...Senate, and to hold their offices during good behavior ; and the said court shall hear and determine all claims founded upon any law of Congress, or upon...referred to said court by either house of Congress." 2. On the third of March, 1863, the jurisdiction of this court was enlarged, and two additional judges...

...certain mode of examining and adjudicating upon their claims. It was required to hear and determine upon claims founded upon any law of Congress, or upon any...express or implied, with the government of the United States.f Originally it was a court merely in name, for its power extended only to the preparation of...

...Chief-Justice and four Justices, with a salary of four thousand dollars each. It has jurisdiction of " all claims founded upon any law of Congress, or upon...any regulation of an executive department, or upon anv contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States, which may be suggested...

...Senate, and to hold their offices during good behavior; und the said court shall hear and deteruiine all claims founded upon any law of Congress, or upon any regulation ot an executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United...

...or adverse report to Congress. And it was only by the act of March 3, 1863 (12 US St. at L. ch. 92, p. 765), that it became an independent court. It still...referred to said court by either house of Congress ; and it cannot qualify its jurisdiction by rules. Clyde v. United States, 13 Wall. 88. The act of...

...original act of February 24th, 1855, establishing the conrt, gave it jurisdiction to hear and determine all claims founded upon any law of Congress, or upon...implied, with the government of the United States, which might be suggested to it by petition, and all claims which might be referred to the court by either...

...Act of February 2ith, 1855, gave the Court of Claims jurisdiction over those claims only which were founded upon any law of Congress, or upon any regulation...contract, express or implied, with the Government of ihe United States. It had no final jurisdiction, strictly speaking, and no judicial character until...

...petitions and bills praying or providing for the satisfaction of all private claims against the Government, founded upon any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upou any contract, express or implied, with the Government, unless otherwise ordered by resolution...

...Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, upon any regulation of an Executive Department, upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States, or for damages, liquidated or unliquidated, in cases not sounding in tort, in respect of which claims...

...determine all claims against the United States founded upon any law of congress or regulation of the executive department, or upon any contract express or implied with the government, and all claims which may be referred to it by congress ; also all set-offs, counter claims, claims...