Chapter 197.
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CHAP. 197.— An act granting jurisdiction and authority to the Court of Claims in the case of the schooner Don Pedro. March 3, 1879. *Be it enacted, by the Senate and, House of Representatives of the United. States of America in Congress assembled*, That the claim or claims of theSchooner Don Pedro. legal or equitable owners or claimants of the schooner Don Pedro, her cargo, freight, and personal effects contained in her, alleged to haveClaim referred to Court of Claims. been damaged, injured and sunk by collision with the United States revenue cutter U.
S. Grant, on or about the eighteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy seven, be referred to the Court of Claims, with jurisdiction and authority to hear and determine the same to judgment, with right of appeal, as in other cases : *Provided,* That no suit shall be*Proviso*. brought under the provisions of this act after six months from the date of the passage thereof. Approved, March 3, 1879.