Wentworth v. United States
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
Writ of error to the district court [of the United States for the district] of Massachusetts. The original suit was debt, brought by the United States upon the official bond of Isaac O. Barnes, as naval officer for the collection district of Boston and Charlestown, upon which the plaintiff in error and one Gardner Nevens were sureties, conditioned, that Barnes had duly executed and discharged, and should continue to execute and discharge, all the duties of the said office…
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Writ of error to the district court [of the United States for the district] of Massachusetts. The original suit was debt, brought by the United States upon the official bond of Isaac O. Barnes, as naval officer for the collection district of Boston and Charlestown, upon which the plaintiff in error and one Gardner Nevens were sureties, conditioned, that Barnes had duly executed and discharged, and should continue to execute and discharge, all the duties of the said office according to law. The plaintiff in error (the original defendant,) after oyer of the bond and condition, pleaded several…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
The whole question in this case turns upon the true interpretation of Act March 2, 1799, c. 129, § 2 [1 Story’s Laws, 665; 1 Stat. 627, c. 22], and of Act May 7, 1822, c. 107, § 9. The former act, after providing that' certain fees and emoluments shall be paid to collectors and naval officers, to be equally divided between them, proceeds to declare, that the expense of fuel, office rent, and necessary stationery, for the collectors of Salem and Beverly, Boston and Charlestown, &c., shall be paid, three fourths by the said collectors, and the other fourth by the…
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