The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-04-19
Recommendation and Nominal
ton of Registers i'm RauIsruDfey.

By direction of the Chief Justice, the fol
lowing statement is published for inftsrma-
ton:
/. Under the act of Congress the power of
appointing registers in bankruptcy is
vested IN the district courts of the United
states, the supreme courts of the Territories,
and the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia; but no person can be appointed
who is not eounsellor-at-law
=. The duty of recommending and nomi-
mating 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 upon
the bill introduced into the Senate to re-
peal this provision, he will proceed TO carry
it into effect.
3. To insure, as tar as practicable the
selection of fit men for registers, the Chief
Justice viii require, IN every case where his
recommendation and nomination is desired,
first, certificate from the clerk or Judge of
the proper district OF territorial court or of
counsellor of said court; and, secondly, a
statement in what Congressional district or
Territory the gentlemen proposed resides
and for what district or Territory, and for
what judicial district, the recommendation
and nomination is desired; aud, thirdly,
letters from business and professional men of
tue uASAIlGIr CLAIt, OF ltEIINDIN 10 nav e
the confidence of their fellow-citiZens, each
of which letters must vouch distinctly and
fully for the gentleman named % in respect
to his professional knowledge and ability,
o. in respect to his personal integrity, and
ID in respect to his general business capa-
city
1. In addition to these, when the State is
represented in Congress, similar letters, if
they can be had, are desired from the repre-
sentative Of the district, and from the Sena-
tors of the State, or, in the Case of a Terrific
ry from the delegate.
). No memorials or petitions, or recon-
mendations signed by others than the writer,
are required.
g. All letters upon which any recommen-
dation and nomination may be made viii
be filed by the Chief Justice in the office of
the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United
States
T. Nominations and recommendations
founded upon testimony furnished as above
required will be made as early as practical
BILE after the same shall have been received
If more than one gentleman in any district
or Territory is thus commended to HIM, the
Chief Justice will exercise his discretion in
making the selection.
g. Only one person will be recommended
and nominated in any one Congressional dis
trict, except ID in the case that the courts
having the appointing power shall decline
to appoint the persons first recommended
and nominated or ~ in the case that after
the act shall have gone fully into operation
the appointing court shall certify to the
Chief Justice that the business of the dis
trict cannot be properly done by one regis
tTation or, (3) in some cases, where Con-
gressiOnal district may be partly in one jul
dicial district and partly in another.
D. w. MIDDLETON,
Clerk of the Supreme Court United States.
Washington City, April s. 1867.