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Excerpt from Real Estate, to Complete Acquisition in Certain Cases: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, Sixty-Seventh Congress, First Session

It is requested that H. R. 13929 as amended be further amended so as to include an item of to complete the purchase Of the acres of land taken over by the War Department from the Harrisburg Real Estate 00. And the acres requisitioned from Dr. W. H. Seibert, which amount is not covered by H. R. 13929 as amended, or other appropriations, making a total available of or that the item of be made the subject of separate legislation.

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Excerpt from Real Estate, to Complete Acquisition in Certain Cases: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, Sixty-Seventh Congress, First Session

The subcommittee met at 10 o'clock a.m., Hon. John C. McKenzie (chairman) presiding.

Mr. McKenzie. The hearing is on the bill H. R. 204, "To amend the Army appropriation act, approved July 11, 1919, so as to relieve appropriations for the completion of the acquisition of real estate in certain cases and making additional appropriations therefor."

Statement Of Brig. Gen. John M.Carson, Quartermaster Corps.

Brig. Gen. Carson. Mr. Chairman, the amounts asked for in this bill (H. R. 204) are for the purpose of completing obligations incurred by the War Department during the process of acquiring the real estate upon which the various projects are located. In some instances the property was under contract; in others it had been requisitioned at the time of the passage of the act of July 11, 1919, which prevented any further moneys being expended for the purchase of real estate by the War Department. In all cases the War Department is definitely obligated for the amounts, and this bill in no way contemplates the purchase of any additional real estate, but is solely based on the idea of completing obligations already made and protecting the large investments on the various sites involved.

The power of requisition was conferred upon the President of the United States by the act of Congress approved August 10, 1917 (40 Stat., 276, 279). It has been held that the service of a requisition vested fee-simple title to the real estate forthwith in the United States and thereby obligated the United States to pay just compensation to the owner for his property. The power of requisition was ultilized only in cases where a price could not be agreed upon. The matter was then heard by the War Department board of appraisers, sitting somewhat in the nature of a court of claims and making an award based on the evidence presented by both parties to the dispute. In all cases of requisition such an award has been made, and it would seem as though the United States was definitely obligated to make payment.

This explains the necessity for the appropriations asked for in this bill now before the committee.

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