Tweed's Case
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court.for the District of Louisiana; the case being .thus: The act of Congress' of July '2d, 1864,* in addition to that of a prior date, “ to provide for 'the collection of abandoned property and for the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary districts within the United States,” enacted in its 8th section that it should be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury “ to authorize agents to purchase for the Uuited States any products- of States declaréd in…
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Error to the Circuit Court.for the District of Louisiana; the case being .thus: The act of Congress' of July '2d, 1864,* in addition to that of a prior date, “ to provide for 'the collection of abandoned property and for the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary districts within the United States,” enacted in its 8th section that it should be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury “ to authorize agents to purchase for the Uuited States any products- of States declaréd in insurrection ... at such prices as may be agreed on with the seller, not exceeding the market value thereof at1 the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Cotton iii bales to a large amount was purchased by the plaintiff from different owners of the same, for which he paid a fair market value, as .appears bj the bills of sale exhibited in the record, amounting in the whole to four hundred and ninety-five bales;’[?] that he shipped the same for his own accouut, to his own agents in New Orleans, and that he paid the freight on the same, and the other expenses and insurance. Testimony was also introdüced by the plain*512tiff showing that the cotton was raised by planters in an adjoining State, and that they continued to possess it until it was sent…
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