Volume 50
Public Law 75–157
Authorizing an appropriation for payment to the Government of China for the account of certain citizens of China.
Approved May 6, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
Authorizing an appropriation for payment to the Government of China for the account of certain citizens of China.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That there is hereby
China.
Payment to, in settlement of claims of certain citizens, authorized.
Post, p. 768.
authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for payment to the Government of China for the account of the estate of Chang Hsi Ying, in full settlement of all claims arising out of a collision in Chinese waters, on June 2, 1927, between the United States naval vessel Bittern and a Chinese junk, resulting in the drowning of Chang Hsi Ying, a member of the crew of the junk, the sum of $500.
Approved, May 6, 1937.