Hahn v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are tbe facts as found by the court: I. On the 13th of June, 1872, the claimant was appointed surveyor of customs at the port of Troy, N. Y., and continued to act as such officer until May 28,1876. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are tbe facts as found by the court: I. On the 13th of June, 1872, the claimant was appointed surveyor of customs at the port of Troy, N. Y., and continued to act as such officer until May 28,1876. II. During the period from June Í3,1872, to June 22,1874, Alonzo B. Cornell was surveyor of customs at the port of New York to March 31,1873, and George H. Sharpe from March 31, 1873, to June 22,1874; Isaac N. Keeler was surveyor of customs at the port of Albany; and from April 28,1874, Frank P. Norton was surveyor of customs at the port of Port…
1Opinion of the CourtEichakdsoN, J.
On the 13th of June, 1872, the claimant was appointed surveyor of customs at Troy, in the customs collection district of the city of New York, under the provisions of the Act March 2, 1799, ch. 22, § 5 (1 Stat. L., 631), which authorized the President, “if he judge it expedient, to appoint one other surveyor, to reside at such other place in said district as he shall appoint,” in addition to one at New York City and one at Albany. This provision was omitted in the revision of the statutes, and as part of the act in which it stood was incorporated therein, it was repealed (Rev. Stat., § 5596)…
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