1800 · [Philadelphia
by [Rawle, William]
[Philadelphia, 1800. 4pp, disbound, light wear. Contemporary editing notes in ink, Good+.
Mountjoy, a Revolutionary War Captain, was entitled to bounty lands, evidently in Pennsylvania. A clerk in the War Department stole Mountjoy's land warrant, which the Department had duly issued. The question is whether the Department may issue him another warrant.
Rawle, United States Attorney for Pennsylvania, had opined that, although "the loss occasioned by the depravity of a clerk in the War-Office, ought not to fall upon the innocent party, yet I do not think it is in the power of the Secretary of the Department of War, to relieve him." Rawle reasoned that "the United States" ought to compensate him.
The Committee orders the Department to do the right thing, directing that it give Mountjoy "a land warrant, No. 2492, for 300 acres of bounty land."
FIRST EDITION. Evans 38870. Not in Cohen. ESTC W21642 [7]. (Inventory #: 18161)
Mountjoy, a Revolutionary War Captain, was entitled to bounty lands, evidently in Pennsylvania. A clerk in the War Department stole Mountjoy's land warrant, which the Department had duly issued. The question is whether the Department may issue him another warrant.
Rawle, United States Attorney for Pennsylvania, had opined that, although "the loss occasioned by the depravity of a clerk in the War-Office, ought not to fall upon the innocent party, yet I do not think it is in the power of the Secretary of the Department of War, to relieve him." Rawle reasoned that "the United States" ought to compensate him.
The Committee orders the Department to do the right thing, directing that it give Mountjoy "a land warrant, No. 2492, for 300 acres of bounty land."
FIRST EDITION. Evans 38870. Not in Cohen. ESTC W21642 [7]. (Inventory #: 18161)