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56TH CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
1st Session. t No. 1373.
JAMES C. DRAKE.
MAY 18, 1900.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. MCCUMBER, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany amendment to H. R. 11537.]
The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred amendment pro-
posed by Mr. Foster to the bill (H. R. 11537) making appropriation
to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1900, and for prior years and for other purposes, have had
the same under consideration and report as follows:
The merits of the claim embraced in this proposed amendment have
been passed upon by the Committees on Claims of the Senate and
House of Representatives, as shown by Senate Report No. 684 and
House Report No. 1026 of the Fifty-sixth Congress, first session. A
copy of the Senate report is hereto attached and made a part of this
report; and upon the merits of the claim as therein decided and
determined your committee recommend the adoption of this amend-
ment and that it do pass.
[Senate Report No. 684, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session.]
The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3060) for the relief of
James C. Drake, report thereon as follows:
During the year 1897 the said James C. Drake was United States marshal for the
district of Washington; that in the settlement of his accounts by the Treasury
Department under the appropriation for Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals,
United States courts, for the year 1897, the sum of $1,790.12 was disallowed by the
Auditor for the State and other Departments, and the said James C. Drake was
directed to cover said amount into the Treasury of the United States.
The items composing these disallowances are shown under the three heads follow-
ing: First, for commissions paid to deputy United States marshals upon the judg-
ment of the United States court In re steamship Strathnevis, $379.47; second, for fees
and expenses to deputy United States marshals in transporting Chinese prisoners
under writs of commitment from Walla Walla to Seattle and Tacoma, $871.85; third,
for fees and expenses to deputy United States marshals in cases between individuals,
in which the amount was collected from the litigants and paid in to the Treasurer of
the United States, $277.88.
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