United States v. Hill

This is an action upon the bond given by the defendant Hill, as the clerk of the United States district court of this district, and is submitted to the decision of the court, upon an agreed statement of facts, the material parts of which are as follows: The defendant Hill was appointed clerk of the district court on the fifth day of .February, 1879, and duly qualified as clerk, and the defendants gave the bond, a copy of which is annexed to the declaration. As clerk ho has made half-yearly returns of feos and emoluments received by liim, but he has not included in the same the amounts…