Belcher v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I.The claimant was appointed a clerk in the post-office at Augusta, in the State of Georgia, on the 19th of December, 1874. From the 1st of January, 1889, to the 30th of April, 1893, be served in said office under a designation stated as follows in the roster approved by the Postmaster-General on the dates respectively stated; and the annual salary paid him during each period…
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The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I.The claimant was appointed a clerk in the post-office at Augusta, in the State of Georgia, on the 19th of December, 1874. From the 1st of January, 1889, to the 30th of April, 1893, be served in said office under a designation stated as follows in the roster approved by the Postmaster-General on the dates respectively stated; and the annual salary paid him during each period from the approval of the roster until the approval of the next roster, or to the end of his service, together with the…
1Opinion of the Court
Nott, Oh. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The controversy in this case springs out of a few words in the following statutory provisions, viz:
“Chapter 874. — AN ACT making appropriations for the service of tliePost-Oifice Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety.
“Be it enacted, etc., (1) That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department, in conformity with the act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows:
“For compensation to clerks in post-offices, six millions five…
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