have issued for military services rendered in the war of the Revolution, since the 1st day of September, 1835," was received on the 17th instant. In conformity with your request I send you the following statement, viz: Number of warrants issued since September 1, 1835, in the continental line, is 530. The aggregate amount of acres embraced in said warrants, is 329,846 acres. Number of warrants in State line and navy for same period, is 285. Aggregate amount of acres contained in said State line warrants, 221,211 acres.. Sum total of continental and State line warrants, $15. Teste: S. H. PARKER, Register Land Office. You will observe, that, although 815 warrants have issued since the 1st of September, 1835, (exclusive of duplicates and exchange war rants,) yet the number of allowances is much less, for in many cases from ten to twenty warrants, are founded on one certificate of allowance; the quanuity allowed being distributed among several heirs, according to their respective rights.. The foregoing warrants were founded on Executive allowances made partly before and partly since the 1st of September, 1835. Several of these warrants issued for additional services. Very few allowances have been made within the last five years. It is believed that very few, if any, cases exist, sustained by testimony strong enough to satisfy the Executive of their justness. Some years ago a large parcel of papers was accidentally found in the attic story of the capitol, which being examined by Commissioner John Smith; brought to light many claims which were due, but of which the parties entitled thereto were totally ignorant. This discovery caused the allowances upon which most of the warrants referred to have been issued.. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. J. R. UNDERWOOD. S. H. PARKER, 1st Session. No. 77. IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. FEBRUARY 27, 1850. Mr. BALDWIN made the following REPORT: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of William A. Duer, as administrator of William Duer, deceased, having had the same under consideration, report: That the memorialist claims, in his said capacity, a balance of $35,107 11, which he supposes to have been due to his father at the time of his decease in 1799, growing out of certain contracts with the government, of which one was made by him, in the name of Theodosius Fowler, with the Treasury Department, in 1790, and the other in his own name with the War Department in 1791, both being for supplies for the army under General St. Clair in the year 1791. A similar petition, preferred by the memorialist to the 29th Congress, was referred at the first session thereof to the Committee of Claims of the House of Representatives, and an elaborate report adverse to the same was made by the Hon. J. A. Rockwell, after a very careful and minute examination of the proofs adduced in its support, and of the letter of the Third Auditor of the treasury in relation thereto. This committee, impressed by the apparent sincerity of the conviction of the memorialist that injustice was done him by the former report, have reconsidered the same with the attention due to the magnitude of the claim, and to the circumstances under which it is presented by the memorialist, after the lapse of more than fifty years from the transactions out of which it is claimed to have accrued, but have been unable to arrive at any other result than that in which the former committee concurred. They therefore recommend that the prayer of the memorialist be not granted. |