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Show W 'AfiHINUTON. Washington, 22. lo the matter ol the claim of the slate nf Georgia to be reimbursed by 72,000 for expenses incurred iu the Creek and Seminole war, the first comptroller of thu treasury treas-ury has decided in tavor of the state. Secretary Sherman has ordered the revenue steamer Jlush lo take on hoard enlocient supplies for a fivc-raonlbs" fivc-raonlbs" cruise, to leavj San Fran-cioco Fran-cioco not laler than May 15:h, aac proceed to the waters ot Alaska for the purposeol enforcing the provisions of tho law and for the protection o! the interests ol government on the seal isfauds, aud on the6ea otter hunting hunt-ing grounds and of Alaska generally. A bill was introduced to-day in the senate by Vuorhees, and in the house by Manning, which is, with one important addition, a copy of the measure reported by Wiggiulon from the bouBe committee on publio lands last session, for a determination by 'the court of aDDeal. with right of appeal to the Supreme Cjurt, of all claims to Ranclio Panoche Grande, in California. The new proposition added to this bill is ono investing the court of claims with tho same power and jurisdiction that were possessed by the former United States district court for the southern district of California, Cali-fornia, to hear and determine ao appeal ap-peal from the decision of the board of land commissioners on tho Veente Gomez claim, aud author izing MiGarrabau, as successor to the rights of Gomez, to prosecute -said appeal, The bill also provides that buco proceedings may bo had iu the court of claims as might have been had in said district court, irrespective of any that may have occurred therein. |