Chapter 219. To amend an 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
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CHAP. 219.— An Act To amend an 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. June 13, 1922.[[S. 1911](/us/bill/67/s/1911).][[Public, No. 241](/us/pl/67/241).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Injuries to Government employees,Vol. 39, p. 747, amended. That 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, be amended as follows:
" “Sec. 20. Time for making claims for damages. That all original claims for compensation for disability shall be made within sixty days after the injury. All original claims for compensation for death shall be made within one year after theExtension allowed civilian employees serving abroad during World War. death. For any reasonable cause shown the commission may allow original claims for compensation for disability to be made at any time within one year. If the disability or death was the result of an injury sustained during the period of the Great War, and arising out of conditions due to the war, the commission may for any reasonable cause shown allow original claims of civilian employees of the Expeditionary Forces of the United States serving outside of the territory of the United States to be made at any time within one year after the passage of this Act.
” " Approved, June 13, 1922.