United States Court of Claims May 3, 1886, No. 14612 (Hume v. United States)

Eiohaedson, Ch. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court:

The Secretary of the Interior in 1883 advertised for proposals for furnishing to the Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington a very large quantity of supplies, consisting of more than a hundred different articles, for all but eleven of which the claimant made bids, according to the advertisement, upon printed forms furnished by the