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 1504: SIXTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sass. I. Cue. 552, 553, 558, 559. 1926. disallowances due to payments made to Deputy Collector Manning Kested for subsistence expenses and car fare incurred in the months of October, November, and December, 1923, and January, February, March, April, and July, 1924. Approved, June 10, 1926. Jem ic, ms. CHAP. 553.—Joint Resolution Granting permission to Walter Stanley Haas lieutenant commander, United States Navy, to accept a decoration bestowed lP¤"· Ru-- N°· 1-] upon him by the Government of Ecuador. Resobved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the H,‘Z,‘}“°' “““’°’ United States of America in Congress assembled, That Walter alamy ¤¤¤¤v¢0gir1;grg·¤: Stanley Haas, lieutenant commander, United States Navy, be author- amen. ized to accept diploma and decoration known as the second—class "Abdon Ca deron ’? star conferred upon him by executive decree of the Government of Ecuador, upon the occasion of the visit of a squadron of United States submarines to Ecuador, of which he was the commanding oilicer, in May, 1921. Approved, June 10, 1926. Junc11,1¤26. [H. B. 1961.] CHAP. 558.-An Act For the relief of B. G. Oosterbaan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Relnresentatives oé the g;g,;t°‘§,°°'},°°I,‘{,”g,; United States of America in Gon ress assemb ed, That the ost- ¤°¤°¤¤*· master General is authorized and directed to credit to the account of B. G. Oosterbaan, postmaster at Muskegon Michigan, in the sum of $8,099.28, and certify said credit to the General Accoimting Oiiice, bein’g the amount o the `deficit existing at present in sai postmaster s accoxmts due to the misappro riation o funds in said odice for which he was in no way responsigile and without fault or negligence on his part. Approved, June 11, 1926. `iii!i°1ii2ig?]` CHAP. 559.--An Act For the relief of louis A. Hogue. [Private, o.1.50. . Be it enacted by tlw Senate and House of .gelnresentati5ves of the ‘g:;'·,§,;,,{*·°@‘,},,‘*, M United States of America in Congress assemb, That the claim of wwugn dgpsggcmg Louis A. Hogue of Crittenden, irginia, owner and master of the im. ‘"· “ ‘ auxiliary seep ivy, on behalf er himself and me mw thereof me as bailee of the cargpeladen onboard said sloop at the time of the occurrences hereina r mentioned, ainst the United States for damages alleged to have beencausedadg collision between the said auxiliary sloop Ivy and the United tates steam tug S. T. Co. numbered 2 in Norfolk Harbor, on the 8th day of April, 1919, may ,be sued fonhy the said Louis A. Hogue _in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting as a court of admiralty and acting under the rules governing such court, J¤¤•d¤¢¤¤¤ <>f¤¤¤¤· and said court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such suit and to enter a fjudgment or decree for the amount of such dama es and costs, i any, as shall be found to be due against the United States in favor of Louis A. Hogue, on behalf of himself and the crew thereof and as bailee of the cargo then laden on board said auxiliary sloo Ivy, or against Louis A. Hogue suing on behalf of himself and the crew thereof and as bailee of the car o then laden on boardhsaid auxiliaiiy slooép Ivy, in favor of the  States upon the same princip es an measuresof liability as in like cases in admiralty between private partiesand with the same rights of

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