Private Law 486.
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(/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)][[Private, No. 486](/us/pvtl/75/486)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the limitations Sam Green.
Provisions of Employees’ Compensation Act extended to. of time in sections 15 to 20, both inclusive, of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916, as amended, are hereby [39 Stat. 746](/us/stat/39/746).[5 U.S.C. §§765–770](/us/usc/t5/s765/770). waived in favor of Sam Green, an eployee of the Veterans’ Administration facility, Johnson City, Tennessee, in respect of his claim for disability alleged to have resulted from an injury sustained by him on August 7, 1934, and the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission is hereby authorized to consider and determine his claim under the remaining provisions of said Act: *Provided,* That no benefits shall accrue prior to the approval of this Act: *Provided further,* That claim hereunder shall be filed within six months from the approval of this Act.
Approved, April 15, 1938. For the relief of O. W. Waddle. 1938-04-15 159 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 159] AN ACT For the relief of O. W. Waddle. April 15, 1938[[S. 112](/us/bill/75/s/112)][
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