Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-09-17

For difference oil transportation OF oo,oSo l-f
gallons of whiskoy, &c. 81 1892 81. For
expenses attending delivery, &c. SOU,
For leakage, &c. $499 81. For the differ
ence between common glass proof whiskey,
at which it was to have been received at
Sacketts Harbor, and hydromoter.Prooi,
which was required at New York, which Is
10 per cent and amounts TO 4,999 gallons.
Contract price 90 cents. Extra charge
for transport tion, as in itemNo.l, ~ cents
S5,4dS 81. Total $l1 ,03l 80.
So, the amount of $5,4l5 %, which was
sworn to DO Justly due in lS22, had increased
in 1898, to $ll OBI 50, The item of leakage
had increased from 1913 % to 400 ", and
new item for difference of proof, never before
heard of made its appearance
Resort was again had to Commodore
Chauncey for information. In letter to
member Of Congress dated the 18th January,
1893, he says:
only impr cssion is, that the whiskey which
was to have been delivered at Sacketts Har.
Dor, was to have been good first proof.
In reply to letter from MIR. Allen, he
says, on the 18th ofthe Same month:
!sMy understanding of the contract with
the Messrs Leonards and yourself, for the
| whiskey to be delivered at Sacketts Harbor
| is, that it was TO have been good, first PROOF
whiskey. How the proof was to have been
asccrtained was left to the officers whose du
ty it was to inspect and receive it. There
,ras no other change made an TIE eontrdc
than Substituting .Nc,o York for Sdckeff'
Harbor as the place Of dciioery. The guam
tity and quality of tho article was TO DO the
\
The subject was referred by the Secretary
to the Fourth Auditor, who on the I'd Fobru
| airy, 1923, made a report strongly recon-
mending the allowance of the whole claim.
On the Goth February, the Secretary wrote
to the Fourth Auditor, directing the allow
ance of the new item. An account was &c
cerdingly stated as follows:
For 1909 gallons of whiskey, delivered a
New York, at 90 cents per gallon 81 GAG 10
| Allowance for casks, per contract, at cent
per gallon $40 81. Total 81, $40 Ca.
| On the same day this sum was paid out c
the Treasury ana was charged 10 Provis
IONS"
On LIST July, 1923, the balance of the
claim was actually paid them out of tn
Treasury, by order of Secretary Southar
and charged to Provisions"
| The first allowance was $4,G49 T. TIL
second allowance 6,39l B. Total 81 Il ,O4
IL.
Their original claim in 1919 was $3,50t
so that they were paid $3.50 l2 more tina
their original claim, as stated by themselves
Allen and Leonard became insolvent, an
theii affairs were Investigated before jur
in 1929. In that investigation it then al
pearcd, as one of the jurymcn informed N
by letter, that one thousand dollars of this q
lO,oance icas lent to the late Fourth .4uditt
aohen It 1roS made. He also informed n
that Mr.. Allen, one of the contractors, tol
him that the proposition to lend the none
was made by him after it had been determine
to allow his claims, but before they were SO
tied, on condition that the Fourth Auditc
would take thcm up and hasten their settle
ment out of office hours and that the prop
ositon was Communicated by him to the 81
cretary of the Navy, by whom it was al
proved.
It's apparent, that to settle the accour
was not the work of an hour; and the han
writing shows that it was settled by one
the clerks.
Since investigated this case, communi
Gated the fact Of the allowance to Commodor
Chauncey, who expressed his astonishmen
| and declared that the contractors could hav
purchased the whiskey In New York, at tn
j time, and turned it into the naval store, at
profit of 25 per cont, and that they had n
Just claim to single dollar.