United States v. Mitchell

Citations

• 109 U.S. 146
• 3 S. Ct. 151
• 27 L. Ed. 887
• 1883 U.S. LEXIS 946

Syllabus

<p>Interpreter — Salary—Statute.</p> <p>The Revised Statutes fix the annual salary of an interpreter at four hundred dollars. In 1877 Congress appropriated in gross for such offices “ at three hundred dollars per annum,” and repeated the appropriation inlibeform down to and including the appropriation act of March 3d, 1881. A served as such interpreter from July, 1878, to November, 1883, and was paid at the rate of $300 per annum. In a suit to recover at the rate fixed by the Revised Statutes : Held, that Congress had expressed its purpose to reduce for the .time being the salaries of interpreters, and that the claimant could not recover.</p>