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8981 1 (1928-1929)

handle is hein.usccsset/usconset39516 and id is 1 raw text is: 70TH CONGREss HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT Pd Session 5 j No. 2560 JOHN BOWIE FEBRUARY 16, 1929.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed Mr. LoWREY, from the Committee on War Claims, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 138011 The Committee on War Claims, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 13801) entitled A bill for the relief of John Bowie, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass with the following amendment: In line 6, strike out the figures $12,000.00 and insert the figures $2,610.00. The purpose of this bill is to pay John Bowie, of Annapolis Junction, Md., for damages to his farm in Anne Arundel County, Md., during the years 1917, 1918, and 1919. The bill as originally introduced sought an appropriation of $12,000 but your committee amended it to appropriate $2,610. In 1917, the Terminal Real Estate Co., which was, in fact, a crea- ture of the War Department, sought leases on various tracts of land, including that of the claimant, for cantonment purposes. A flat rental of $7.50 an acre per year was offered and owners, hesitating to lease, were told that if they did not do so their land would be con- demned. The claimant leased at this rental under protest and now seeks the difference between the rental allowed and a rental which would be fair and equitable. Your committee investigated this case very thoroughly, held hear- ings on same, and came to the unanimous conclusion that claimant should be paid an additional sum of $2,610, and therefore recommends that the bill do pass as amended. A letter from the Secretary of War addressed to the chairman Committee on War Claims, under date of June 4, 1928, is appended hereto and made a part of this report.

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