Chapter 234. To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Swedish Government for the losses sustained by its nationals in the sinking of the Swedish fishing boat Lilly
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CHAP. 234.— An Act To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Swedish Government for the losses sustained by its nationals in the sinking of the Swedish fishing boat Lilly. February 16, 1925.[[S. 2458](/us/bill/68/hr/2458).][[Public, No. 419](/us/pl/68/419).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That there isSweden.Payment authorized to, as indemnity for sinking of fishing boat “Lilly.”*Post*, p. 1339. hereby authorized to be paid to the Government of Sweden, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as a matter of grace, and without reference to the question of liability therefor, as full indemnity for the losses sustained by the owners and crew of the Swedish fishing boat Lilly, or any other parties pecuniarily interested, through the sinking of that vessel by the United States Army transport Antigone on March 23, 1920, an amount equivalent to 26,381 kroner on the date of the approval of this Act, as recommended by the President in his message of January 3, 1924.
Approved, February 16, 1925.