Graham v. United States

The claimant’s petition alleges that he is a laborer in the office of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, and, as such, was continuously in the employ of the United States since the first day of July, 1856, *381to the thirtieth day of September, 1864, the day of the filing of his petition.

That, by a joint resolution of Congress, No. 18, approved August 18, 1856, (11 Stat., 145,) it was provided “that all laborers in the employment of the government, in the executive departments and on the public grounds, in the city of Washington, shall receive an annual salary of six hundred dollars each, from…