Chapter 164. For the relief of John Streckfus
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CHAP. 164.— An Act For the relief of John Streckfus. July 17, 1914.[[H. R. 2536](/us/bill/63/hr/253).][[Private, No. 61](/us/pvtl/63/61).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Mississippi River John Streckfus.Payment for damages to steamer “J. S.” from Mississippi River improvement funds.Commission be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, from any appropriation made by Congress for works of river and harbor improvement carried on by said commission, to John Streckfus, captain and owner of the J.
S., the sum of $209, in payment and full settlement of all damages done to the said vessel J. S. by the commission’s steamer Mississippi on April seventeenth, nineteen hundred and nine, when said steamer Mississippi collided with said steamer J. S. while the latter was lying at her dock at New Orleans, Louisiana. Approved, July 17, 1914.