Langston v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of tbe case: The answer of the defendants to which the claimant demurred will be found in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Richaedson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
Congress appropriated to the claimant by name $2,000 towards reimbursement for certain contested-election expenses incurred by him (26 Stat. L., 531). In stating the account at the Treasury the accounting officers stated a set-off and make a deduction of $122.29, and paid the balance only. The set-off is stated as follows:
Salary from the 1st to the 9th day of July, 1885, which had been allowed and paid to the claimant at the rate of $5,000 a year, being time in excess of the maximum time, fifteen days, allowed for transit from his post of…
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