Section 4
SEC. 4. For the purposes of this Act, and for the establishment of successional rights therein, any person falling under section one, entitled to the monies referred to herein, shall be presumed dead after the lapse of twelve months from the time said person was last seen, heard from, accounted for, or reported to be alive: Provided, That if at any time before the presumption of death could be availed of, there should be monies immediately payable to such person the Judge Advocate General may appoint a representative for said person: Provided, however, That before a representative appointed hereunder enters upon the execution of his duties, he may be required to give a bond, in such sum as the Judge Advocate General may direct, and under such conditions as he may prescribe.