The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-12
Southern Claims Commission.

The following are the names Of the spe-
cial commissioners of the Southern Claims
Commission in the several States. - These
commissioners are authorized to take the
testimony of claimants and witnesses in
support of any claim not exceeding five
thousand dollars in amount, on direct ap-
plication made to themselves but where
testimony is to be taken in any case over
five thousand dollars, in all, it is necessary
to apply first to the commissioners at
Washington. These special commissioners
are the only persons authorized to take ties.
timony for the Claims Commission IN their
respective States, but in Florida and Tex.
as, and other States where they have no
sub-commisioners Of their own, the com.
missioners at Washington permit the COM
missioners of the United States Circuit
courts to officiate. provided they follow the
rules laid down for the regular sub-com-
missioners.
Where claimants who have filed claims
exceeding SIC, 600 in amount desire to re-
duce them below that sum, in order to es-
cape the requirement of the late act OF
Congress that all claims above $4,000
should be heard orally before the Com
missoners, and not otherwise, they are to
be permitted to file an amended account
of items to effect the desired reduction, ac-
companying it by an express relinqush-
ment of so much of the original account as
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original claim is to be personally subscribed
and verified by the claimant in every case,
and not by the attorney.
Some further appointments Of special
commissioners are yet to bemade in Arkan-
sas.
Alabama-Robert P. Baker, Decatur,
Morgon county; George II. Patrick, Mont
gomery, Montgomery county; w. L. Con-
nelly, Wedowee, Randolph county; Rich
ard Watkins, Russelville, Franklin county;
James II. Bone, Huntsville, Madison coun-
~.
Arkansas-E. B. Harrison, Fayetteville,
Washington county; E. Ii. Pullan, Little
Rock, Pulaski county.
Georgia-John L. Conley, Atlanta, Full
ton county; Virgil Hllyer, Savannah, Chat
ham county; j. Clark Swayze, Macon,
Bib county; Francis A. Kirby, Rome,
Floyd county. arlla
Louisiana = William Grant and Domi-
nique Urbany New Orleans, Orleans parish;
o. Ii. Brewster, Monroe, Ouachita parish !;
John Osborn, Alexandra, Rapides parish.
Mississippi-E. II. Stiles, Port Gibson,
Claiborne county z. P. jacobson, jack
son, Kinds county; John 4. Moseley,
fernando, De Soto county; Marion
Campbell, Holly Springs, Marshall county.
North Carolina-John Minor, Fayette-
vile, Cumberland county; Joseph Dixon,
Hookerton, Greene county Elmore W..
Woods, Chapel Hill, Orange county ; X.
r. Pendleton, Woodville, Perquimans
county e. r. Hampton, Webster, Jack
son county; w. B. Glenn, Red Plains,
Yadkin county; S. H. Wiley, Salisbury,
Rowan county; J. N. Snelson, Ashville,
Buncombe county.
South Carolina Theodore w. Parmele,
Columbia, Richland county.
Tennessee-Jesse G. Frazer and Thomas
A. Kercheval, Nashville, Davidson county;
Henry F. Dix, Memphis, Shelby county;
L. G. Houk, Knoxville, Knox county; John
Norman, Huntingdon, Carroll county; ID.
G. Thornburgh, New Market, jefferson
county; William Mullenix, Bristol. Sulli-
van county.
I. Virginia-M. F. Peasants. Richmond,
Henrico county William G. Riley, Staun-
ton, Augusta county Charles T. Barry,
Norfolk, Norfolk county; L. S. Hargist,
Winchester, Frederick county Alexander
w. Chiffon, Alexandria, Alexandra coun-
ty.
West Virgihia--Alfred Phillips, Union,
Monroe county; w. M. WEIGH, New Creek
Mineral county.