
    Case No. 15,406.
    UNITED STATES v. HOWLAND.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 508.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1824.
    Bonds fou Duties—Actions—Evidence.
    1. ’The United States may maintain indebita-tus assumpsit, for duties not bonded.
    [Cited in Stockwell v. U. S., Case No. 13,-466.]
    2. The collector's books in the handwriting of a deceased clerk, are evidence for the United States.
    Indebitatus assumpsit [against Thomas II. Howland] for duties not bonded.
    Mr. Fendall, for defendant,
    contended that indebitatus assumpsit would not lie for duties; and that the collector’s books, in the handwriting of a deceased clerk, were not', evidence.
   But THE COURT

(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)

overruled both objections.  