CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES TO PRIVATELY OWNED PROPERTY AND DAMAGES BY COLLISION WITH NAVAL VESSELS COMMUNICATION FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TRANSMITTING ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATIONS SUBMITTED BY THE SEVERAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS TO PAY CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES TO PRIVATELY OWNED PROPERTY AND DAMAGES BY COLLISION WITH NAVAL VESSELS, AMOUNTING TO $4,707.51 FEBRUARY 25, 1929.-Read; referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed The PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, February 25, 1929. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress estimates of appropriations submitted by the several executive departments to pay claims for damages to privately owned property and damages by collision with naval vessels, in the sum of $4,707.51, which have been considered and adjusted under the provisions of the several acts relating thereto. and which require appropriations for their payment Respectfully CALVIN COOLIDGE. BUREAU OF THE BUDGET, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith for your consideration estimates of appropriations submitted by the several executive departments to pay claims for damages to privately owned property and damages by collision with naval vessels which have been con sidered and adjusted under the provisions of the several acts relating thereto and which require appropriations for their payment: The letters of the heads of departments submitting these estimates are transmitted herewith. In accordance with the provisions of the acts providing for these submissions, I recommend that these estimates be transmitted to Congress. Director of the Bureau of the Budget. MY DEAR GENERAL LORD: In accordance with an act of Congress of December 28, 1922 (42 Stat. 1066), this department has considered, adjudged, and determined the following claim of W. S. Hill, of Harlem. Mont., for alleged damage to his privately owned property in the sum of $496, and it is recommended that the claim be certified to Congress for an authorization of the payment thereof from an appropriation which shall be authorized from funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. CLAIM Claimant: W. S. Hill, of Harlem, Mont. Amount allowed: $496. The claim was presented by the claimant for settlement under date of January 21, 1929. The claim was presented within one year from the date on which the damage was incurred, which was during November, 1928. The damage was incurred and the claim accrued subsequent to April 6, 1917. The claim is based upon damage to hay amounting to 82% tons, which was burned on the premises of the claimant and which was the private property of the claimant. The damage was caused by an assistant irrigation engineer of the Indian Service and employees under his direction. The assistant irrigation engineer and his crew were acting within the scope of their employment. The facts in this case, it is believed, show negligence on the part of the assistant irrigation engineer and his crew in failing to completely extinguish a fire started by them in connection with burning weeds and brush along an irrigation canal. The conditions under which the damage is reported to have been incurred are as follows: In connection with clearing and burning brush and weeds along the canals of the Fort Belknap irrigation project, Montana, on Saturday November 3, 1928, by employees of the Indian irrigation service the fire which had been started by them was not completely extinguished in the remnants of an old haystack and after smoldering there, a high wind on November 4, 1928, carried fire to near-by grass which spreading caused the total destruction of the haystack belonging to the claimant and which contained 82% tons of hay. This claim has been examined by the Solicitor for the Department of the Interior who advises that it is a legal claim for submission under the provisions of the act of December 28, 1922 (42 Stats. 1066). Very truly yours, Hon. H. M. LORD, E. C. FINNEY, First Assistant Secretary and Budget Officer. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Director of the Bureau of the Budget. MY DEAR GENERAL LORD: In accordance with an act of Congress of December 28, 1922 (42 Stat. 1066) this department has considered, adjudged, and determined the following claim of Philip Shade, of Harlem, Mont., for alleged damage to his privately owned property in the sum of $120, and it is recommended that the claim be certified to Congress for an authorization of the payment thereof from an appropriation which shall be authorized from funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. CLAIM Claimant Philip Shade, of Harlem, Mont. Amount allowed: $120. The claim was presented by the claimant for settlement under date of January 15, 1929. The claim was presented within one year from the date on which the damage was incurred which was during November, 1928. The damage was incurred and the claim accrued subsequent to April 6, 1917. The claim is based upon damage to hay amounting to 20 tons which was burned on the premises of the claimant and which was the private property of the claimant. The damage was caused by an assistant irrigation engineer of the Indian Service and employees under his direction. The assistant irrigation engineer and his crew were acting within the scope of their employment. The facts in this case, it is believed, show negligence on the part of the assistant irrigation engineer and his crew in failing to completely extinguish a fire started by them in connection with burning weeds and brush along an irrigation canal. The conditions under which the damage is reported to have been incurred are as follows: In connection with clearing and burning brush and weeds along the canals of the Fort Belknap irrigation project, Montana, on Saturday, November 3, 1928, by employees of the Indian irrigation service the fire which had been started by them was not completely extinguished in the remnants of an old haystack and after smoldering there, a high wind on November 4, 1928, carried fire to nearby grass which spreading caused the total destruction of the haystack belonging to the claimant and which contained 20 tons of hay. This claim has been examined by the solicitor for the Department of the Interior who advises that it is a legal claim for submission under the provisions of the act of December 28, 1922 (42 Stats. 1066). Very truly yours, E. C. FINNEY, First Assistant Secretary and Budget Officer. Hon. H. M. LORD, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Director of the Bureau of the Budget. MY DEAR GENERAL LORD: In accordance with an act of Congress of December 28, 1922 (42 Stat. 1066) this department has considered, adjudged, and determined the following claim of August Decelles, of Harlem, Mont., for alleged damage to his privately-owned property in the sum of $60, and it is recommended that the claim be certified to Congress for an authorization of the payment thereof from an appropriation which shall be authorized from funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. CLAIM Claimant: August Decelles, of Harlem, Mont. Amount claimed: $60. Amount allowed: $60. The claim was presented by the claimant for settlement under date of January 21, 1929. The claim was presented within one year from the date on which the damage was incurred which was during November, 1928. The damage was incurred and the claim accrued subsequent to April 6, 1917. The claim is based upon damage to hay amounting to 10 tons which was burned on the premises of the claimant and which was the private property of the claimant. The damage was caused by an assistant irrigation engineer of the Indian Service and employees under his direction. The assistant irrigation engineer and his crew were acting within the scope of their employment. The facts in this case, it is believed, show negligence on the part of the assistant irrigation engineer and his crew in failing to completely extinguish a fire started by them in connection with burning weeds and brush along an irrigation canal. The conditions under which the damage is reported to have been incurred are as follows: In connection with clearing and burning brush and weeds along the canals. of the Fort Belknap irrigation project, Montana, on Saturday, November 3, 1928, by employees of the Indian irrigation service, the fire which had been started by them was not completely extinguished |