Watson v. United States

This being a claim for stores and supplies, transmitted to this court by a committee of the House of Eepresentatives, the preliminary inquiry required by the statute (22 Stat. L., p. 485, sec. 4) has been had upon the subject of the loyalty of the person from whom the stores or supplies are alleged to have been taken. In this inquiry it appeared that the same claim was presented to the Quartermaster-General, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of July 4, 1864, and that the agent of that officer ■charged with the investigation of the claim reported as follows as to Watson’s loyalty:

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