In re New York Mail Steamship Co.

WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.

The petition of the National Bank of the Commonwealth in this proceeding having been presented to the district court of this district, and the district judge, as a stockholder in the said bank, being concerned in interest, the proceeding has been certified to this court, pursuant to section 11 of the act of May 8, 1792 (1 Stat. 278, 279).

This petitioner was the petitioning creditor upon whose application the. above-named debtor was decreed bankrupt. In the proceeding, the property of the debtor was protected for the benefit of creditors, an adjudication declaring the…