
    Case No. 2,031.
    BROWN v. TONKIN.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 85.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    April Term, 1802.
    Landlord and Tenant — Lease—Validity.
    A stamp is not necessary to an acknowledgment of having hired a house.
    Debt, for rent. An acknowledgment, signed by the defendant, that he had hired the house for six months, at $100 per annum, payable quarterly, was offered in evidence.
    Mr. Peacock, for defendant,
    objected because the paper was not stamped.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   THE COURT

adjudged the stamp to be unnecessary.  