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Portrait of Samuel Freeman Miller Samuel Freeman Miller Garrison v. United States — Opinion of the Court

It seems reasonable that it was in reference to this contract with Garrison, already made by the department, the price of which was probably unknown to General Butler, that the provision was inserted by which he secured himself against paying more than the government had already paid for similar guns to the same party, and as Garrison knew what the price in that contract was, he had no objection to the provision.
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