1st Session. No. 222. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. MAY 19, 1852. Mr. JONES, of Iowa, made the following REPORT: [To accompany bill S. No. 426.] The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Christopher Knowlton (or Nulton), report : That the petitioner enlisted the 22d day of December, 1812, for five years, in Captain Sholes's company of artillery. He deposes that while the company was at Lower Sandusky he was detailed to butcher cattle for the troops, and while thus employed an ox fell upon his leg, by which it was broken and his ankle dislocated, producing permanent lameness, and rendering him unable to perform the ordinary duties of a soldier. In consequence, he served as a cook. He was discharged from Captain John Biddle's company of artillery (to which he had been transferred,) on the 10th of December, 1815. Application was made by the petitioner for a pension some years ago, but not being able to produce such proof as the regulations of the department required to show that he was disabled while in the service and in the line of his duty, his application was rejected. In aid of the claim of the petitioner to a pension, it is set forth in the deposition of Charles Draper and David Parker, made on the 26th of March, 1852, that among the proofs sent on to the Pension Office, sometime in 1840, in behalf of the petitioner, to enable him to obtain a pension, was the deposition of William McConkey, setting forth that the said McConkey knew the petitioner, and served in the same company with him, and also knew that the petitioner was wounded at Sandusky in the line of his duty. The deposition of McConkey, who has since died, could not be found at the Pension Office, and in consequence the petitioner relies upon that of Messrs. Draper and Parker to make good the loss. The statements sworn to by the petitioner, touching the cause of his disability, appear to be true from coincident proofs. 1st. A letter from Major John Biddle (in whose company the petitioner served in 1815,) to O. D. Richardson, esq., dated November 20, 1850, says: "I remember Christopher Knowlton perfectly, and that when I first knew him, in 1815, he was unfitted for duty by lameness. He was employed to cook for the other men. He has told me that he was disabled by an accident which occurred while slaughtering cattle for the army at Sandusky. I have no doubt that this is true. 2d. The Hon. A. Felch certifies to the high character and respectability 1st Session. No. 223. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. MAY 19, 1852. Mr. HAMLIN made the following REPORT: [To accompany bill S. No. 427.] The Committee on Commerce, on the petition of Thomas Thurston, of Bristol, Maine, for fishing bounty, report: The petitioner sets forth that, in 1848, he was the owner of the schooner Kaderer, of Bristol, in the State of Maine, of thirty-four tons burden; that Le sailed for the fishing ground from the port of Bristol, aforesaid, on the th of March, 1848; that she completed her first fare and returned to ud port on the 23d of June following. That she again sailed for the fishties on the 17th of October following; completed her fare and returned said port of Bristol on the 1st of December, 1848, having been engaged the fisheries during both trips, four months and twenty days, and taken e hundred and fifty quintals of cod-fish. Said schooner was well fitted manned for the fishing business, and all requisitions of the law comed with, excepting a certificate from the inspector of the port, of her a-worthiness, &c., which could not be procured in consequence of the sence of said inspector at Boston, at the time of the sailing of said vessel. The evidence of the sea-worthiness, &c., of said vessel is shown by the acmpanying papers. It having been usual to grant relief in such cases, the committee report a "That the said Thomas Chapman was in his lifetime collector o customs for Georgetown district, in the State of South Carolina, and con 1st Session. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. MAY 19, 1852. No. 224. Mr. BERRIEN made the following REPORT: [To accompany bill S. No. 428.] The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of James Chapman, administrator of Thomas Chapman, submit the following report: The committee have had this case under consideration; have examined the various reports heretofore made upon it; have concurred in the opinions expressed in the report made to the Senate by its Judiciary Committee on the 24th of April, 1832, and adopting the same, accordingly report a bill. IN SENATE-February 27, 1850. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of James Chapman, administrator of Thomas Chapman, submit the following report: This claim has been heretofore submitted to Congress, and various reports have been made upon it. From these the committee select the following report, made at the first session of the twenty-second Congress, which they adopt, and accordingly report a bill. IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES—April 24, 1832. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of James Chapman, report: That the petitioner represents that he is the executor of Thomas Chapman, late of Georgetown, South Carolina, deceased. "That the said Thomas Chapman was in his lifetime collector of the Customs for Georgetown district, in the State of South Carolina, and con |