury shall mean only injury by accident causing damage or harm to the physical structure of the body and shall not include a disease in any form except as it shall naturally result from the injury: And Provided further, That so much of the sum appropriated by this Act as the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, with the approval of the Director of the Budget, estimates and certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury will be necessary for administrative expenses and for the payment of such compensation shall be set aside in a special fund to be administered by the Commission for such purposes; and after June 30, 1935, such special fund shall be available for these purposes annually in such amounts as may be specified therefor in the annual appropriation acts. Approved, February 15, 1934. [PUBLIC-No. 363-75TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 767-1ST SESSION] [H. R. 8081] AN ACT Authorizing the Comptroller General of the United States to allow credit in the accounts of disbursing officers for overpayınents of wages on Civil Works Administration projects and waiving recovery of such overpayments. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of disbursing officers for any overpayment of wages heretofore made to or on behalf of any person for services rendered in connection with any project under the Federal Civil Works Administration, nothing to suggest fraud appearing, and in such cases where credit is allowed in the accounts of the disbursing officer under this Act no recovery shall be required from the person receiving the overpayment. Approved, August 25, 1937. (EXTRACT FROM) [PUBLIC NO. 412-73D CONGRESS] Section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes ", approved March 31, 1933 (48 Stat. 22), is hereby repealed, insofar as said Act applies to enrollees in the Civilian Conservation Corps, and in lieu thereof the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes approved September 7, 1916, as amended (U.S.C., title 5, ch. 15), are hereby made applicable to such enrollees under the said Act of March 31, 1933, to the same extent and under the same conditions as is provided for employees of the Federal Civil Works Administration in the Act entitled "An Act making an additional appropriation to carry out the purposes of the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933, for continuation of the Civil Works program, and for other purposes ", approved February 15, 1934 (Public, Numbered 93, Seventy-third Congress): Provided, That so much of the sum appropriated in the first paragraph of title II of this Act as the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, with the approval of the Director of the Budget, estimates and certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury will be necessary for administrative expenses and for the payment of such compensation shall be set aside in a special fund to be administered by the Commission for such purposes; and after June 30, 1935, such special funds shall be available for these purposes annually in such amounts as may be specified therefor in the annual appropriation Acts. Approved, June 19, 1934. (137) (EXTRACT FROM) [PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 11-74TH CONGRESS] [H. J. Res. 117] JOINT RESOLUTION Making appropriations for relief purposes. SEO. 2. The appropriation made herein shall be available for use only in the United States and its Territories and possessions. The provisions of the Act of February 15, 1934 (48 Stat. 351) relating to disability or death compensation and benefits shall apply to those persons receiving from the appropriation made herein, for services rendered as employees of the United States, security payments in accordance with schedules established by the President: Provided, That so much of the sum herein appropriated as the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, with the approval of the President, estimates and certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury will be necessary for the payment of such compensation and administrative expenses shall be set aside in a special fund to be administered by the Commission for such purposes; and after June 30, 1936, such special fund shall be available for these purposes annually in such amounts as may be specified therefor in the annual appropriation Acts. The provisions of section 8709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not apply to any purchase made or service procured in carrying out the provisions of this joint resolution when the aggregate amount involved is less than $300. SEC. 7. The President shall require to be paid such rates of pay for all persons engaged upon any project financed in whole or in part, through loans or otherwise, by funds appropriated by this joint resolution, as will in the discretion of the President accomplish the purposes of this joint resolution, and not affect adversely or otherwise tend to decrease the going rates of wages paid for work of a similar nature. The President may fix different rates of wages for various types of work on any project, which rates need not be uniform throughout the United States: Provided, however, That whenever permanent buildings for the use of any department of the Government of the United States, or the District of Columbia, are to be constructed by funds appropriated by this joint resolution, the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 40, sec. 276a), shall apply but the rates of wages shall be determined in advance of any bidding thereon. SEO. 13. (a) The acquisition of articles, materials, and supplies for the public use, with funds appropriated by this joint resolution, shall be subject to the provisions of section 2 of title III of the Treasury and Post Office Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934; and all |