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Communication from same to same, dated January 21, 1884, transmitting certain designated papers. S. Ex. 89-2 An estimate of appropriation received from the Secretary of the Interior to pay Miss Emma Dowell $29.35 for services rendered in July, 1882. FEBRUARY 21, 1885.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, February 20, 1885. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, an estimate of appropriation received from the Secretary of the Interior to pay Miss Emma Dowell the sum of $29.35 for services rendered in the General Land Office in the month of July, 1882. Very respectfully, CHARLES E. COON, Acting Secretary. The PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE PRO TEMPORE. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LANd Office, Washington, D. C., February 18, 1885. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt by Departmental reference of a letter of Mr. George F. Lamborn, inclosing a letter from you to him, dated April, 16, 1884, in regard to the services of Miss Emma Dowell in this office and the compensation paid to her. The said letter recites the facts in the case as appear from our records, and there is no objection to including in the deficiency bill an appro priation of $29.35 to pay Miss Dowell for services rendered. The papers are returned herewith. Very respectfully, N. C. MCFARLAND, Commissioner. Respectfully referred to the honorable Secretary of the Treasury, with the request that the same may be transmitted to Congress for its favorable consideration. The records of this Department show that the amount of $29.35 was due Miss Dowell for services rendered in July, 1882. There are no funds now available from which payment can be made; therefore a deficiency appropriation is asked to pay the claimant. H. M. TELLER, Secretary. 930 M STREET N. W., Washington, D. C., February 13, 1885. SIR: Pursuant to request of Hon. S. J. Randall, chairman Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, I have the honer to return herewith letter of Hon. H. M. Teller, Secretary of the Interior, relative to claim of Miss Emma Dowell for payment of clerical services rendered the United States Government, and to state that it is the desire of Mr. Randall that the Department certify to the honorable Secretary of the Treasury, by indorsement or otherwise, the correctness of said claim, in order that it may be included in the deficiency bill now pending in the House of Representatives. A reply is courteously requested. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. MERRITT L. JOSLYN, GEORGE F. LAMBORN. Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C. [Indorsement.] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for remarks. M. L. JOSLYN, Assistant Secretary. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, SIR: Your letter of the 31st ultimo, making claim for pay for services rendered by your wife, formerly Miss Emma Dowell, while she was em ployed in the General Land Office, is received. It appears that Miss Dowell was appointed a copyist, at $720, in the General Land Office, March 9, 1882, and that she resigned in November of the same year. During this period she was furloughed, without pay, from July 1 to August 5, by reason of the failure of Congress to make appropriation for the salaries of herself and others. The time-report of the devision in which Miss Dowell was employed shows that she remained on duty fifteen days during the period of said furlough, which service without pay) was rendered in the month of July. Her compensation for this time, at the rate of $720 per annum, would amount to $29.35. Subsepuently Miss Dowell was promoted from $720 to $900, to take effect August 5, but she did not take the oath of office until September 8, and under a' decision of the First Comptroller pay could be allowed only from date of oath. From the pay-rolls it appears that Miss Dowell received all the pay to which she was entitled in the months of August and September; and afterwards, when the question of requesting Congressional action to pay the clerks of the General Land Office for the voluntary service which they had respectively rendered during the period of their furlough was considered, Miss Dowell had resigned, her address was unknown, and in this way her case escaped attention. From an examination of the whole record it does not appear that Miss Dowell is entitled to pay for any other service than that rendered by her in July, 1882, amounting, as above stated, to $29.35, and it is now impossible for the Department to afford her the relief you ask, because the ap propriation which Congress provided for such payments expressly named the persons to be benefited thereby and the amounts to be paid to each. Her only present remedy lies in special legislation by Congress. Very respectfully, &c., Mr. GEORGE F. LAMBORN, No. 930 M street N. W., City. H. M. TELLER, Secretary. |