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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JULIAN E. WOODWELL v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [41 C. Cls. R., 357; 214 U. S. R., 82.]
    
      On the claimant's Appeal.
    
    The claimant is inspector of electric-light plants in the Treasury ' Department, receiving a salary of $2,000 a year. Congress appropriates for installation of electric-light plants in the Interior Department. There being no person in that department competent, the Secretary of the Interior applies to the Secretary of tlie Treasury for such a person, who directs the claimant to render the required assistance. I-Ie accordingly proposes detailed plans and specifications and renders other services. All of his services are rendered out of his hours and in addition to his regular services in the Treasury Department.
    The court below decides:
    I. Though the services of an employee of the Treasury Department rendered for and in the Interior Department at the request of the Secretary thereof and by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury were valuable and beneficial to the Government and were performed out of hours and in addition to the full performance of his regular duties in the Treasury Department, yet they are prohibited by Revised -Statutes, §§ 1763, 1764, and 1765, and no recovery can be had for them.
    II. The conditions under which an employee of the Government can recover additional compensation examined and stated.
   The decision of the court below, is affirmed on the same grounds.

Mr. Justice White delivered tlie opinion of the Supreme Court May 17, 1909.