Volume 46
Private Law 71–303
To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the owner of the British steamship Kyleakin for damages sustained as a result of a collision between that vessel and the United States ship William O’Brien.
Approved May 19, 1930
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the owner of the British steamship Kyleakin for damages sustained as a result of a collision between that vessel and the United States ship William O’Brien.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Chr. Salvesen and Company, 29 Great Bernard Street, Leith, Scotland, care of the
Ante, p. 886.
British Embassy, Washington, District of Columbia, the sum of $3,484.33, or so much thereof as may be required to purchase exchange not to exceed the amount of 715 pounds sterling 19 shillings 8 pence, in full and final settlement of the claim of the said Chr. Salvesen and Company for damages sustained by the British steamship Kyleakin in a collision with the United States ship William O’Brien in Barry Roads, Cardiff, Wales, on November 26, 1917; 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 19, 1930.