Grant v. United States

This petition alleges that on the 5th day of March, 1860, the petitioner and one T. W. Taliafero proposed to the Secretary of War to furnish to the United States all the supplies that might be needed until the 26th day of March, 1862, whether in the commissary or quartermaster’s department, at all the military posts then, or which might thereafter be, established in that part of the Territory of Arizona which lies south of thirty-three degrees and thirty-six minutes north latitude, and west one hundred and six degrees and thirty-five minutes west longitude, at a compensation twelve per cent,…