Chapter 150. For the relief of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company; the Chicago, Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company; and the Saint Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company
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CHAP. 150.— An Act For the relief of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company; the Chicago, Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company; and the Saint Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company. November 23, 1921.[[S. 1283](/us/bill/67/s/1283).][[Private, No. 13](/us/pvtl/67/13).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company and others.Jurisdiction given Court of Claims to hear, etc., claims of.
That, any statute of limitations to the contrary notwithstanding, the Court of Claims is hereby given jurisdiction to hear and determine the claims of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company, in accordance with the decisions of said court in causes numbered twenty-eight thousand two hundred and seventy-two, twenty-nine thousand six hundred and thirty-six, and thirty thousand one hundred and fifty-nine, and the claims of the Chicago, Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company, in accordance with the decision of said court in cause numbered twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, which was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States, and the claim of the Saint Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company, in accordance with the decision of said court in cause *Provisos.*Assignments not recognized.[R.
S., sec. 3477, p. 689](/us/rs/s3477/pp689)numbered twenty-four thousand four hundred and nine: *Provided*, That said court in rendering judgment shall enforce the provisions of section 3477, Revised Statutes of the United States, prohibiting the assignment of claims against the United States, and shall render judgment for said claimants only for the amounts in which they, and not any predecessors of theirs, were underpaid, it being the 1571purpose of this Act to waive only the statute of limitations and not any other legal defense the United States may have to said claims: *Provided further*, That the same right of appeal to the Supreme Court Appeal to Supreme Court.of the United States as exists in other cases in the general jurisdiction of said court is hereby granted.
Approved, November 23, 1921.