Chapter 385. To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Government of Sweden on account of losses sustained by the owners of the Swedish steamship Olivia as a result of a collision between it and the United States ship Lake Saint Clair
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CHAP. 385.— An Act To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Government of Sweden on account of losses sustained by the owners of the Swedish steamship Olivia as a result of a collision between it and the United States ship Lake Saint Clair.May 25, 1926.[[S. 1731](/us/bill/69/s/1731).][[Public, No. 286](/us/pl/69/286).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Sweden.Payment authorized to, as indemnity for collision damages to steamship “Olivia.
That there is 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 of the Swedish steamship Olivia, or any other parties pecuniarily interested, as a result of a collision between it and the United States ship Lake Saint Clair on September 8, 1918, an amount equivalent to £7,672.2 on the date of the approval of this Act, as recommended by the President in his message of May 31, 1924.
Approved, May 25, 1926.