Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 41 Part 2.djvu/31

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SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Srzss. II. Crrs. 164, 169, 180. 1920. 1469 south, sixty-four degrees fifty-six minutes east, one and fifty hundredths chains more or less, to the place of beginning; containing seventy-seven hundredths acres, more or less; for the uses of said P°’°°"‘ church upon the payment bi said trustees to the Secretary of the Interior of the sum of $75, the value of said premises as heretofore found by due appraisal thereof. _ Approved, April 29, 1920. CHAP. 169.-An Act For the relief of the Merritt and Chapman Derrick and [§“YR°·;6°g’] Wrecking Company. Be it enacted the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ameribeg in C’ong·ress assembkd, That the claim of the owner mg,°"}}Z ,Y§‘{, tuff; of the derrick Concord, arising out of collision between said derrick W{,°§“*{¢r,‘f&mS1{u°'gY,br and the United States steamship Robin on January 10 1919, at the collison damages to north pier of the Merritt and Chapman Derrick and W’reckingBCom- °°"i°k‘ pIany’s dock at the district salvage base, Stapleton, Staten land, ew York, for and on account o the losses all?ed to have been suffered in said collision by the owner of said errick Concord by reason of damages to said derrick, may be submitted to the United States court for the eastern district of New York under and in compliance with the rules of said court sitting as a co1u·t of admiralty; mlsdmi I 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 ue either for or against the United States, wu the same principle and measure of lia ility, with costs, as in e cases in admiraltyhbetween private parties, with the same right §§’,g'f,f'é,c_ of appeal: Provided, at such notice of the suit shall be given to the Attomey General of the United States as may be Erovided by order of the said court, and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to cause the United States attomegr in such district to appear C m t { and defend for the United States: Pr ed further, That said suit sui: m°°°°m°° ° shall be brought and commenced within four months of the date of the passage o this Act. Approved, May 6, 1920. CHAP. 180.-—An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to correct an error {IE {£’§,,°§j in an Indian allotment. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Hm, E_ Th° _ States of America in Congress assembled, That for the lpurpose of cor- ml-°¤d P°'=•¤° *¤ !·¤ recting an error made in the allotment on the lgu lic domain of ` Domatil E. Lafournaise, an Indian of the 'I‘urtle ormtain Band of Chippewa, whereby the same is in conflict with the allotment of J enorr Brien, a member of the same band, and to clear title to the land allotted to Jenoir Brien, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue a patent in fee to lot five of the southeast quarter of section six, township one hundred and fifty-nine north, rang`? one hundred and three west of the fifth principal meridian in orth Dakota, in favor of Hem? E. Thomas, older of a deed to the allot- mwtm ment of Domatil E. La ournaise (now Patnaude); said atent to issue upon the execution by Henry E. Thomas of a rpritclllaim deed in favor of E. L. Hugelen, purchaser of the allotment o Jenoir Brien covering lot three of the same section allotted to Jenoir Brien and erroneously included in the allotment of Domatil E. Lafournaise. Approved, May 10, 1920. ¢