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Show nir.LCR'u ui.i'oitr. Claims Aiinlnsl Uuaerninriit nnd Ihe Mubjeela Olteuaaeil. WAsm.suro.w, D. C, Doc. 8. Attorney At-torney liuiierul Miller, in bis annual nport, reviews tho work done by the department during tho year, and calls attention tu thu growth of thu builuois therein, tspcolully In thu dotartineut of thu court of cliiltng. Various dames ot claims occupying Its ntteut uu nre then statistically set out. Hpeclal attention at-tention la given to thu enormous amount of Southern clitma piling up for supplies, etc., taken by Die army during thn war, amounting nt pnaent to about four hundroJ millions. He points out that u largo proportion of thtso aro without right, bolus by persons per-sons who were nt the tlmu In rebolllou audsuggeaU that unless Congress puts snruo barriers betwieu tbo treasury and thiau claims, tbcru Is no telling what urnouut thu government will b called Uwn to pay, rhe report rcfert to tho usw circuit court of appeals uud says thu number of oasis beloro tho Huprcmu Courtis di creating 113 thu result of its establishment. |
