Volume 52
Public Law 75–209
To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Norwegian Government in full and final satisfaction of all claims based on the detention and treatment of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Sagatind subsequent to the seizure of this vessel by the United States Coast Guard cutter Seneca on October 12, 1924.
Approved May 13, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Norwegian Government in full and final satisfaction of all claims based on the detention and treatment of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Sagatind subsequent to the seizure of this vessel by the United States Coast Guard cutter Seneca on October 12, 1924.
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 the Norwegian Government, as an act of grace and without reference to the question of legal liability, the sum of $5,000, in full and final settlement of all claims for reimbursement on account of the detention and treatment of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Sagatind subsequent to the seizure of this vessel by the United States Coast Guard cutter Seneca
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 1147.
on October 12, 1924; 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 purposes of this Act.
Approved, May 13, 1938.