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 1212 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 426. 1899. afdwggggkégg _ FOB INVESTIGATION AND SETTLEMENT. claims. W-G-Bmrnlvw. ¤¤ That the Attomey-General be, and he is hereby, authorized and ‘L directed to investigate the claims of the legal representatives of W. G. Brownlow, Brownlow and Hawes, and Brownlow, Hawes and Company, late owners and proprietors, respectively, of the Knoxville Whig, a newspaper published at Knoxville, in the State of Tennessee, for advertising certain legal notices alleged to have been advertised in said paper in the years eighteen hundred and sixty-four, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, eighteen hundred and sixty- seven, and eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and to ascertain whether such services were rendered as claimed, or any part thereof, and if so, the value thereof; and also whether the same, and if so, to what extent, is either a legal or equitable claim against the United States; and if any sum is so found to be due and owing the claimants, or any of them, and the same is a legal or equitable claim against the United States, to certify such facts, together with the amount, to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall certify the same to Congress. ‘ Vm*¤¤·’·*!¤- That the proper accounting officers of the Post-Oiiice Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to allow William J. Bryan, late postmaster of the post-office of San Francisco, State ot California, in settlement of his postal money·order fund account, a credit for the sum of nine thousand six hundred and one dollars and seventy-three cents, the same being a sum now charged to the said William J. Bryan as postmaster of said post·office for moneys received at said postoffice for the sale of foreign money orders at said post-otiice between the thirtieth day of September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the twenty-second day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety, by one James S. Kennedy, late a clerk at the international desk in the money-order division of said post-office, whose duty it was to receive, safely keep, and account for the proceeds of the sale of foreign money orders, but who embezzled and approgiated the same to his own use, and has wholly failed to account for e same. P‘S°°'°°°" That the accounts of P. S. Corbett, formerly United States marshal of the State of Nevada, be readjusted by the Treasury Department, and that the services rendered and expenses incurred by said Corbett in his various attempts to arrest George E. Spencer, and for attempting to arrest persons charged with selling liquor to Indians, be allowed under the head of ** Extraordinary expense account,” and to certify the facts, together with amount due, to Congress. ·'°*¤· F· W- 1****- That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be examined and investigated the terms and conditions of the contract of John F. W. Dette with the United States to build a stone wall of masonry around the national cemetery at Jetterson Barracks, in the county of Saint Louis and State of Missouri, and the plans and specifications therefor, and any changes or modifications made therein, and the character, actual cost of material, and work in the construction of said wall; and whether by reason of any changes or modifications in said contract the cost of the work per perch was increased, and what loss was incurred on any additional work required by such changes or modifications, and what, if any, sum is reasonably and equitably due to the said Dette, in addition to the amount already paid him, by reason of such changes or modifications in his contract, and report the facts, m S, Hmmm with amount found due, to Congress. That the Secretary of War and the proper accounting officers of the Government be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to charge to M. S. Hellman, of Canyon City, Oregon, the sum of one thousand dollars damages, as in full for all damages sustained by the United States for the breach of his contract, made July fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, with Captain W. H. Bell, commissary of subsistence, United States Army, for the supply of Hour at Camp Warner, Oregon,