Chapter 231. To permit certain parties to intervene in the equity cause of the United States against Morris and others, pending in the supreme court of the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 231.— An Act To permit certain parties to intervene in the equity cause of the United States against Morris and others, pending in the supreme court of the District of Columbia. May 2, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That any person not heretoforeDistrict of Columbia.Potomac flats.—permission to new parties to intervene in case of United States *v*. Morris, etc. made a party to the equity cause of The United States against Morris and others, pending in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, in general term, who claims to have had an interest in the lots or parts of lots in squares sixty-three, eighty-nine, and one hundred and forty-eight, or in any of them, the title to which is shown to be undetermined by the report of said court made to Congress under date of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, may, within three months from the passage hereof, intervene by petition in said cause and assert a claim to any fund growing out of the conversion of the title to such land in such manner as the court may direct; and in—award. case the interest of any such claimant shall be established to the satisfaction of the court, it is hereby vested with jurisdiction and authority to award to such claimant payment of the value of his land heretofore ascertained by said court, as provided for in an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes” (Fifty-fourthVol. 29, p. 397.
Congress, first session, chapter four hundred and nineteen). Approved, May 2, 1898.