Volume 63
Private Law 81–88
To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon a certain claim of Harry W. Sharpley, his heirs, administrators, or assigns, against the United States.
Approved April 22, 1949
Statutory text
AN ACT
To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon a certain claim of Harry W. Sharpley, his heirs, administrators, or assigns, against the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Harry W. Sharpley, of Greenbackville, Virginia, his heirs, administrators, or assigns, against the United States for alleged damages caused by the sewage emanating from the naval auxiliary air station, at Chincoteague, Virginia, and the flow of such sewage over and across certain oyster grounds located in Mosquito Creek, Virginia, which grounds had been leased by the said Harry W. Sharpley.
Sec. 2.
Proceedings for the determination of said claim shall be had in the same manner as in cases of which said court has jurisdiction under the provisions of section 145 of the Judicial Code, as amended:
28 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 1491.
Time limitation.
Provided, That suit hereunder shall be instituted within four months after the enactment of this Act: And provided further, That this Act shall be construed only to waive the immunity from suit of the Government of the United States with respect to the claim of said Harry W. Sharpley, his heirs, administrators, or assigns, and not otherwise to affect any substantive rights of the parties: And provided further, That nothing in this Act shall be construed as an inference of liability on the part of the United States.
Approved April 22, 1949.