Ex parte Robbins

STORY, Circuit Justice.

This cause, though of great simplicity as to principle, has been loaded with voluminous documents by the inconsiderate zeal of the parties. On certain informations pending in this court against the ship Euphrates and cargo, the ship Neptune and cargo, the ship Francis and cargo, and the schooner Two Bi-others and cargo, a considerable sum of money has been paid into court for the taxable costs due to the district attorney of the United States in these causes. Of this sum six seventeenths have been paid over without opposition to Mr. Howell, the late district attorney…