
    SUSANNA E. DUNN, ADMINISTRATRIX OF GEORGE DUNN, v. THE UNITED STATES.
    (21 C. Cls. R., 20; 120 U. S. R., 249.)
    
      On the defendants’ Appeal.
    
    The question in the case is whether a gunner in the Navy is entitled to he credited, in the computation of- his longevity pay, with former service rendered in the Marine Corps.
    The court below decides:
    'The Marine Corps may not constitute a part of the Army or Navy proper, and its officers and men may not he embraced generally hy statutes which designate officers and men of the Army or Navy; neverthe- . less service rendered hy the Marine Corps through the Army or Navy is service rendered in the Army or Navy within the intent of the Act Set March] 1883 (22 Stat. L., 473), which provides that “ officers of the Navy shall he credited •with the actual time they may have served as officers or enlisted men in the regular or volunteer Army or Navy, or hotli.”
    
    The decision of the court below is affirmed on the same grounds.
   Mr. Justice Miller

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, February 7, 1887.  