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A claim for property accidentally destroyed in the bombardment and burning of a town by the naval forces of the United States is not of itself within the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims.

Appeal from the Court of Claims dismissing a petition before it as not

"founded upon any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an executive department, or upon

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any contract, express or implied, with the government of the United States,"

confessedly the only cases in which the court, by the statutes creating it, has jurisdiction.