Chapter 62. To amend the emergency shipping fund provisions of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, so as to empower the President and his designated agents to take over certain transportation systems for the transportation of shipyard and plant employ
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CHAP. 62.— An Act To amend the emergency shipping fund provisions of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, so as to empower the President and his designated agents to take over certain transportation systems for the transportation of shipyard and plant employees, and for other purposes. April 22, 1918.[[S. 3388](/us/bill/65/s/3388).][[Public, No. 138](/us/pl/65/138).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section one of the emergency Emergency Shipping Fund.*Ante*, p. 182, amended.Additional powers conferred.shipping fund provisions of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act of June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby amended by adding a new provision reading as follows:
" “(f) To take possession of, lease or assume control of, any street Possession of street railroads, etc., to convey employees to shipyards, etc.*Post*, p. 651.railroad, interurban railroad, or part thereof wherever operated, and all cars, appurtenances, and franchises or parts thereof commonly used in connection with the operation thereof necessary for the transfer and transportation of employees of shipyards or plants engaged or that may hereafter be engaged in the construction of ships or equipment therefor for the United States.
” " Sec. 2. That paragraph
(b)of section one of said Act is hereby To modify street railroad, etc., contracts.amended by adding, after the word “"material,"” in the third line of said paragraph, the following words, “"or take possession, lease or assume control of, any street railroad, interurban railroad, or part thereof, cars and other equipment necessary to operation."” Sec. 3. That upon taking possession of such property, or leasing Compensation to be determined by the President.Suit, etc., if amount unsatisfactory.Procedure.or assuming control thereof, just compensation snail be made therefor, to be determined by the President, and if the amount thereof so determined by the 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 of America to recover such further sums as added to seventy-five per centum will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided Procedure.Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code. The President may exercise the power and authority hereby vested Execution of powers, etc.in him through the several departments of the Government, and through such agency or agencies as he shall determine from time to time. Approved, April 22, 1918.