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 1st Session, j i No. 283. 
 
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 WILLIAM B. GOODWIN, HEIR OF FRANCIS LE BARON 
 
 GOODWIN. 
 
 April 17, 1858. 
 
 Mr. Gurry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made the 
 
 following 
 
 REPORT. 
 
 The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom ivas re/erred the 
 petition of William B. Goodwin, report : 
 
 That petitioner claims five years' full pay, or the commutation in 
 lieu thereof, for the services of Francis Le Baron Goodwin^ who, he 
 alleges, was his father, and served to the end of the revolutionary 
 war in the capacity of surgeon's mate. The evidence to prove the 
 service is very slight, consisting of the certificate of one John Thacher, 
 which, in the form presented, and unsastained, is hardly satisfactory. 
 A letter from the Third Auditor states that the records of his office 
 furnish no information of the length or cliaracter of the service ren- 
 dered by Mr. Goodwin. 
 
 Under the resolves of Congress, surgeons' mates were not entitled 
 to half-pay for life,, or a commutation of five years in lieu thereof 
 There is no special pre-eminence in the character or value of such 
 services, or in the proof accompanying this application, to require a 
 relaxation of the general rule of exclusion. 
 
 The committee, therefore, report adversely to the petition of Wm. 
 B. Goodwin. 
 
 (See Reports of Com. 1st sess. 31st Cong., vol. 3, No. 455.) 
 
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