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A-23019 1 (1928-05-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbjd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITE) STATES Washing ton A-23019 May 24, 1928. The Honorable The Secretary of the Navy. Sir: I have your letter of May 15, 1928, transmitting unpaid public bills Nos. 34 and 35, Navy Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I., stated in favor of William R. Peckham and Everett Gray, respectively, for the sum of $50 each in payment of rewards to said parties for the recovery and return to the torpedo station of two torpedoes that had previously been lost in that vicinity. You request my decision whether Payment on the public bills is authorized. It appears that torpedo No. 11980, Mark X-1, was lost April 17; 1925, and was recovered by Mr. Peckham on March 27, 1928, and that tor- pedo No. 2616, Mark VII-2A, was lost May 7, 1926, and recovered by Mrr. Gray on March 29, 1928, and the value of the services rendered by the finders of the torpedoes has been placed at $50 for each of the torpedoes. No specific reward appears to have been affered by the commanding officer at the torpedo station for finding and returning the lost torpe- does to the station, but the fact, as stated on the public bills, that it has been thoroughly understood in the vicinity of the naval station for the past fifteen years that a standing reward is offered for the recovery of any torpedo that may have been lost, the anount of the reward to be determined by the conditions under which recovery is made to be

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