Weed v. . Tucker

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The question upon which the parties in this case are at issue, is, whether the act of 1854, providing for the designation of a State paper, is limited to the execution of a single contract for that purpose, or whether it admits of successive contracts, as occasion may require. The plaintiffs' position is, that the power committed to the Secretary and the other State officers, is exhausted when they have entered into one arrangement, according to the act, with…