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Robert Milnor, John Thompson, David Petrikin, and Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury, Complainants and Appellants, v. George W. Metz, Appellee U.S. 221 (1842)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0324 and id is 1 raw text is: JANUARY TERM, 1842. ROBERT MILNOR, JOan TH OMpSON, DAVID PVTRIKn , AND LEvi WOODBURY, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, COMPLAIiANTS AND APPELLANTS, v. GEORGE W. METz, APPELLEE. M. was discharged by the insolyent laws of Pennsylvania, after having made, accord- ing to the requirements of the law, an assignment of all his estate, property, and effects, for the benefit of his creditors. After his d.ischarge, he presented a petition to Congress for a compensation for extra services performed by him as United States gusger, before his petition fbr his discharge by'the insolvent law. As guager, he had received the salary allowed by law; but the services for which compensation was asked, were performed in addition to those of guager, by reguaging wines, which had become necessary by an act of Congress reducing the duties charged upon them. Congress passed an act, giving him a sum of money for those extra services. Held, that the assignee, under the insolvent laws, was entitled to receive from the Treasury of the United States, the amount so allowed. Cited, Comyges v. Vasse, I Peters, 196; The United States v. M'Daniel, 7 Peters, 1; The United States v. Fillebrown, 7 Peters, 50; Emerson v. Hall, 13 Peters, 409. ON appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States, for the county of Washington in the district of Columbia. The appellants, Milnor and Thompson, were, during the years 1836 and 1837, United States guagers for the port of Philadel- phia, and as such received the full compensation allowed by law for that period. The duties having been rendered unusually laborious during the year, by the. operation of the act of July 4thb, 1836, reducing the duties on wines, under which they were required to reguage them; they appealed to Congress for extra compensation, to the amount of their full ordinary fees for these additional services. Their memorial to Congress wias presented in January, 183S; and in May, 1840, an act was passed for their relief, by which the sum of two thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-three cents, being the amount of fees due to them for extra services as guagers in the port of Philadelphia, after the passage of the act of 4th July, 1836, reducing the duty on wines. George W Metz made no claim before Congress, as the assigtiee of Robert Milnor. In December, 1838, the appellant, Robert Mihior, applied at T2

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