Case ID: us-ct-cl_54/html/0189-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice McKenna", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JAMES H. COCHNOWER v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [51 C. Cls., 461; 248 U. S., 405.]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the defendants in the court below. On appeal the judgment was reversed and the case remanded for further proceedings. The Supreme Court decided:
    Primarily, the creation of offices and the assignment of their compensation is a legislative function; and the fact and the extent of any delegation of it must clearly appear.
    The act of March 4, 1909, chapter 314, 35 Statutes, 1065, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury “to increase and fix” the compensation of inspectors of customs, as he may think advisable, etc., did not empower him to decrease their salaries.
   Mr. Justice McKenna

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court January 13, 1919.

Order of the Supreme Coure restating judgment entered April 21, 1919, 249 U. S., 589.