The
contract price for the _Squando_ was $395,000. The contractors
claimed extra compensation amounting to $337,329.46, and there was
allowed $194,525.70. The contract price of the _Nauset_ was
$386,000, the extra compensation claimed was $314,768.93, and the amount
allowed $192,110.98. The contract price of the side-wheel steamer
_Ashuelot_ was $275,000, the extra compensation claimed was
$81,447.50, and the amount allowed was $22,415.92. The different sums as
thus adjusted were received by the contractors in settlement of their
claims for extra expense, and receipts in full were given by them to the
Government.
A number of other contractors had done like work for the Government and
claimed to have demands growing out of the same for extra compensation.
Evidently with the view of investigating and settling these claims, on
the 9th day of March, 1865, the Senate passed the following resolution:
_Resolved_, That the Secretary of the Navy be requested to organize
a board of not less than three persons, whose duty it shall be to
inquire into and determine how much the vessels of war and steam
machinery contracted for by the Department in the years 1862 and 1863
cost the contractors over and above the contract price and allowance
for extra work, and report the same to the Senate at its next session;
none but those that have given satisfaction to the Department to be
considered.
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