Hanson
Harmon |
United States Circuit Court.- This Court met in City Hall on Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock, Judges Strong and Hall presiding.... The case of the United States
v. H. Harmon, was taken up, a jury empannelled, the facts of the case presented
and a verdict
for the defendant rendered. The action grew out of the occupance of
a room in the government
building, 6th and King streets by the Assessor of the Internal Revenue, A.D. 1864- a room which rightly
belongs to Mr. Harmon a Clerk of the United States Courts. For the convenience of the
Assessor, Mr. Harmon let him have the room in consideration of $150 a year being paid for an office
in some private building for the use of the Clerk of the Court. The rent bills for Mr.
Harmon's office, were sent by the Assessor with other accounts, to the Treasury
Department of Washington,
and the office rent paid. When Mr. Dixon became Assessor, A.D. 1866, the Secretary of the Treasury
stopped the office rent. The office rent was very fair at $150 a year. |
Delaware Gazette , October 21, 1870 |