57 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 1B T SESS.-CHS. 22, 26 -MAR. 24, 1943 no interest and to be reimbursed in such installments as may be determined by the Administrator by proper deductions from any future payments of pension or retirement pay. "9. The Administrator shall have the power to provide courses of instruction for personnel and may detail employees to attend the same and may detail any such personnel to attend courses conducted by other than Veterans' Administration agencies, including private organizations, and such employees in addition to their salaries shall be entitled to the payment of expenses incident to such detail, includ- ing transportation and tuition, as the Administrator by rules and regulations shall provide; and also in his discretion, to make, or, as by agreement with other agency or institution, cause to be made studies, investigations, and reports inquiring into the rehabilitation of disabled persons and the relative abilities, aptitudes, and capacities of the several groups of the variously handicapped and as to how their potentialities can best be developed and their services best utilized in gainful and suitable employment, including the rehabilitation pro- grams of foreign nations engaged in the present war. For this pur- pose he shall have the power to cooperate with such public and pri- vate agencies as he may deem advisable and to call in consultants who shall receive as compensation for their services a reasonable per diem, which the Administrator shall by rules and regulations provide, for each day actually spent in the work provided for herein and shall in addition be reimbursed for their necessary traveling and other expenses. For the purposes of this part, the Administrator may accept uncompensated services upon such agreement as he may deem feasible." SEC. 3 . The appropriations for the Veterans' Administration, "Salaries and expenses, medical and hospital, and compensation and pensions", shall be available for necessary expenses, including but not confined to necessary medical care, and pension payment, payment or reimbursement of expenses in connection with supplying suitable training under this Act; and there is hereby authorized to be appro- priated such additional amount or amounts as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act. Approved March 24, 1943. ICHAPTER 26] AN ACT To amend and clarify certain provisions of law relating to functions of the War Shipping Administration, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) officers and members of crews (hereinafter referred to as "seamen") employed on United States or foreign flag vessels as employees of the United States through the War Shipping Administration shall, with respect to (1) laws administered by the Public Health Service and the Social Security Act, as amended by subsection (b) (2) and (3) of this section; (2) death, injuries, illness, maintenance and cure, loss of effects, detention, or repatriation, or claims arising therefrom not covered by the foregoing clause (1); and (3) collection of wages and bonuses and making of allotments, have all of the rights, benefits, exemptions, privileges, and liabilities, under law applicable to citizens of the United States employed as seamen on privately owned and operated American vessels. Such seamen, because of the temporary wartime character of their employment by the War Shipping Admin- istration, shall not be considered as officers or employees of the United 45 Instruction for per- sonnel. Expenses. Studies, investiga- tions, and reports. Cooperation with other agencies. Uncompensated services. Funds available. Additional appro- priation authorized. M arch 24, 1943 (H. R. 13I3 [Public Law 171 War Shipping Ad ministration. Rights and benefits of seamen. Post, p . 629. 49 Stat. 620. 42U.S. . §1 301- 1307; Supp. II , § 1101- 1109. Post, p . 47. tatus.
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