OF

CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

Circuit Court of the United States

FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT.

BY SAMUEL BLATCHFORD,

REPORTER OF THE COURT.

VOLUME III.

New York:

BAKER, VOORHIS & CO., PUBLISHERS,

66 NASSAU STREET.

1870.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four,

by SAMUEL BLATCHFORD,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

JUDGES

OF THE CIRCUIT COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES

WITHIN THE SECOND CIRCUIT,

DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS.

SAMUEL NELSON, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

DISTRICT JUDGES.

SAMUEL R. BETTS, NEW YORK, SOUTHERN DISTRICT. NATHAN K. HALL, NEW YORK, NORTHERN DISTRICT. SAMUEL PRENTISS, VERMONT.

CHARLES A. INGERSOLL, CONNECTICUT.*

*The Honorable CHARLES A. INGERSOLL was appointed District Judge for the District of Connecticut, April 8th, 1853, in place of the Honorable ANDREW T. JUDSON, deceased.

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THE following order shows under what authority the Honorable Nathan K. HALL, District Judge for the Northern District of New York, and the Honorable CHARLES A. INGERSOLL, District Judge for the District of Connecticut, sat in the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York:

"It having been certified to me by the Clerks of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States for the Southern District of New York, under the seals of the said Courts, that the public interests, from the accumulation of judicial business in said Courts, require the services of additional Judges from other Districts, and the facts having been established to my satisfaction, I do hereby designate and appoint the Honorable NATHAN K. HALL, District Judge of the Northern District of New York, and the Honorable CHARLES A. INGERSOLL, District Judge of Connecticut, or either of them, to hold said Circuit and District Courts for the Southern District of New York, from the sixth day of November instant, and to exercise all the powers conferred on them under and by virtue of the Act of Congress, passed July 29th, 1850, (9 U. S. Stat. at Large, 442,) and the Act amending the same, passed April 2d, 1852, (10 U. S. Stat. at Large, 5,) until this order shall be revoked.

"In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at the City of New York, in the Southern District of New York, this third day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

"S. NELSON,

[L. S.]

"Circuit Judge of the Second Circuit of the United States.”