Chapter 391. For the relief of the owners of the barkentine Mabel I
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CHAP. 391.— An Act For the relief of the owners of the barkentine Mabel I. Meyers and her master and crew, and for the relief of the owners of cargo of molasses late on board said barkentine. August 21, 1916.[[H. R. 11129](/us/bill/64/hr/11129).][[Private, No. 130](/us/pl/64/130).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, “Mabel I. Meyers,” Barkentine. Claim of owners of, may be submitted to district court.
That the claim of the owners of the barkentine Mabel I. Meyers and her master and crew, and the claim of the owners of the cargo of molasses late on board said barkentine, in alleged collision with the United States steamer Nebraska about thirty miles southeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on the thirtieth day of July, nineteen hundred and fifteen, for and on account of the losses alleged to have been suffered in said collision by the owners of said barkentine and by her master and crew, and by the owners of said cargo, may be submitted to the United States Court for the District of Massachusetts, the district nearest to which the collision occurred, under and in compliance with the rules of said court sitting as a court of admiralty.
And that the said court shall have jurisdiction Jurisdiction of court. to hear and determine the whole controversy and to enter a judgment or decree for the amount of the damages sustained by reason of said collision, if any shall be found to be due, either for or against the United States upon the same principles and measure of liability, with costs, as in like cases in admiralty between private parties with the same rights *Proviso*. No prospective profits allowed. of appeal: *Provided*, That no award or judgment shall be made for prospective profits.
Sec. 2. That the mode of service of process shall conform to the Service. Vol. 24, p. 506. provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the United States.” Approved, August 21, 1916.