Longwill v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters statement of the ease: In the case of LongwiU the court found the following facts-: I. The act of Congress making appropriations for the Indian ‘ service for the fiscal year ending June 30,1879, having been approved May 27,1878, advertisements for proposals were thereupon duly made for furnishing supplies for the Indian agency hereinafter mentioned.
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The Reporters statement of the ease: In the case of LongwiU the court found the following facts-: I. The act of Congress making appropriations for the Indian ‘ service for the fiscal year ending June 30,1879, having been approved May 27,1878, advertisements for proposals were thereupon duly made for furnishing supplies for the Indian agency hereinafter mentioned. Bids for said service were opened by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on the 18th day of June, 1878, too late to admit of deliveries being made on the 1st oí' July, 1878, the beginning of the fiscal year. A contract for the supply…
1Opinion of the CourtBichakdson, J.
• These two cases, submitted together, are substantially alike in all the material facts, except as to the amounts of money demanded.. In each an Indian agent purchased supplies for his agency in open market, at agreed prices, and they were delivered by the claimant and accepted by the agent. In each the exigency of the case did not admit of the delay incident to purchase after advertisement, proposals, and written contract. In the former, the purchases were made by express authority of ■the Interior Department previously obtained. In the latter the approval of the purchases was subsequently…
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