Garrison v. United States

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:

This is an appeal from the Court of Claims.

Tbe Secretary of War, by an order approved by tbe President, of tbe date of September 1,1861, authorized General Butler to “ raise, organize, arm, uuiforip, and equip,” in the New England States, a force not exceeding six regiments, and bis requisitions on tbe quartermaster’s, ordnance, and other staff departments of tbe Army were to be obeyed, provided “ tbe cost of such recruitment, armament, and equipment did not exceed in the aggregate that of like troops now or hereafter raised for tbe service of tbe United…