Twenty Per Cent. Cases
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Court of Claims; the case being this: A joint resolution of Congress of February 28th, 1867,* provided: “ That there shall be allowed and paid to the following described persons [whose salaries do not exceed $3500] now employed in the civil service of the United States, at Washington, as follows: To civil officers and temporary and all other clerks, messengers, and watchmen, including enlisted men detailed as such, to be computed upon .the gross amount of the…
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Appeal from the Court of Claims; the case being this: A joint resolution of Congress of February 28th, 1867,* provided: “ That there shall be allowed and paid to the following described persons [whose salaries do not exceed $3500] now employed in the civil service of the United States, at Washington, as follows: To civil officers and temporary and all other clerks, messengers, and watchmen, including enlisted men detailed as such, to be computed upon .the gross amount of the compensation received by them, and employés male and female, in the Executive Mansion, and in any of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
I. In Fitzpatrick’s and the Seven other Cases.
Twenty per cent, additional pay is allowed by the joint resolution of the twenty-eighth of February, 1867, to certain persons or classes of persons therein described, who are employed in the civil service of the United States in this city, whose salaries, as fixed by law, do not exceed three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. *
Objection is made in several of the pending cases arising under that resolution that the claimant does not show himself to be an employé in the…
2Cited by15 opinions
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