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 1707 BY THE Pnnsmmrr or THE Unrmn STATES or Amrmca °°‘°"°'*“·*°"· - A PROCLAMATION A WHEREAS, By the Urgent Deficiency Act, approved October 6, g,2§§§?“°° P’°"‘”‘ 1917 (Pub. No. 64, 65th Cong.), an appropriation of $7,000,000 was P¤¤=¤¤b¤¤· made for increasing the facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, including necessary buildings, construction, equipment, land, and damages and losses to persons, firms and corporations resultnig from the procurement of the land for this dpurpose; and also the s aries and expenses of any agents a pointe to assist in the procurement of said land, or damages resulitin from its taking; Sm; amhmh AND WHZEREAS, By said act it is further provided as follows: uehtm Tw "Tl1at if the land and appurtenances and improvements attached thereto, as contem lated under the fomgpingpp propriaéé tion, can not be procured by purchase then, "e resident is hereby authorized and empowered to `taket over forsake United States the immediate possession and title, including all easements, rights of way, riparian ,and other rights appurtenant thereto, or any land selected by him to be use for the c ` out of the purpose named in the aforesaid appropriation. Ellhat if said land and appurtenances and im rovements shall be taken over as aforesaid the United States shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by the President, and if the amount thereof, so determined by the President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per ccntum of the amount so determined by the resident and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum, as, added to the said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the udicial Code. Upon the taking over of said property by the President as aforesaid the title to all such property so taken over shall immediately vest in the United States: Promkled further, That section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not apply to the expenditures authorized hereunder/’ QN OW THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the M§g_”,§§,’,;’}*,§,”g“°d’i° United States of America, pursuant to the authorit vested in me P<w¢,p.17Zi1. by the said act of Congress, do hereby order and dyeclare that the following described tract of land is necessary for the purposes specified in said appropriation, namely: all lands within metes and bounds a proximately described as follows: From the southernmost D°°°'*P“"’· point of Pooles Island northwesterly to the southernmosigjpoint of Spry Island; thence to the southernmost point of the sm islands lying close to and southwest of Lower Island Point on Carroll Island; thence to Bries Point; thence over Seneca Creek and Middle River Neck to the line of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington