Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 41 Part 2.djvu/200

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CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 1639 Also to amend the title to read as follows: "An Act to create a _'{‘°}f °·m§§§fd· Federal Power Commission; to provide for the improvement of n 'p` ` navigation; the development of water power; the use of the public lands in relation thereto, and to repeal section 18 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act, approved August 8, 1917, and for other purposes. Passed, May 28, 1920. ADJOURNMENT. {u $•¤ Resolved by the House 0 Re esentatives (the Senate concurri ) . That the President of the Senafgi and Speaker of the House of Rngp; feiigrizgslimmmt of resentatives be authorized to close the present session by adj ourning their respective Houses on the 5th day of June, 1920, at 4 o’clock post meridian. Passed, June 3, 1920. "mA·r0A" AND UHENRY o. BAmzE·rT." ; Resolved by the Senate (the House 0 Re resentatives concurrin ), .. as Sm _ That the action of the S eaker of thefHouzsie of Re resentatives hn I ¥¥¤:§i?>l¤??ilE>3rbi(§» signingbthe enrolled bill (S. 1005) "for the relief of the owner of the .iil§>°t$4°i. ° °w ’ steams `p Matoa, " be, and hereby is, rescinded, and that the Secretary of the Senate be, and he is hereby, directed to reenroll said bill with an amendment as follows: _ `Nfewmatterinserted Strike out all after the enacting clause of said bill, and insert the ‘“,l‘$,}@f’§,f‘§§’§‘f" following in lieu thereof: "That the claim of the owner of the steamship Matoa arising out of a collision between said steamship and the United States tug Lucille Ross off Lambert Point, Virginia, on the 17th da of January, 1918, for and on account of the losses alleged to have been suffered in said collision by the owner of said steamsliip Matoa by reason of dam es to and detention of said steamship may be submitted to the United States Court for the Eastern Dis— trict of Virginia, under and in compliance with the rules of said court sitting as a court of admiralty; and that the said court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the whole controversy and to enter a judgment or decree for the amount of the legal damages sustained by reason of said collision, if any shall be found to be due. either for or against the United States upon the same principle and measure of liability with costs as in like cases in admiraltv between private parties with the same rights of appeal: Provided, That such notice o the suit shall be °ven to the Attorney General of the United States as may be provideglby order of the said court, and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to cause the United States attorney in such district to ap ear and defend for the United States: Pr0— v··i¤Inl_further, That said suit shall be brought and commenced within four months of the date of the assave of this Act." ~Hm,,~O_p,mm_·— That the action of the Spealier of the House of Representatives $°l,§;§;frj$umg,\,0,,),,, in signing the enrolled bill (S. 1222) "for the relief of t 19 owners of tprrgueg of c¤m·~r<¤!. the schooner Henry O. Barrett" be, and hereby is, rescinded, and mm ‘ that the Secretary of the Senate be, and he is hereby directed to reenroll said bill with an amendment as follows: Xewmatterinscmd Strike out all after the enacting clause of said bill. and insert the l“_§’f,gj’ff*}§§f_'- following in lieu thereof : "That the claim of the owners of the ` schooner Henrv O. Barrett arising out of a collision between said schooner and the lfnited States monitor Ozark. off Five Fathoxn Bank Lightship, on the 19th day of April. 1917, for and on account