Chapter 312. For the relief of the Eastern Transportation Company
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CHAP. 312.— An Act For the relief of the Eastern Transportation Company. August 9, 1916.[[H. R. 15635](/us/bill/64/hr/15635).][[Private, No. 91](/us/pvtl/64/91).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the claim against theEastern Transportation Company.May bring suit for damages to barge “John T. Donohue.” United States of the Eastern Transportation Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with its principal place of business in the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland, owner of the barge John T.
Donohue, for damages alleged to have been caused by collision between the said barge and the United States steamer C-2, in Chesapeake Bay, off Smiths Point, on the twenty-eighth day of March, nineteen hundred and thirteen, may be sued for by the said Eastern Transportation Company in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, sitting as a court of admiralty and acting under the rules governing such court, andJurisdiction of court. said court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such a suit and to enter a judgment or decree for the amount of such damages and costs, if any shall be found to be due, against the United States in favor of the said Eastern Transportation Company upon the same principles and measures of liability as in like cases in admiralty between private parties, and with the same rights of appeal:
Provided,*Provisos*.Notice, etc. That such notice of the suit shall be given to the Attorney General of the United States as may be provided by order of the said court, and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to cause the United States attorney in such district to appear and defend for the United States: *Provided further*, That the amounts of the losses alleged to have beenPayment of damages. sustained by the master and crew of the barge John T. Donohue may be included in such decree: *Provided*, That said suit shall beCommencement of suit. brought and commenced within four months from the date of the passage of this Act.
Approved, August 9, 1916.