To 8 days superintending and helping workmen repairing house Total. $12.00 1.50 1.50 15.00 [R. H. Merritt, contractor and builder, 110 Sacra Via street.] MARIETTA, OHIO, September 26, 1901. Having examined the house of Mr. Birnie, I would say that the house is in very bad shape from the shock that it received. The plastering is all loose and the chimneys are broken and the house is out of plumb about 6 inches. There are 8 rooms and all of them are damaged, so that it will cost almost as much to repair it as it would to build new. I would not put it in good repair for less than $750. .45 1.00 .30 1.00 1.00 10.00 57TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( DOCUMENT 1st Session. No. 409. FREDERICK DEMMIEN. LETTER FROM THE ASSISTANT CLERK OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS, TRANSMITTING THE FINDINGS OF FACT IN THE CASE OF FREDERICK DEMMIEN AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. FEBRUARY 24, 1902.-Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. COURT OF CLAIMS, CLERK'S OFFICE, Washington, February 21, 1902. SIR: Pursuant to the order of the court, I transmit herewith a certified copy of the findings filed by the court in the aforesaid cause, which case was referred to this court by the Committee on War Claims, House of Representatives, under the act of March 3, 1883. I am, very respectfully, yours, etc., Hon. DAVID B. HENDERSON, JOHN RANDOLPH, Assistant Clerk Court of Claims. Speaker of the House of Representatives. [Court of Claims. Congressional, No. 231. Frederick Demmien v. The United States.] This case being a claim for supplies or stores alleged to have been taken by or furnished to the military forces of the United States for their use during the late war for the suppression of the rebellion, the court, on a preliminary inquiry, finds that Frederick Demmien, the person alleged to have furnished such supplies or stores, or from whom the same are alleged to have been taken, was loyal to the Government of the United States throughout said war. Filed December 11, 1899. BY THE COURT. [Court of Claims. Congressional case No. 231. Frederick Demmien v. The United States.] STATEMENT OF CASE. The claim in the above-entitled case for supplies or stores alleged to have been taken by or furnished to the military forces of the United States for their use during the late war for the suppression of the rebellion was transmitted to the court by the Committee on War Claims, House of Representatives, on the 24th day of January, 1885. On a preliminary inquiry the court, on the 11th day of December, 1899, found that the person alleged to have furnished the supplies or stores, or from whom they were alleged to have been taken, was loyal to the Government of the United States throughout said war. The case was brought to a hearing on its merits on the 16th day of December, 1901. George A. and William B. King, esqs., appeared for claimant, and the Attorney General, by James A. Tanner, esq., his assistant, and under his direction, appeared for the defense and protection of the interests of the United States. The claimant in his petition makes the following allegations: That during the civil war he was a resident of the State of Kentucky and did not give any aid or comfort to the rebellion. That the following property belonging to him was taken from him by the United States Army, used by said Army, the date, place, and command being particularly stated below: In Kenton County, in the State of Kentucky, on or about the month of September, 1862, by United States troops under the command of Gen. A. J. Smith, to wit: 200 cords of wood (measured), at $6 per cord 500 cords of wood (in the tree), at $1.20 per cord 30 cords of wood (from rails), at $7 per cord $1,200 600 270 bushels of corn (in the field of 9 acres), 30 bushels to the acre, at 40 cents per bushel 210 1 horse worth 108 1 horse worth 85 1,125 pounds of dressed pork, at 8 cents per pound....... 30 bushels of potatoes, at 60 cents per bushel 50 90 18 2, 361 The court, upon the evidence and after considering the briefs and arguments of counsel on both sides, makes the following FINDING OF FACTS. There were taken from the claimant in Kenton County, State of Kentucky, during the war of the rebellion, by the military forces of the United States, for the use of the Army, stores and supplies of the kind and character above described which were then and there reasonably worth the sum of one thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars ($1,213). No payment appears to have been made therefor. Filed February 17, 1902. A true copy. Test this 20th day of February, A. D. 1902. [SEAL] BY THE COURT. JOHN RANDOLPH, Assistant Clerk Court of Claims. FREDERICK DEMMIEN. LETTER FROM THE ASSISTANT CLERK OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS, TRANSMITTING THE FINDINGS OF FACT IN THE CASE OF FREDERICK DEMMIEN AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. FEBRUARY 24, 1902.-Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. COURT OF CLAIMS, CLERK'S OFFICE, Washington, February 21, 1902. SIR: Pursuant to the order of the court, I transmit herewith a certified copy of the findings filed by the court in the aforesaid cause, which case was referred to this court by the Committee on War Claims, House of Representatives, under the act of March 3, 1883. I am, very respectfully, yours, etc., Hon. DAVID B. HENDERSON, JOHN RANDOLPH, Assistant Clerk Court of Claims. Speaker of the House of Representatives. [Court of Claims. Congressional, No. 231. Frederick Demmien v. The United States.] This case being a claim for supplies or stores alleged to have been taken by or furnished to the military forces of the United States for their use during the late war for the suppression of the rebellion, the court, on a preliminary inquiry, finds that Frederick Demmien, the person alleged to have furnished such supplies or stores, or from whom the same are alleged to have been taken, was loyal to the Government of the United States throughout said war. Filed December 11, 1899. BY THE COURT. [Court of Claims. Congressional case No. 231. Frederick Demmien v. The United States.] STATEMENT OF CASE. The claim in the above-entitled case for supplies or stores alleged to have been taken by or furnished to the military forces of the United States for their use during the late war for the suppression of the rebellion was transmitted to the court by the Committee on War Claims, House of Representatives, on the 24th day of January, 1885. On a preliminary inquiry the court, on the 11th day of December, 1899, found that the person alleged to have furnished the supplies or stores, or from whom they were alleged to have been taken, was loyal to the Government of the United States throughout said war. The case was brought to a hearing on its merits on the 16th day of December, 1901. George A. and William B. King, esqs., appeared for claimant, and the Attorney |