Romero v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe ease: The following are the facts as found by the court: I. The following commission was executed and delivered to the claimant, Dolores Romero, during a recess of the Senate: “ Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: “Know ye that, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, ability, and. discretion of Dolores Romero, of Ocaté, Mora County, New Mexico, I do…
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe ease: The following are the facts as found by the court: I. The following commission was executed and delivered to the claimant, Dolores Romero, during a recess of the Senate: “ Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: “Know ye that, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, ability, and. discretion of Dolores Romero, of Ocaté, Mora County, New Mexico, I do appoint him to be agent for the Indians of the Pueblo Agency, in New Mexico, vice Pedro Sanchez, resigned, and do…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
Of the 9th of June, 1885, during the recess of the Senate, the claimant was commissioned by the President to be agent for the *335Indians of the Pueblo Agency, in Sew Mexico, to fill a vacancy then existing, to hold the office, according to the form of the commission, “ during the pleasure of the President of the United States for the time being, and until the end of the next session of the Senate of the United States, and no longer.”
He was nominated to the Senate for appointment at the next session, but the Senate adjourned on the 5th of…
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