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NATIONAL FOEEST MANUAL LAWS. 



Affidavits 

 case of death. 



in 



Affidavits in 

 case of injury. 



death or a probable incapacity for work, it shall be the duty of the 

 official superior of such employee to at once report such accident and 

 the injury resulting therefrom to the head of his bureau or independent 

 office, and his report shall be immediately communicated through 

 regular official channels to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 

 Such report shall state, first, the time, cause, and nature of the accident 

 and injury and the probable duration of the injury resulting therefrom; 

 second, whether the accident arose out of or in the course of the injured 

 person's employment; third, whether the accident was due to negli- 

 gence or misconduct on the part of the employee injured; fourth, any 

 other matters required by such rules and regulations as the Secretary of 

 Commerce and Labor may prescribe. The head of each department 

 or independent office shall have power, however, to charge a special 

 official with the duty of making such reports. 



SEC. 4. That in the case of any accident which shall result in death 

 the persons entitled to compensation under this act or their legal 

 representatives shall, within ninety days after such death, file with the 

 Secretary of Commerce and Labor an affidavit setting forth their 

 relationship to the deceased and the ground of their claim for com- 

 pensation under the provisions of this act. This shall be accompanied 

 by the certificate of the attending physician setting forth the fact and 

 cause of death, or the nonproduction of the certificate shall be satis- 

 factorily accounted for. In the case of incapacity for work lasting 

 more than fifteen days, the injured party desiring to take the benefit 

 of this act shall, within a reasonable period after the expiration of 

 such time, file with his official superior, to be forwarded through regular 

 official channels to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, an affidavit 

 setting forth the grounds of his claim for compensation, to be accom- 

 panied by a certificate of the attending physician as to the cause and 

 nature of the injury and probable duration of the incapacity, or the 

 nonproduction of the certificate shall be satisfactorily accounted for. 

 If the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall find from the report and 

 affidavit or other evidence produced by the claimant or his or her 

 legal representatives, or from such additional investigation as the 

 Secretary of Commerce and Labor may direct, that a claim for com- 

 pensation is established under this act, the compensation to be paid 

 shall be determined as provided under this act and approved for 

 payment by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 



SEC. 5. That the employee shall, whenever and as often as required 

 by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, at least once in six months, 

 submit to medical examination, to be provided and paid for under the 

 direction of the Secretary, and if such employee refuses to submit to or 

 obstructs such examination his or her right to compensation shall be 

 lost for the period covered by the continuance of such refusal or 

 obstruction. 



SEC. 6. That payments under this act are only to be made to the 

 beneficiaries or their legal representatives other than assignees, and 

 shall not be subject to the claims of creditors. 



SEC. 7. That the United States shall not exempt itself from liability 

 under this act by any contract, agreement, rule, or regulation, and any 

 such contract, agreement, rule, or regulation shall be pro tanto void. 



SEC. 8. That all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith or providing 

 a different scale of compensation or otherwise regulating its payment 

 are hereby repealed. 



BUILDINGS AND PROPERTY. 



Agricultural appropriation act of March 4, 1911 (36 Stat., 1235). 



Buildings, limit [1246] GENERAL EXPENSES, FOREST SERVICE: To enable the Secre- 

 ofcost. tary of Agriculture * * * to erect necessary buildings: Pro- 



vided, That the cost of any building erected shall not exceed six 

 hundred and fifty dollars. 



By the agricultural appropriation act of March 4, 1907 (34 Stat., 1269), the limit of 

 cost for buildings was fixed at $1,000. This was reduced to $500 by appropriation act 

 of May 23, 1908 (35 Stat., 259), and increased to 650 by the above act. The same limit 

 is fixed by the appropriation act of August 10, 1912. 



Deter mining 

 compensation. 



Medical exami- 

 nations. 



Payment to 

 beneficiaries, etc. 



Contracts to ex- 

 empt from liabil- 

 ity void. 



Repeal. 



