Note 41 — CLAIMS OF CITIZENS IN THE REBEL STATES.

January 14th, Mr. Wilson moved, as an amendment to the pending bill, a substitute providing for the appointment of “commissioners to examine and report all claims for quartermasters’ stores and subsistence supplies furnished the military forces of the United States, during the late civil war, by loyal persons in the States lately in rebellion.”—Congressional Globe, 40th Cong. 3d Sess., p. 359.