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SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 81, 108, 110, 114. 1920 1461 CHAP. 81.—An Act For the relief of Carlow Avellina. F¢?§1¤§Y Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0 Re esentatives 0 the United [PmY”t°;Nf 2g`] States of America in Congress assemble; Thgt the Secrgiary of the ggiigvedrbihm Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to . Carlow Avellina, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $500 as compensation for damages sustained · by him when an aeroplane of the Air Mail Service descended on his property in August, 1918. Approved, February 18, 1920. CHAP. 108.—An Act For the relief of the New Jersey Shipbuilding and Dredging Company, of Bayonne, New Jersey. Be it enacted by the Senate and House Re esentatives 0 the United States of America in Congress assembletd: Tgt the Secreiiary of the Treasxuy be, and he hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the °°1‘}},’§,;,,,, to, ,0, New Jersey Shipbuilding an Dredging Company of Bayonne, New gqgyégwm Jersey, owner 0 a drill boat known as drill boat Number Three, and a dredge, known as N`me, out of. any money the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, thesum of $118,309.16 m full settlement to reimburse said owner of drill boat Number Three and dredge Number Nine for loss sustained as a result of damages suffered by said drill boat Number Three and said dredge Number N`me through collision with the United States Navy barge Nahunta in tow of the United States steamship Woodcock, off Halletts Point, New York Harbor, on April 19, 1919. Approved, March 27, 1920. CHAP. 1 10.-An Act For the relief of Ellen Agnes Monogue. l%l£hR2?{;dg9§O` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United [ I H States of America in Congress assemble , That the sum of $2,500 is m,§.i.,?“ Ag°°S ‘ °` hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- dw&Y§§'£b:g&_‘°' wise appropriated, to be paid to Ellen Agnes Monogue, widow of Joseph . ionogue, a po 'ce officer who ost his life at Newport, `Vermont, on September 6, 1917, while rendering assistance to United States immigration officers in removing an insane alien from the United States, without fault or negligence of said Joseph P. Monogue. Approved, March 29, 1920. CHAP. 114.-An Act For the relief oi the Eastern Transportation Company. [Private, No. 32.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claim of the seaem rmspms- Eastern Transportation Company, a corporation organized and ex- °‘§‘{,§°"§§gg.,i; {0,- isting under the laws of the State of Delaware, and doing business in £,,‘S"°°*$°’ the city of Norfolk, Virginia, owner of the barge Sweetser Linthicum, against the United States for damages allegled to have been caused by collision between the said barge and the United States barge Old Dominion, in tow of the United States tug Sagamore, in Chesapeake Bay, on the 25th day of August, 1918, may be sued for by the said Eastern Transportation Company in the_District Court of the Jusueueuereemx. United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting as a court of admiralty and acting under the rules governing such court, and said court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such suit and to enter a judgment or decree for the amount of such damages