Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 52.djvu/1485

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52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 855-JUNE 30, 1938 gress of May 16, 1918 (40 Stat. 550-551), and June 4, 1918 (40 Stat. 595), and an Executive order of the President dated June 18, 1918. SEC. 2 . If said court in such determination from the record in said cases shall find that it failed to include in its judgment in said cases the item of interest at a proper rate, or the equivalent thereof, as an element or part of just compensation then due said parties plaintiff for their said property, then it shall have jurisdiction to correct the same and adjudge to said parties plaintiff and against the United States in each of the above-specified cases such additional sum of money as may be determined by the court under section 1 of this Act, with interest thereon at the proper rate from the date of payment of the several judgments therein, until March 5, 1925, irrespective of any delay upon the part of the executive departments to see that just compensation is accorded to said landowners in respect of the premises, or any existing statute of limitation, or any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, except that either party litigant shall have the right to petition the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ of certiorari, as in other cases in the Court of Claims. SEC. 3. The said court shall promptly proceed in said causes, each and all, upon motions filed therein by the parties plaintiff with the clerk of said court, if so filed within four months after the date of the approval of this Act. Approved, June 30, 1938. 1445 Correction of in- terest rate author- ized; additional sum to parties plaintiff. Exception. Procedure in said causes; condition.