Sawyer v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of this case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. The claimant was, on the 13th day of July. 1882, appointed consul of the United States at Turk’s Island in the dominions of Great Britain, in the West Indies, and has ever since held and exercised that office. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of this case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. The claimant was, on the 13th day of July. 1882, appointed consul of the United States at Turk’s Island in the dominions of Great Britain, in the West Indies, and has ever since held and exercised that office. II. The compensation paid to the claimant during his said term of service, up to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30,1886, has been at the rate of one thousand dollars ($1,000) a year' only. III. For the fiscal years ending June 30, 1877, 1878,1879, 1880,1881, there was no…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, Oh. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The Act of June 11, 1874, chapter 275, section 1 (Supp. Rev. Stat., 33), makes the following provisions:
*329“ The following consulates shall be divided into seven classes, to be known, respectively, as classes one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, and the consuls at such consulates shall be entitled to compensation for their services per annum at the rates respectively specified herein, to wit:
“ Class one, four thousand dollars.
“ Class two, three thousand five hundred dollars.
“ Class three, three thousand dollars.
“ Class four, two…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Byers v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1887