Private Law 114.
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(/us/pvt/75/113)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the claim of Union Shipping and Trading Company, Ltd. Claim of, submitted to District Court. the Union Shipping and Trading Company, Limited, against the United States of America for damages alleged to have been caused by a collision on April 25, 1918, near Pauillac, in the Gironde River, France, between the Spanish steamship Consuelo (at the time of the collision the British steamship Reims) and the American steamship Berwind, then in the transport service of the United States War Department, may be sued for by the said Union Shipping and Trading Company, Limited, in the District Court of the United States for Jurisdiction conferred.the Southern District of New York, sitting as a court of admiralty and acting under the rules governing such court, and said court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such suit (in accordance with the principles of libels in rem and/or in personam), and to enter a 975judgment or decree for the amount of such damages (not including interest) and costs, if any, as shall be found to be due against the United States in favor of the said Union Shipping and Trading Company, Limited, or against the said Union Shipping and Trading Company, Limited, in favor of the United States upon the same principles and measures of liability as in like cases in admiralty between private parties and with the same rights of judgment or decree for the amount of such damages (not including interest) and costs, if any, as shall be found to be due against the United States in favor of the said Union Shipping and Trading Company, Limited, or against the said Union Shipping and Trading Company, Limited, in favor of the United States upon the same principles and measures of liability as in like cases in admiralty between private parties and with the same rights of appeal: *Provided,* That at the *Provisos.* Admissibility of certain reports in evidence. trial of said suit the written report or reports concerning said collision made by the pilot, master, any officer or member of the crew of the steamship Berwind, who is not available to testify because he is dead or cannot be found, may be admitted in evidence if offered in behalf of the United States: *Provided further,* That such notice of the said Notice to Attorney General.suit 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 defend for the United States: *Provided further,* That said suit shall be brought and commenced within four Commencement of suit.months of the date of the passage of this Act.
Approved, May 25, 1937. For the relief of Luvenia Flowers. 1937-05-25 258 Chapter 50 Stat. 975 75 1 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 2024-11-23 private [CHAPTER 258] AN ACT For the relief of Luvenia Flowers. May 25, 1937[[H. R. 1790](/us/bill/75/hr/1790)][[Private, No. 114](/us/pvt/75/114)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary Luvenia Flowers.
Payment to. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury allocated by the President for the maintenance and operation of the Civilian Conservation Corps, to Luvenia Flowers, of Coward, South Carolina, widow of Andrew Flowers, the sum of $5,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States for damages sustained by the widow of Andrew Flowers on account of the loss of the life of her husband, who was killed on October 12, 1934, near Coward, South Carolina, by a truck in the service of the Civilian Conservation Corps: *Provided,* That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding.
Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, May 25, 1937. For the relief of Donald L. Bookwaiter. 1937-05-25 259 Chapter 50 Stat. 975 75 1 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 2024-11-23 private [CHAPTER 259] AN ACT For the relief of Donald L.
Bookwaiter. May 25, 1937[[H. R. 2352](/us/bill/75/hr/2352)][
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