44TH CONGRESS, }                         SENATE                        {REPORT
 1st Session   }                                                       { No. 498.
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                           IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

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                          July 28, 1876,--Ordered to be printed.
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                         Mr. Wright submitted the following

                                         REPORT:
                               [To accompany bill H. R. 3504.]

The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 3504) for the
        relief of Thomas Day, submit the following report:

     The report of the House committee is as follows:

     That this claim was before the Forty-third Congress, and a favorable report-thereon
made by Mr. James Wilson, of the War-Claims Committee of that Congress, now a
member of this committee.
     This claim is for the use and occupation of nursery-grounds by the United States,
situated in Jefferson County, Indiana. Said grounds were occupied and used during
the war of the late rebellion as a military post for barracks and hospital purposes.
Your committee believe, from the evidence, that the claimant is entitiled to the sum of
$640.75, as a compensation for the said use and occupation. They report the accom-
panying bill, and recommend its passage.

     This committee only add that the testimony abundantly supports the
findings, and also shows that the Quartermaster's Department declined
to pass upon the claim, as it was for damages, a subject over which it
had no jurisdiction, and remitted the same to Congress. The grounds
were taken possession of in January, 1863, and at a time or season of the
year when it was impossible to move the trees.
     We recommend the passage of the bill.