...decision in Pittman v. United States, 127 Ct. Cl. 173, cert, denied 348 US 815 (1954). The statute reads : All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon...receiving payment of any such claim, or of any part or > Plaintiffs are mistaken. The District Court for the Northern District of California enjoined the...

...SECTION 1. That all transfers and assignments hereafter made of any claim upon the United States, or any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether...authorities for receiving payment of any such claim, or any part or share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void, unless the same shall be freely made...

...is within the provisions of Section 3477 Revised Statutes, 31 USCA 203, which provides: 182 Syllabus All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon...conditional, and whatever may be the consideration therefor, * * * shall be absolutely null and void, unless they are freely made and executed in the presence of...

...claims against the Government, resulting in the exertion of improper influence * The statute provides : "All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon...therein, whether absolute or conditional, and whatever ma; he the consideration therefor, and all powers of attorney, orders, or other authorities for receiving...

...well-taken and must be sustained. Section 3477, supra, provides, so far as here material, as follows : All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon...part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether apsolute or conditional, and whatever may be the consideration therefor, and all powers of attorney,...

...language more comprehensive than this. It embraces alike legal and equitable assignments. It includes powers of attorney, orders, or other authorities for receiving payment of any such chiinis, or any part or share thereof. It strikes at every derivative interest, in whatever form acquired,...

...any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether ahsolute or conditional, and whatever may he the consideration therefor, and all powers of attorney,...authorities for receiving payment of any such claim, or any part or share thereof, shall he ahsolutely null and void, unless the same shall he freely made...

...Jermain v. Dennison, 6 NY Eep., 276). By the act of Congress of February 26, 1853, it is declared that all " powers of attorney, orders, or other authorities for receiving payment of any such claim " (any claim upon the United States), "shall be null and void, unless the same shall be freely made...

...enacted, etc., That all transfers and assignments hereafter made of anj claim upon the United States, or any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether...authorities for receiving payment of any such claim, or any part or share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void, unless the same shall be freely made...

...the United States, . . . and all powers of attorney . . . for receiving payment of any such claim, or any part or share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void, unless the same shall be freely made and executed in the presence of at least two attesting witnesses." The...