Chapter 36. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and an Act in amendment thereto approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen
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CHAP. 36.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and an Act in amendment thereto approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. February 25, 1919.[[H. R. 13273](/us/bill/65/hr/13273).][[Public, No. 272](/us/pl/65/272).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, War Risk Insurance.
That the Act entitled “An Family allowances, etc.*Ante*, p. 611, amended.Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department” be, and is hereby, amended by adding the following new paragraph to section two hundred and ten of Article II of the said Act: " No reimbursement required for prior payments, if award modified on investigation.“*Provided, however*, That whenever the commissioner shall by further investigation or reinvestigation modify the existing award, no reimbursement from the person receiving an allowance shall be required for allotments and allowances already paid nor shall any deductions be made from allotments and allowances to be paid in the future for any change in award made in previous allotments and Exception.allowances, except where it is conclusively shown that the person receiving the allowance does not bear the relationship to the enlisted man which is required by the Act and except in cases of manifest fraud.
” " Approved, February 25, 1919.