The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-12
Registers in Bankruptcy

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the Clerk of the Supreme Court issued
the following statement to-day regard
| ing recommendation and nominations
of Reg sters in Bankruptcy:
Il. Under the act of Congress the
power of appointing Registers in Bank
ruptcy is vested i'll the District Courts
of the United States, the Supreme
Courts of the Territories, and the ST.
preme Court of the District Of Colum-
bia; but no person can be appointed
who is not counselor at law.
.2. The. duty of recommending and
nominating to the District Courts,
and other courts mentioned in the act,
suitable persons for appointment, is
imposed on the Chief Justice of the
United States, and, Congress having
now adjourned without acting on the
bill introduced into the Senate to repeal
this provision, he will proceed to carry
it into effect.
"3. To insure. as far IA practicable,
the selection of fit men for Registrars,
the Chief Justice will require in every
case where recommendation and nomi-
nation is desired. first, certificate
from the clerk or judge Of the proper
district or Territorial court, or Of some
State court of record, under the seal Of
the court, that the gentleman named
therein is a counselor of said court;
and, secondly, statement in what con-
gressional district or Territory the gem
tleman proposed resides, and for what
district or Territory, and for what lu-
dicial district this recommendation and
nomination is desired; and, thirdly, let
ters from business and professional men
of the district, State or Territory, who
have the confidence of their fellow-citi-
zens. each of which letters must vouch
distinctly and fully for the gentle man
named, in respect to his professional
knowledge and ability; second in re-
spect to his personal integrity; third,
in respect to his general business capac-
Iity.
~. In addition to these, when the
State is represented in Congress, similar
letters, if they can be had, are desired
from the Representative of the district,
and from tho Senators of the State, or
in the case of territory, from the dele
gates.
"5. No memorials or petitions or re-
concentrations signed by Others than
the writer's are required.
SO. All letters upon which any recon-
mendation and nomination may be made,
will be filed by the Chief Justice, in the
office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court
of the United States.
~. Nominations and recommends
tions founded upon testimony as above
required will be made as early as prac-
ticable after the same shall have been
received. If more than one gentleman
in any district or Territory is thus re-
commended to him, the Chief Justice
will exercise his discretion in making
the selection.
"s. Only one person shall be recon-
mended and nominated in any one Con-
gressional district, except: first, in the
case that the court having the appoint
ing power shall decline to appoint the
person first recommended and nomin-
ated; or, second, in the case that, after
the act shall have gone fully into opera
ton, the appointing court shall certify
to the Chief Justice that the business of
the district cannot be properly done by
one register: or, third, in some cases
when Congressional district may be
partly in one judicial district and part
ly in another.