Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

EDWARDS PIERREPONT, Attorney-General.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 9, 1876.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I return herewith without my approval Senate bill No. 165, entitled “An act for the relief of Michael W. Brock, of Meigs County, Tenn., late a private in Company D, Tenth Tennessee Volunteers.”

The objection to affixing my signature to this bill may be found in the indorsement (which accompanies this message) by the Adjutant-General of the Army.

U.S.  GRANT.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE,

Washington, June 8, 1876.

Respectfully returned to the Secretary of War.

The records of this office show that Michael W. Brock, Company D, Tenth Tennessee Volunteers, deserted November 24, 1864, due United States for horse and horse equipments, carbine, saber, and pistol, all complete.

He presented satisfactory evidence of his having left the service by proper authority, and the charge of desertion has been removed and the soldier furnished an honorable discharge.

No evidence has been presented to this office to establish that he was erroneously charged with Government property.

If satisfactory evidence is furnished showing conclusively that this soldier was erroneously charged with Government property, taken at time of his reported desertion, the charge will be removed, and in that case the inclosed act for his relief will be unnecessary.

ED TOWNSEND, Adjutant-General.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 30, 1876.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I return herewith without my approval Senate bill No. 692, entitled
“An act to amend chapter 166 of the laws of the second session of the
Forty-third Congress.”

The objections to affixing my signature to this bill may be found in the report, which accompanies this message, of the Chief of Engineers of the Army to the Secretary of War.

U.S.  GRANT.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, June 28, 1876.

The PRESIDENT: 

SIR:  I have the honor to return herewith Senate bill No. 692, “to amend chapter 166 of the laws of the second session of the Forty-third Congress,” and beg to invite your attention to the report of the Chief of Engineers dated the 27th instant, copy inclosed, and for the reasons stated in said report it is believed the bill should not become a law.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J.D.  CAMERON, Secretary of War.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, June 27, 1876.

Respectfully returned to the honorable the Secretary of War.

“An act to aid in the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, in the State of Wisconsin,” approved March 3, 1875, contains the following clause: