Private Law 74–825

That the Court of Claims of the United States be, and it is hereby, given jurisdiction to hear and determine the claims, legal or equitable, of George B. Marx, Incorporated, a New York corporation and assignee or successor of George B. Marx, growing out of or arising under or from the suspension and cancelation of a certain contract numbered 4241, dated August 6, 1918 (order numbered 110016), which claims are for reimbursement and payment for services performed and goods furnished under said contract and order, for goods manufactured or in process of manufacture, and for materials and equipment bought, contracted, or committed for, by George B. Marx under the said contract, which contract was made by the United States with the said George B. Marx for the construction of a quantity of carts for carrying wire for the use of the Signal Corps, United States Army; and to enter decree or judgment upon said claims, notwithstanding the bars or defenses of any settlement, release, or adjustment heretofore made or of any assignment of said claims by George B. Marx to George B. Marx, Incorporated, or of laches, lapse of time, or of any statute of

Proviso.

Credit against claim.

limitations: Provided, however, That the United States shall be given credit for any sum heretofore paid the said George B. Marx on said claims.

Sec. 2.

The record or any part of the record of the proceedings and hearings had before the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives, on H. R. 1611 in the second session of the Seventy-first Congress, and the third session of the Seventy-first Congress, together with any and all exhibits, affidavits, or inventories presented to or filed with the said War Claims Committee of the House of Representatives in connection with said Act, and together with any and all Government reports, statements, inventories and other documents, on file in the War Department or any other department of the Government or elsewhere, having a bearing upon the claim embodied in said Act, may be introduced before the Court of Claims with the full force of depositions subject to objections as to materiality and relevancy.

Sec. 3.

Such claims may be instituted at any time within four months from the approval of this Act. Proceedings in any suit brought in the Court of Claims under this Act, appeals therefrom, and payment of any judgment therein shall be had as in the case of

U. S. C., p. 1261.

claims over which such court has jurisdiction under section 145 of the Judicial Code, as amended.