Chapter 593. For the relief of the owner or owners of the schooner Bergen
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CHAP. 593.— An Act For the relief of the owner or owners of the schooner Bergen. May 26, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Schooner Bergen. Claim of owners referred to Court of Claims. That the claim of the legal owner or owners of the schooner Bergen, of New York, Benjamin H. Moss, master, of her cargo, freight, tow, and personal effects, alleged to have been sunk by collision with the United States steamship Periwinkle, at the mouth of the Potomac River, on or about the eighteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, be referred to the Court of Claims, to hear and determine the same to judgment, with *Proviso*.
Limit of time for filing suit. the right of appeal as in other cases: *Provided*, That no suit shall be brought under the provisions of this Act after six months from the date of the passage thereof. Approved, May 26, 1900.