Haym v. United States

Drake, Cli. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court:

To establish his standing in this court the claimant, at the trial, offered in evidence a warrant of pardon issued to him by the President of the United States on the 18th of March, 1867, and accepted by the claimant in writing on the 2d of April, 1867, which pardon was, by its own terms, declared ll to be of no effect until the said Harry Háym shall take the oath prescribed in the proclamation of the President, dated May 29, 1865.”

Annexed to said warrant is a copy of an amnesty oath taken by the claimant on the 13th of July, 1865, which, at…