Ex Parte Gans

On the fourteenth of June last a petition was filed by said Gans, alleging that he gave the original information in a smuggling case, theretofore finally disposed of in this court, in which the proceeds of the property were paid into the United States treasury pursuant to the decree rendered. The prayer of the petition is in these words:

“Wherefore he respectfully claims the compensation allowed under section 4, act June 22, 1874, and prays for a certificate as is provided lor in section 6 of said act.”

When the attention of the court was first called to the petition, it was suggested that…