Advances were made by the complainants, as they allege, to enable the respondent to fulfil a certain contract which he had previously made with the Postmaster-General to furnish to that department a certain number of mail locks and keys for the postal service of the United States.
Prior to the date of the contract, to wit, on the sixteenth of July, 1839, the...
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