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REPORT
Of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the case of John Bate.
DECEMBER 24, 1817.
Read, and ordered to lie upon the table.
DECEMBER 24, 1817.
Referred to the Committee of Claims.
JANUARY 6, 1818.
Bill reported with amendments, and committed to a committee of the whote House on
Monday next.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
December 22, 1817.
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom the bill for the relief .of
John Bate was referred, by the resolution of the House of
Representatives of the 15th instant, has the honor to
REPORT:
That the petitioner did, on the 17th day of March, 1814, lease
from the United States, for the term of three years, the publicsalt
works on the Wabash, in the Illinois territory, upon the terms and
conditions set forth in the said petition.
That the petitioner claims relief upon three grounds; 1st, that
in the months of April and May, 1815, the Ohio river rose-to a height
never known before, and that the salt works were consequently inun-
dated for a great length of time, during those months, so as to be not
only incapable of being worked, but that great and serious injury was
done to the permanent works and improvements which had been
previously erected, and for which he had paid a large sum of money.
2. That independent of the loss thus incurred, the inuhdation of
the Ohio still further operated to his injury, by deteriorating the
quality of the water from which the salt was matfufactured, and by
diminishing the quantity produced by the wells from which the sup-
ply was obtained.
And 3d. That in consequence of the deterioration of the quality,
and diminution of the quantity of the water, it became necessary to
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