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 |
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Aberdeen Proving Ground acres amount Army authorized Baltimore Counties canner CHAIRMAN Chief of Ordnance citizens claimants CLARK commission Committee on Claims compensation Conduit Road consequential damages Court of Claims damages and losses destroyed determine eminent domain enator facts filed FORMERLY HAVING INTERESTS gentlemen give Government Harford County hearing Holloway House including loss increasing facilities indirect injury INTERESTS IN MARYLAND Judge Advocate judgment jurisdiction justice Kent Island loss of business losses to persons MARBURY matter Mitchell Bros mittee necessary buildings Ordnance Department paid passed PERSONS FORMERLY practice present President procurement proof and test Provided purpose question record report back report this bill representative Ruggles's Secretary of War Senator DENEEN Senator NYE Senator TYDINGS September 21 Seventieth Congress Shoepeg corn statement subcommittee Supreme Court sustained test of ordnance thing tract Treasury United United States Army War Department Washington WHITMAN
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Page 38 - 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 39 - States: provided, that sections eighteen hundred and fifty and eighteen hundred and ninety of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not apply to the territory of Hawaii.
Page 38 - War may, In his discretion, cause proceedings to be instituted in the name of the United States...
Page 38 - ... 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...
Page 39 - 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 38 - An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.
Page 38 - War shall be reasonable, he may purchase or enter into a contract for the use of the same at such price without further delay: Provided further, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept on...
Page 38 - And provided further. That when such property is acquired in time of war or the imminence thereof upon the filing of the petition for the condemnation of any land, temporary use thereof or other interest therein or right pertaining thereto to be acquired for any of the purposes aforesaid, immediate possession thereof may be taken to the extent of the interest to be acquired and the lands may be occupied and used for military purposes...
Page 39 - 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...
Page 24 - Never before in the history of this country has there been such a section of developed land, settled land, taken for any Government purpose. And remember, this could never have been taken in times of peace...