Volume 45 · 484
Public Law 70–484
Authorizing the payment of an indemnity to the British Government on account of the death of Reginald Ethelbert Myrie, alleged to have been killed in the Panama Canal Zone on February 5, 1921, by a United States Army motor truck.
Approved May 3, 1928
Statutory text
An Act
Authorizing the payment of an indemnity to the British Government on account of the death of Reginald Ethelbert Myrie, alleged to have been killed in the Panama Canal Zone on February 5, 1921, by a United States Army motor truck.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
British Government.
Payment directed to, as indemnity for death of Reginald Ethelbert Myrie.
of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the British Government, as an act of grace and without reference to the question of liability therefor, the sum of $1,000 as full indemnity for the death of Reginald Ethelbert Myrie, a British subject, alleged to have been killed in the Panama Canal Zone on February 5, 1921, by a United States Army truck driven by a private in the Motor Transport Corps, as set forth in the message of the President of
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 912.
January 4, 1928, printed as Senate Document Numbered 32, Seventieth Congress, first session; 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 3, 1928.