ACCOUNTING OFFICERS.
See Land-Grant Deductions; Railroad Rates.
See Land-Grant Deductions Settlement.
ACTS OF CONGRESS.
See Statutes.
APPEAL.
The rules of the Supreme Court relating to appeals from
this court provide what shall be incorporated in the
record on appeal: "A finding of the Court of Claims
of the facts in the case established by the evidence,
in the nature of a special verdict, but not the evi-
dence establishing them," and they do not contem-
plate the inclusion therein of "exceptions" filed to
said findings in this court. Gulf Refining Co., 104.
ARMY PAY.
I. Where The Adjutant General of the Army cabled to
the commanding officer of American Expeditionary
Forces in France during the World War that an
officer had been promoted to the rank and pay of
major, when he should have stated the promotion to
be to the rank and pay of captain, and said officer
in good faith took the oath of office and assumed and
executed the duties of major and received the pay
of that office, the Government has no right to deduct
the difference between the pay of captain and major.
during the period so served, from his pay of major
after having been actually promoted to that office.
Royer, 199.
II. A field clerk, Quartermaster Corps, designated as
such under the act of August 29, 1916, 39 Stat. 625,
who took the oath of office December 30, 1916, was
not an officer or enlisted man in the Regular Army,
and his widow is not entitled to the gratuity pro-
vided by the act of December 17, 1919, 41 Stat., 367.
Swartz, 232.
III. The act of April 16, 1918. 40 Stat. 530, providing
quarters or commutation of quarters, heat, and light
"during the present emergency" for the families of
commissioned officers of the Army on active duty in
the field or outside the territorial limits of the United
States, is not retroactive. Campbell, 475.