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57TH CONGRESS, l SENATE. REPORT
1st Sessi8on. No. 1931.
G. W. RATLEFF.
Ju-Ni@ 16, 1902.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. BURNHA)a, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 3354.]
The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3354)
for the relief of G. W. Ratleff, having examined the same beg leave
to report.
The facts of the case are stated in the affidavit of G. W. Ratleff, a
copy of which is hereto appended:
State of West Virginia, County of Upshur, ss:
This day personally appeared before me John A. Hess, clerk of the circuit court of
said county, George W. Ratleff, who I certify to be a citizen of this county and
worthy of credit, who being duly sworn deposes and says:
During the fall of 1860 and the spring of 1861, I split, hauled, and dressed a quan-
tity of rock for building the foundation for a large brick house in the town of Buck-
hannon, in said county.
There were 59 perch of said rock delivered on the ground and dressed, prepared
for the walls of said foundation, worth, at a reasonable valuation, $6 per perch,
making an aggregate of $354.
I was stopped in the building of said foundation by military operations in the said
town and vicinity, consequent upon the war of the rebellion, in the summer of 1861,
when said rock was taken by the United States troops stationed at said town of Buck-
hannon, part for buirding two large bake ovens, part for chimneys to winter quar-
ters, and part for repairing the abutments of a bridge, which was destroyed, across
the Bukhannon River; so that all of said rock were used by the said United States
forces for one or other of the above-mentioned purposes.
I have never before made application to any department of the Government for
pay for said material so used, as above stated, or for any part thereof; and have
never received from any department of the Government, or from any other source,
any compensation whatever for the same, or any part thereof; and though I notified
the United States quartermaster in Buckhannon at the time the rock were taken
and used as aforesaid that they belonged to me, he gave me no voucher for them or
any part thereof, and I have never since obtained possession of any of said material.
I am, and always have been, loyal to the Government of the United States.
G. W. RATLEFF.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th day of February, 1884. Witness my
hand and official seal.
[SEAL.] JOHN A. HEss, Clerk.
The rock referred to in the foregoing statement was prepared and
delivered under a contract for $6 a perch and was hard sandstone,
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