61ST CONGRESS, Į HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. § DOCUMENT 2d Session. No. 677. JOHN L. WOODSON, ADMINISTRATOR LETTER FROM THE ASSISTANT CLERK OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS TRANSMITTING A COPY OF THE FINDINGS FILED BY THE COURT IN THE CASE OF JOHN L. WOODSON, ADMINISTRATOR OF RICHARD O. WOODSON, DECEASED, AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. FEBRUARY 10, 1910.-Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. COURT OF CLAIMS, CLERK'S OFFICE, Washington, February 9, 1910. SIR: Pursuant to the order of the court I transmit herewith a certified copy of the findings filed by the court in the aforesaid cause, which case was referred to this court by the Committee on War Claims, House of Representatives, under the act of March 3, 1883, known as the "Bowman Act." I am, very respectfully, yours, Hon. JOSEPH G. CANNON, JOHN RANDOLPH, Assistant Clerk Court of Claims. Speaker of the House of Representatives. [Court of Claims. Congressional, No. 767. Estate of Richard O. Woodson v. The United States.] This case being a claim for supplies or stores alleged to have been taken by or furnished to the military forces of the United States for their use during the late war for the suppression of the rebellion, the court, on a preliminary inquiry, finds that Richard O. Woodson, the person alleged to have furnished such supplies or stores, or from whom the same are alleged to have been taken, was loyal to the Government of the United States throughout said war. Filed April 12, 1909. BY THE COURT. [Court of Claims. Congressional, No. 767. John L. Woodson, administrator of estate of Richard O. Woodson, deceased, v. The United States.] STATEMENT OF CASE. The claim in the above-entitled case for supplies or stores, alleged to have been taken by or furnished to the military forces of the United States for their use during the late war for the suppression of the rebellion, was transmitted to the court by the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives on the 30th day of April, 1886. On a preliminary inquiry the court, on the 12th day of April, 1909, found that the person alleged to have furnished the supplies or stores, or from whom they were alleged to have been taken, was loyal to the Government of the United States throughout said war. The claimant in his petition makes the following allegations: That he is a citizen of the United States and a resident of the county of Marshall, State of Mississippi; that he is the duly appointed, qualified, and acting administrator of the estate of his deceased father, Richard O. Woodson, late of said county and State. That during the late civil war said Richard O. Woodson was a citizen of the United States, residing in said county of Marshall, State of Mississippi; that during said war the United States military forces, under proper authority, took from said Richard O. Woodson quartermaster stores and commissary supplies for use of the army of the kinds and values below stated, for which no payment has been made, to wit: Taken from farm of Richard O. Woodson, 8 miles north of Holly Springs, Miss., by commands of Generals Grant and Sherman, some of the subordinate commanders being Colonel Hatch and Col. Fielding Hurst, in the summer and fall of 1862: That this claim was presented by said Richard O. Woodson, in his lifetime, to the Southern Claims Commission, established by act of March 3, 1871, and was by said commission rejected because said commission was not satisfied with the sufficiency of the testimony as to the loyalty of said Richard O. Woodson. The case was brought to a hearing on its merits on the 2d day of February, 1910. Raleigh Sherman, esq., appeared for claimant, and the Attorney-General, by G. E. Boren, esq., his assistant and under his direction, appeared for the defense and protection of the interests of the United States. The court, upon the evidence adduced and after considering the briefs and arguments of counsel on both sides, makes the following FINDING OF FACT. During the late civil war the military forces of the United States, by proper authority, for the use of the army, took from claimant's decedent, in Marshall County, State of Mississippi, property of the kind and character described in the petition, which at the time and place of taking was reasonably worth the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars ($2,250), no part of which appears to have been paid. BY THE COURT. JOHN RANDOLPH, Assistant Clerk Court of Claims. 61ST CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( DOCUMENT 2d Session. DETAILED STATEMENT OF REFUNDS OF CUSTOMS DUTIES, 1909. LETTER FROM THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, TRANSMITTING A DETAILED STATEMENT OF THE REFUNDS OF CUSTOMS DUTIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1909. FEBRUARY 11, 1910.-Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith for the information of Congress a detailed statement of the refunds of customs duties, etc., for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, as required by section 24 of the act entitled "An act to simplify the laws in relation to the collection of the revenues," approved June 10, 1890. Respectfully, CHARLES D. NORTON, The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. |