Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States at the ... with the Rules of Practice and the Acts of Congress Relating to the Court, Volume 20W.H. & O.H. Morrison, 1885 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... matter . 3. In every case transmitted by the head of a department , by Congress or a committee thereof , a copy of the order of transmission shall be set out or annexed . 4. The prayer , in which the claimant must state distinctly the ...
... matter . 3. In every case transmitted by the head of a department , by Congress or a committee thereof , a copy of the order of transmission shall be set out or annexed . 4. The prayer , in which the claimant must state distinctly the ...
Page xi
... matters or items , each must be separately stated . Contracts , how stated . Agent verify- have power of at- ing petition must 12. If the petition be verified by the attorney at law or other agent of the claimant , a power of at- torney ...
... matters or items , each must be separately stated . Contracts , how stated . Agent verify- have power of at- ing petition must 12. If the petition be verified by the attorney at law or other agent of the claimant , a power of at- torney ...
Page xvi
... matter relative to the claim in question ; and if he do , he shall state it . The testimony of the witness when completed shall be read over to him , and be signed by him in the presence of the officer . 38. The officer should so ...
... matter relative to the claim in question ; and if he do , he shall state it . The testimony of the witness when completed shall be read over to him , and be signed by him in the presence of the officer . 38. The officer should so ...
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... Matter not to 65. Before printing a return made to a call on a be printed . Department , the chief clerk will withhold from the copy for the printer : printing . 1st . All papers of which copies have been pre- viously printed in the ...
... Matter not to 65. Before printing a return made to a call on a be printed . Department , the chief clerk will withhold from the copy for the printer : printing . 1st . All papers of which copies have been pre- viously printed in the ...
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... matter , transmitted to rules as other the court under the provisions of section 2 of the act of March 3 , 1883 , entitled " An Act to afford assistance and relief to Congress and the Executive Departments in the investigation of claims ...
... matter , transmitted to rules as other the court under the provisions of section 2 of the act of March 3 , 1883 , entitled " An Act to afford assistance and relief to Congress and the Executive Departments in the investigation of claims ...
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act of Congress action administrator agent amount Andrew Gleason appear appointed April April 17 Attorney-General authority bank Board of Public bond Bowman Act cartridge cents certificates charge Cherokee Nation claimant clerk Commission on purchase Commissioner compensation contract contractor council Council Bluffs counter-claim Court of Claims December 31 Decided defendants delivered the opinion District of Columbia duty earnings entitled evidence facts February FEBRUARY 19 filed finding fulminate grading Indians internal-revenue stamps January JANUARY 29 John judgment July June June 30 jurisdiction Kansas Pacific Railway lands mails March ment Navy officers paid parties pavement payment petition Postmaster-General purchase of internal-revenue Railroad Company receipt received recover referred Reporters revenue stamps Revised Statutes rules Secretary Secretary of War Stat statement Supreme Court thereof tion transmitted treaty United Washington William
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Page l - ... after the allowance of such a claim, the ascertainment of the amount due, and the issuing of a warrant for the payment thereof. Such transfers, assignments, and powers of attorney, must recite the warrant for payment, and must be acknowledged by the person making them, before an officer having authority to take acknowledgments of deeds, and shall be certified by the officer ; and it must appear by the certificate that the officer, at the time of the acknowledgment, read and fully explained the...
Page 71 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 108 - Is it true, that this is the sense in which the word "necessary" is always used? Does it always import an absolute physical necessity, so strong, that one thing, to which another may be termed necessary cannot exist without that other?
Page 35 - An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and for other purposes," approved July twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.
Page xl - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 498 - Concurrent with the Court of Claims, of all claims not exceeding ten thousand dollars founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page xliv - States during such rebellion shall be required to prove affirmatively that such person did, during said rebellion, consistently adhere to the United States, and did give no aid or comfort to persons engaged in said...
Page 109 - We think it does not. If reference be had to its use in the common affairs of the world, or in approved authors, we find that it frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient or useful or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end is generally understood as employing any means calculated to produce the end, and not as being confined to those single means, without which the end would be entirely unattainable.
Page xlii - That the claims of married women, first accrued during marriage, of persons under the age of twenty-one years, first accrued during minority, and of idiots, lunatics, insane persons, and persons beyond the seas at the time the claim accrued, entitled to the claim, shall not be barred if the...
Page 186 - ... court of claims, and the same shall be there proceeded in as if originally commenced by the voluntary action of the claimant...