Reports from the Court of Claims Submitted to the House of Representatives, Količina 2C. Wendell, printer, 1861 |
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... months after said plaintiff claims to have purchased said brig and her cargo , she was burnt , by direction of an officer of the navy , to prevent the lead and other articles on board being taken by the Indians . Lieb and Armstrong , of ...
... months after said plaintiff claims to have purchased said brig and her cargo , she was burnt , by direction of an officer of the navy , to prevent the lead and other articles on board being taken by the Indians . Lieb and Armstrong , of ...
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... months . Objection is made to one of the commissioners , McGiffin , because " he had been a contractor , and was interested in directing from him- self any suspicion of collusion with the superintendent . " If so , how would this ...
... months . Objection is made to one of the commissioners , McGiffin , because " he had been a contractor , and was interested in directing from him- self any suspicion of collusion with the superintendent . " If so , how would this ...
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... months before the receipt of the treasury instructions . ( Rep . 253 , p . 165 , No. 1. ) This was a friendly note to Shepherd , advising him that his quarrymen were wasting stone that would do for coping . In it Thompson states the ...
... months before the receipt of the treasury instructions . ( Rep . 253 , p . 165 , No. 1. ) This was a friendly note to Shepherd , advising him that his quarrymen were wasting stone that would do for coping . In it Thompson states the ...
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... months of the date of the contract , and two years before much of the work was finished ; the coping of course was the last thing to be done . Thompson's testimony is to the effect that the coping of Deep Hollow bridge was bad . The ...
... months of the date of the contract , and two years before much of the work was finished ; the coping of course was the last thing to be done . Thompson's testimony is to the effect that the coping of Deep Hollow bridge was bad . The ...
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... months anterior to the declaration of independence , it was found necessary to raise the funds necessary to meet the public exigencies . Under these circum- stances , on the 22d June , 1775 , Congress passed the following resolu- tions ...
... months anterior to the declaration of independence , it was found necessary to raise the funds necessary to meet the public exigencies . Under these circum- stances , on the 22d June , 1775 , Congress passed the following resolu- tions ...
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aforesaid agent amount Answer Armstrong Attorney authorized bank notes Bank of Annapolis Bank of Columbia Barna McKinne barrels bills boats Brazos Santiago Brevoort & Houghton Brown Brownsville Captain cents certificates Charlant claimant Coast Survey Colonel commissioner Congress contract contractor copy Court of Claims David Wasson day of August debt December Denton deponent deposition Detroit dollars engraving entitled evidence fact February Fort Brown freight further Gabriel Georgia Giddings interest interrogatory issued Jacob Barker John McKinne Joshua judge judgments July June letter Lieutenant loan Mann March Mechanics November paid paper parties payment persons petition petitioner plaintiff plate postmaster public stock Quartermaster received respectfully RICHARD IRVIN San Antonio Santa Fé Secretary SELMAR SIEBERT Shepherd Smith Solicitor specie Straits of Mackinac subscribed sworn taken testimony Texas thereof transportation Treasury Department United Washington Wasson Whitmore Knaggs William witness
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Stran 8 - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted, by or under the authority of congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed. and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof, the said United States, and the public faith, are hereby solemnly pledged.
Stran 64 - That in civil cases no writ of subpoena shall issue for witnesses living out of the district in which the court is held at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of holding the same without the permission of the trial court being first had upon proper application and cause shown.
Stran 59 - States, not barred by any act of limitation, and which had not been already adjusted," was passed by Congress, after a serious and attentive consideration of the subject. By that law it was provided, " that all claims upon the United States for services or supplies, or for other cause, matter, or thing, furnished or done, previous to the...
Stran 25 - ... the subscriber or subscribers shall be entitled to a certificate, purporting that the United States owe to the holder or holders thereof, his, her, or their assigns, a sum to be expressed therein, equal to...
Stran 34 - General in due time, for failing to take from or deliver at a post office the mail, or any part of it ; for suffering it to be wet, injured, lost, or destroyed ; for carrying it in a place or manner that exposes it to depredation, loss, or injury...
Stran 6 - No. Dollars. This bill entitles the bearer to receive Spanish milled dollars or the value thereof in gold or silver, according to the resolutions of the Congress held at Philadelphia on the Wth day of May, AD 1775.
Stran 34 - ... the mode of conveyance above stipulated ; and that these forfeitures may be increased into penalties of a higher amount, according to the nature or frequency of the failure, and the importance of the mail...
Stran 25 - ... and subject to redemption by payments not exceeding, in one year, on account both of principal and interest...
Stran 10 - ... wounded, his office, rank, department, regiment, company, ship of war, or armed vessel, to which he belonged, his office or rank therein, the nature of his wound, and in what action or engagement he received it.
Stran 34 - To re-imburse the claimants the original cost of their property, and all the expenses they have actually incurred, together with interest on the whole amount, would, I think, be a just and adequate compensation. This, I believe, is the measure of compensation usually made by all belligerent nations, and accepted by all neutral nations, for losses, costs, and damages occasioned by illegal captures.