
    DE WITT C. REDGRAVE v. THE UNITED STATES.
    (20 C. Cls. R., 226; 116 U. S. R., 474.)
    
      On the defendants’ Appeal.
    
    A cadet-engineer graduated at the Naval Academy in 1881, receives a certificate of graduation, and i,s honorably discharged June 30,1883. The question presented is as to the pay to which he was entitled.
    The court below decides—
    That cadet-engineers who had finished their four years’ course, passed their academic examination, and received their diplomas prior to the Aot bth August, 1882 (22 Stat., 285), were not made naval cadets by that act, and were entitled to the pay given by the Eevised Statutes, section 1556; that the provision in the act 1882 authorizing the discharge of surplus graduates does not apply to the classes 1881, 1882.
    The decision of the court below is affirmed on the same grounds, and the opinion of the Court of Claims in Leopold’s Case (18 C. Cls. E., 546) is sustained. See also Perkins’s Case (20 O. Cls. E., 438), affirmed on appeal (116 U. S. E., 488).
   Mr. Justice Matthews

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, January 25, 1886.  