TABLE OF CASES AND SUBJECTS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE ORDER. Page. 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 Department 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: In the matter of the payment of employés from the appropriation made by In the matter of a bequest of United States bonds to a person "for her sole MACNEILL'S: # * * and after her death" 86 In the matter of the right of a British subject, who is a consular agent of the United States at Prince Edward Island, to receive compensation for taking depositions in behalf of the United States under a commission issued by a court thereof, and for issuing process by virtue of his authority as a provincial justice..... 88 XI Page. 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: 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". DISTRICT ATTORNEYS' ASSISTANTS': In the matter of allowances to attorneys employed and retained "to assist the district attorneys" of the United States 113 HOWARD UNIVERSITY: In the matter of the authority to use an appropriation to pay expenses incurred before the passage of the act making it.... 116 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': 119 In the matter of advances of public moneys to special disbursing agents. LAND-GRANT RAILROAD COMPANY'S: 123 In the matter of the payment of "land-grant" railroad companies for transportation for the Government.... 127 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 132 137 152 156 185 PACIFIC RAILROAD: In the matter of the rights of the Pacific Railroad companies in relation to compensation for transportation-services rendered for the Govern 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 applicable 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 administration.... KEYSER'S: In the matter of the authority of a court of the District of Columbia over a 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: 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 improve the civil service of the United States.. DRAWBACK EXPIRATION: 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: In the matter of the right of Commissioners of the Circuit Courts of the Page. 214 247 252 255 261 354 388 393 396 399 402 403 DUNN'S: In the matter of the right of a person duly appointed as consul, who has taken the oath of office, and given bond, to receive salary before he has entered on the duties of his office... HAYDEN'S: In the matter of the authority of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, to remove the Chief Engineer of the Senate... EXTRA-FEE: In the matter of the right of a district attorney of the United States, in a case prosecuted by him in the name of the United States to enforce a lien for internal-revenue taxes, and which is compromised, to retain for services, in addition to fees prescribed by law, money taxed by the court to be paid to him therefor by the defendants, and as part of the consideration for the compromise or otherwise.... MATCH-STAMP: Page. 410 416 422 In the matter of making an allowance for, and redeeming stamps improperly or unnecessarily used on packages of matches..... 430 MARSHAL'S GUARD: In the matter of the right of a marshal, in "transporting criminals," to mileage for a guard, who receives mileage also for the same travel as a wit ness 434 ACT-REVIVAL: In the matter of the revival of a general and permanent statute after its repeal by a temporary act, when the latter has expired by its own limitation.... 436 CHIEF SUPERVISOR'S COMPENSATION: In the matter of the right of a chief supervisor of elections to per diem compensation 442 FOSTER'S: In the matter of the right of an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to a foreign State to be paid compensation for the time he is detained in the United States by authority of the State Department, for purposes connected with his official duties, after the period of thirty days, during which he received instructions, has expired.... MARSHAL'S ATTENDANCE: In the matter of the right of a marshal to a fee of "two dollars a day ", for attending before a Commissioner of the Circuit Court, when there is no examination of a criminal charge, but only a continuance thereof to a subsequent day....... AGENT'S SUBSTITUTION: 445 451 In the matter of the authority of an agent, who, by virtue of a power of substitution, has appointed a substitute.... 453 INDORSEMENT: In the matter of the indorsement and payment of a Treasury draft issued "to the order of" a person "for the use of" and another person named.. WHITE'S: 457 In the matter of the per diem fee of Commissioners of the Circuit Court, "for hearing and deciding on criminal charges". 470 SPECIAL DEPUTY MARSH AL'S : In the matter of the authority of Commissioners of the Circuit Courts to appoint persons to serve criminal process issued under the laws of the United States 473 GUARD: In the matter of the right of a marshal to be paid for a “guard”, of persons charged with crime, "attending examinations before a Commissioner" of the Circuit Court CLARKSON'S: In the matter of the payment of a claim for mileage of a naval officer, certified in his favor before, and in favor of his legal representatives after, the balance of the appropriation, from which such mileage was payable, had been "carried to the surplus fund", but which still remains unpaid.... INCOMPATIBILITY: In the matter of the right of an officer of the United States to hold an office under the authority of a State ... COPY: In the matter of the right of a Chief Supervisor of Elections to compensation for copies retained in his office, and for seals to certificates of such copies, of the evidence, &c., which, by section 2020 of the Revised Statutes, he is required to make and to file with the Clerk of the House of Representatives OREGON MARSHAL'S: In the matter of the right of the marshal of the district of Oregon to double PEASE'S: RALSTON'S: In the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia.. BRAZEE'S: In the matter of the right of a United States District Attorney to per diem compensation for appearing before a Judge, or a Commissioner of the Circuit Court, at the application and hearing for the issue of warrants to arrest persons charged with crime........ ALLEN'S ACCOUNT: United States District Court, Eastern District of New York-In the matter of the account of John J. Allen, Chief Supervisor of Elections, November 12, 1883... DECEASED-ATTORNEY: In the matter of the right of the legal representatives of a deceased attorney, to receive the Treasurer's draft issued in payment of a claim prosecuted to allowance by such attorney, while living, under a power of attorney authorizing him to do so, and to receive such draft. COYLE'S: In the matter of the authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, under an act appropriating money for the expenses of public works for a designated fiscal year, to make contracts for the continuation of such public works in a subsequent fiscal year, contingent upon an appropriation by Congress Page. 478 484 486 491 497 501 507 511 514 515 517 |