Certain Persons Formerly Having Interests in Baltimore and Harford Counties, Md. HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON WAR CLAIMS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS THIRD SESSION ON S. 654 CERTAIN PERSONS FORMERLY HAVING INTERESTS IN BALTIMORE AND HARFORD COUNTIES, MD. JANUARY 9, 1931 40414 UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1931 JOSEPH L. HOOPER, Michigan, Chairman EDWARD E. ESLICK, Tennessee. LOUIS T. MCFADDEN, Pennsylvania. U. S. STONE, Oklahoma. CERTAIN PERSONS FORMERLY HAVING INTERESTS IN BALTIMORE AND HARFORD COUNTIES, MD. Subcommittee No. 1 this day met at 11 o'clock a. m., Hon. Joseph L. Hooper (chairman) presiding, for consideration of S. 654, which reads as follows: [S. 654, Seventy-first Congress, second session] AN ACT For the relief of certain persons formerly having interests in Baltimore and Harford Counties, Md. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Court of Claims of the United States is hereby authorized, directed and empowered to hear and investigate the claims of all persons formerly residing or having interests in Hartford and Baltimore Counties, in the State of Maryland, and suffering any losses arising out of the taking of said lands, whether such losses have been direct or indirect, immediate or consequential, including losses arising from decrease or destruction of the value of real estate not taken; destruc|tion or injury to an established business, professsional practice, or other means of livelihood by loss of custom or otherwise; loss of employment; injury or destruction of property rights, including water rights and fishing rights; and losses of like character; and to report to the Congress its findings of such amounts as will fully compensate such persons for all losses for which full compensation has not heretofore been paid. All claims for damages based on this act shall be made by petition filed in the Court of Claims within one year from the passage of this act, and the claims of all persons who have heretofore brought suits and the same have been determined against them, shall be reopened, and the court shall then proceed to investigate such claims and report its findings to Congress. The CHAIRMAN. We have met this morning for consideration of S. 654, which is an act to provide for the relief of certain persons formerly having interests in Baltimore and Hartford Counties, Md. This is similar to H. R. 7115, which was acted on by this subcommittee in 1930. Does Mr Clark desire to make a statement explaining the differences between the two bills, and then make any other statement he desires? STATEMENT OF HON. LINWOOD L. CLARK, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MARYLAND Mr. CLARK. Mr. Chairman, I ask that the hearing before the subcommittee of the Committee on Claims of the United States Senate, first sesssion, Seventieth Congress, on S. 1640, dated May 2, 1928, be made a part of the record of this hearing. The CHAIRMAN. That will be done. |