WARD v. UNITED STATES. DECEMBER TERM, 1870. An ancient claim against the United States, founded on loan certificates issued by the Continental Congress in 1777, and sent to the loan office in Georgia, to be given in exchange for money when countersigned by the loan officer of that State, rejected; there being no sufficient evidence […]
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77 U.S. 593
77 U.S. 593 77 U.S. 593 19 L.Ed. 1033 10 Wall. 593 WARDv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1870 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: The Continental Congress, on the 3d day of October, 1776, being in want of five millions of dollars to prosecute the war, resolved to borrow it on what […]