MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court. He recited the facts as above stated, and continued:
The questions are —
1. Whether the officers of the navy and of the regular army who were employed in the prosecution of the war with Mexico are entitled to the three months' extra pay provided for by the act of 1848, and if so, then,
2. What is the "pay" to which they are entitled?
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