Chapter 52. For the relief of contractors and subcontractors for the post offices and other buildings and work under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 52.— An Act For the relief of contractors and subcontractors for the post offices and other buildings and work under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and for other purposes. August 25, 1919. [[H. R. 6323](/us/bill/66/hr/6323).] [[Public, No. 41](/us/pl/66/41).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Public buildings.Reimbursement for loss on contracts for, etc., due to war conditions.*Post,* pp. 507, 592.Treasury is hereby authorized and directed, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to receive fully itemized and verified claims and reimburse contractors and their subcontractors, including material men, for the construction, improvement, special repair, equipment, or furnishing of post offices and other buildings or work under the Courthouse and Lincoln Memorial, D.
C.supervision of the Treasury Department (as well as the United States courthouse in the District of Columbia and the approaches and retaining wall to the Lincoln Memorial in the District of Columbia) whose contracts were awarded or whose bids as thereafter accepted were mailed or delivered to the proper governmental authority prior to the entrance of the United States into the war with Germany, to wit, April 6, 1917, and whose contracts have been or will be completed after said date, for loss due directly to increased costs thereafter arising, due either, first, to increased cost of labor or materials, or, second, to delay on account of the action of the United States Priority Board or other governmental activities, or, third, to commandeering by the United States Government of plants or materials shown to the Secretary of the Treasury to have been sustained by them in the fulfillment of such contracts by reason of war conditions alone: *Provided,* That any subcontractor may *Provisos.*Subcontracts.Estimates to be submitted.submit his claim through the contractor or to the Secretary of the Treasury.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to submit from time to time estimates for appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act: *Provided further,* That no claims for Time limit for filing claims.such reimbursement shall be paid unless filed with the Treasury Department within three months after the passage of this Act: *And provided further,* That in no case shall the contractor or subcontractor Restrictions.be reimbursed to an extent greater than is sufficient to cover his actual increased cost in fulfilling his contract or subcontract, exclusive of any and all profits to such contractor or subcontractor; nor shall such reimbursement include any advances or Sureties of failing contractors.payments made by the sureties of such contractor or subcontractor in executing the work, but the surety on any contract coming within the provisions of this Act who, as surety, has completed, or may complete, the work of any defaulting contractor on any such contract, or who has furnished financial assistance to a failing contractor on any such contract whereby such contractor has been enabled to complete such contract, may file claim, within the period hereinbefore fixed, and be reimbursed in the manner hereinbefore provided Reimbursement.for the increased cost due to the causes hereinbefore specified of 282the labor and material supplied in so completing any such contract, or for the increased cost of the labor and material paid for from Detailed report of expenditures.funds so furnished by such surety: *And provided further,* That the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress at the beginning of each session thereof the amount of each expenditure and the facts on which the same is based.
Approved, August 25, 1919.