“Bill in equity brought by the United States, as trustees of the Newport Bank, against the defendants as administrators of the estate of Lewis Rousmaniere. The bill in substance states, that the Newport Bank is a bank of deposit of the United States for the revenue collected in that district, and agent for the collection of such revenue. That two custom house bonds, executed by Rousmaniere and some of the defendants as his sureties, were deposited in the bank for collection, which bonds were for $1,576 15/100, and payable on the 29th and 30th of April, 1820; that on the 25th of the same month Rousmaniere proposed to the bank to receive in payment oi these bonds two notes to be signed by himself, and indorsed by John P. Mann and Andrew Winslow, (two of the defendants) one note for $750, payable in 30 days, and one note for $750, payable in 60 days, he, Rousmaniere, paying the usual discount; that the bank directed their cashier to receive the same notes in payment of the bond, and to pass the amount to the credit of the United States; and on the next day (the 26th of April) Rousmaniere delivered to the cashier two notes, purporting as above, in payment of the bonds, and he received them in payment, and delivered up the bonds to Rousmaniere, and passed the amount to the credit of the United States . . .”