Chapter 64. To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to increase the facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 64.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to increase the facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, and for other purposes. April 26, 1918.[[H. R. 10783](/us/bill/65/hr/10783).][[Public, No. 140](/us/pl/65/140).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Navy.Ordnance proving grounds.Expenditures authorized for.Navy is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $1,000,000, or any part thereof, in his discretion, for the purpose of increasing the facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, including necessary buildings, construction, equipment, railroad, and water facilities, land, and damages and losses to persons, firms, and corporations resulting from the procurement of the land for this purpose, and also all necessary expenses incident to the procurement of said land: *Provisos*.*Provided*, That if such lands and appurtenances and improvements 538Taking over of lands etc., it early purchase not practicable.*Post*, pp. 1790, 1826, 1885.attached thereto, can not be procured by purchase within one month after the passage of this Act the President is hereby authorized and empowered to take over for the United States the immediate possession and title of such lands and improvements, including all easements, rights of way, riparian, and other rights appurtenant thereto, or any land selected by him to be used for the carrying out of the Determination of compensation by President.purposes of this Act.
That if said land and appurtenances and improvements shall be taken over as aforesaid, the United States shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by the President, Suit authorized if price unsatisfactory.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 to recover such further sum, as, added to the said seventy-five per centum, will Procedure.Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and Title to vest at once.section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.
Upon the taking over of said property by the President as aforesaid, the title to all such property so taken over shall immediately vest in the Appropriation.United States. For the purposes of this Act there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated the sum of $1,000,000, or so much thereof Restriction on building railroad in District of Columbia.as may be necessary: *Provided*, That no railroad shall be built in the District of Columbia under this Act, until Congress has approved the point from which such road may start and also the route to be followed in the District of Columbia.
Approved, April 26, 1918.