
    Case No. 8,778.
    In re McDUFFEE.
    [2 Hask. 76;  14 N. B. R. 336; 9 Chi. Leg. News, 40.]
    District Court, D. Maine.
    Aug. 24. 1876.
    Bankruptcy — Notakies—Acknowledgment of Oreuitok.
    Notaries public have authority to take the acknowledgment of creditors to their powers of attorney.
    Question certified by Mr. Register Fessen-den. Can notaries public lawfully take the acknowledgment of creditors to their powers of attorney relative to bankrupt proceedings?
   FOX, District Judge.

Upon this question there is a conflict of authority, the later opinion being that of Brown, J., in Re Butterfield, [Case No. 2.24S], sustaining such an acknowledgment. This opinion meets with my approval; but in order that there shall be an uniformity of practice in the first circuit,' I have conferred with Mr. Justice Clifford, and am authorized to say that he concurs with Judge Brown. The power of attorney is accepted and ordered to be filed.  