The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-12
Registers in Bankruptcy.

By direction of Chief Justice Chase,
the following statement is published
for information:
l. Under the Act of Congress, the
power of appointing registers in
bankruptcy" is vested in the District
Courts of the United States, the Su-
preme Courts of the Territories, and
the Supreme Court of the District
OF Columbia; but no person can be
appointed who is not counsellor at
law.
2. The duty of recommending and
nominating to the Districts 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
repeal this provision, he will proceed
to carry it into effect.
B. To insure, as far as practicable,
the selection of fit men for registers,
the Chief Justice will require, in
every case where his recommendation
and nomination is desired-frst, O
certificate from the clerk or Judge of
the proper district or territorial court,
or of counsellor of said court; and
secondly, statement in what Con-
gressional District or territory the
gentleman proposed resides, and
for what district or territory, and
for what judicial district, the recon-
mendation and nomination is de-
sired; and thirdly, letters from bust
ness and professional men of the
district, State or Territory, who have
the confidence of their fellow citizens,
each of which letters must vouch dis
tinctly and fully for the gentleman
named: in respect to his profess
sional knowledge and ability, (2) in
respect to his personal integrity, and
(3) in respect to his general business
capacity.
4. II 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 the Senators of
the State, or in the case of q Terri
tory, from the delegate.
D. No memorials or petitions, OF
recommendations signed by others
than the writer, arc required
6. All letters upon which any re-
commendation 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.
Z. Nominations and recommends
tlons founded upon testimony fur
nished as above required will be made
as early as practicable 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.
8. Only one person will be recon-
mended and nominated in any one
Congressional District except, (1) in
the case that the courts having the
appointing power shall decline to ap-
point the persons first recommended
and nominated; or, (2) 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 district can
not be properly done by one register;
or ~ III some cases, where Congress
sional District may be partly in one
judicial district and partly in another.
d. w. MIDDLETON,
Clerk of Supreme Court U. S.
WASHINGTON CRY, April 5, 1867.
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