DS as president, one page, 17 x 14, March 20, 1905. President Roosevelt appoints Thomas Mason “in accordance with the Act of Congress approved February 25, 1905, for meritorious acts while in service of the Navy and of the Revenue Cutter Service of the United States, a Captain on the ‘Permanent Waiting Orders’ list.” Signed at the bottom in black ink by Roosevelt and countersigned by his Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw. Mason had served with credit during the Civil War in the naval service of the United States. He was therefore within the provision of the section set out, and the only question is whether, under that provision, his advance in grade and in pay is to be made upon the grade he held when he was retired, or upon the grade and pay he had when this act was approved. A decision was rendered by the U. S. Supreme Court on February 24, 1913, allowing the executor of the late Captain Thomas Mason the difference between his pay as retired junior captain in the revenue-cutter service and the pay of a senior captain in the same service, for the time between the passage of the act of April 16, 1908, and his death, September 10, 1910. Light overall toning, missing right edge of gold seal and expected folds, otherwise fine condition. R&R COA.
