Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Second Circuit, Vol. 4 The following orders show under what authority the Honorable david A. Smalley, District Judge for the District of Vermont, and the Honorable william D. 811mm, District Judge for the District of Connecticut, sat in the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. It having haen 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 david A. Smalley, District Judge of the United States for the District of Vermont, to hold said Circuit and District Courts for the Southern District of New York, from the sixth day of March, A. D. 1860, and to exercise all the powers conferred on him under and by virtue of the Act of Congress, passed July 29th, 1850, (9 U. S. Stat. At Large, and the Act amending the same, passed April 2d, 1852, (10 U. S. Stat. At Large, until this order shall be revoked. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.