United States v. Symonds

Citations

• 120 U.S. 46
• 7 S. Ct. 411
• 30 L. Ed. 557
• 1887 U.S. LEXIS 1937

Syllabus

<p>The sea-pay given to officers of the navy by Bev. Stat. § 1556 may be earned by sendees performed uuder orders of the Navy Department in a vessel employed, by authority of law, in active service in bays, inlets, road- • steads, or other arms of the sea, under the general restrictions, regulations and requirements that are incident or peculiar to service on the high seas.</p> <p>The authority of the head of an Executive Department to issue orders -and regulations under directions of the President to have the force of law is subject to the condition that they conflict with no act of Congress: and an order by .the Secretary of the Navy that a service shall not be a sea service which Congress has directed shall be a sea service is invalid.</p>