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or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, expressed or implied, with the government of the. United States, and all claims which may be referred to it by either House of Congress; and of all set-offs or counter claims made by the United States; of all claims by a disbursing officer for relief from responsibility for government funds or papers put in his charge; and of all claims for captured or abandoned property.

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The State courts. in each of the States, there rors, or Supreme Judicial Court, having both original and appellate jurisdiction, the judges of which sit at stated times in the various county seats at nisi prius, and at the State capital in bank. These courts have usually power to issue remedial jvrits, such as error, supersedeas, certiorari, habeas corpus; and particularly the higher writs, hke the English prerogative writs, such as quo warranto, mandamus, prohibition, and ne exeat regno {republiea).