Chapter 127. For the relief of the owners of the schooner Walter B
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CHAP. 127.— An Act For the relief of the owners of the schooner Walter B. Chester. February 18, 1911. [[H. R. 25074](/us/bill/61/hr/25074).] [[Private, No. 222](/us/pvtl/61/222).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* “Walter B. Chester,” Schooner. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to the owners of the American schooner Walter B. Chester, registered, ofPayment to owners of.
Wellfleet, Massachusetts, their heirs and assigns, as determined by the United States Court of Claims, the sum of five thousand seven hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-five cents, which sum is hereby appropriated, the same being the amount in part awarded said owners by said Court of Claims as damages on account of the United States warship Vandalia colliding with said schooner, as fully appears in the findings of said Court of Claims in congressional case numbered sixty-five, Deering, Donnell, and others against the United States, to which findings and the award made thereon reference is hereby had, which sum shall be in full settlement for all claims for said damages.
Approved, February 18, 1911.