Chapter 342. For the relief of Compania de los Ferrocarriles de Puerto Rico
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CHAP. 342.— An Act For the relief of Compania de los Ferrocarriles de Puerto Rico. March 4, 1909. [[H. R. 15681](/us/bill/60/hr/15681).] [[Private, No. 230](/us/pvtl/60/230).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Compañía de los Ferrocarriles, Porto Rico.Claims of, referred to Court of Claims, That jurisdiction be, and is hereby, given to the Court of Claims (notwithstanding any statutory bar of limitation) over the claims, legal or equitable, of the Compañía de los Ferrocarriles de Puerto Rico, with power to hear and determine the same, finding the facts, and render judgment against the United States, for the reasonable value of the services performed by said company in the island of Porto Rico in trans-porting the municipal police and guardia civille between the twelfth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight., and the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred and two, and in transporting the troops, munitions of war, supplies, and the like, and for alleged expense of repair and maintenance of telegraph lines of the Signal Corps, all of said services having been performed during the military occupation of said island.
Approved, March 4, 1909.