EMERGENCY LEGISLATION

PASSED PRIOR TO DECEMBER, 1917

DEALING WITH THE CONTROL AND TAKING OF
PRIVATE PROPERTY FOR THE PUBLIC
USE, BENEFIT, OR WELFARE

PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS
THEREUNDER, TO AND INCLUDING JANUARY 31, 1918

TO WHICH IS ADDED A REPRINT OF
ANALAGOUS LEGISLATION SINCE 1775**

!!. S. Dept. of justice.

COLLECTED, ANNOTATED, AND INDEXED

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL

By

J. REUBEN CLARK, JR.

MAJOR, JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL'S OFFICERS' RESERVE CORPS
(ASSIGNED TO SPECIAL DUTY WITH THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES)

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LIST OF ACTS PASSED SINCE DECEMBER 1, 1917, AND HAVING TO DO WITH THE TAKING AND CONTROL OF PRIVATE PROPERTY FOR THE PUBLIC USE OR OTHERWISE.

(1) Public No. 102, 65th Congress [S. 3389]. An act to authorize and empower the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation to purchase, lease, requisition, or otherwise acquire, and to sell or otherwise dispose of improved or unimproved land, houses, buildings, and for other purposes. Approved March 1, 1918.

(2) Public No. 103, 65th Congress [H. R. 6361]. An act to extend protection to the civil rights of members of the Military and Naval Establishments of the United States engaged in the present war. Approved March 8, 1918.

This statute contains provisions granting general relief to members of the Military and Naval Establishments who may be in litigation in the courts, particular relief to such persons in the matter of rent, installment contracts, mortgages, insurance, taxes, and public lands, and also provisions prescribing certain administrative remedies.

(3) Public No. 107, 65th Congress [S. 3752]. An act to provide for the operation of transportation systems while under Federal control, for the just compensation of their owners, and for other purposes. Approved March 21, 1918.

(4) Public No. 109, 65th Congress [H. R. 9867]. An act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes. Approved March 28, 1918. This act bestows additional powers upon the alien property custodian with reference to the acquisition of certain docks and terminal facilities named, and amends section 12 of the trading with the enemy act.

(5) Public No. 121, 65th Congress [S., 3714]. An act to provide further for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to provide credits for industries and enterprises in the United States necessary or contributory to the prosecution of the war, and to supervise the issuance of securities, and for other purposes. Approved April 5, 1918.

This act provides for the creation and operation of the War Finance Corporation and of the Capital Issues Committee. (6) Public No. 127, 65th Congress [S. 3994]. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to authorize condemnation proceedings of lands for military purposes," approved July second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes. Approved April 11, 1918.

The act as amended is made to include lands "for the construction and operation of plants for the production of nitrate and other compounds and the manufacture of explosives and other munitions of war and for the development and transmission of power for the operation of such plants.'