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1 Prize Cases in New York: Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in Answer to a Resolution of the House, of the 15th Instant, Relative to the Disposition of Prize Cases in New York 1864

handle is hein.trials/acmw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 3S'rr CONGRESS, HOUSE QI? REPRESENTATIVES. Ex. Doc 1st Session. No, 74. PRIZE CASES IN NEW YORK. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, IN ANSWER TO A resolution of the House, of the 15th instant, relative to the disposition of prize cases in New Tork. APRIL 20, 1864.-Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washi'ngton, April 19, 1864. SI: In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th instant, requesting the Secretary of the Navy to communicate to the House the report of the Solicitor of the Treasury upon certain com- plaints of improper practices in the disposition of prize cases in New York, I have the honor to transmit the report referred to, together with the papers which accompanied it. I deem it proper, also, in order to explain the manner.in which these papers came into the possession of the department, to transmit a copy of a letter which it had occasion to address, on the 21st of August last, to the Attorney General. I am, very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant, GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of. the Navy. Hon. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatives. NAVY DEPARTMENT, August 21, 1863. Si : In January last a communication was received by this department in which it was represented that fraud had been committed in the sale of the cargo of the prize steamer Anne, at New York. The only person implicated in the alleged fraud who was responsible to or under the control of this department was the counsel for the captors, Francis H. Upton, esq. A let- ter was accordingly addressed to him, requiring a prompt and satisfactory

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