of the President of the United States, the term insurance shall be converted, without medical examination, into such form or forms of insurance as may be prescribed by regulations and as the insured may request. Regulations shall provide for the right to convert into ordinary life, twenty payment life, endowment maturing at age sixtytwo and into other usual forms of insurance and shall prescribe the time and method of payment of the premiums thereon, but payments of premiums in advance shall not be required for periods of more than one month each and may be deducted from the pay or deposit of the insured or be otherwise made at his election.

SEC. 405. That in the event of disagreement as to a claim under the contract of insurance between the bureau and any beneficiary or beneficiaries thereunder, an action on the claim may be brought against the United States in the district court of the United States in and for the district in which such beneficiaries or any one of them resides. The court, as part of its judgment, shall determine and allow such reasonable attorney's fees, not to exceed ten per centum of the amount recovered, to be paid by the claimant on behalf of whom such proceedings are instituted to his attorney; and it shall be unlawful for the attorney or for any other person acting as claim agent or otherwise to ask for, contract for, or receive any other compensation because of such action. No other compensation or fee shall be charged or received by any person except such as may be authorized by the commissioner in regulations to be promulgated by him. Any person vilolating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall, for each and every such offense, be fined not exceeding $500, or be imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 3. That section eight of the act entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be held and construed to authorize the President, in accordance with the provisions of said act and for the period of the existing emergency only, to appoint as generals the Chief of Staff and the commander of the United States forces in France, and as lieutenant general each commander of an army or army corps organized as authorized by existing law: Provided, That the pay of the grades of general and lieutenant general shall be $10,000 and $9,000 a year, respectively, with allowances appropriate to said grades as determined by the Secretary of War: And provided, That brigadier generals of the Army shall hereafter rank relatively with rear admirals of the lower half of the grade. And, hereafter, the chief of any existing staff corps, department, or bureau, except as is otherwise provided for the Chief of Staff, shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of major general.

Approved, October 6, 1917.

PART XIII.

EXEMPTED OFFICIALS.

The following are to be termed "Officers, legislative, executive or judicial" of the United States for the purpose of classification in Class V.

A. EXECUTIVE OFFICES.

1. Executive Mansion.-Secretary to the President.

2. Department of State.-Secretary of State, Counselor for the Department of State, the Assistant Secretary of State, Second Assistant Secretary of State, Third Assistant Secretary of State, Solicitor, Ambassador, Minister, Diplomatic Agent, Consul General, Consul.

3. Treasury Department.-Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Deputy Assistant Treasurer, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Comptroller of the Treasury, Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury, Comptroller of the Currency, Surgeon General Public Health Service, Captain Commandant of the Coast Guard of the United States, Director of the Mint, Register of the Treasury, Assistant Register of the Treasury, Auditors for Departments, Assistant Treasurers, Collectors of Customs, Surveyors of Customs, General Appraisers of Merchandise, Appraisers of Merchandise, Assistant Appraisers of Merchandise, Special Examiners of Drugs, Medicines, and Chemicals, Collectors of Internal Revenue, Mint and Assay Officers, Federal Farm Loan Board.

4. War Department.-Secretary of War, Assistant Secretary of War, Board of Ordnance and Fortifications, Mississippi River Commission, and all persons in the military service (as already defined in sec. 18, par. d, of Regulations for Local and District Boards).

5. Department of Justice.-Attorney General, Assistant to the Attorney General, Assistant Attorneys General, Solicitor General, Solicitors for the Several Departments, Assistant Solicitors.

6. Post Office Department.-Postmaster General, Assistant Postmasters General, Purchasing Agent, postmasters at offices of the first, second, and third classes.

7. Navy Department.-Secretary of the Navy, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and all persons in the naval service (as already defined in sec. 18, par. d, of Regulations for Local and District Boards).

8. Department of the Interior.-Secretary of the Interior, First Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Commissioner of the General Land Office, Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office, recorder of the General Land Office, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Assistant Commissioner of

Indian Affairs, Commissioner of Pensions, Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, Commissioner of Patents, First Assistant Commissioner of Patents, Assistant Commissioner of Patents, examiners in chief in the Patent Office, Commissioner of Education, Director of the Geological Survey, Director of the Bureau of Mines, Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills, Registers of Land Office, Receivers of Public Moneys, Surveyors General, Governor of Alaska, Governor and Secretary of Hawaii, Superintendent for Five Civilized Tribes.

9. Department of Agriculture.-Secretary of Agriculture, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Chief of the Weather Bureau.

10. Department of Commerce.-Secretary of Commerce, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Director of the Census, Chief of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Assistant Chief of Bureau. of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Director of the Bureau of Standards, Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Commissioner of Navigation, Supervising Inspector General Steamboat-Inspection Service, District Supervising Inspectors Steamboat-Inspection Service; Coast and Geodetic Survey: Hydrographic and geodetic engineers, junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers, aids.

11. Department of Labor.-Secretary of Labor, Commissioner General of Immigration, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Chief of Children's Bureau, Commissioners of Immigration at the ports.

12. Presidential boards.-Board of Mediation and Conciliation, Commission of Fine Arts, Geographic Board, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

13. Interstate Commerce Commission.-Commissioners. 14. Civil Service Commission.-Commissioners

President).

(including

15. Federal Reserve Board.-Governor, Vice Governor, and Members.

16. Federal Trade Commission.-Chairman, Vice Chairman, and Commissioners.

17. Panama Canal.-Governor, Engineer of Maintenance, Engineer of Terminal Construction, Chief Health Officer.

18. Smithsonian Institution.-Secretary.

19. Government Printing Office.-Public Printer.

20. National Homes for Disabled Volunteers.-President of the Board, General Treasurer, Inspector General, and Governors of Branches.

21. Pan American Union.-Director General.

1. Congress:

B. LEGISLATIVE OFFICES.

Senate.-Vice President of the United States, Senators,
Secretary, Sergeant at Arms, Chaplain.

House. Representatives, Territorial Delagates, Resident
Commissioners, Clerk, Doorkeeper, Sergeant at Arms, Post-
master, Chaplain, Superintendent of Capitol.

2. Library of Congress.-Librarian, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds.

C. JUDICIAL OFFICES.

1. Supreme Court.-Chief and Associate Justices, clerk, marshal,

reporter.

2. Court of Claims.-Chief Justice, Judges, chief and assistant, clerk, auditor, and bailiff.

3. Court of Customs Appeals.-Presiding and Associate Judges, clerk, marshal.

4. Circuit Courts of Appeals.-Circuit Judges, clerks, attorneys, marshals.

5. District Courts.-Judges, clerks, attorneys, marshals.

PART XIV.

CERTIFYING OFFICERS.

By Executive order the President has directed that all affidavits of necessity required under Selective Service Regulations for securing deferred classification of Federal employees conform to the following requirements:

"In the case of a person in the service of a department within the District of Columbia, who files with local board a claim of deferred classification from the selective draft, the affidavit of the departmental official having direct supervision and control of the branch of the service in which he is employed, as provided for in the abovementioned regulations, will be forwarded to the Secretary of that department, accompanied by a memorandum giving sufficient data to enable the Secretary to determine whether or not the case is a proper one for deferred classification. If, on the information furnished, he deems the case a proper one for deferred classification by the board, he will indorse the affidavit 'Approved'; if not, 'Disapproved.' In either case the affidavit will be returned to the official making it, to be filed with the local board as required by the instructions on the back thereof.

"In the case of a person in departmental service stationed outside of the District of Columbia, the affidavit of the official having direct supervision of the applicant will be forwarded for approval or disapproval to the official, to be designated by the Secretary of the department, who has jurisdiction or control of the area within which the applicant is stationed at the time, unless the affidavit is originally made by such official.

"In the case of a person in the service of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Smithsonian Institution, or other commission or board or body not organized directly under one of the executive departments, the same general method will be followed so far as practicable, with a view to reducing the discharges of drafted men to the minimum number consistent with the maintenance of vital national interests during the emergency of war."

Pursuant to the above order, the designations made in the several departments follow:

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