Chapter 152. Authorizing an appropriation to indemnify damages caused by the search for the body of Admiral John Paul Jones
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CHAP. 152.— An Act Authorizing an appropriation to indemnify damages caused by the search for the body of Admiral John Paul Jones. May 13, 1924.[[S. 2392](/us/bill/68/s/2392).][[Public, No. 117](/us/pl/68/117).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and. House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Admiral John Paul Jones.Payment authorized to Franco for damages caused Madame Crignier in search for body of.*Post*, p. 692. That an appropriation is authorized to be made for $13,511.13 to be paid to the Government of the Republic of France as a matter of grace and without reference to the question of liability therefor as full indemnity for loss and damage to property suffered by Madame Crignier, a citizen of France, by reason of the search for the body of Admiral John Paul Jones, undertaken in 1899 by General Horace Porter, at that, time American ambassador to France, and completed by the finding of the body in 1905, as set forth in the messages of the President of the United States to the Senate and the House of Representatives dated June 4, 1918, July 21, 1919, July 11, 1921, and January 3, 1924.
Approved, May 13, 1924.