Chapter CCXLV. *conferring upon the Court of Claims Pouter to hear and determine the Claim of J
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CHAP. CCXLV.— An Act *conferring upon the Court of Claims Pouter to hear and determine the Claim of J. W. Parish and Company for Damages for the alleged Violation of their Contract with the United States for the Delivery of Ice.*May 31, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That authority is hereby given Court of claims may hear and determine claim of J. W. Parish and company.to J. W. Parish and Company to commence a suit against the United States in the court of claims for the recovery of such damages as shall appear to have been sustained by them by reason of the alleged violation by agents of the United States of the contract entered into on the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, by and between Henry Johnson, medical storekeeper United States army, and acting medical purveyor, and the said J.
W. Parish and Company, for the delivery by said firm of the whole amount of ice required to be consumed at Nashville, Saint Louis, Cairo, and Memphis during the remainder of that year; and said court is hereby invested with full power arid authority to hear and determine the validity of said claim, and the amount, if any, of the damages of said J. W. Parish and Company, resulting solely from the violation of the contract, in the refusal of the government to receive the entire thirty thousand tons named in said contract.
Approved, May 31, 1872.