O'pry v. United States

Citations

• 54 Ct. Cl. 191
• 51 Ct. Cl. 111

Syllabus

<p>The act of July 2, 1864, chapter 225, 13 Statutes, 375, section 8, providing for the purchase for the United States at designated places of the products of States declared in insurrection, at not exceeding three-fourths their New York market value, was strictly in addition, as its title declared, to the abandoned property act of 1863, and not an amendment of that act in the sense of section 162 of the Judicial Code, which gives jurisdiction to the Court of Claims over claims for property taken under the latter act and sold.</p> <p>The words “ addition ” and “ amendment,” as applied to statutes, may or may not have the same meaning, according to the purpose.</p>