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SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 556. 1925. 1339 vember, 1920, and May, 1924, $23,160, said amount to be paid in United States currency on the basis of the fixed rate of exchange at par. Payment to Government of Norway: To enable the Secretary of §°'w“Y, t . State to pay to the Government of Norway in accordance with the deuiusiiimio oiiluizsmiiii provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the payment of §§r:§§l?P Smmsmp an indemnity to the Government of Norway on account of losses —’*"‘°»P·°5°· sustained by the owners of the Norwegian steamship Hassel as the result of a collision between that steamship and the American steamship Ausable,” approved February 21, 1925, as full indemnity for the losses sustained by the owners of the Norwegian steamship Hassel, or any other parties pecuniarily interested, as a result of a collision on August 24, 1918, between that steamship and the American steamship Ausable operated by the lVar Department, $164,169.22}. Payment to Government of Sweden: To enable the Secretary of ixxgiagiz m, as iu. State to pay to the Government of Sweden in accordance with §,‘j{};§Qf§ "° Swmh Public Act Numbered 419, approved February 16, 1925, as full -4¤¢¤.i>·947- indemnity for the losses sustained by the owners and crew of the Swedish fishing boat Lilly, or any other parties pecuniarily interested, through the sinking of that vessel b the United States Army transport Antigone on March 23, 1920, g7,107.04. G _ Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany: The ciasugudguimlgsiguid appropriation for the Mixed Claims Commission, United States and ·‘"‘”**’·‘°23· Germany, contained in the Act making appropriations for the De- _partments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor for the fiscal _ year 1926, shall be available also for the expenses of determining ,1,‘}u“§{,‘§§H“”““” the amounts of claims against Austria and Hungary by the Mixed Claims Commission established under the agreement concluded between the United States and Austria and Hungary on November 26, 1924, for the determination of the amount to be paid by Austria and Hungary in satisfaction of the financial obligations of Austria and Hungary under the treaties concluded between the Governments V I of the United States and Austria on August 24, 1921, and between ° °42’p°'m°’1°°1° the Governments of the United States and Hungary on Aiagust 29, 1921, and/or the treaties of St. Germain-en-Liaye and rianon, respectively, including the expenses which, under the terms of such agreement of November 26, 1924, are chargeable in part to the United `wwy ox mm States; for the expenses of an agency 0 the United States to per- ` I form all necessary services in connection with the preparation of claims and the presentation thereof before said mixed commission, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and other assist- mmmgmdbmdmg ants and employees, rent in the District of Columbia printing and ` binding, contingent expenses, traveling expenses, and per diem in lieu of subsistence (and the Secretary of State may allow per diem in lieu of subsistence for foreign travel at not to exceed $8), and for such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper. C nf Conference on Oil Pollution of Navigable Waters: For the pur- p_,u'{m$,',§*‘f,‘§°N,§’§g,§,i1, pose of defraying the expenses of a conference of maritime nations “',§,§gj,mS Em to be held at Washington, in accordance with the authorization con- V0l.42,pl821. tained in Public Resolution Numbered 65, approved July 1, 1922, to consider the adoption of effective means for the prevention of oil pollution of navigable waters, including salaries of a secretary general and other assistants and employees, rent in the District of Columbia, contingent expenses, printing and binding, travel and subsistence expenses (and the Secretary of State may allow per diem in lieu of subsistence at not to exceed $8), and such other expenses as the President may deem proper, fiscal year 1926, $42,000: Pro- M devices vided, That of this amount $8,000 shall be immediately available, tolseparate on from and such amount may be transferred by the Secretary of State, with "“"“s“°'°"°’·