“This is an appeal from a decree of the district court.

“This was an action of assumpsit. The principal item in the bill of particulars delivered to the defendant, was one for about $1700 principal, interest and costs, paid by the plaintiff under an execution upon a judgment rendered on a custom house bond to the United States, executed by the defendant as principal, and the plaintiff as his surety. To prove this item, the plaintiff offered in evidence a paper under the seal of the district court of Pennsylvania, certified by the clerk of that court to be a true copy of the docket entries in a suit of the United States vs.

“This was an ejectment to recover two hundred and forty acres of land called the Windmill Tract.