Boyd v. United States

I concur in the result. Eespectfully, I venture to differ with the court’s reasoning on only one or two points, though agreeing with most of what it has to say.

The Act, 10 U.S.C. § 1552, for Correction of Military Eec-ords, was passed in 1946 in course of an ambitious effort in legislative reorganization, to delegate the function of considering what had been private bills passed upon, at least theoretically, by the entire Congress. The Indian Claims Commission Act, 25 U.S.C. § 70a and ff., also was bom in the same spasm; the two Acts are twins in other respects than that both make this court…