Samuel Blatchford

“ The second secretaries of the legations to France, Germany, and Great Britain shall be entitled to compensation at the rate of two thousand dollars each per annum.' Under the provision of that section, an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Turkey would be entitled to an annual compensation of $10,000, unless a different compensation was prescribed by law. Having received compensation at the rate of $7,500 per annum, the claimant brought suit for the difference between that sum and $10,000 per annum for the time from July 13, 1882, to June 30, 1885. ”

“ In the Langston Case a prior statute had fixed the annual salary of a diplomatic officer at a designated sum, without limitation as to time. A subsequent statute appropriated a less amount for the services of the officer for a particular fiscal year, but contained no words which, expressly or by implication, modified or repealed the prior statute. ”

“ Those to Austria, Brazil, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and Spain, each twelve thousand dollars. Those to all other countries, unless where a different compensation is prescribed by law, each ten thousand dollars. ”