[33] American State Papers: Claims, p. 444. Act, February 27, 1815: Private Laws, p. 150.
[34] American State Papers: Claims, p. 462.
[35] American State Papers: Claims, p. 521. Acts, March 3, 1817: Private Laws, pp. 194, 187.
[36] American State Papers: Claims, pp. 521, 522. Annals of Congress, 14th Cong. 2d Sess., coll. 215, 1036.
[37] American State Papers: Claims, p. 835. Annals of Congress, 17th Cong. 1st Sess., col. 311.
[38] Statutes at Large, Vol. III. p. 263.
[39] American State Papers: Claims, p. 590.
[40] Ibid.
[41] January 14th, Mr. Wilson moved, as an amendment to the pending bill, a substitute providing for the appointment of “commissioners to examine and report all claims for quartermasters’ stores and subsistence supplies furnished the military forces of the United States, during the late civil war, by loyal persons in the States lately in rebellion.”—Congressional Globe, 40th Cong. 3d Sess., p. 359.
[42] Speech in the House of Commons, January 14, 1766: Hansard’s Parliamentary History, Vol. XVI. col. 104.