Chapter 248. For the relief of Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and McAllister Lighterage Line (Incorporated)
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CHAP. 248.— An Act For the relief of Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and McAllister Lighterage Line (Incorporated). February 16, 1925.[[S. 2293](/us/bill/68/s/2293).][[Private, No. 170](/us/pvtl/68/170).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the claim of Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and McAllister Lighterage Line.Damage claims of, referred to district court.Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, as carrier and bailee of a quantity of steel billets laden on board the barge McAllister Numbered 85, against the United States for damage to and loss of said billets, and the claim of McAllister Lighterage Line (Incorporated), as carrier and bailee of a quantity of steel billets laden on board the barge McAllister Numbered 85 and as owner of the barge McAllister Numbered 85, against the United States for the loss of and damage to said steel billets, and for losses sustained by reason of damage to the barge McAllister Numbered 85, all alleged to have been caused by collision on the 7th day of November, 1917, between said barge and the United States steamship Aeolus, then in the possession and control of the United States and being operated by the Navy Department in its transport service, in the slip adjoining Number 1 pier, Hoboken, New Jersey, may be sued for by Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and McAllister Lighterage Line (Incorporated), in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, sitting as a court of admiralty and acting under the rules governing such court in the suits heretofore commenced in the said district entitled “Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, as bailee of a quantity of steel billets laden on board the barge McAllister Numbered 85, libellant, against steam tug J.
P. McAllister, her engines, boilers, and so forth, McAllister Lighterage Line (Incorporated), claimant,” in which the steamship Aeolus has been impleaded and the United States of America has appeared as claimant, and “McAllister Lighterage Line (Incorporated), libellant, against steamship Aeolus, United States of America, claimant”; and such Jurisdiction of court.court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such suits and to enter judgments or decrees for the amount of such damage, and costs, if any, as shall be found to be due against the United States in favor of said Lehigh Valley Railroad Company or said McAllister Lighterage Line (Incorporated), or against the said Lehigh Valley 1570Railroad Company or said McAllister Lighterage Line (Incorporated), in favor of the United States upon the same principles and measures of liability as in like cases in admiralty between *Provisos*.Notice, etc., to Attorney General.private parties and with the same rights of appeal: *Provided*, That such notice of proceeding with the said suits shall be given to the Attorney General of the United States as may be provided by order of the said court, and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to cause the United States attorney in such district to appear and Commencement of suit.defend for the United States: *Provided further*, That such notice of proceeding with the said suits shall be given, and proceedings in said suits shall be commenced within four months of the date of the passage of this Act.
Approved, February 16, 1925.