In re the Appeal of Thompson

*222OPINION OP THE COURT BY

CIRCUIT JUDGE BANKS.

This is an appeal taken under section 1406, R. L. 1915, from a decision of Thomas Treadway, auditor of the Territory of Hawaii, refusing to certify a contract made on the 7th day of April, 1923, by and between Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Limited, a corporation, and James A. Thompson, clerk of the supreme court, Territory of Hawaii.

The contract relates to the publication and binding of volume 27 of the reports of this court and under the provisions of section 1420, R. L. 1915, has no vitality unless the auditor of the Territory shall indorse thereon his…