Peck v. . Burr

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] It appears that the contract for convict labor in the state prison, under which the work in question was done, violated the provisions of the act in relation to state prisons, passed May 11, 1835, and that upon the certificate of the attorney-general, whose duty it was, by the subsequent act of 9th April, 1842, to examine all the then existing contracts for convict labor, the contract between the parties to this suit was rescinded on the ground that it did…