Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States (Volume 16); Advising the President and Heads of Departments, in Relation to Their Official Duties (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Postmaster ? Expiration of Term. or the assignment and re-assignment of ratios among stndies some of which were directed by law?do not justify the conclusion that stndies which have been directed by the legislature may be either formally or practically disused. Such is the general character of the instances presented by the brief inclosed with your letter. If there be amongst them any that goes further, it must be regarded as exceptional, and not as involving a principle of so much gravity and of such extensive application to the Academy at West Point. If'you shall concur in this opinion, I recommend that the matter presented in the letter of General Schofield be brought to the attention of Congress for such action as it may deem proper. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, CHAS. DEVENS. Hon. Geoege W. Mcceary, Secretary of War. POSTMASTER?EXPIRATION OF TERM. The teiin of a postmaster who is appointed by the President does not expire upon the reduction of his office by decrease of salary to one of the fourth class (vacancies in offices of which class are filled by appointment by the Postmaster-Genejal). Such postmaster is entitled to remain in the office during the term for which he was appointed, unless sooner removed according to law. Department Op Justice, May 29, 1878. Sir: Your letter of the 14th instant incloses a copy of a communication addressed to you by the Anditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, under date of the 9th instant, and inquires "whether the term of a postmaster appointed by the President expires by reason of a decrease of the amount of compensation payable to such postmaster below the sum of $1,000, thereby rendering it the duty of the Postmaster-General to iill such vacancy." By the act of 1872, chapt...