Barton v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case. The following are the facts of this case as found by the court :• I. The claimant was appointed acting assistant paymaster in the volunteer Navy of the United States, January 30,1864; assistant paymaster, March 2, 1867; passed assistant paymaster, February 10, 1870; and paymaster in the regular Navy, May 29, 1882. He has been continuously in the Navy from his first appointment to the present time. , II.
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The Reporters' statement of the case. The following are the facts of this case as found by the court :• I. The claimant was appointed acting assistant paymaster in the volunteer Navy of the United States, January 30,1864; assistant paymaster, March 2, 1867; passed assistant paymaster, February 10, 1870; and paymaster in the regular Navy, May 29, 1882. He has been continuously in the Navy from his first appointment to the present time. , II. He has received the salary and graduated or longevity pay allowed by Aet of July 17, 1861 (12 Stat. L., 258), and the Act of March 2,1867, chapter 197,…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The claimant founds his action upon the following acts of Congress:
“ And all officers of the Navy shall be credited with the actual time they have served as officers or enlisted men in the regular or volunteer Army or Navy, or both, and shall receive all the benefits of such actual service in all respects, in the same manner, as if all said service had been continuous and in the regular Navy: Provided, That nothing in this clause shall be so construed as to authorize any change in the dates of commission, or in the relative rank of such…
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