An Act to establish a rate of pension for aid and attendance under part III of Veterans Regulations No. 1 (a), as amended
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Transfer of powers, 
etc. 
the manner provided in the laws of the United States in respect to 
national banks:", and by inserting in lieu thereof "The Home 
Loan Bank Board shall also have power to take possession of any 
company or association whenever in the Board's judgment any 
such company or association is insolvent or is knowingly violating 
the laws under which it is operated and to liquidate the same in 
the manner provided in rules and regulations which said Board 
is hereby authorized to adopt, and said Board may also provide 
in such rules and regulations a procedure for the voluntary liqui-
dation of any such company or association; and if any such com-
pany or association which has not gone into liquidation and for 
which a receiver has not already been appointed for other lawful 
cause shall discontinue its operations for a period of sixty days, 
the Home Loan Bank Board may, if such Board deems it advis-
able, appoint a receiver for such company or association:"; 
(4) by striking out "Comptroller of the Currency" wherever 
appearing in such section and by inserting in lieu thereof "Home 
Loan Bank Board"; and 
(5) by striking out the word "him" from the second sentence 
of such section and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "such 
Board". 
SEC. 2. Section 691a of such Act (D. C. Code, sec. 26-405) is hereby 
amended— 
(1) by striking out "Comptroller of the Currency" wherever 
appearing in such section, and by inserting in lieu thereof "Home 
Loan Bank Board"; 
(2) by striking out "he" and "his" wherever appearing in 
paragraph (e) of such section, and by inserting in lieu thereof 
"such Board" and "such Board's", respectively; and 
(3) by striking out in paragraph (g) of such section "if said 
examination is made beyond the limits of the District of Colum-
bia, but if made within the limits of the District of Columbia, 
the cost of the examination to be at the same rate and upon the 
same terms as provided in section 691". 
SEC. 3. Subsection (c) of the Act of April 26, 1922 (42 Stat. 500), 
as amended by the Act of March 4, 1933 (47 Stat. 1564; D. C. Code, 
sec. 26-103 (c)), is hereby amended by striking out "Comptroller of 
the Currency" wherever appearing in such subsection and inserting 
in lieu thereof "Home Loan Bank Board", and by adding after the 
phrase "to maintain any ofl5ce or place of business in the District of 
Columbia," the following: "other than a foreign association which 
qualifies for a certificate of authority under section 691a of the Act of 
March 3, 1901, as amended (D. C. Code, sec. 26-405)". 
SEC. 4. Any powers, duties, and functions of the Comptroller of 
the Currency with respect to building associations and building and 
loan associations operating in the District of Columbia which are not 
transferred to the Home Loan Bank Board by the specific statutory 
amendments herein contained are also hereby transferred from the 
Comptroller of the Currency to the Home Loan Bank Board. 
Approved September 15, 1951. 
September 18, 1951 
[H. R. 3193] 
Public Law 149 
CHAPTER 406 
AN ACT 
To establish a rate of pension for aid and attendance under part III of Veterans 
Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Veterans' pensions, jjnited States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) paragraph 
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I (f), part III, Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended, is 
hereby amended to read as follows: 
"(f) The amount of pension payable under the terms of part I I I 
shall be $60 monthly, except— 
" (1) That where an otherwise eligible person shall have been rated 
permanent and total and in receipt of pension for a continuous period 
of ten years or reaches the age of sixty-five years, the amount of pen-
sion shall be $72 monthly; 
" (2) That where an otherwise eligible person is or hereafter becomes, 
on account of age or physical or mental disabilities, helpless or blind 
or so nearly helpless or blind as to need or require the regular aid and 
attendance of another person, the amount of pension shall be $120 
monthly." 
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall apply to 
veterans of both World War I and World War II. 
SEC. 2. Where eligibility for pension or increase of pension is estab-
lished by virtue of this Act, pension shall be paid from date of receipt 
hereafter of an application in the Veterans' Administration, but in no 
event prior to the first day of the second calendar month following the 
enactment of this Act. 
SAM RAYBURN 
Speaker of the House of 
Representatives. 
ALBEN W BARKLEY 
Vice President of the United States and 
President of the Senate. 
I N THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U . S. 
August 17, 1951 
The House of Representatives having proceeded to reconsider the 
bill (H. R. 3193) entitled "An Act to establish a rate of pension for 
aid and attendance under Part 3 of Veterans Regulation No. 1 (A), 
as amended," returned by the President of the United States with his 
objections, to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, 
it was 
Resolved, That the said bill pass, two-thirds of the House of Repre-
sentatives agreeing to pass the same. 
Attest: 
RALPH R ROBERTS 
Clerk. 
I certify that this Act originated in the House of Representatives. 
RALPH R ROBERTS 
Clerk. 
38 U.S.C. note foil, 
ch. 12. 
EfEective date. 
I N THE SENATE or THE UNITED STATES, 
September 18 {legislative day, Septeniber 13), 1951. 
The Senate having proceeded to reconsider the bill (H. R. 3193) 
"An Act to establish a rate of pension for aid and attendance under 
part I I I of Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended", 
returned by the President of the United States with his objections, 
to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, and passed 
by the House of Representatives on reconsideration of the same, it was 
Resolved, That the said bill pass, two-thirds of the Senators present 
having voted in the affirmative. 
Attest: 
LESLIE L . BIFFLE 
Secretary.