Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill, 1918, for War Expenses and Other Purposes: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5949, a Bill Making Appropriations to Supply Urgent Deficiencies in Appropriations for the Fiscal Year 1918, and for Prior Fiscal Years, on Account of War Expenses, and for Other Purposes |
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Page 76 - An Act to provide revenue to defray war expenses, and for other purposes...
Page 153 - President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twentyfour, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.
Page 26 - ... such proceedings to be prosecuted in accordance with the laws relating to suits for the condemnation of property of the States wherein the proceedings may be instituted: Provided...
Page 153 - ... to be determined by the President; and if the amount thereof so determined by the President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor...
Page 26 - That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the United States donations of land and the interest and rights pertaining thereto required for the above-mentioned purposes : And provided further.
Page 26 - No public money shall be expended upon any site or land purchased by the United States for the purposes of erecting thereon any armory, arsenal, fort, fortification, navy yard, customhouse, lighthouse, or other public building, of any kind whatever, until the written opinion of the Attorney General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, nor until the consent of the legislature of the State in which the land or site may be, to such purchase, has been given.
Page 153 - Upon the taking over of said property by the President as aforesaid the title to all such property so taken over shall immediately vest in the United States...
Page 26 - ... the Secretary of War may, In his discretion, cause proceedings to be instituted in the name of the United States...
Page 153 - If any such property shall be taken over as aforesaid, the United States shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by the President.
Page 23 - ... land and damages and losses to persons, firms, and corporations resulting from the procurement of the land for this purpose...