A writ of error is prosecuted in this case, by the United States, to recover a judgment of the circuit court for the district of Columbia.
The action was brought by the government to recover from the defendant a balance charged against him, on the books of the treasury department, amounting to the sum of nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars ninety-four cents.
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