Whitaker v. United States

Richardson, Ch. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court:

This action is brought to recover the sum of $785 for services during five months and seven days in disbursing an appropriation for defraying the expenses of a commission to select a suitable site “ for a dry dock at some point on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico or the waters connected therewith,” authorized by the naval-service appropriation act of June 30, 1890, Ch. 640 (26 Stat. L., 196).

“And the President be, and he hereby is, required to appoint a commission composed of two competent naval officers, one *525competent army officer, and…