...promptly make payments to all persons supplying him with labor and materials, and that, if no suit be brought by the United States within six months from the completion of the contract then those supplying the contractor with labor and materials may sue. The bond furnished...

...the work provided for in such contract. 1f no suit should be brought by the United States within sir months from the completion and final settlement of...then the person or persons supplying the contractor or contractors with labor or materials will be furnished with a copy of the contract and bond upon...

...said interveners. — IMA. 51. Action on bond for labor or material furnished; jurisdiction. — lf no suit should be brought by the United States within six months from the completion imd final settlement of said contract, then the person or persons supplying the contractor with labor...

...Mississippi. Bond — right of action — by whom. Sec. 4. If no suit shall be brought by the obligee within six months from the completion and final settlement of said contract, then any person supplying therein labor or materials shall have a right of action on said bond for his use...

...614, 61 L. Ed. 1206. Three significant provisions of the act herewith numerically numbered are : (1) "If no suit should be brought by the United States...said contract, then the person or persons supplying (he contractor with labor » » » shall be, and are hereby, authorized to bring suit in the name of...

...and be made a party," and to have their rights and claims adjudicated in such action. If no suit is brought by the United States within six months "from the completion and final settlement" of the contract, suit may be brought in the name of the United States against the contractor and his sureties,...

...materials in the prosecution of the work provided for in such contract ; and any person or persons making application therefor, and furnishing affidavit to...department under the direction of which said work is being, or has been prosecuted, that labor or materials for the prosecution of such work has been...

...full amount due the United States, the remainder shall be distributed pro rata among said interveners. If no suit should be brought by the United States within six months from the completion mid final settlement of said contract, then the person or persons supplying the contractor with labor...

...the remainder of the recovery. Only when the United States does not sue 304. Opinion of the Court. within six months " from the completion and final settlement of said contract " may an action in its name be brought by a private claimant for his use and benefit. Where such a...

...with other intervenors, subject to the priority of the claim of the United States. And if no suit is brought by the United States within six months from the completion and final settlement of the contract, any such person shall have a right of action upon the bond, and may, within a specified...