American State Papers Volume 6, V. 4; Documents, Legislative and Executive of the Congress of the United States ... (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...objects for the same time to amount to $2,168.15, and for keeping of a horse, necessary to the business of the agency, $360. These two sums, deducted from the whole credit' left for compensation to the agent the sum of $1,386.10, being one per cent, on $138,669.83, raised and disbursed by the navy agent, as will at large appear by document A 1, furnished by the Secretary of the Navy to the committee. Thus it will appear that after deducting from the sum of $1,386.10, allowed for compensation, the sum of $268.15 for clerk hire, office rent, and stationery, not allowed, the actual compensation allowed to the navy agent was reduced to $1,111.95 for fifteen months. All other claims of the navy agent were rejected. A settlement so glaringly erroneous was corrected in many items by the district judges of Pennsylvania, upon an injunction against the warrant of distress, as will be seen by the certificate of the judge of the allowances made by him, annexed to his decree. Since the decision of the court, the claims of the petitioner are confined principally to the questions of the commissions to be allowed him on his disbursements of moneys and stores, and the allowances for his detention in Lima by reason of the protest of the bills. These, with some few other items, were supposed not properly to belong to the powers of the court upon the hearing of the injunction. The petitioner claimed a commission of five per cent, on all stores, moneys, and supplies by him issued to our vessels-of-war. The Auditor has allowed but one per cent., and even that percentage is denied as to parts of the transactions of the navy agent. The Auditor supposed that the act of Congress of the 3d of March, 1809, applied and limited the allowance of one per cent, to all navy agents at home a...