Miller v. United States

In the act of August 17, 1912, 37 Stat. 311, 313, Congress centralized all pension agencies in Washington and repealed the prior law, which provided agencies at a number of places throughout the United States. Among other provisions in the new plan, the Act provided for and created the office or position of Disbursing Clerk for the payment of pensions in the following language:

For salary of one disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, at the rate of four thousand dollars per annum, during the last five months of the fiscal…