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COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON AL4U 19
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There Is for consideration by this office the olaim of t], Istbmian
Steamship Company for fI328.30, representing expeasse alleged to have
been incurred in the mintenanoe and repatriation of a part of the crew
of the Steamship Besser City stranded off Lands End, England, November
1, 1936. The Bessemer City vs oned and operated by the Isthalan
Steamship Company and the return of the shipwrecked seaman from Swansea,
rngland, to Montreal, Canada, was upon the Steamship Steel Eninesr
owned and operated by the same company, and from Montreal to New York,
by rail. The Department of State approved the claim in the amount of
$1,311.72, payable from the appropiation Contingent Expenses, Foreign
Service, 1937, theg being cited in support of such approval the
deeision of the SUpreme Court in the ease of the Alaska Steamship
Compay v. United States,, 290 U. S. 256, the State Department being of
the opinion that the limitation placed upon appropriations for payments
Of this nature in the act of April 7, 1934, 48 Stat. 533, is not
permanent legislation.
In 3 Camp. Ge. I48, it vaS helds
As soon as the owners of a wreeked vessel take up the burden of
Sbsisting and transporting the members of the crew they cease to be
destitute seamen and such owners may not be reimbursed from public
f1uds for any part of the cost of subsistence and transportation of
IUeh seamen to a port of the United States.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadpnr0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)