Converse v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of tbe case as found by tbe court: I. (1) Tbe claimant bas been clerk of tbe District Court of tbe United States for tbe southern district of Illinois from January 1,1886, to June 30,1887. (2) Said District Court of thé United States was in session one hundred and twenty-eigbt days, among others, during tbe time aforesaid, and the judge of said court, together with the district attorney and marshal, were…
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of tbe case as found by tbe court: I. (1) Tbe claimant bas been clerk of tbe District Court of tbe United States for tbe southern district of Illinois from January 1,1886, to June 30,1887. (2) Said District Court of thé United States was in session one hundred and twenty-eigbt days, among others, during tbe time aforesaid, and the judge of said court, together with the district attorney and marshal, were present, and the said Converse, as clerk, in attendance on all of said days, for which he charged at the rate of $5 a day.…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
The chief questions presented by this case involve the construction to be given to two statutory provisions found in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act Ath August, 1886 (24 Stat. L., 222, 253), and the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act 3d March, 1887 (ib., 509,541).
On the same day with the above act of 1886 was also passed the General Deficiency Act, 1886 (pp. 256, 274), wherein there was appropriated $50,000 for the fees of commissioners, with a proviso attached that “ they shall not be entitled to any docket fees?
There was nothing in the proviso or in the act which coupled this provision with…
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