Chapter 87. For the relief of New England Coal and Coke Company, owner of the American barges Emilie and Cassie, and Bruusgaard, Kiosterud Dampskibsaktieselskab, owner of the Norwegian steamship Hesperos
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CHAP. 87.— An Act For the relief of New England Coal and Coke Company, owner of the American barges Emilie and Cassie, and Bruusgaard, Kiosterud Dampskibsaktieselskab, owner of the Norwegian steamship Hesperos. April 26, 1916.[[H. R. 7862](/us/bill/64/hr/7862).][[Private, No. 16](/us/pvtl/64/16).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the claim of the NewBarges “Emilie” and “Cassie” and steamship “Hesperos.”Claims for damages by collision with U.
S. S. “Arethusa” submitted to district court. England Coal and Coke Company, owner of the American barges Emilie and Cassie, and the claim of Bruusgaard Kiosterud Dampskibsaktieselskab, owner of the steamship Hesperos, for injuries alleged to have been suffered in collisions which occurred in Elizabeth River, Virginia, on October eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, between the United States steamer Arethusa and said barges and United States steamer Arethusa and the Hesperos, for and on account of the damages resulting to said barges and said steamship Hesperos, respectively, by reason of said collisions, may be submitted to the United States court in the district in which suit shall be filed by the United States to recover damages and losses by said collision, under and in compliance with the rules of said court sitting as a court of admiralty; and the said court shall have jurisdiction to hear andDetermination, etc. determine the whole controversy and to enter a judgment or decree for the amount of the damages sustained by reason of said collisions, 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, and with the same right of appeal.
Sec. 2. That the mode of service of process shall conform to theProcedure. provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,Vol. 24, p. 505. entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the United States.” Approved, April 26, 1916.