Chapter 125. To authorize and direct Colonel George W
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CHAP. 125.— An Act To authorize and direct Colonel George W. Goethals, Governor of the Canal Zone, and formerly chairman and chief engineer of the Isthmian Canal Commission, to investigate certain claims of the McClintic-Marshall Construction Company. June 24, 1914.[[S. 5147](/us/bill/63/s/5147).][[Public, No. 119](/us/63/pl/119).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,McClintic-Marshall Construction Company.Governor of Canal Zone to investigate claims of, for work done.
That Colonel George W. Goethals, Governor of the Canal Zone, and formerly chairman and chief engineer of the Isthmian Canal Commission, is hereby authorized and directed to investigate the claims of the McClinticMarshall Construction Company, a corporation of the State of Pennsylvania, having its principal office in the city of Pittsburgh, in said State, and to ascertain what amount, if any, is in justice, equity, and fairness due and owing to the said McClinticMarshall Construction Company from the Isthmian Canal Commission for work and labor done and materials furnished in connection with the construction and erection of lock gates and appurtenances for the Panama Canal, and in connection with or incidental to the doing of the work and furnishing of the materials provided for in a certain contract between the Isthmian Canal Commission and said McClinticMarshall Construction Company, dated June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, taking into consideration the claim of the contractors that the work was done under requirements as to character and finish not fairly within the meaning of the specifications.
Authority and powers.The said Colonel George W. Goethals, Governor of the Canal Zone, is further authorized and empowered, either personally or through such commission as he may appoint, to investigate such claims and the various items thereof in such manner as to him may seem best, and either personally or through such commission is hereby empowered to administer oaths and affirmations to witnesses, and to Report of findings.issue subpoenas and to compel the attendance of witnesses.
He shall report in detail to the Congress of the United States his findings. Approved, June 24, 1914.