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55TH CONGRESS, Z SENATE. DOCUMENT
2d Session. 5 No. 290.
CHARLES FOSTER, RECEIVER.
LETTER FROM THE ASSISTANT CLERK OF THE COURT OF
CLAIMS, TRANSMITTING A CERTIFIED COPY OF THE FINDINGS
OF THE COURT IN THE CASE OF CHARLES FOSTER, RECEIVER
OF THE UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY OF BOSTON, IN THE
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, AGAINST THE UNITED
STATES. CONGRESSIONAL CASE NO. 9418.
JUNE 9, 1898.-Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
COURT OF CLAIMS, CLERK'S OFFICE,
Washington, June 8, 1898.
SIR: Pursuant to the order of the court, I transmit herewith a certi-
fied copy of the findings filed by the court in the aforesaid cause, which
case was referred to this court by the resolution of the Senate of the
United States under the act of March 3, 1887.
I am, very respectfully, yours, etc.
JoHN RANDoLPH,
Assistant Clerk Court of Claims.
Hon. GARRET A. HOBART,
President of the Senate.
[Court of Claims. Congressional case No. 9418. (Decided June 6, 1898.) Charles Foster, as Receiver
of the Union Steamship Company of Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, v. The United
States.]
This claim was transmitted to the court pursuant to the following
resolution of the Senate:
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,
May 21, 1896.
Besolved, That the bill (S. 33) as amended entitled A bill for the relief of the legal
representatives of William H. Foster, of Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts, receiver of the Union Steamship Company, together with all the papers
accompanying, be, and the same is hereby, referred to the Court of Claims in pursu-
ance of the provisions of the fourteenth section of the act entitled An act to
provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,
approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. And the said court
shall proceed with the same in accordance with the provisions of such act and
report to the Senate in accordance therewith.
Attest: Wm. R. Cox, Secretary.
'The case has been brought to a hearing on the merits, John W. But-
terfield, esq., appearing for the claimant, and the Attorney-General, by
Felix Brannigan, esq., his assistant, for the defense and interests of the
United States.
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