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.
        Judge Strong said Mr. Harman was entitled to the room.  In exchanging office rooms, it was equal to the Assessor paying rents.
   

Delaware Gazette , October 21, 1870