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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1919. 1923 me by law affecting the Federal control of railroads and systems of transportation, an of all powers me hereto enabling, do herebly appoint Walker D. Hines, of New York, Director General of Ra` - roads, and authorize him, either personally or through such divisions, Authority comma. agencies, or ersons as he may appoint, in his own name or in the name of sucii) divisions, agencies, or persons, or in the name of the President, to agree with the carriers or any of them or with any other person in interest, upon the amount of compensation to be paid pursuant to law, and to sign, seal, and deliver in his own name or in the name of the President or in the name of the United States of America such agreements as may be necessary and expedient with the carriers or other persons in interest respecting compensation, or any other matter concerning which it may be necessary or expedient to deal, and to make any and all contracts, agreements, or obligations necessary or expedient and to issue any an all orders which may in an way be found necessary and expedient in connection with the Federal control of such systems of transportation, railroads, or inland waterways, as fugy in all respects as the President is authorized to do, and gener y to do and perform all and sin(gn.lar all acts and things and to exercise all and singular the powers an duties in relation to such Federal control as the President is by law empowered to do, and perform. In witness whereof, I have hereimto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done this tenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and of the Inde- [snare] endence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-thi1‘d. Woomzow Wnrsou By the President: FRANK L. Pour, Secretary of State. BY mn Pizrzsmnnr or run Unrrnn Srxrrzs or Aivmmca · ’“”“°"”•“‘°· A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, By the Urgent Deficiency Act, approved October 6, i¤‘g_`Q':Lfii’,`]}l°iil,i?°pr°v` 1917, (Pub. No. 64, 65th Cong.), an appropriation of $7,000,000 was '°'“°*"°· made for increasing the facilities for the proof and test of ordnance —¢¤¢¤,¤. 352. material, including necessary buildings, construction, equipment, land, and damages and losses to persons, firms and corporations resulting from the procurement of the land for this {purpose; and also the sa aries and ergpenses of any agents aippointe to assist in the procurement of said land, or damages resu ting from its taking; Sumo th. AND WHEREAS, by the said Act the President is authorized aan. Um Omand empowered, if the said land and a purtenances and improvements attached thereto, as above descriliied, cannot be rocured by purchase, to take over for the United States the immediate possession and title thereto, including all easements, rights of way and other rights ap urtenant to said lands, AM, ml AND WHEIQEAS, by Proclamation promulgated under date of 'P` ` December 14, 1917, the President, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the said Act of Congress, ordered and declared a tract of land lying along the westerly shore of Chesapeake Bay, in Harford County, Maryland, between Plum Point on the north and Poole’s Island on the south, to be necessary for the pur oses specified in the above Act, and took over for the United States the immediate posses-