BY BENJAMIN C. HOWARD,

COUNSELLOR AT LAW AND REPORTER OF THE DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME
COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

VOL. XXI.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

W. H. & O. H. MORRISON
LAW PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by

BENJAMIN C. HOWARD,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.

SUPREME COURT OF. THE UNITED STATES

HON. ROGER B. TANEY, Chief Justice.
HON. JOHN MCLEAN, Associate Justice.
HON. JAMES M. WAYNE, Associate Justice.
HON. JOHN CATRON, Associate Justice.
HON. PETER V. DANIEL, Associate Justice.
HON. SAMUEL NELSON, Associate Justice.
HON. ROBERT C. GRIER, Associate Justice.
HON. JOHN A. CAMPBELL, Associate Justice.
HON. NATHAN CLIFFORD, Associate Justice.

JEREMIAH S. BLACK, ESQ., Attorney General.

WILLIAM THOMAS CARROLL, ESQ., Clerk.

BENJAMIN C. HOWARD, ESQ., Reporter.

WILLIAM SELDEN, ESQ., Marshal.

ADMIRALTY RULE.

Ordered, That the twelfth rule of practice prescribed by this court at December term, 1844, (3d vol. Howard's Rep., 3,) in causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction be, and the same 18 hereby, repealed, and the following rule of practice is substituted in its place:

"In all suits by. material men for supplies or repairs, or other necessaries, for a foreign ship, or for a ship in a foreign port, the libellant may proceed against the ship and freight in rcm, or against the master or owner alone in personam. And the like proceeding in personam, but not in rem, shall apply to cases of domestic ships, for supplies, repairs, or other necessaries."

This order to take effect, and be in force, from and after the first day of May, 1859.

RULES

OF THE

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,

REVISED AND CORRECTED AT DECEMBER TERM, 1858.

No. 1.
CLERK.

The clerk of this court shall reside and keep the office at the seat of the National Government, and he shall not practice either as an attorney or counsellor in this court, or any other court, while he shall continue to be clerk of this court.

The clerk shall not permit any original record or paper to be taken from the Supreme Court room, or from the office, without an order from the court.

No. 2.

ATTORNEYS, ETC.

It shall be requisite to the admission of attorneys and counsellors to practice in this court, that they shall have been such for three years past in the Supreme Courts of the States to which they respectively belong, and that their private and professional character shall appear to be fair.

They shall respectively take the following oath or affirmation, viz: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will demean myself, as an attorney and counsellor of this court, uprightly, and according to law, and that I will support the Constitution of the United States."

No. 3.
PRACTICE.

This court consider the practice of the Courts of King's Bench and of Chancery, in England, as affording outlines for