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54rH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.                  REPORT
   1st Session.                                          No. 1417.




   LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF JOHN WIGHTMAN.


APRIL 21, 1896.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to
                             be printed.


Mr. DENNY,  from the Committee  on Claims, submitted the following

                          REPORT:
                       ITo accompany H. R. 1531]
  The Committee  on Claims, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 1531)
for the relief of the legal representatives of John Wightman, deceased,
having carefully considered the same, recommend that it do pass.
  The purpose of the bill is to secure the payment of interest upon an
indebtedness upon the  part of the United States of $4,125.45 which
the United States owed  to John Wightman,   on the 1st day of July,
1860, for additional or extra mail service on route 3413, from Pittsburg,
Pa., to Erie, Pa., a distance of 134 miles, from the 1st of July, 1859, to
the 1st of July, 1860, performed with the knowledge and approbation
of Postmaster-General Holt at the time, and a promise of recommenda-
tion to Congress for the appropriation of money in payment for the
same at the rate of $4,500 for the said time if the service was or should
be performed.
  After such additional service had  been  faithfully performed six
months, being one-half of the time contemplated by the arrangement, a
petition or memorial numerously  signed by the business men  along
the route between  Pittsburg and Erie-specially the postmasters on
the route-certifying  to the faithful performance of the six days'
daily service, praying Congress to provide for the payment of the same,
which  petition was, on the 5th day of January, 1860, presented in the
Benate of the United States of the Thirty-sixth Congress by William
Bigler, at the time a Senator from Pennsylvania, and a reference of the
same  made  to the Senate Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads.
  Mr. Wightman,  having been disabled a few years before by a stroke
of paralysis for active business, from which he never recovered, could
not give the matter personal attention, and the Thirty-sixth Congress
passed without any further action being had known to your committee.
  The claim was renewed  by bill in the Fortieth Congress, third ses-
sion, and further action had, as will appear from Senate Report No. 269,
under date of March 1, 1869, which your committee beg leave to in graft
into this report.
               [Senate Report No. 269, Fortieth Congress, third session.]
  The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. to whom was referred the memo-
rial and evidence of John Wightman, of Pennsylvania, having considered the same,
make the following report:
  The memorialist was the mail contractor, at the rate of $9,000 per annum, on route
No. 3413, from Pittsburg to Erie, Pa., 133 miles and back, six times per week, from
July 1, 1859, to June 30, 1860.
     H. Rep.  6-1

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