
    FELIX A. MATTHEWS v. THE UNITED STATES.
    (22 C. Cls. R., 330; 123 U. S. R., 182.)
    
      On the claimant's Appeal.
    
    Tbe claimant is appointed consul at Tangier wben tbe consulate is in Class III and tbe salary $3,000. By subsequent appropriation acts it is placed in Class V, tbe salary of wbicb is $2,000.
    The court below decides:
    Where Congress transfer a consulate from one class to another, tbe transfer is a change of previously existing law, and tbe consul becomes entitled only to tbe salary attached to tbe latter class.
    Thedecisionof thecourt belowis affirmed on thesame grounds.
   Mr. Justice Harlan

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, October 31, 1887.  