The following opinion, prepared by MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE, was delivered by the court as its opinion.
On the 19th of March, 1881, a statute was enacted by the General Assembly of Missouri, authorizing and empowering the Fund Commissioners of the State, if they deemed it expedient, to employ a competent agent to prosecute to final settlement before Congress and the proper departments at Washington certain specified claims of the State against the government of the...
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