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73d CONGRESS . SESS . II. CHS. 353, 354. MAY 26, 1934 . [CHAPTER 353 .] May 26, 1934 .

AN ACT (S .2 042 .1 To establish a department of physics at the United States Military Academy, (Public, No . 2561

West Point, New York . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the tart' United Academy . Mui- United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter . Professor of physics there is authorized one professor of physics at the United States authorized; rank, pay, etc.

Military Academy, with the same status, rank, pay, and allowances of other professors at said Military Academy . Approved, May 26, 1934 . May 26, 1934. [S. 2794] [Public, No. 257 .] Longs hore men' s and Harbor Workers' Com- pensa tion Act amen d- ed. Vol. 44,p. 1427 ; U.S .C ., Supp. VII, p. 790. Medical services . Suspension of pay - ments, injured em- ployee refusing treat- ment . Compensation for disability. Permanent partial disability. Percentage of aver- age weekly wages in addition to temporary total disability com- pen sat ion . Schedule . Vol. 44, p. 1428. Los s of mor e than one membe r, not amounting to perma- nent total disability . compensation . [CHAPTER 354 .] AN ACT To amend the Longshoremen's and Harbor 'Workers' Compensation Act with respect to rates of compensation, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subdivision (a) of section 7 of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Com- pensation Act, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence : "If at any time during such period the employee unreasonably refuses to submit to medical or surgical treat- ment, the deputy commissioner may, by order, suspend the payment of further compensation during such time as such refusal continues, and no compensation shall be paid at any time during the period of such suspension, unless the circumstances justified the refusal ." SEO. 2. So much of subdivision (c) of section 8 of such Act, as amended, as precedes paragraph (13) thereof is amended to read as fol lows "( c) Permanent partial disability : In case of disability partial in character but permanent in quality, the compensation shall be 662/3 per centum of the average weekly wages, which shall be in addi- tion to compensation for temporary total disability paid in accord- ance with subdivision (b) of this section, and shall be paid to the employee, as follows " 1) Arm lost, two hundred and eighty weeks' compensation . "( 2) Leg lost, two hundred and forty-eight weeks' compensation . "( 3) Hand lost, two hundred and twelve weeks' compensation . "( 4) Foot lost , one hund red and s event y-th ree w eeks' com pensa - tion . "( 5) Eye lost, one hundred and forty weeks' compensation . "(6) Thum b los t, fi fty-o ne w eeks' comp ensa tion . 11 (7) First finger lost, twenty-eight weeks' compensation . " 8) Great toe lost, twenty-six weeks' compensation . "(9) Second finger lost, eighteen weeks' compensation . "(10) Third finger lost, seventeen weeks' compensation . "(11) Toe other than great toe lost, eight weeks' compensation . " 12 Fourth finger lost, seven weeks ' comp ensatio n . " SEc. 3 . Paragraph (22) of subdivision (c) of section 8 of such Act, as ame nded, is ame nded t o read as fol lows "(22) In any case in which there shall be a loss of, or loss of use of, more than one member or parts of more than one member set forth in paragraphs (1) to (19) of this subdivision, not amounting to permanent total disability, the award of compensation shall be for the loss of, or loss of use of, each such member or part thereof, which awards shall run consecutively ."