by John Marshall Harlan

“ Rep. 1185, we said that 'a statute fixing the annual salary of a public officer at a named sum, without limitation as to time, should not be deemed abrogated or suspended by subsequent enactments which merely appropriated a less amount for the services of that officer for particular fiscal years, and which contained no words that expressly, or by clear implication, modified or repealed the previous law.' The present case does not come within that rule ”

“ The error in the argument in behalf of the appellant is that he gives no effect whatever to the words 'at $2,000 per annum,' to be found in every appropriation act covering the period in question. But, clearly, those acts, placing this consul in the fifth class, at $2,000 per annum, repealed, by necessary implication, so much of previous enactments, including that of June 11, 1874, as placed the consul at Tangier in the third class, at $3,000 per annum. ”