
    GEORGE ALLMAN v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [No opinion in C. Cls. ; 131 U. S. R., 31.]
    This is a claim for balance alleged to be due for services under two mail contracts for 50 per cent, of one month’s extra pay for expedited service and for forfeitures exacted improperly.
    The defendants demur and the court below sustains the demurrer without giving an opinion.
    The decision of the court below is reversed on the ground that the “50 per centum on the contract as originally let,” to which the power of the Postmaster-General to expedite service under a contract for carrying the mails is restricted by the proviso in section 2 of the Act of April 7, 1880 (chapter 48, 21 Stat. L., 72), is 50 per cent, on the compensation for all the service, both as originally stipulated and as increased by additional service.
   Mr. Justice Lamar

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, May 13, 1889.  