Chapter 415. Authorizing the Secretary of War to make settlement of the claim of the Franklin Ice Cream Company
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CHAP. 415.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to make settlement of the claim of the Franklin Ice Cream Company.March 3, 1927.[[S. 4330](/us/bill/69/s/4330).][[Private, No. 457](/us/pvtl/69/457).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Franklin Ice Cream Company.Claim of, to be re-opened and settled. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to reopen and make such settlement as be thinks just and proper of the claim of the Franklin Ice Cream Company, a lessee, who erected buildings under a five-year lease with renewal clauses on or in the immediate vicinity of the zone of Camp Funston activities and amusements at Camp Funston, Kansas; the buildings having been erected under the authority of the War Department and at the invitation of the department of Camp Funston activities under leases which were properly approved but which were canceled before the expiration of any of such leases and over the protest of the holders.
In no caseEvidence admitted. shall the amount, if any, paid in settlement exceed the losses sustained us established or shown by credible evidence. If the original books or papers have been lost or destroyed without the wrongful act of the claimant, the Secretary of War in making his findings shall consider secondary evidence, if it be credible and convincing. Approved, March 3, 1927.