Horace Gray

“ The longevity pay of officers so transferred from one branch of the service to another is computed upon the theory that the new appointment is a new entry into the service, and the names of such officers are placed, without regard to their previous rank, at the foot of the list of officers of the same grade in the new corps. ”

“ Those grounds are that, by the settled practice of the navy department (as shown by documents now laid before the court for the first time) , officers in one branch of the service are required to resign from the navy before accepting an appointment in any other branch of the service. ”