Private Law 75–167

That jurisdiction

Canal Dredging Company.

Jurisdiction conferred upon Court of Claims to hear claim of.

is hereby conferred upon the United States Court of Claims to hear the claim of the Canal Dredging Company, a corporation under the laws of Illinois, with its principal office in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, and to determine and report to Congress the amount of additional compensation, if any, that said Canal Dredging Company may be justly entitled to for the excavation of rock exceeding the percentage represented in and by the specifications, profiles, and other data relating to the work and for its loss on account of its preparation for doing the work which it was to do in the State of Florida along the south shore of Lake Okeechobee in the area known locally as South Bay between the Miami Canal and Bacom Point, under the contract entered into on the 5th day of August 1932 between the United States and itself designated as “Contract W. 436- eng-3071”, and supplemental agreement modifying the same between said parties, approved by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, on the 13th day of July 1933, terminated by supplemental agreement entered into between said parties on the 14th day of June 1934, and for the best interests of the Government, because of the discovery of rock to be excavated in excess of that represented and contemplated as aforesaid, entitling said Canal Dredging Company to a material increase in the contract price, in order that the Government might construct said work by Government plant and hired labor, of a materially different design as more efficient for the purpose intended and at a less cost to the Government, to which said Canal Dredging Company consented.

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Such claim may be instituted at any time within one year after the passage of this Act, notwithstanding the lapse of time or any statute of limitations.