A statement of the judgments rendered in the Court of Claims for the year ending December 6, 1869.

DECEMBER 6, 1869.-Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.

UNITED STATES COURT OF CLAIMS,

Clerk's Office, Washington, D. C., December 6, 1869. SIR: In compliance with the provisions of section nine of the "Act to provide for appeals from the Court of Claims and for other purposes,” approved June 25, 1868, I herewith transmit to the Senate a statement of all judgments rendered in said court for the year ending December 6, 1869, the amounts thereof, the parties in whose favor rendered, the amounts claimed in the petitions dismissed, with a brief synopsis of the nature of each claim.

I have the honor to be, with great respect, your obedient servant, SAM'L HI. HUNTINGTON, Chief Clerk Court of Claims.

Hon. SCHUYLER COLFAX,

President of the United States Senate.

The clerk of the Court of Claims, in compliance with section nine of the act entitled "An act to provide for appeals from the Court of Claims and for other purposes," approved June 25, 1868, furnishes to Congress the following statement of all judgments rendered in said court for the year ending December 6, 1869, the amounts thereof, the parties in whose favor rendered, and a brief synopsis of the nature of the claim.

Names of claimants.

No.

Amount
claimed.

Amount awarded.

Date of
judgment.

Attorneys.

Nature of claim.

$5,000 00 Jan. 11, 1869 Hughes, Denver & Peck.

For back pay as a senior captain in the Texan navy, under act of
Congress approved March 3, 1857.

For one day's pay, subsistence, and other allowances due his rank,
for each twenty miles of travel, as first lieutenant in 39th regi-
ment Iowa volunteers, on his way homeward from New York
City to Adel, Iowa, after being honorably mustered out of ser-
vice at Savannah, Georgia, January 6, 1865.

For use and service of steamboat De Kalb.

John M. McCalla, James M. For balance on contract to "furnish all the material and make
Carlisle et al.
221,000 cubic yards of embankment at the navy yard at
Memphis.'

Lewis & Cox, Owen & Wilson.
Owen & Wilson

*234 00 Jan. 18, 1869 Chipman & Hosmer

George Taylor.

5, 852 69 Feb. 8, 1869 *Dismissed.. Feb. 15, 1869

V. B. Edwards

6, 384 86 Dismissed.. Feb. 8, 1869 V. B. Edwards

For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For pay and allowances as first lieutenant of cavalry from Novem-
ber 19, 1863, to March 5, 1865, during the time he was a prisoner
of war in the hands of the rebels.

For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For rent of Old Dominion pork house and distillery, in the city
of Wheeling, and for damages done the same while in possession
of the United States as a recruiting station.

For rent of Union Hotel, Georgetown, D. C., and for damages to
same while in possession of the United States as a hospital.
For balance due on contract to furnish three thousand cords of
wood for the army.

For the refunding of excess of duties paid on spirits lost by leak-
age and evaporation while in bonded warehouse.

For cotton captured by the United States military forces.

For damages for failure and refusal of the United States govern-
ment to fulfill its contract with the claimants for supply of corn
for the army.

For refunding of excess of duties paid on sundry gallons of spirits
lost by leakage and evaporation while stored in bonded ware-

Feb. 8, 1869 V. B. Edwards, Carlisle & For refunding of excess of duties paid on spirits lost by leakage
McPherson.
and evaporation in course of transportation from Peoria, Illinois,
to sundry wholesale markets.

For balance due on contract for furnishing hay and straw for the
army.

Marcus P. Norton, A. L. Mer. For the past use of the invention in post offices, post-marking and riman. postage-canceling stamp, patented April 14, 1863, and reissued August 23, 1864, to Marcus P. Norton.

J. M. McCalla, Carlisle &
McPherson, E. Totten, and
Ira Harris.
Hughes, Denver & Peck.
Hughes, Denver & Peck.

Riddle & Leski.
Hine & Wilson
Hughes, Denver & Peck..
Hughes, Denver & Peck.
Hughes, Denver & Peck.

R. J. Atkinson
Carlisle & McPherson
Chipman & Hosmer

Hughes, Denver & Peck.
Chipman & Hosmer
Thomas J. Durant.
A. L. Merriman.

C. F. Black, T. H. Oehlschlager,
and A. M. Sallade.

68, 975 25 Dismissed.. Apr. 19 1869 Cooley & Clarke.. * Appealed.

For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For balance due on contract vouchers for subsistence furnished
the army.

For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For amount due and unpaid on sundry quartermasters vouchers
for divers kinds of equipments furnished the federal army

For cotton captured by the United States military forces.

For use and service of steamer Belle Peoria in the year 1865,
seized to transport government stores up the Missouri River.
For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For pay and allowance as major of volunteers from January 1,
1863, to March 8, 1865.

For balance due on contract for furnishing breech-loading car-
bines for the United States Army.

For back pension from March 4, 1848, to February 3, 1853.

For damages sustained by claimant by breach of contract on part of the United States, the contract being for the delivery of twelve hundred horses for the use of the army.

For cotton captured by the United States military forces.

For damages due said claimants for deprivation of their lease (by
the Secretary the Navy) for the use of the floating sectional dry
dock at San Francisco for three years after they had completed
the construction of the same.

For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For breach of contract in the non-payment of one-half of the
stipulated patent fee for the use by the government of the in-
vention known as the "Sibley tent."

For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For professional skill and labor expended upon plans, drawings,
and estimates for improvements in the Naval Academy, at
Annapolis, Maryland.

For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For pay and allowances as chaplain in United States Army from
September 15, 1862, to December 4, 1862.

For cotton captured by the United States military forces.
For the refunding of certain import duties at Memphis, Tennessee,
paid the government in 1863, 1864, and 1865.

For breach of contract on part of the United States for refusing
to pay a five per cent. commission on the transportation and
freight, as well as on the original cost, of certain coal purchased
by claimant as agent of the Navy Department.

For cotton captured by the United States military forces.