Committee on the part of the Senate: William P. Fessenden, and others. Committee on the part of the House: Thaddeus Stevens, and others.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ? Sasion. No. 16. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. January 9, 1852. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard made the following REPORT: Which was considered by unanimous consent and concurred in.] Th( Committee of Claims, to whom teas referred the memorial of H. P. Dorsey, report: That conceding the truth of the statement made in the memorial of the daimant, the committee are of opinion that the facts contained in the statement do not present the semblance of a claim against the Government, upon which the claimant is entitled to relief upon principle or precedent. The taiement of facts in the memorial is, however, loose, and not sustained by: he documents accompanying it in all respects. The Committee therefore- recornraend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That the claimant is net entitled to nelief-, Prim. Itt Swim. No. 17. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. January 9, 1852. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard, made the following REPORT: To accomiKiuy bill S. No. 54.] Tkt Committee of Claims, to whom was referred a bill (S. o4) fur the relief of Theodore Offut, report: That two reports in favor of the passage of a bill similar to that referred, have been already made by the Committee of Claims?one at the second session of the thirtieth Congress, and the second at the first session of the thirty-first Congress. From these reports and the accompanying documents, the parts upon which the claim rests appear to be, that Theodore Offut was a private in Captain W. C. Pollard's company of mounted volunteers, belonging to Col. Gentry's regiment raised in Missouri, and mustered into service in the fall of 137, at New Orleans. That by the unauthorized act of Captain Pollard, a bay mare, ...