Chapter 16. To amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels
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CHAP. 16.— An Act To amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels. December 28, 1922.[[H. R. 5349](/us/bill/67/hr/5349).][[Public, No. 374](/us/67/pl/374).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Navy.Collisions with vessels of the.Vol. 36, p. 607, amended. That the provision contained in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriation for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, and for other purposes,” approved June 24, 1910 (Public, Numbered 261.
Sixty-first Congress, second session), authorizing the Secretary of the Navy “to consider, ascertain, adjust, and determine the amounts due on all claims for damages where the amount of the claim does not exceed the sum of $500, hereafter occasioned by collision, for which collisions vessels of the Navy shall be found to be responsible, and report the amounts so determined to be due the claimants to Congress at each session thereof through the Treasury Department for payment as legal claims out of appropriations that may be made by Congress therefor,” be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows, namely:
" Secretary to adjust claims for damages.Limit increased.“The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, and determine the amounts due on all claims for damages occasioned since the 6th day of April, 1917, where the amount of the claim does not exceed the sum of $3,000, occasioned by collisions or damage incident to the operation of vessels for which collisions or other damage vessels of the Navy or vessels in the Naval Service shall be found to be responsible, and report the amounts so ascertained and determined to be due the claimants to the Congress through the Treasury Department for payment as legal claims out of appropriations that may be made by Congress therefor.
” " Approved, December 28, 1922.