Peter Vivian Daniel

Name: Brown v. United States — Opinion of the Court
Author: Peter Vivian Daniel

Brown v. United States — Opinion of the Court

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“Brown v. United States — Opinion of the Court”, is a work by Peter Vivian Daniel. It explores elements such as the Post-Office Department, the United States and defendant.

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Peter Vivian Daniel, Brown v. United States — Opinion of the Court

“ Know all men by these presents, that we, the President and Directors of the Union Bank of Maryland, and Robert Mickle, of the State of Maryland, are held and firmly bound unto the United States in the full and just sum of four thousand dollars, current money of the United States, to be paid to the said United States; to which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and each of us, firmly and severally, by these presents. ”

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Peter Vivian Daniel, Brown v. United States — Opinion of the Court

“ But whatever may be the true explanation of the course of the Postmaster-General, that explanation can have no bearing in justification of the conduct of the defendant, or in support of his pretension to withhold from the government the amount paid for his certificate. As the immediate actor throughout this transaction, giving it form and direction in all its progress, he could not but know the right in which he held the certificate of deposit in the Bank of Maryland. ”

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Peter Vivian Daniel, Brown v. United States — Opinion of the Court

“ In the decision of the Circuit Court upon the prayer to the second bill of exceptions, sealed at the instance of the defendant below, this court can perceive no error. Upon adverting to the printed rules and regulations for the government of the Post-Office Department adopted on the 4th of March, 1833, and referred to in the defendant's exception, we find in the eighth rule the following provision:-'The third division will be that of finance, under the superintendence of the chief clerk, Obadiah B. Brown, who shall be treasurer of the Department. ”

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Peter Vivian Daniel, Brown v. United States — Opinion of the Court

“ He further gave testimony tending to show that no loans were ever made and negotiated by or for the use of the Department, except during the period when Major Barry held the office of Postmaster-General, and that no other officer or clerk attached to the General Post-Office had ever been employed in the negotiation of any loans for the use of said Department; that during the same period of time another person, viz. Samuel L. Governeur, then postmaster at New York, was, in like manner, employed to negotiate similar loans for the use of said Department, as a special agent ”

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Peter Vivian Daniel, Brown v. United States — Opinion of the Court

“ It is true he does not sign the order for the payment to himself, for he had a few days previously withdrawn from his situation in the Department, but he obtained from the Postmaster-General a requisition on the acting treasurer of the Department for payment, and obtained on the 19th of February, 1835, a check from that acting treasurer for the amount of his depreciated certificate, with the interest thereon, at par, and received payment at that rate. ”

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Peter Vivian Daniel, Brown v. United States — Opinion of the Court

“ Some instances of extra compensation allowed at the Department have been adduced in support of the claim of the defendant to commissions in this case, and several authorities have been cited from this court, which are supposed to tend to its establishment. With respect to the former, this court cannot consider them as entitled to the smallest weight; we feel bound to regard them as wholly irregular, and as examples rather to be censured and shunned, than as precedents to be approved and followed. Between the cases of The United States v. Ripey, of The United States v. ”

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