MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.
This action was commenced in the Court of Claims, under an act of Congress specially authorizing it, approved May 31, 1872.
There is nothing in the act which furnishes any rule for its decision, though some of its provisions are emphasized in the argument of counsel. The action was brought on the following contract: —
"Article of agreement made this fifth day of March, 1863, between Henry...
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