“Rule upon the plaintiffs to show their cause of action, and why the defendant should not be permitted to appear on common bail, having been discharged as an insolvent under the laws of the state of Maryland. The case was as follows: Swift, being a debtor to the United States in a considerable sum, applied to the secretary of the treasury to be discharged as an insolvent, upon surrendering all his estate to the United States, agreeably to the provisions of the act of congress. Swift received his discharge by an instrument under the hand and seal of the secretary, bearing date the 4th of December 1819, and on the 6th of the same month and year, he executed to the secretary an assignment of all his estate, real, personal, and mixed, for the use of the United States.”