Chapter 815. Relative to the suit instituted for the protection of the interests of the United States in the Potomac River Flats
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CHAP. 815.— An Act Relative to the suit instituted for the protection of the interests of the United States in the Potomac River Flats. March 2, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Potomac River Flats. That in the case of the United States against M. F. Morris and others, instituted under the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for protecting the interests of Supreme court District of Columbia to ascertain value of certain wharf properties.the United States in the Potomac River Flats,” approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, Twenty-fourth Statutes, three hundred and thirty-five, and recently remanded by the Supreme Court of the United States to the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the latter court, in order to carry out the mandate of the Supreme Court and also to carry into full effect the provisions of an Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, Thirtieth Statutes, thirteen hundred and seventy-seven, entitled “An 957Act relative to wharf property and certain public spaces in the District of Columbia,” is hereby authorized and directed, in ascertaining the values of the wharf structures and other improvements made by or belonging to the defendants in the above cause, or to others, which are in or over waters of the Potomac River south of Water street, in the city of Washington, in which the said defendants claim riparian rights, to also, in like manner, ascertain and determine the values of the portions of such wharf structures and other improvements which are upon—to determine values of wharf structures upon adjoining land of the United States, but not over the Potomac, etc. the adjoining land of the United States, but not in or over the said waters of the Potomac River, and shall also ascertain, declare, adjudge, and award to whom the values so determined are justly payable.
The said supreme court of the District of Columbia is hereby invested with all needful power, authority, and jurisdiction to carry into effect in all respects the said mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States according to its true intent and meaning, and to determine every question of right, title, interest, and claim arising in the premises; and such court may exercise such power, authority, and jurisdiction as fully and completely, for all purposes, as if the same had been conferred upon it by the said Act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six; and its findings shall be reported to Congress agreeably to the fourth section of said Act.
Approved, March 2, 1901.