MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
This case depends upon the validity of the findings and sentence of the court-martial, and is brought under an act of Congress approved June 6, 1900, 31 Stat. 1612, nearly thirty years after petitioner was recommissioned as a Lieutenant Commander, which enacted "that the claim of Joshua Bishop for alleged items of pay, due and unpaid to him for services as a Lieutenant Commander...
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