Adams v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the ease: The facts of these oases will be found in the opinion of the court. The following is the opinion delivered in Adams’s Case.
1Opinion of the Court · ScofieldScofield, J.
This suit grows out of a change by the Revised Statutes, possibly inadvertently made, in the compensation of inspectors of customs. Prior to this change any sum less than $3 per day, approved by the Secretary and accepted by the inspector, was the lawful compensation. The Revised Statutes, section 2733, fixed the minimum compensation at $3 per day. By Aot of March 3, 1881 (21 Stat. L., 429) the authority to agr.ee to a compensation less than $3 a day was restored to the Secretary. Between these two dates the compensation of inspectors was paid, as if under the provisions of the old law, or by…
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