CITY, COUNTY, AND STATE OF NEW YORK,

United States of America, 88:

On this twenty-first day of September, 1863, before me came Edmund P. Rogers, to me known, the subscribing witness above named, who being by me sworn, did depose and say that he resides in the city of New York, county aforesaid; that he knows Thomas F. Rowland and George W. Quintard, the executants above named, and who executed the above instrument; that he was present and saw the said Thomas F. Rowland and George W. Quintard execute the same, and that he thereupon subscribed his name as a witness thereto.

To. B. F. I.

[SEAL.] EDW. B. NEALLEY.

STATE OF NEW YORK, County of New York, s8:

WM. W. GOODRICH, Notary Public, 74 Wall St.

B. F. ISHERWOOD. [SEAL.]

George W. Quintard, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides in the city of New York, in the State of New York; that he is a householder, and that the value of his property, over and above all debts and liabilities incurred by him, is over fifty-two thousand ($52,000) dollars.

GEO. W. QUINTARD.

Sworn and subscribed this 18th day of September, 1863, before me.

FRANCIS T. JOHNSON, Notary Public for City and County of N. Y.

STATE OF NEW YORK, County of New York, 88:

Henry R. Morgan, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides in the city of New York, in the State of New York; that he is a freeholder, and that the value of his property, over and above all debts and liabilities incurred by him, is over fiftytwo thousand ($52,000) dollars.

Sworn and subscribed this 21st day of Sept., 1863, before me.

HENRY R. MORGAN.

WM. W. GOODRICH, Notary Public, 74 Wall St.

I certify that I have made due and diligent personal inquiry as to the ability of the sureties in this contract, and am satisfied that they are good and sufficient for the sum of fifty-two ($52,000) dollars each.

J. HENDERSON,

Navy Agent.

Extract from a law of the United States approved July 17,

1862.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That whenever any contractor for subsistence, clothing, arms, ammunition, munitions of war, and for every description of supplies for the Army or Navy of the United States, shall be found guilty by a court-martial of fraud or willful neglect of duty, he shall be punished by fine, imprisonment, or such other punishment as the court-martial shall adjudge; and any person who shall contract to furnish supplies of any kind or description for the Army or Navy, he shall be deemed and taken as a part of the land or naval forces of the United States for which he shall contract to furnish said supplies, and be subject to the rules and regulations for the Government of the land and naval forces of the United States.

IMPROVING PUBLIC ROAD CONNECTING CHAIN, AQUEDUCT, AND LONG BRIDGES.

JANUARY 7, 1891.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. WILLIAMS, of Ohio, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following

REPORT:

[To accompany S. 3106.]

The Committee on Military Affairs, having under consideration the bill (S. 3106) "to appropriate $50,000 for improving the public road in Alexandria County, State of Virginia, connecting the Chain, Aqueduct, and Long Bridges, and running in front of the Arlington National Cemetery," report:

That there is no good reason for building a road at Government expense from Chain Bridge to Aqueduct Bridge, because the building of said road is not a military necessity, nor is it for the improvement of Government property. It will largely benefit the property holders along the road from Chain Bridge to Aqueduct Bridge, and would gratify the citizens of Alexandria County, Va., who are interested in having good roads built at the expense of the National Government. The committee states that the proposed road from Aqueduct Bridge to Long Bridge affords a direct route to Arlington National Cemetery, and runs through the Government reservation consisting of 1,100 acres of land.

There are to the present date 16,343 Union soldiers buried in the Arlington National Cemetery, many of them distinguished for eminent services rendered the nation in time of war. The committee further report that $20,000 will build a good road from Aqueduct Bridge to Long Bridge, and therefore recommend that the word "fifty," before the word "thousand," be stricken out and that the word "twenty" be inserted in lieu thereof, so as to read "twenty thousand dollars" instead of "fifty thousand dollars; " also the words "the Chain Bridge to" before the words "the Aqueduct Bridge;" also the words "and thence " after the words " Aqueduct Bridge" be stricken out, making the bill read "From the Aqueduct Bridge through the Arlington estate along the front of the Arlington Cemetery to the Long Bridge."

The committee further recommend that the words at the close of the bill, which read as follows, "And provided further, That the Secretary of War shall, on full investigation, select the public road to be so improved when there shall be two or more public roads between the points above named," be stricken out, for the reason that by the adoption of the above-named amendments only one route is described in the bill from Aqueduct Bridge to Long Bridge.

The committee also recommend that the preamble to the Senate bill be stricken out, as being redundant and unnecessary in an act of Congress.

With the above-named amendments the committee recommend the passage of the bill.

CONGRESS

CONGRESS,

ZERUIAH A. POTTER.

JANUARY 8, 1891.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.

Mr. YODER, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, submitted the

following

REPORT:

[To accompany H. R. 11212.]

The committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 11212) granting a pension to Zeruiah A. Potter, submit the following report:

The proposed beneficiary was the widow of Henry J. Potter, who died at Andersonville prison while a member of Company E, Seventysecond Regiment, Ohio Volunteers. She drew a pension until her remarriage to one William L. Harris in May, 1884, since which date no one has received any pension on account of the services and death of said Henry J. Potter, She remained the wife of Harris until about August, 1889, when the filed her petition for divorce from him, based upon cruelty and adultery with a widowed daughter-in-law. The court found the defendant guilty of adultery as charged and decreed her a divorce, with alimony, and restored her to her former name, Potter. The insolvence of Harris prevents the enforcement of the alimony clause of the decree and in consequence thereof she is dependent upon her married children. The money possessed by her at her marriage with Harris was squandered by him.

Mrs. Potter is shown to be a woman of the highest character, and much beloved by all who know her.

Her case comes clearly within the well-established rule of Congress. Your committee therefore report favorably on the accompanying bill and ask that it do pass.