Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-06-08


of his default from the governments to the bank
The actual amount of default to the government
and to the beuk, is as above stated saA,419 81
He has presented to this office claims to
the amount of Sl3.2O9 10. S,,359 25
of which, it is certainly ascertnined,
have been passed to his credit long ago,
leaving sl0.G50 SCI
Claims for extra commissions,
interest, clerk hire, &c pro-
sented to you. and rejected o1,Gio DO
a2,aeI DOL
Thus, ifcvery dollar claimed by Mr.. King, -
except what has actually been allowed,
Vcre passed to his credit, he would
still be in default 1895 81
Annexed are copies of Sir Kings vouchers, which
have been rejected suspended in this Office num-
bered from y to QI6) inclusive.
Those numbered from () 10y rejected, because
they have long since been passed to his credit
Those numbered from (G) to(8) were rejected, on
They are. indeed, all marked Approved, a. Sim
clair." On casting my eye upon these words was
satisfied they were recently written, although the
vouchers were dated in 1878 and 1870 enclosed
them to Commodore Sinclair, and put to HIM this
question: "Will you have the goodness to inform mo-
whether your approval to the enclosed vouchers was
placed upon them at the time of their date,
anu II not when, and under what circumstances you
approved them." In his reply. dated Ist February,
1885, he SAID Il have to state that the accounts
approved by about six weeks SINCE but not before
satisfied myself of their correctness" Phat Of
the articles charged WIS furnished, be personally
| $.
says: sThe second account Off. B Seymour for 81 ,
tor wood furnished the Constellation Well the
three dollars seveDty-tiv cents for water, paid C.
Cooley have no other reason to suppose correct than
their certificates aud Mr.. Kings word, which can
not doubt" The certificates alluded to, bear date
February lst 1880. the day which his letter to me
was dated. Of course he had evidence of the
correctness of the charges when he approved the bills
about sir tcceEs BEFORE except the word of Mr. King
cannot concede that this was the check which the
Navy regulations contemplated, or that such ap
proval was legal or proper, or that it ought to be
! tolerated by the Department. See A B.
! The vouchers numbered from (S) to (I2) inclusive
were rejected, BECAUSE from their age the presump-
ton Is that they have been paid, that they ought
not to he; and because they destitute Of all the
evidences of authenticity and correctness necessary
to make them good vouchers in this office Some of
them have not the commanding officers approval or
the naval storekeepers receipt, any receipt whate
| yer, and some destitute of all three.
The vouchers numbered from Il 81 to fl.i) were re-
Jected for similar and for the further reason
that all those bearing date in 1916, 1917 1915
and 1890, were executed in the year 1899. On Look
ing at them it was obvious that they lately writ
ten On inquiry was informed they were in thu
hand writing of Mr.. Joseph DIurden, who had beer
III air. Kings employment clerk less than three
years enclosed some of them to MIR. Murden ant
inquired OF him, whether this whole class Of voucher
was not written in 1882 In reply under date O
February 18th, $780, he snld ssI found in the Office
the late Navy Agent, number ofinfornal bills, ma
ny OF which, upon eSa mination, found had beer
III proper form. ana OBTAINED
natures to, corresponding with the receipts Of the in
formal ones,' e. D. T..
sent In extract of this letter to Mr.. King and re
Gucsted The production of these "nforma bills" will
their corresponding receipts. He called at nv office
and left parcel of old papers, copies of which vii
be found on the right of vouchers No (i9) to (l4)
each one being placed opposite 10 the bill or bill
which have been made out oft, How far the manu-
facture OF 1899 corresponds with the raw material
the reader may rec at glauce. few ofihese cor
| dependencies are here exhibited.
Extracted from an original BIZ Of 1854 30.
u Navy Department
Z, 70 Joseph Lavicr, Dr.
4 pieces Russian Ouch al 90 SO
| Making "a shests 25
! Making si pillow cases 2d 9
i sla
Ii NoRFoLK, December 10, 1917.
Received of Miles King, Navy Agent at Norfolk
the sum of nine hundred and fifty-iour dollars ant
eighty seven cents in payment Of the above:
Il .Ns,o Bill.
/ Navy Department for the Navy Hospital,
y 1919. 10 Joseph Lavier, DR..
August Goth, for "a shoots, }.,a
/ "a pillow cnses
NoRFoLK, August, 1919.
| Received of Miles King, Navy Agent, forty-twe
dollars, in payment of the above bill.
JOSEPHY LAWYER.
Here three items taken out of an old bill anf
thrown into two, to make one; one receipt is
for 1854 80, and the other for S42 and the date is
altered almost two years.
Extracted from azs original bill Of 1857 o5.
Miles King.
| 1912. Bought of p. T.. s.oea
| Dec. A. Dc bbls. mess beef, at sl5 500 90
80 bbls. prime pork, IS DC eI4 70
Si,5o4 70
| M receipt.
JNe1o Bill
Navy Department for public stores,
! 1917 10 4 Il. Steed, DR.
! Dec. I3. To 10 bbls mess beef GOO m
81 prime nork a1d 10