Engagement off Santiago Bay

The auditor of the court, to whom this case was referred to inquire into and report the names of the officers and enlisted men entitled to share, and in what amounts, in the residue of the bounty found due the vessels of the United States employed in the destruction of the Spanish fleet off Santiago Bay, has made his preliminary report herein asking for instructions as to the right of certain claimants, set forth in his report, to share in the distribution of the bounty so awarded.

Under Revised Statutes, section 4635, bounty money is to “ be divided among the officers and crew in the same…