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56TH CONGRESS, jHOubs OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
2d es8ion. f No. 2322.
ESTATE OF JAMES BROWN, DECEASED.
JANUARY 15, 1901.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered
to be printed.
Mr. MAuON, from the Committee on War Claims, submitted the fol-
lowing
REPORT.
[To accompany H. 1. 13038.]
The Committee on War Claims, to whom was referred the bill (H. R.
13038) for the relief of the estate of James Brown, deceased, have con-
sidered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report, and rec-
ommend that said bill do pass, without amendment.
This bill provides for the payment to the personal representatives
of James Brown, deceased, of the Novelty Iron Works, of the sum of
$35,832.04, being the amount found due by the Selfridge board to the
Novelty Iron Works, for the work done for and material furnished to
the United States in the construction of the engines, boilers, and
machinery of the ironclad Miantonomoh. (See Senate Ex. Doc. No. 18,
Thirty-ninth Congress, first session, p. 63.)
The Novelty Iron Works, a New York corporation, September 15,
1862, entered into a contract with the Chief of the Bureau of Steam
Engineering of the United States Navy for the construction of the
engines and machinery for the monitor Miantonomoh. The contractor
agreed to complete his part of the work within seven months, and
put it in place on the vessel, provided that the vessel itself was placed
at his command within five months. The contract price was $158,5.0,
to be paid in six equal installments, with a reservation of 20 per cent
from each installment until completion. The contract further pro-
vided for a penalty of $1,000 for each two weeks of delay.
The turrets of the Miantonamoh were entirely experimental, no such
construction having ever been seen prior to the spring of 1862, when
Ericsson's monitor engaged in her famous conflict witt the Jerrimuc.
Long before the expiration of the five months within which the
Miantononoh was to be furnished to the contractor, the experimental
nature of the turrets became manifest, and the completion of the tur-
rets, the vessel, and the machinery were delayed fromn time to time
to enable the authorities to avail themselves of all improvements sug-
gested by the conduct of the turreted monitors in actual service. So
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