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1444 [CHAPTER 854] AN ACT June 30, 1938 [H. R. 667] To correct the records of the War Department to show that Guy Carlton Baker [Private, No. 8341 and Calton C. Baker or Carlton C. Baker is one and the same person. Guy Carlton Baker. Correction of name on War Department records authorized. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to amend the records of the War Department to show that Guy Carlton Baker is one and the same person as Calton C. Baker or Carlton C. Baker, who served in the War of 1812 as a private in Captain Ezekiel Col- burn's company, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas B. Benedict's regiment, New York Militia. Approved, June 30, 1938. [CHAPTER 855] June 30, 1938 [H. R. 91711 [Private, No. 835] Court of Claims. Authority conferred to reopen specified just-compensation cases. Ascertainment of amount of just com- pensation by way of interest, etc. 40 Stat. 207, 208, 50, 595 . AN ACT Directing the Court of Claims to reopen certain cases and to correct the errors therein, if any, by additional judgments against the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Court of Claims of the United States be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed to reopen the following just-compensation cases on its docket, heretofore disposed of by said court, to wit: Willard R. Cook and Company, Incorporated, against United States (numbered 33984); A. E. Krise, receiver of the Fidelity Land and Investment Corporation (formerly Fidelity Land and Investment Corporation) against United States (numbered 33988). Pine Beach Hotel Corpo- ration (now represented by Charles H. Consolvo and A. E. Campe, its receivers) and others against United States (numbered 34049); Harry L. Lowenberg and others against United States (numbered 34727); Norfolk-Hampton Roads Company against United States (numbered 34751) (all of Norfolk, Virginia); William G. Maupin, Junior, and others (now represented by George W. Maupin, as administrator and in his own right, E. Griffith Maupin, S. Dawson Maupin, Alliene Maupin, and Ruth Maupin, all of Portsmouth, Vir- ginia) docket numbered 34681; and to ascertain and determine from the special findings of fact as therein made and recorded by said court, and with due regard to the requirements of the Act applicable thereto under which such properties were taken and the fifth amend- ment to the Constitution of the United States, as defined by the Supreme Court in the case of Seaboard Air Line Railway against United States (261 U. S . 299), and other like cases, the amount of just compensation by way of interest, if any, at the proper rate alleged to be due and owing by the United States to the parties plain- tiff from the date of taking to the time of the payment to them of the original judgments in each of said cases for their lands situate at Hampton Roads, Virginia, and taken for public use by the United States on June 28, 1917, by authority of the Act of Congress of June 15, 1917 (ch. 29, 40 Stat. 207-208), and taken for public use by the United States on September 20, 1918, by authority of Acts of Con- PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 849, 854 , 855 -JUNE 29, 30 , 1938 [52 STAT. all claims against the United States for damages to the schooner A. B . Sherman in 1899 while that vessel was under charter by the Navy Department. Approved, June 29, 1938.