3d Session.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

No. 318.

JANUARY 27, 1871.-Ordered to be printed.

Mr. FLANAGAN made the following

REPORT.

[To accompany bill H. R. No. 2243.]

The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred House bill No. 2243, an act for the relief of James R. Young, late postmaster at Lisbon, New Hampshire, with the memorial and evidence accompanying it, make the following report:

On the night of May 15, 1869, the safe of Parker & Young, manufacturers, at Lisbon, New Hampshire, was broken open and robbed by burglars, and postage stamps to the amount of $309 84, for which the claimant was officially responsible, were lost or stolen, without any fault or neglect on his part.

The claimant was a member of the firm of Parker & Young, and kept the post office in their store, depositing the stamps in their safe, a place of equal security to any other in the town of Lisbon.

The committee recommend the passage of the bill without amendment.

The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 2285) entitled" An act for the relief of John Milone, postmaster at Uhrickville, Tuscarawas County, Ohio," with the memorial and evidence accompanying it, make the following report:

The office of claimant, on the night of October 6, 1868, was broken open and entered by burglars, and robbed of postage stamps amounting to $210, and also internal revenue stamps, for which he was responsible to the Internal Revenue Department, amounting to $160.

It

appears that there was no safe that the officer could use to deposit his money and stamps within the delivery of the office; that he took the best care of the public property that he could under the circumstances. The stores in the town of Ühricksville were generally entered and robbed on the occasion of this loss, so that the loss by this officer was without neglect or fault on his part.

The committee recommend the passage of the bill without amendment