Chapter 546. To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Government of France on account of losses sustained by the owners of the French steamship Madeleine as a result of a collision between it and the United States steamship Kerwood
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Chap. 546: To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Government of France on account of losses sustained by the owners of the French steamship Madeleine as a result of a collision between it and the United States steamship Kerwood. Chapter 546 45 Stat. 512 1928-05-14 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 546.— An Act To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Government of France on account of losses sustained by the owners of the French steamship Madeleine as a result of a collision between it and the United States steamship Kerwood.
May 14, 1928.[[H. R. 9043](/us/bill/70/hr/9043).][[Public, No. 381](/us/pl/70/381).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, France.Payment authorized to, as indemnity for collision damages to French steamship “Madeleine.” That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the Government of France a sum equivalent to 3,550 pounds sterling 2 shillings 5 pence, in settlement of a claim presented by the Government of France on account of damages sustained by the French steamship Madeleine in a collision with the United States steamship Kerwood, in the harbor of Brest, France, on May 11, 1918, as set forth in the message of the President of December 17, 1927, printed as Senate Document Numbered 24, Seventieth Congress, first session; *Post*, p. 913. and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sufficient sum to carry out the purpose of this Act.
Approved, May 14, 1928.
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Chapter 546
To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Government of France on account of losses sustained by the owners of the French steamship Madeleine as a result of a collision between it and the United States steamship Kerwood
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