Sampson v. United States

The officers and enlisted men of the U. S. S. Indiana, Iowa, Texas, and other vessels engaged in the battle off Santiago Bay, through their attorneys, have filed their joint motion herein asking the court to amend finding m heretofore found by striking therefrom the word Harvard, thereby excluding the officers and enlisted men attached to that vessel from sharing in the bountjr provided by Revised Statutes, section 4635, for the destruction of the Spanish vessels in that engagement.

The question as to the right of the Harvard and other vessels then in controversy to share in the bounty so…