In re Clerk for Instructions Respecting Canceled Bank Checks

ALSCHUEER, Circuit Judge.

It has been the practice of the clerk to deposit with the Corn Exchange National Bank of Chicago, a designated depositary of the United States, the receipts of his office, and to disburse same through his checks drawn upon the bank, and at the close of each month to receive back his paid and canceled checks in accordance with usual banking practice.

Under date of April 8, 1919, there was sent from the Treasury Department of the United States to said bank a communication as follows;

“Tbe Department of Justice has reported to tbis department that your bank returns to Mr.…