Chapter 5. For the relief of the Baltimore Dry Docks and Ship Building Company, owner of a dry dock at Baltimore, Maryland
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CHAP. 5.— An Act For the relief of the Baltimore Dry Docks and Ship Building Company, owner of a dry dock at Baltimore, Maryland. December 26, 1920.[[H. R. 1865](/us/bill/66/hr/1865).][[Private, No. 74](/us/pvtl/66/74).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the claim of the Baltimore Baltimore Dry Docks and Ship Building Company.May bring suit for collision damages.Dry Docks and Ship Building Company, owner of the dry dock located at its lower plant, Baltimore, Maryland, rising out of damage to a caisson of said dry dock, caused by the collision of the United States Navy tug Tavernilla on the 16th day of February, 1918, for and on account of the losses alleged to have been suffered by the owner of said dry dock because of said damage caused by the said naval vessel, may be submitted to the United States court for the district of Maryland, the district in which said collision occurred, under and in compliance with the rules of said court, sitting as a court of admiralty: *Provided*, That the said court shall have jurisdiction *Provisos*.Jurisdiction conferred.to hear and determine the whole controversy and to enter judgment or decree for the amount of the legal 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 principle and measure of liability, with costs, as in like cases in admiralty between private parties, with the same rights of appeal: *Provided further*, That such Time limit.suit shall be brought and commenced within four months after the passage of this Act: *And provided further*, That the mode of service Service of process.Vol. 24, p. 505.of process shall conform to the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the United States.
” Approved, December 26, 1920.