Volume 46
Public Law 71–657
Authorizing payment of the claim of the Norwegian Government for interest upon money advanced by it in connection with the protection of American interests in Russia.
Approved June 27, 1930
Statutory text
Joint Resolution
Authorizing payment of the claim of the Norwegian Government for interest upon money advanced by it in connection with the protection of American interests in Russia.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Norway,
Payment to, of interest on sums advanced by, for care of American Interests In Russia.
of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the Government of Norway, as an act of grace and without reference to the question of legal liability, an amount equal to 6½ per centum interest upon 58,480 kroner from February 24, 1920, to December 8, 1920, and upon 65,162.97 kroner from December 8, 1920, to July 13, 1925, the sums advanced by the Government of Norway in connection with the care by its representatives of American interests in Moscow, Russia, during the years 1918 and 1919, together with 6½ per centum interest on the unpaid interest from July 13, 1925, to the date of payment pursuant to this joint resolution, not to
Limitation.
Available appropriation.
exceed in all $8,500; and the appropriation for the “Relief, protection, and transportation of American citizens in Europe,” made
Vol. 40, p. 3.
by the Act approved April 17, 1917, is hereby made available for the payment of the claim aforesaid.
Approved, June 27, 1930.