57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-CH. 380-DEC. 23, 1943 shall be proportionate to the percentages allowed for dependents by section 9 of such Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensa- tion Act, and if such manner of disbursement in any case would result in injustice or excessive allowance for a dependent, the Com- mission may, in its discretion, modify such percentage or apportion- ment to meet the requirements of the case." (b) To subsection (c) of section 105 of such Act, the following: "Where any person specified in section 101 (a), or any dependent, beneficiary, or allottee of such person, or the legal representative or estate of any such entities, after having obtained benefits under this title, seeks through any proceeding, claim, or otherwise, brought or maintained against the employer, the United States, or other person, to recover wages, payments in lieu of wages, or any sum claimed as for services rendered, or for failure to furnish transportation, or for liquidated or unliquidated damages under the employment contract, or any other benefit, and the right in respect thereto is alleged to have accrued during or as to any period of time in respect of which payments under this title in such case have been made, and in like cases where a recovery is made or allowed, the Commission shall have the right of intervention and a lien and right of recovery to the extent of any payments paid and payable under this title in such case, provided the cost of such wages, payments in lieu of wages, or other such right, may be directly or indirectly paid by the United States; and any amounts recovered under this subsection shall be covered into the fund established under section 35 of such Act of September 7, 1916, as amended." The amendment in paragraph (a) shall become effective the first day of the month next following the approval of this Act. The amendment in paragraph (b) shal become effective as of the effective date of title I of such Act of December 2, 1942. INCREASE AND REPLACEMENT ON NAVAL VESSELS Subject to authorization by other law, the appropriations "Con- struction and machinery" and "Armor, armament, and ammunition", shall be available for the acquisition and conversion or construction of additional auxiliaries, when such acquisition and conversion or con- struction has been directed by the President, and for the acquisition and conversion or construction of additional landing craft and district craft as the Secretary may determine to be necessary for the conduct of the war. COAST GUARD Claims for damages, operation of vessels, Coast Guard: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Navy under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the adjustment and settlement of certain claims for damages resulting from the operation of vessels of the Coast Guard and the Public Health Service, in sums not exceeding $3,000 in any one case", approved June 15, 1936, as fully set forth in Senate Document Num- bered 113 and House Document Numbered 324, Seventy-eighth Con- gress, $3,145.57. GENERAL PROVISIONS Funds available for heat and light for public quarters occupied by personnel of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard for the fiscal year 1944, shall be available, effective July 1, 1943, in the case of the Marine Corps, and January 1, 1944, in the cases of the Navy and Coast Guard, for furnishing water and for operating mechanical refrigerators in such quarters. 627 56 Stat. 1032, 1028 . 42 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 1705 (c), 701 (a). Subsequent claim for services, etc. Right of interven- tion; lien and right of recovery. Amounts recovered. 39 Stat. 749. 5U. S.. . 785. Effective dates. 56 Stat. 1033. 42 U. S. C., Supp. II, §1701 note. Auxiliaries and landing and district craft. Ante, pp . 209, 604. 49 Stat. 1514. 14U.S.C.171. Water and opera- tion of refrigerators.
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