Chapter 500. To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the British Government on account of losses sustained by the owners of the British steamship Baron Berwick as the result of a collision between that vessel and the United States steamship Iroquois (now Freedom) and a further collision with the United State
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CHAP. 500.— An Act To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the British Government on account of losses sustained by the owners of the British steamship Baron Berwick as the result of a collision between that vessel and the United States steamship Iroquois (now Freedom) and a further collision with the United States destroyer Truxtun. March 3, 1925.[[S. 2719](/us/bill/68/s/2719).][[Private, No. 227](/us/pvtl/68/227).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Great Britain.Payment to, as indemnity for collision damages to steamship “ Baron Berwick ”, and others.
That there is hereby authorized to be paid to the British Government, 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 of the British steamship Baron Berwick, or any other parties pecuniarily interested, on account of a collision on August 22, 1918, between that vessel and the United States steamship Iroquois (now Freedom) and on account of a further collision on October 5, 1918, with the United States destroyer Truxtun, an amount equivalent to £6,200 on the date of the passage of this Act, as recommended by the President in his message to Congress of February 28, 1924, printed as Senate Document Numbered 56, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session.
Approved, March 3, 1925.