This case is brought before us upon writs of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, holden for the County of Washington.
The facts of this case, and the questions of law arising therefrom, will appear in the following statement of the proceedings in the Circuit Court.
In the year 1839 the United States instituted an...
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