Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-10-25

Louisa summers Sl ,5SS.I5 Tor proper
ty belonging to her taken and used by
union troops near Anandale, Fairfax
county, Virginia, during the late war.
BY Mr.. Miliken, KY. A bill to pay
John M. Elder, of Kentucky, $14, 1862. SO
Tor % bales cotton destroyed by union
troops IN the late rebellion, in Talbot
county, Georgia.
BY Mr.. Hyman, N. G. A bill to pay
5000 to reimburse Jones county, North
Carolina, for destruction of court house
by union troops III 1868, "the said
court house not being then, or at any
other time, used by the authorities of
the (so-called) Confederate States for
any purposes of the war"
BY Mr.. Warren. A bill to paw Mrs.
Amelia A. HI. Richards, of Fairfax
county, Virginia, $685. for stores and
supplies taken for the use of the army
of the United States during the late
war.
By Mr.. Gambler, Ga. A bill to paw
John A. Richardson, of Fayette coun-
ty, Georgia, $4,000 for property taken
and destroyed at Atlanta, Georgia, by
union troops.
By Mr.. Bright, Tenn. A bill to pay
Ann ?. James $4,000 for the occupa-
ton and use of her property by the
army under Gen. Rosecrans.
BY Mr.. Bright, Tenn. A bill to pay
John u. Baurran, of the Rock City
Mills, Nashville Tennessee, $16,3O2. Is
for the use and occupation of his mills
by the United States authorities.
By Mr.. Bright, Tenn. A bill to pay
Robertson Popps and William L. Vance
for 100 bales of cotton ESTIMATED value
$50,OOO) seized by the United States
army, on the Yazoo river, in 1864.
By Mr.. Dibrell, Tenn. A bill to pay
j. M. Bragg and others in Tennessee,
$500 for supplies taken by the union
armies.
By Mr.. House, Tenn. A bill to pay
Andrew Morrison $4,645 on account of
property used by the United States.
BY Mr.. Wells, Miss. A bill to pay
A. Burwell $4,000 for property de-
stroyed at Vicksburg.
By Mr.. Wells, Miss. A bill to pay
A. Burwell $35, $50 for 14O hogsheads
and IA boxes Of sugar taken and appro-
priated by the United States authori-
ties.
By Scales, N. G. A bill to pay $17,-
600 to Davidson county, North Carroll
no, on account Of the destruction by
fire of the courthouse while occupied
by United States troops.
By Mr.. Singleton, Miss. A bill to pay
Joseph r. Shannon, Louisiana, $17 900
for the use of the steamer Shannon
while employed in the military service
of the United States.
By Mr.. Goode, Va. A bill to pay
$4,000 to William and Mary College,
of Virginia, 'sfor destruction of their
buildings and other property destroyed
without authority by disorderly soldiers
Of the United States"
By Mr.. Young, Tenn, A b;l' pay
Samuel III. Dunscourt, Men,. Is, S.
236.67 for rent of his cotton sh-d and
storehouse by military authorities.
By Mr.. House, Tenn. A bill to pay
Georgetta E. Welkinson, of Nashville,
$4,000 con account of property used
in the construction of the defenses of
Nashville"
By Mr.. Blount, Ga. A bill to pay
Harriet B. Fulton, of Bibb county,
Georgia., the sum of $24, $50 for horses,
mules, cattle, ETC., taken by the United
States troops.
By Mr.. Cabell, Va. A bill to pay
Thomas B. Doe, of Danville, Virginia,
Sc, 2OO.34 for commissary and other
supplies taken by the soldiers of the
Sixth United States Army Corps.
By Mr.. Ellis, Va. A bill to pay w.
II. Tegarden, of Mississippi, $12, 1884 for
damage done to his property by United
States troops.
By Mr.. Knott, KY. A bill to pay
Jacob Kaufman $11 $50 for goods and
stores taken from by the rebel General
Morgan.
By Mr.. Blackburn, KY. A bill to
pay O. Perry $50, 677 for wood and lum-
Der taken and used by the military au-
thorities of the United States.
By Mr.. Brown, Texas A bill to pay
Sylvanus Sanford, of Cass county, Tex
as, with interest since 1852, the sum of
$16, 7O9.15 for seveu hogshead of grant
ulated sugar taken by United State
military authority.
By Mr.. Faulkner, w. Va. A bill to
pay the county of Randolph, Virginia,
81 200 for damages done the court
house, Jail, clerks Office, roads and
bridges during the occupancy by Fed
raj troops.
1.-Two full pages of briefs, containing
sixty one claims, are omitted here for
want of space.
The aggregate of these one hundred
and forty claims is 81 ,582, 269, and they
average $11, 301 in value. Such is the
character of some of the House bills
examined. In the Senate no inquiry
has been made extending beyond two
bills which are somewhat strik-
ing in their provisions. The first, intro
duced by Mr.. Merrimon, of North Caro-
lima, proposes to "repel SO much OF
section $3.50 of the Revised Statutes as
forbids the payment of the accounts
claims, and demands therein named
and to appropriate 100000 to pay the
same when duly established" The &C
counts, claims and demands referred t(
are any against the United States which
accrued Or existed prior to April 13
1861, in favor of any person who "pro
NOTED, encouraged, or in any manner
sustained the late rebellion"
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