Case ID: us-ct-cl_24/html/0524-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JOSEPH McDONALD v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [23 C. Cls. R., 104; 128 U. S. R., 471.]
    
      On the defendants’ Appeal.
    
    A naval officer is ordered to proceed from Callao to Washington. A part of the journey is made while the law allows actual traveling expenses ; the remainder of the journey while the law allows mileage. The accounting officers allow traveling expenses for the entire distanoe.
    The court below decides:
    Where a statute {Act 16i/t June, 1874, 18 Stat. L., p. 72, § 1) provides that “ only actual traveling expenses ” he allowed, and a subsequent one that “ the sum of eight cents per mile he allowed such officers in lieu, of their actual traveling expensesV (Act'ZOth June, 1876,19 Stat. L., p. 65), and a journey was begun under the former and completed under the latter, the re-imbursement of the officer must be apportioned under both, so that he shall be re-imbursed for each portion of his journey at the rate prescribed by the then existing law.
    The decision of the court below is affirmed on the same grounds.
   Mr. Justice Lamar

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court November 19, 1888.