Chapter 191. Granting jurisdiction and authority to the Court of Claims in the case of the towboat Future City, her barges, cargoes, and so forth
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CHAP. 191.— An Act Granting jurisdiction and authority to the Court of Claims in the case of the towboat Future City, her barges, cargoes, and so forth.August 3, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,“Future City.”Claim of owners of sunken steamer, etc., referred to Court of Claims. That the claims of the legal or equitable owners or claimants of the steam towboat Future City, her barges in tow, cargoes thereon, freight and personal effects contained in them, alleged to have been sunk, lost, or greatly damaged by collision with the United States vessels of war Atlanta, Galena, and Richmond, in the Mississippi River, at the city of New Orleans, on or about the seventh day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be referred to the Court of Claims, with jurisdiction and authority to hear and determine the same to judgment, with the right of appeal, as in other cases: *Provided*, That no suit shall be brought under the provisions*Proviso*.Limit. of this act after six months from the date of the passage thereof: *And provided further*, That no judgment shall be rendered against the Government unless it shall affirmatively appear, from the evidenceCondition. adduced, that such collision was the result of negligence on the part of the officers in command of said vessels of war.
Approved, August 3, 1894.