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Utah and Northern Railway Company.

Ward, S. G. and G. C., Agents for Baring Brothers & Co....

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TABLE OF CASES AND SUBJECTS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE ORDER.

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TIMBER-CULTURE ACT:

In the matter of the right of registers and receivers of district land-offices
to receive a commission of one per centum each on the minimum cash
value of lands entered under the "timber-culture acts".

BARING BROTHERS & Co.'s:

In the matter of the payment of a registered certificate of stock of the United
States, accompanied by a power of attorney in blank purporting to
make an assignment and authorize a transfer in blank, presented long
after its maturity, and appearing from the records of the Treasury De-
partment to have been paid already

WINCHESTER'S:

In the matter of the allowance of a claim against the United States in favor of a firm, one member of which is a duly adjudicated bankrupt.....

ANDREWS'S APPEAL:

In the matter of the right of a subcontractor for carrying mails to receive payment therefor from the United States...... CLAIMS-ASSIGNMENT:

Construction of section 3477 of the Revised Statutes, in regard to assignments of claims against the United States, and in regard to powers of attorney, orders, and other authorities for receiving payment of such

claims

CONNOLLY'S:

In the matter of the compensation of United States district attorneys for services in making "inquiry and examination" into cases reported for prosecution by collectors of internal revenue, and for services in relation to such cases when the parties are prosecuted...

CAINE'S:

In the matter of the right of a Delegate elected to Congress from a Territory after a term of Congress has commenced, to compensation, when there has previously been no lawful election at the regular period .......... DETECTION-APPROPRIATION:

In the matter of the authority of persons employed under section 3463 of the Revised Statutes to visit, enter into, and examine distilleries, and to examine "fruit-distillery papers

IMPLIED AUTHORITY:

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In the matter of the payment of employés from the appropriation made by the act of August 7, 1882, "for dies, paper, and stamps'

BOND-BEQUEST:

In the matter of a bequest of United States bonds to a person "for her sole and separate use during her natural life,

MACNEILL'S:

to parties specified

* and after her death"

In the matter of the right of a British subject, who is a consular agent of

nited States at Prince Edward Island, to receive compensation for

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taking depositions in behalf of the United States under a commission issued by a court thereof, and for issuing process by virtue of his au

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as a provincial justice.....

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REBATE:

In the matter of the rebate on “original and unbroken factory packages of smoking and manufactured tobacco and snuff, cigars, cheroots, and cigarettes", under section 4 of the act of March 3, 1883...

SUPREME COURT CLERK'S:

In the matter of the right of the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States to print, at a private printing office, the opinions of the court, to pay the expenses thereof from the emoluments of his office, and to collect fees for copies....

OCHILTREE'S:

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In the matter of the duty of the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to withhold the salary of a Representative or Delegate in Congress "who is in arrears to the United States".

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DISTRICT ATTORNEYS' ASSISTANTS':

In the matter of allowances to attorneys employed and retained "to assist the district attorneys" of the United States

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HOWARD UNIVERSITY:

In the matter of the authority to use an appropriation to pay expenses incurred before the passage of the act making it.......

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EXCHANGE PROPERTY:

In the matter of the authority of the Chief of Engineers, as Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds in the District of Columbia, to furnish the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries with an old fence, in exchange for a new one, to be erected by the latter officer.... SPECIAL DISBURSING AGENTS':

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In the matter of advances of public moneys to special disbursing agents. LAND-GRANT RAILROAD COMPANY'S:

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In the matter of the payment of "land-grant" railroad companies for transportation for the Government....

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AVAILABILITY-APPROPRIATION:

In the matter of the availability of appropriations prior to the commencement of the fiscal year for the service of which they are made................. SPECIFIC-APPROPRIATION:

In the matter of the application of appropriations for specific objects named under one general head, giving a generic description of their character

SITE:

In the matter of the payment of the contract price for a site purchased for a United States court-house, custom-house, and post-office at Pensacola, Fla....

REESIDE'S APPEAL:

In the matter of the right of the United States, after payment has been made to a contractor for a quarter's service in carrying mails, to deduct from compensation due him for services thereafter performed "[1] the price of" trips so paid for as performed, when, in fact, "not performed; and [2] not exceeding three times the price if the failure" to perform said trips "be occasioned by the fault of the contractor or carrier"

PENSIONERS' BURIAL-EXPENSE:

In the matter of the authority of accounting officers to adjust accounts for expenses incurred for the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners, under section 4718 of the Revised Statutes....

RAILWAY-COMPENSATION:

In the matter of the right of the Utah and Northern Railway Company to payment for services in carrying mails for the United States....

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PACIFIC RAILROAD:

In the matter of the rights of the Pacific Railroad companies in relation to
compensation for transportation-services rendered for the Govern-
ment ......

NEBRASKA FIVE PER CENT.:

In the matter of the right of the State of Nebraska to receive five per cent.
on the value at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre of the estimated
quantity of Indian reservations in that State prior to the extinction of
the Indian occupancy, and sale by authority of law

FIVE-YEAR CLAIMS:

In the matter of the authority of the accounting officers of the Treasury
Department to settle and adjust claims "brought before them" more
than five years after the balances of appropriations originally applica-
ble to their payment "have been exhausted or carried to the surplus
fund." Act of June 14, 1878 (20 Stat., 130)....

DECEASED CLAIMANTS:

In the matter of the proper mode of paying claims due to estates of persons who die leaving assets so small as not to justify the expense of admin

istration..

KEYSER'S:

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In the matter of the authority of a court of the District of Columbia over a
Treasury draft issued to a deceased person, previously a resident of a

State

GEORGIA:

In the matter of the right of the United States to apply money appropriated by Congress to the State of Georgia, by way of set-off against the quota of direct taxes apportioned to that State by the direct tax act of August

5, 1861.

DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS:

In the matter of the jurisdiction of the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department in the settlement of the accounts of the disbursements made by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia of appropriations for expenses of the District ...

RAND'S:

In the matter of the right of Commissioners of the Circuit Courts to payment of docket fees in criminal cases heard by them respectively...

LEE'S:

In the matter of the right of a party, who furnishes stationery for a collector of internal revenue, to payment therefore by the United States....

STATUTE TIME :

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In the matter of the authority of the head of a Department to appoint a clerk in the Department on the sixteenth day of July, 1883, without an examination under the act approved January 16, 1883, to regulate and DRAWBACK EXPIRATION: improve the civil service of the United States....

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In the matter of the time within which a claim must be presented for drawback or rebate under the act of March 3, 1883 (22 Stat., 488), "to reduce internal revenue taxation, and for other purposes

WELLS'S:

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In the matter of the right of Commissioners of the Circuit Courts of the
United States, for the Northern District of Alabama, to certain fees....

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