Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1880 — SOUTHERN CLAIMS. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN CLAIMS.

Annual Report of the Commissioners. Tho Southern Claims Commissioners have Congress their ninth general report, a which is herewith appended: The number of claims decided since their last report is 2.29 J. In each of these cases a special report is submitted, with the petition, evidence and all papers relating thereto. The reasons for the allowance and disallowance of the claims are therein set forth. The Commissioners are unanimous in all their reports. Annexed is a table setting forth tho amounts allowed and disallowed in the States wherein the Commissioners have iurisdic'ion: Total Amount amount Amount disalSlales. claimed, allowed. lowed. Alabama $ 483 034 $ 21,400 $ 402 234 Arkansas 1,055,301 31 075 1.025,186 Florida 57,081 3,470 53,611 Georgia 785,855 37,623 743.232 Louisiana 2,831 *43 12,411 2,818,181 Mississippi 1,108,028 34,201 1,134.727 North Carolina 128,026 14 784 113,241 Sooth Carolina 174,013 5.910 165.702 Tennessee 885,482 43,677 841,804 Texas 01,218 1,880 62,3:38 Virginia 1,027.258 29 399 997,858 West Virginia 30,757 5,077 * 31,079 Total $8,098.460 f 211,611 *3.456,849 Tho whole number of claims decided this year is 2,290 Number allowed 553 Number disallowed 1,7^7 The amount of claims disposed of in this report is £8,698,400.56 Amount allowed £ 241,011.22 Amount disallowed 8,456.849.84 Of the whole number of 2,‘290 c'aimants, fifty-three were bankrupt*, whose claims were disallowed pursuant to the decision of the Commissioners that, as in bankruptcy the properly of thi bankrupt passes to his assignee, the bankrupt was not tbe owner of the claim, and could not be allowed therefor. Of the 553 claims allowed, fifty-five of the claimants were in the Union army and three in the United States navy during the war. Of the 1,737 claims disallowed, 238 of the claimants were in tho Confederate military service, twenty-nine were in the Confederate civil, service, seventy voted for the Ordinance of Secession or for separation, nineteen took the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy, and one signed the Ordinance of Secession—in all 357. Whole'number of claims presented... 22.298 Number heretofore presented 14,306 Number now reported ... 2,290 There remain *. . 5,702 Of the 5,702 not yet reported, there are about 250 in the hands of’the Commissioners, some of which are in the hands of agents for investigation, and others so recently closed and submitted, or still open for rebutting evidence, that the Commissioners have not been able to include them in this report These 250 oases will all be decided and reported to Congress by the time the term of this commission ends, on the 10th of next March. The rest of the 5,702 cases not yet reported are claims in which no evidence whatever on the part of the claimant to sustain the claim was filed by the 10th day of March, 1879. Tho aetof Congress of June 15.1878, provides, in regard to all such claims, that “thoy shall be barred forever thereafter, and the Commissioners of Claims shall report all such claims so barred to Congress at its next session thereafter.” In compliance with this act of Congress tbe Commissioner! are preparing a list of all such claims, which they will report to Co lgrees at the present session.