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Title: Piatt's Administrator v. United States
Author : United States Supreme Court
Release Date : January 01, 1874
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 69 KB

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APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: J. H. Piatt, on the 26th of January, 1814–during our second war with Great Britain–by a written contract with the then Secretary of War, General Armstrong, became a contractor of supplies for the Northwestern Army for one year, to begin on the 1st day of June, 1814, and end on the 31st day of May, 1815, at an average rate of twenty cents the ration; and as the usage then was to make advances in money to contractors, he retained in his hands, as an advance from the department, the balance of the commissariat fund; which at the close of his engagements amounted to $48,230.77.