Southern District of New-York, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the sixteenth of July, in the forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, HENRY WHEATON, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words and figures following, to wit: "Reports of Cases argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. February Term, 1821. By Henry Wheaton, Counsellor at Law. Volume VI." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, “Au act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and bocks, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encourgement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." G. L..THOMPSON, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York. REPRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION RY WILLIAM S. HEIN & CO., INC. AND CLARK BOARDMAN CO., LTD. NEW YORK, N. Y. 1968 JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS. The Hon. JOHN MARSHALL, Chief Justice. The Hon. BUSHROD WASHINGTON, Associate Justice.. The Hon. WILLIAM JOHNSON, Associate Justice. The Hon. BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON, Associate Jus tice, The Hon. THOMAS TODD, Associate Justice. WILLIAM WIRT, Esq. Attorney-General. Mem. Mr. Justice WASHINGTON was absent the whole of this term, from indisposition. GENERAL RULES. February Term, 1821. RULE XXX. AFTER the present term, no cause standing for argument will be heard by the Court, until the parties shall have furnished the Court with a printed brief or abstract of the cause, containing the substance of all the material pleadings, facts, and documents, on which the parties rely, and the points of law and fact intended to be presented at the argu ment. RULE XXXI. Whenever pending a writ of error, or appeal in this Court, either party shall die, the proper representatives in the personalty or realty of the deceased party, according to the nature of the case, may voluntarily come in and be admitted parties to the suit, and thereupon the cause shall be heard and determined, as in other cases; and if such representatives shall b not voluntarily become parties, then the other party may suggest the death on the record; and thereupon, on motion, obtain an order, that unless such representatives shall become parties within the first ten days of the ensuing term, the party moving for such order, if defendant in error, shall be entitled to have the writ of error or appeal dismissed; and if the party so moving shall be plaintiff in error, he shall be entitled to open the record, and on hearing, have the same reversed, if it be erroneous. Provided, however, that'a copy of every such order shall be printed in some newspaper at the seat of government, in which the laws of the United States shall be printed by authority, three successive weeks, at least sixty days before the beginning of the term of the Supreme Court then next ensuing. RULE XXXII. In all cases where a writ of error, or an appeal, shall be brought to this Court, from any judgment or decree rendered thirty days before the term to which such writ of error or appeal shall be returnable; it shall be the duty of the plaintiff in error, or appellant, as the case may be, to docket the cause, and file the record thereof with the clerk of this Court, within the first six days of the term; on fai |