Chapter 195. For the relief of the Merritt and Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Company
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CHAP. 195.— An Act For the relief of the Merritt and Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Company. April 28, 1910.[[S. 3905](/us/bill/61/s/3905).][[Private, No. 53](/us/pvt/61/53).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War Merritt and Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Company. Payment for damages to tug “I. J. Merritt.”be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to examine into and adjust the claim of the Merritt and Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Company for damages sustained by said corporation for injuries to the tug I.
J. Merritt, resulting from collision with the transport ship Mississippi (now Buford) in Santiago Harbor on January fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and to determine what amount, if any, should be paid to the Merritt and Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Company for damages so sustained, and to certify such amount to the proper accounting officers for payment in the manner prescribed Appropriation.by law. And for the payment of such claim the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 28, 1910.