Chapter 173. For the relief of the East LaHave Transportation Company, Limited, owner, A
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CHAP. 173.— An Act For the relief of the East LaHave Transportation Company, Limited, owner, A. Picard and Company, owner of cargo, and George H. Corkum, Leopold S. Conrad, Wilson Zinck, Freeman Beck, Sidney Knickle, and Norman E. LeGay, crew of the schooner Con Rein, sunk by United States submarine K-4. May 23, 1924.[[H. R. 2498](/us/bill/68/hr/2498).][[Private, No. 23](/us/pvtl/68/23).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, “Con Rein,” schooner.Owners of, cargo, and crew, may bring suit for collision damages, in district court.
That the claim of the East LaHave Transportation Company, Limited, owner of the schooner Con Rein, of the port of LaHave, in the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada; that the claim of A. Picard and Company, the owner and consignee of the cargo aboard the said schooner, and the claims of the several members of the crew of said schooner, namely, George Corkum, Leopold S. Conrad, Wilson Zinck, Freeman Beck, Sidney Knickle, and Norman LeGay, against the United States for damages alleged to have been caused by collision between said schooner and the submarine K-4 owned by the Government of the United States and operated by the United States Navy, which occurred near Block Island, Rhode Island, on August 29, 1921, may be sued for by the said claimants in the United States District Jurisdiction of court.Court for the District of Massachusetts, sitting as a court of admiralty and acting under the rules governing such court with jurisdiction to hear and determine such suit, and to enter judgments or decrees for the amounts of such damages and costs, if any, as may be found against the United States in favor of the said claimants, or any of them, or against said claimants in favor of the United States, upon the same principles and measures of liability as in like cases in admiralty between private parties and with the *Provisos*.Notice to Attorney General.same rights of appeal: *Provided*, That such notice of the suit shall be given to the Attorney General of the United States as may be provided by order of said court, and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to cause the United States attorney in such district to appear and defend for the United States: *Provided further*, Commencement of suit.That said suit shall be brought and commenced within four months of the date of the passage of this Act.
Approved, May 23, 1924.