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A79555 1 (1916-07-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaeb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISIONS OF THE COMPTROLLER. where clearly in conflict in determining a right to pay. An officer could not be kept in a sea duty status after actual detachment from sen duty by any mere delay in the indorsement of the word detached on orders. Froi August 2 to 6 the status of Passed Assistant Paymaster 11eMillan 'was not that of an officer attached to a vessel, subject to the discipline of sea service thereon, and in the performance of sea duty thereon. His duties were not duties of the vessel but merely on the vessel. The duty of settling the accounts of a vessel in itself- unconnected with other duty-is not sea duty. It is a duty that may be performed at any place the department may see fit to designate. It is frequently performed at the home of the officer. In this instance the designated place for its performance was the Vestal. That vessel was merely quarters furnished to the officer for his use in its per- formance in so far as his connection with the vessel itself was con- cerned. His status was no more service at sea on the Vestal while he was in the occupancy of quarters on board of her for the purpose of the settlement of his accounts than it would have been had he been in the occupancy of the quarters as a passenger on the vessel. The auditor's disallowance of the item is affirmed. ABSTRACTS AND INSVRANCE OF TITLE IN RE CONDEMNED LAND. The appropriation for the riccquisition, by condemnation proceedings if neces- snry, of land in connection with the Improvement of the Anacostia Flats Is nut available for paylment for abstracts and Insurance of title to various parcels of condemned land, farnished to the War Department by a title insurance company after final judgment of coundehination was entered. Decision by Comptroller Warwick, July 28, 1916: Col. H. C. Newcomer, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, applied July 3, 1916, for a revision of so much of the action of the Auditor for the War Department in settlement No. 37903, dated May 8, 1916, as disallowed therein a payment of $350 for 22 abstracts of title of property here in the District of Columbia. By his voucher No. 77, June, 1915, appellant paid the Real Es- tate Title Insurance Co. of the District of Columbia, the Columbia Title Tnsurance Co. of the District of Columbia, $350 for 22 ab- -trnrk of title pertaining to property in square 5563 (block 7, Twin- ing City), District of Columbia, procured in connection with the v.wk of reclamation of the Anacostia River and Flats, District of ('Clumbi. as hereinafter set out and described. t Th-t alitor disallowed the expenditure because: I'gvaYment to the Renl Estate Title Insurance Co. for abstract and ;insurance of title to property described us square 5563, block T. Twin- Sin t ity, D. C. It appears that this property was purchased ly Ls condiIWianation proceedings and that the expense of an abstract is not a pitper charge for the following reasons: 53