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Case No. 6,467.
    In re HIGGINS.
    [8 Ben. 100.] 
    
    District Court, S. D. New York.
    May, 1875.
    Bower op Attorney — Notary Public.
    ■ Under general order in bankruptcy No. 34, •■adopted April 12th, 1875, a notary public is not authorized to take the acknowledgment of a creditor to a power of attorney to vote for assignee.
    
      
       [Reported by Robert D. Benedict, Esq., and Benj. Lincoln Benedict, Esq., and here reprinted by permission.]
    
   In this case the register certified that, at a ■first meeting of creditors held for the choice •of assignee, eleven proofs of debt were filed, representing $3,952.05; that seven of them, representing claims amounting to $2,642.18, voted for George W. Van Siclen as assignee, the powers of attorney, tinder which two of these were represented, having been acknowledged before a notary public; that the other four creditors, representing claims amounting to $1,309.87, voted for John H. Platt as assignee; that the bankrupt [J. Olmstead Higgins] and the minority creditors objected to the votes cast under the powers of attorney, on the ground that, under general order "No. 34, adopted April 12th, 1875, a notary public was not a proper officer authorized to take such acknowledgments; and that he had ¡sustained the objection, had held that no as-signee was appointed, and had appointed Mr. Platt as assignee.

BLATCHFÓRD, District Judge. T think the register ruled correctly.