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 1'42 .2_ , SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SEss. III. CHs. 307, 308 . 1931 . award com e n a p y awarded in said proceeding. If the compensation finally awarded wont made, judgment in respect of said lands, or any parcel thereof, shall exceed the entered for deaelt, amount of the money so received by any person entitled, the court shall enter judgment against the United States for the amount of the deficiency. tfm o owor osurr rider fix Upon the filing of a declaration of taking, the court shall have possession. power to fix the time within which and the terms upon which the pa rties in p osses sion shall be r equir ed to surr ender poss essi on to the orders respecting en- oumbrsnces, etc. petitioner. The court shall have power to make such orders in respect of encumbrances, liens, rents, taxes, assessments, insurance, and other charges, if any, as shall be just and equitable. Vesting of title not SEC, 2. No appeal in any such cause nor any bond or undertaking delayed by appeal. given therein shall' operate to prevent or delay the vesting of title to such lands in the United States. Payment of ultimate SEC. 3. Action under this statute irrevocably committing the United award. States to the payment of the ultimate award shall not be taken unless the chief of the executive department or agency or bureau of the Government empowered to acquire the land shall be of the opinion that the ultimate award probabl y will be wit hin any limits pre- scribed by Congress on the price to be paid. Prior rights, ete., not SEC. 4. The right to take possession and title in advance of final abrogated. judgment in condemnation proceedings as provided by this Act shall be in addition to any right, power, or authority conferred by the laws of the United States or those of any State or Territory under whi ch such proceedings may be conducted, and shall not be construed as ab rogatin g, limi ting, o r modif ying an y such right, power, or authority. Expenditures, etc ., SEC. 5 . In any case in which the United States has taken or may when United States committed to pay take possession f any real property during the course of condemna- awa rds. tion proceedings and in advance of final judgment therein and the United States has become irrevocably committed to pay the amount ulti mately to be a warded as com pensation, it shall be lawf ul to expe nd moneys duly appropriated for that pur pose in demoli shing existing structures on said land and in erecting public buildings or U:S.,s ep 55. public works thereon, notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 55 Proviso. of the Revised Statutes of the United States : Provided, That in the Validity of title, opinion of the Attorney General, the title has been vested in the United States or all persons having an interest therein have been made parties to such proceeding and will be bound by the final judgment therein. Approved, February 26, 1931. February 26, 1931. [H. R. 15876 .1 Public, No. 737. Mesa Ve rde Na tional Park, Co1o. additions to, author- ized. CHAP. S08 .-An Act To provide for the addition of certain lands to the Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress a ssembled, That for the pur- pose of protecting the scenery along the Point Looko ut Road between the north boundary of the Mesa Verde National Park and this road's juncture with the Cortez-Mancos Road, the President of the United States is hereby authorized, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, to add to the said Mesa Verde Na- tional Park, Colorado, by executive proclamation, a strip of land two hundred and sixty feet wide along and including said Point Lookout Road, and the triangle formed by the fork in said road and such other public land along or adjacent to said road and right of way and lands as may be acquired by gift or by exchanges as her einafter provi ded, which la nds shall the reupon become and be

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