Chapter 276. To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Government of Norway on account of losses sustained by the owners of the Norwegian steamship Hassel as the result of a collision between that steamship and the American steamship Ausable
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CHAP. 276.— An Act To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Government of Norway on account of losses sustained by the owners of the Norwegian steamship Hassel as the result of a collision between that steamship and the American steamship Ausable. February 21, 1925.[[S. 2718](/us/bill/68/s/2781/).][[Public, No. 432](/us/pl/68/432)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That there isNorway.Payment to, as indemnity for losses to owners of steamship “Hassel” from collision. hereby authorized to be paid to the Government of Norway, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as a matter of grace and without reference to the question of liability therefor,956 as full indemnity for the losses sustained by the owners of the Norwegian steamship Hassel, or any other parties pecuniarily interested, as the result of a collision on August 24, 1918, between that steamship and the American steamship Ausable, operated by*Post*, p. 1339. the War Department, the sum of $164,169.23, as recommended by the President in his message to Congress of February 25, 1924, printed as Senate Document Numbered 52, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session.
Approved, February 21, 1925.