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Volume 47 · 1670

Private Law 72–221

For the relief of Nancy H. Rouse, Clara H. Simmons, W. H. Hays, Hallie H. Hamilton, and Bradford P. Hays.

Approved June 8, 1932

Statutory text

AN ACT

For the relief of Nancy H. Rouse, Clara H. Simmons, W. H. Hays, Hallie H. Hamilton, and Bradford P. Hays.

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

Nancy H. Rouse, et al.

May bring suit for property damages in Court of Claims or District Court.

That Nancy H. Rouse, Clara H. Simmons, W. H. Hays, Hallie H. Hamilton, and Bradford P. Hays, owners of a certain farm consisting of three hundred and thirty-two acres, more or less, near Camp Knox in Hardin County, Kentucky, are hereby authorized to bring suit against the United States of America to recover damages, if any, for loss or losses, which they may have sustained or suffered by reason of establishment, construction, or maintenance of Camp Knox in the

Jurisdiction conferred.

State of Kentucky. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims of the United States or the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Kentucky to hear, consider, determine, and render judgment for the amount of any such damages, if any, as may be found to have been sustained or suffered by the above owners of said property, with the same right of appeal as in other cases, and notwithstanding any lapse of time or statute of

Proviso.

Commencement of suit.

limitations: Provided, That such action will be brought within one year from the date that this Act shall become effective.

Approved, June 8, 1932.

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