Case regarding compensation of public ministers and consuls

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Mahoney v. United States

DECEMBER TERM, 1869.

The provision of the act of Congress of May 1st, 1810, fixing a salary to the consul at Algiers and assigning to him certain duties, treating that place as belonging to a Mohammedan power, ceased to be operative when the country, of which it was the principal city, became a province of France. The construction of the Secretary of State to this effect, impliedly sanctioned by the act of Congress of March 1st, 1855, "to remodel the diplomatic and