THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
Report No. 375.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
JOHN McRAE.
March 14, 1848.
Laid upon the table.
Mr. Goggin, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, made the following
REPORT:

The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of John McRae, report:

That the petitioner claims for sending, while postmaster at Fayetteville, an express to Charleston, S.C., in connexion with the apprehension of a mail robber; and for this service he seems to have been paid the sum of $30. The other claim is for the sum of $400, in two cases, for the apprehension of mail robbers, which there seems to be no law or usage of the department to justify the payment of. The claim has been repeatedly rejected by the predecessors of the present Postmaster General, who himself declines to act on the case, as it is not his habit to review their decisions. This claim originated in 1828, now twenty years since, and the committee believe, if it were well founded, that certainly there would have been filed, with the papers, some evidence of the justice of the claim. But there is no proof whatever submitted to sustain it; and, even upon the statement made by the petitioner, the committee are opposed to making any allowance to the petitioner, for the services set forth.

They therefore recommend that the claim of the petitioner be rejected.