Chapter 358. Authorizing and directing the Department of State to ascertain and report to Congress damages and losses sustained by certain citizens of the United States on account of the naval operations in and about the town of Apia, in the Samoan Islands, by the United States and Great Britain, in March, April
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CHAP. 358.— An Act Authorizing and directing the Department of State to ascertain and report to Congress damages and losses sustained by certain citizens of the United States on account of the naval operations in and about the town of Apia, in the Samoan Islands, by the United States and Great Britain, in March, April, and May, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. June 23, 1910.[[S. 7158](/us/bill/61/s/7158).][[Public, No. 244](/us/pl/61/244).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Samoa.
Claims of citizens for losses in, to be ascertained. Vol. 31, p. 1875. *Post*, p. 1034. That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to ascertain the amounts due, if any, respectively, to American citizens on claims heretofore filed in the Department of State growing out of the joint naval operations of the United States and Great Britain in and about the town of Apia, in the Samoan Islands, in the months of March, April, and May, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and covered by the provisions 593 of the “Convention between the United States, Germany, and Great Britain relating to the settlement of Samoan claims,” concluded November seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and the decision thereunder by His Majesty, Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, given at Stockholm, October fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and Report. report the same to Congress.
Approved, June 23, 1910.