Mr. Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.
The matter in issue is to be determined by a sound construction of the written contract.
It must be confessed that the language of the memorandum is not happy. To accept the Enfield rifle, in place of the sabre bayonet, "upon the value conditions as are herein specified," is not very clear, and at best but amounts to a reference to the original agreement for the price of the substituted gun.
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