Private Law 485.
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(/us/pvtl/75/484)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary The Portland Electric Power Company. Payment to. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the special fund “The Oregon and California Land Grant Fund”, to The Portland Electric Power Company, a corporation, of Portland, Oregon, the sum of $6,721.65, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for the refund of a sum paid to the United States on July 7, 1917, as the amount of compensation awarded by the circuit court for Clackamas County, Oregon, in a condemnation suit against the Oregon and California Railroad Company, wherein claimant company sought to acquire title to fifty-two and forty-one one-hundredths acres of Oregon and California Railroad Company grant lands in the State of Oregon, the title to said land having subsequently been forfeited to the United States by the Oregon and California Railroad Company as the result of a decision by the United *Proviso.* Limitation on attorney’s, etc., fees.
States Supreme Court: *Provided,* That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall Penalty for violation.be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000.
Approved, April 13, 1938. For the relief of T. T. East and the Cassidy Southwestern Commission Company, citizens of the State of Texas. 1938-04-14 156 Chapter 52 Stat. 1294 75 3 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-11-15 private [CHAPTER 156] AN ACT For the relief of T. T. East and the Cassidy Southwestern Commission Company, citizens of the State of Texas.
April 14, 1938[[H. R. 3776](/us/bill/75/hr/3776)][[Private, No. 485](/us/pvtl/75/485)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That T. T. East T. T. East and the Cassidy Southwestern Commission Company. Authority granted to enter suit in district court. and the Cassidy Southwestern Commission Company, a corporation, their heirs, legal representatives, executors, administrators, and assigns, any statutes of limitations being waived, are hereby authorized to enter suit in the United States District Court of the Northern District of Texas for the amount alleged to be due to said claimants from the United States by reason of the alleged neglect and alleged wrongdoing of the officials and inspectors of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry in the dipping of tick-infested cattle in Texas, which said cattle were shipped from Texas to Rockland, Kansas, in the year 1922.
Sec. 2. Jurisdiction conferred.Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon said United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas to hear and determine all such claims without intervention of a jury. The action in 52 Stat. 1295said court may be presented by a single petition making the United States party defendant and shall set forth all the facts on which the claimants base their claims, and the petition may be verified by the agent or attorney of said claimants, official letters, reports, and public records or certified copies thereof may be used as evidence, and said court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine said suit and to enter a judgment or decree for the amount of such damages and costs, if any, as shall be found due from the United States to the said claimants by reason of the alleged negligence and erroneous certification, upon the same principles and under the same measure of liability as in like cases between private parties, and the Government hereby waives its immunity from suit.
And said claimants and the United States shall have all rights of appeal or writ of error or other remedy as in similar cases between private persons or corporations: *Provided,* That such notice of the suit shall be given to *Provisos.* Notice, etc., to Attorney General. the Attorney General of the United States as may be provided by order of said court, and upon such notice it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to cause the United States Attorney in such district to appear and defend for the United States: *And provided further,* That such suit shall be begun within six months of the date Commencement of suit.of the approval of this Act.
Approved, April 14, 1938. For the relief of Sam Green. 1938-04-15 158 Chapter 52 Stat. 1295 75 3 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-11-15 private [CHAPTER 158] AN ACT For the relief of Sam Green. April 15, 1938[[S. 2378](/us/bill/75/s/2378)][
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