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Case No. 8,370.
    LINGAN v. BAYLEY.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 112.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1802.
    Bankruptcy — Imprisonment op Bankrupt during Examination.
    The court will not commit a bankrupt for want of bail, who has surrendered to the commissioners, and whose examination is not closed, although the forty-two days have expired.
    The bail surrendered the defendant, and the plaintiff prayed that he might be committed.
    The defendant was declared bankrupt, on the 21$t of August, 1802, .and on the 2d of September he surrendered himself to the commissioners. The examination is not yet closed, although the forty-two days have expired. Bayley has appealed from the decision of the commissioners.
   THE COURT

refused to commit the defendant.

Cooper’s Bankr. Law, pp. 175, 343, was cited.