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Public Law 71–359

Authorizing the Court of Claims of the United States to hear and determine the claim of the city of Park Place, heretofore an independent municipality but now a part of the city of Houston, Texas.

Approved May 29, 1930

Statutory text

An Act

Authorizing the Court of Claims of the United States to hear and determine the claim of the city of Park Place, heretofore an independent municipality but now a part of the city of Houston, Texas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the United

Park Place, Tex.

Claim of, for destruction of streets by Army trucks, to be determined by Court of Claims.

States Court of Claims be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed to hear and determine and report to Congress the claim of the city of Park Place, Texas, heretofore an independent municipality but now included within the extended corporate limits of the city of Houston, Texas, for compensation for the destruction of the streets of the said city of Park Place by the Army trucks of the United States in the years of 1917 and 1918. Said claim shall not be barred

Statute of limitations waived, etc.

by any statute of limitations nor because of the fact that the claimant was at the time of the injury a separate municipality and now a part of the city of Houston, Texas.

Approved, May 29, 1930.

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