“This was an action of debt brought in the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, upon a paymaster’s official bond, against the defendant in error, one of the sureties in that bond. The condition of the bond, as set out upon oyer, is in the following words, viz. ‘That whereas the above bounden John Hall is appointed paymaster of the rifle regiment in the army of the United States; now, if the said J. H. shall well and truly execute, and faithfully discharge, according to law, and to instructions received by him from proper authority, his duties as paymaster aforesaid, and he, his heirs, &c. shall regularly account when thereunto required, for all moneys received by him from time to time, as paymaster aforesaid, with such person or persons as shall be duly authorized and qualified on the part of the United States for that purpose, and, moreover, pay into their treasury such balance as, on final settlement of the said J. Hall’s accounts, shall be found justly due from him to the United States, then,’ &c.”