"(2a) The Veterans' Bureau is hereby authorized to pay the beneficiary or other person or persons in whose name an action may have been commenced or prosecuted, and to all witnesses in such action, fees and mileage, the same as is now paid and allowed to witnesses in the United States courts, in going to, remaining at, and returning from place of trial, and without any regard to whether the action, if any, is brought or prosecuted in a court of the United States or some other court.

Cases assigned to the Government.

Payment of witness fees, etc.

Reassignment

to

"In all cases of assignment of causes of action under this section, beneficiary authorized. whether the assignment be heretofore or hereafter made, where it shall appear to the director to be to the best interests of the beneficiary so to do, the director, acting for and in the name of the United States, may assign the cause of action back to the beneficiary or to his personal representatives."

ed.

SEC. 22. A new section is hereby added to Article III of the War Vol. 40, p. 408, amendRisk Insurance Act to be known as section 315, and to read as follows:

Compensation, etc., not applicable to per

hereafter.

"SEC. 315. That no person admitted into the military or naval forces of the United States after six months from the passage of this sons entering service amendatory Act shall be entitled to the compensation or any other benefits or privileges provided under the provisions of Article III of the War Risk Insurance Act, as amended.'

SEC. 23. Section 402 of the War Risk Insurance Act is hereby Insurance policies. amended by adding thereto a subsection to be known as subsection (a) and to read as follows:

(a) Where a beneficiary 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."

Payment to beneficlass when designated.

ciary if of permitted

SEO. 24. Section 404 of the War Risk Insurance Act is hereby Vol. 40, p. 410, amendamended to read as follows:

ed.

Term insurance during the war, etc.

Conversion after termination.

etc.

"SEC. 404. During the period of the war and thereafter until converted the insurance shall be term insurance for successive terms of one year each. Not later than five years after the date of the termination of the war as declared by proclamation of the President of the United States the term insurance shall be converted, without medical examination, into such form or forms of insurance as may be prescribed by regulations and as the insured may request. Regulations Conversion rights, shall provide for the right to convert into ordinary life, twenty-payment life, endowment maturing at age sixty-two, and into other usual forms of insurance, and shall prescribe the time and method of payment of the premiums thereon, but payments of premiums in advance shall not be required for periods of more than one month each and may be deducted from the pay or deposit of the insured or be otherwise made at his election.

"In case where an insured whose yearly renewable term insurance has matured by reason of total permanent disability is found and declared to be no longer permanently and totally disabled, and where the insured is required under regulations to renew payment of premiums on said term insurance, and where this contingency is extended beyond the five-year period during which said yearly renewable term insurance otherwise must be converted, there shall be given such insured an additional period of two years from the date on which he is required to renew payment of premiums in which to convert said term insurance as hereinbefore provided."

Insurance matured

by total disability. Renewal authorized

if no longer disabled.

New sections.

SEC. 25. A new section is hereby added to Article IV of the War Risk Insurance Act to be known as section 406, and to read as follows: Benefits due on ac"SEC. 406. Whenever benefits under United States Government count of extra hazard, life insurance (converted insurance) become or have become payable to be paid by United

States.

fund.

because of total permanent disability of the insured or because of the death of the insured as a result of disease or injury traceable to the extra hazard of the military or naval service as such hazard may be determined by the director, the liability shall be borne by Transfer from appro- the United States, and the director is hereby authorized and directed to transfer from the military and naval insurance appropriation to the United States Government life insurance fund a sum which, together with the reserve of the policy at the time of maturity by total permanent disability or death, will equal the then value of Reduced insurance such benefits. When a person receiving total permanent disability allowed on recovery from total disability. benefits under a United States Government life policy (converted policy) recovers from such disability and is then entitled to continue a reduced amount of insurance, the director is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to the military and naval insurance appropriation all of the loss reserve to the credit of such policy claim except a sum sufficient to set up the then required reserve on the reduced amount of insurance that may be continued, which sum shall be retained in the United States Government life insurance fund for the purpose of such reserve."

Transfer of funds.

Installments due on death of insured. Vol. 41, p. 376.

Payment to estate if no surviving beneficiaries.

Proviso.

States, etc.

SEC. 26. A new section is hereby added to Article IV of the War Risk Insurance Act (including therein section 14 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend and modify the War Risk Insurance Act," approved December 24, 1919), to be known as section 407, and to read as follows:

"Sec. 407. If no person within the permitted class of beneficiaries survive the insured, then there shall be paid to the estate of the insured the monthly installments payable and applicable under the Escheat to United provisions of Article IV of the War Risk Insurance Act: Provided, That in cases where the estate of the insured would escheat under the laws of the place of his residence the insurance shall not be paid to the estate of the insured, but shall escheat to the United States and shall be credited to the United States Government life insurance fund or the military and naval insurance appropriation, as may be proper. This section shall be deemed to be in effect as of October 6, 1917."

Effective as of October 6, 1917.

Reinstated insur

ance.

Approval without medical examination.

Proviso.

World War service.

Proof of origin.

SEC. 27. A new section is hereby added to Article IV of the War Risk Insurance Act, to be known as section 408, and to read as follows: "SEC. 408. In the event that all provisions of the rules and regulations other than the requirements as to the physical condition of the applicant for insurance have been complied with, an application for reinstatement of lapsed or canceled yearly renewable term insurance or application for United States Government life insurance (converted Disabled in active insurance) hereafter made may be approved: Provided, That the applicant's disability is the result of an injury or disease or of an aggravation thereof suffered or contracted in the active military or naval service during the World War: Provided further, That the applicant during his lifetime submits proof satisfactory to the director showing the service origin of the disability or aggravation thereof Back premiums, etc., and that the applicant is not totally and permanently disabled. As a condition, however, to the acceptance of an application for the reinstatement of lapsed or canceled yearly renewable term insurance or United States Government life insurance (converted insurance) the applicant shall be required to pay all the back monthly premiums which would have become payable if such insurance had not lapsed, together with interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum compounded annually on each premium from the date said premium is ficiary if insurance due by the terms of the policy: Provided further, That where any lapsed while suffering soldier has heretofore allowed his insurance to lapse, while suffering tling compensation, from wounds or disease suffered or contracted in line of service, and was at the time he allowed his said policy to lapse entitled to

to be paid.

Payment to bene

from disability enti

etc.

compensation on account thereof in a sum equal to or in excess of the amount due from him in premiums on his said insurance, and has since died from said wounds or disease without collecting or making claim for said compensation, or being allowed to reinstate his said policy on account of his physical condition, then and in that event said policy shall not be considered as lapsed, and the Veterans' Bureau is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the beneficiaries of said soldier under said policy the amount of said insurance less the premiums and interest thereon at 5 per centum per annum compounded annually in installments as provided by law."

Payment of pre

Dates for payments

While confined in

Provisos.

SEC. 28. A new section is hereby added to Article IV of the War miums. Risk Insurance Act to be known as section 409, and to read as follows: "SEC. 409. The Veterans' Bureau is authorized to make provision may be waived. in accordance with regulations, whereby the payment of premiums on yearly renewable term insurance and United States Government life insurance (converted insurance) on the due date thereof may be waived and the insurance may be deemed not to lapse in the cases of the following persons, to wit: (a) Those who are confined in a hospital, etc. hospital under said bureau for a compensable disability during the If temporarily toperiod while they are so confined; (b) those who are rated as tem- tally disabled. porarily totally disabled by reason of an injury or disease entitling them to compensation during the period of such total disability and while they are so rated: Provided, That such relief from payment of Extent of time alpremiums on renewable term insurance on the due date thereof shall be for full calendar months, beginning with the month in which said confinement to hospital, or temporary total disability rating begins, and ending with that month during the half or major fraction of which the person is confined in hospital, or is rated as temporarily Interest on waived totally disabled: Provided further, That all premiums, the payment premiums. of which when due is waived as above provided, shall bear interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum compounded annually from the due date of each premium, and if not paid by the insured shall be deducted from the insurance when the same matures either because of permanent total disability or death."

lowed.

Deduction at maturity.

Postal service.

Postmaster General

SEC. 29. A new section is hereby added to Article IV of the War Risk Insurance Act to be known as section 410, and to read as follows: "SEC. 410. Under such rules and regulations as the Director of may receive insurance the Veterans' Bureau and the Postmaster General may prescribe, premiums. the Postmaster General is hereby authorized to receive the premiums on yearly renewable term insurance and United States Government life insurance (converted insurance) and to act for and turn over to the Treasurer of the United States the money so received, and if the money-order system is used as an agency for the transmission of such form money, the Postmaster General may adopt a specially-designed money-order form for such purpose, and he also is authorized to tions. receive and transmit to the Veterans' Bureau applications for reinstatement of lapsed insurance and applications for conversion of yearly renewable term insurance."

Special money order

Insurance applica

SEC. 30. A new section is hereby added to Article IV of the War Policies. Risk Insurance Act to be known as section 411, and to read as follows:

Incontestable after

Vol. 40, p. 609.

"SEC. 411. Subject to the provisions of section 29 of the War six months. Risk Insurance Act and amendments thereto policies of insurance heretofore or hereafter issued in accordance with Article IV of the War Risk Insurance Act shall be incontestable after six months from date of issuance, or reinstatement, except for fraud or nonpayment of premiums."

Approved, August 9, 1921.

Exceptions.

August 9, 1921.

[S. J. Res. 72.]

CHAP. 58.-Joint Resolution For the relief of States in the cotton belt that have

[Pub. Res., No. 12.] given aid to cotton farmers forced from the fields in established nonproduction zones through efforts to eradicate the pink bollworm.

Pink bollworm of cotton. Compensation for

tion to eradicate.

Vol. 41, p. 1346.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when any State shall losses by farmers for have enacted legislation and taken measures, including the estabenforced nonproduc- lishment and enforcement of noncotton zones, adequate, in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture, to eradicate the pink bollworm in any area thereof actually infested, or threatened, by such pest, the said Secretary, under regulations to be prescribed by him, is authorized, out of the appropriation of $554,840 for "Eradication of pink bollworm" made by the Agricultural Appropriation Act of March 3, 1921, to utilize not to exceed $200,000 in reimbursing such States for expenses incurred by them in compensating any farmer for his loss due to the enforced nonproduction of cotton within said Restriction in reim- zones: Provided, That such reimbursement of any State shall be based upon the actual and necessary loss suffered by the owner of said land; that such reimbursement shall not exceed one-third the amount actually paid by the State to any farmer, and, in no event, shall exceed $5 per acre; and that no reimbursement shall be made in respect of any farmer who has not complied in good faith with all quarantine and control regulations prescribed by said Secretary of Agriculture and such State relative to the pink bollworm. Approved, August 9, 1921.

Proviso.

bursement to States.

August 10, 1921.

[S. J. Res. 5.] [Pub. Res., No. 13.]

Portland, Oreg.

in 1925.

CHAP. 60.-Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to invite foreign nations to take part in an exposition at Portland, Oregon, in 1925.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Foreign nations in- States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the vited to exposition at, United States is hereby authorized and requested to invite foreign countries to participate in an exposition to be held in the city of Portland, State of Oregon, in the year 1925, to celebrate the completion of transcontinental and Pacific highways, the centennial of the invention of the electromagnet, and to exemplify the development of No Government ex- hydroelectric energy: Provided, That the United States Government shall be put to no expense by reason of the extending of the invitation. Approved, August 10, 1921.

Proviso.

penses.

August 11, 1921.

[S. 252.]

[Public, No. 48.]

North and South

Dakota school lands.
Vol. 25, p. 680, amend

ed.

CHAP. 61.—An Act To amend an Act approved February 22, 1889, entitled "An Act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public lands to such States."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 11 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public lands to such States," approved February 22, 1889, be, and the same hereby is, Rights of way, etc., amended by adding the following: Provided, however, That the State may, upon such terms as it may prescribe, grant such easements or rights in such lands as may be acquired in, to, or over the lands of private properties through proceedings in eminent domain:

authorized on.

lands.

And provided further, That any of such granted lands found, after Leasing of mineral title thereto has vested in the State, to be mineral in character, may be leased for a period not longer than twenty years upon such terms and conditions as the legislature may prescribe.

Approved, August 11, 1921.

CHAP. 62.-An Act To extend the provisions of section 2455, Revised Statutes, to the lands within the abandoned Fort Buford Military Reservation in the States of North Dakota and Montana.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of section 2455, Revised Statutes of the United States, be, and the same are hereby, extended to all nonmineral lands within the abandoned Fort Buford Military Reservation in the States of North Dakota and Montana, which were restored to disposal under the homestead, town site, and desert land laws under the provisions of the Act of May 19, 1900 (Thirty-first Statutes at Large, page 180). Approved, August 11, 1921.

August 11, 1921. [S. 732.] [Public, No. 19.]

Fort Buford Military

Reservation, N. Dak.

and Mont.
Sale of lands of

abandoned.

R.S., sec. 2455, p. 449.

Vol. 31, p. 180.

CHAP. 63.-An Act To amend the Federal Farm Loan Act, as amended.

August 13, 1921. S. 1811.] [Public, No. 50.]

Federal Farm Loan

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first paragraph of Act. section 20 of the Federal Farm Loan Act, as amended, be, and hereby amended." is, amended to read as follows:

Vol. 41, p. 1362,

Farm Loan bonds.

"SEC. 20. That bonds provided for in this Act shall be issued in Denominations, denominations of $40, $100, $500, $1,000, and such larger denomi- terms, etc. nations as the Federal Farm Loan Board may authorize; they shall run for specified minimum and maximum periods, subject to payment and retirement, at the option of the land bank, at any time after the minimum period specified in the bonds, which shall not be longer than ten years from the date of their issue. They shall have interest coupons attached, payable semiannually, and shall be issued in series of not less than $50,000, the amount and terms to be fixed by the Federal Farm Loan Board. They shall bear a rate of interest Rat not to exceed 5 per centum per annum, but no bonds issued or sold after June 30, 1923, shall bear a rate of interest to exceed 5 per centum per annum.

Approved, August 13, 1921.

Rate ofinterest modified.

CHAP. 64.—An Act To regulate interstate and foreign commerce in live stock, live-stock products, dairy products, poultry, poultry products, and eggs, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

TITLE I.-DEFINITIONS.

This Act may be cited as the "Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921."
SEC. 2. (a) When used in this Act-

(1) The term "person" includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, and associations;

August 15, 1921. [H. R. 6320.] Public, No. 51.]

Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921.

Title of Act. Terms defined. "Person."'

"Secretary."

"Meat food prod

(2) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture; (3) The term "meat food products" means all products and by- ucts." products of the slaughtering and meat-packing industry-if edible;