Long v. United States

This suit was instituted by the plaintiff to recover the rental and subsistence allowances of his rank, with dependents, from August 1, 1931.

He had been commissioned as Acting Chaplain in the United States Navy with the rank of lieutenant, junior grade, effective as of the date of November 6,1926.

The special act under which the claim ivas filed was approved by the President of the United States on June 30, 1930 (46 Stat. 1951) and reads as follows:

Be it enacted, by the Senate and Mouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is authorized…