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each congressional district, one or more persons to be appointed by the district judges registers in bankruptcy, to assist said judges in the performance of their duties under the bankrupt act of 1867.

The Chief-Justice and the associate justices are required to attend one term, at least, of the circuit court in each district in his circuit, during each period of two years.

The Chief Justice's salary is sixty-five hundred dollars.

3. CHIEF-JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

The following persons have been appointed chiefjustice:

John Jay, of New-York, appointed 26th September, 1789, by President Washington. Being appointed envoy extraordinary to England, resigned in 1795.

John Rutledge, of South-Carolina, appointed Ist July, 1795, by President Washington. He presided at one term of the court, but was rejected by the Senate, 15th December, 1795.

William Cushing, of Massachusetts, appointed 27th January, 1796, by President Washington. He was then an associate justice, and declined.

Oliver Ellsworth, of Connecticut, appointed 4th March, 1796, by President Washington. Being appointed 27th February, 1799, minister plenipoten

tiary to France, after holding the August term of the court in that year, proceeded on his mission, and soon resigned.

John Jay, of New-York, appointed 19th December, 1800, by President Adams. Declined.

John Marshall, of Virginia, appointed 31st January, 1801, by President Adams. He was then Secretary of State, and served until the 4th of March, holding both offices at the same time. He died the 6th of July, 1835, having presided in the Supreme Court thirty-four years.

Roger B. Taney, of Maryland, appointed 15th March, 1836, by President Jackson. He died October 12th, 1864, in the eighty-eighth year of his age, having presided more than twenty-eight years.

Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, appointed 6th December, 1864, by President Lincoln. He now presides.

CHAPTER LIII.

I. THE ASSOCIATE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME

COURT.

THE Constitution provides that there shall be a Supreme Court, but does not prescribe the number, or designate who shall compose it. The associates of the Chief-Justice are appointed in the same manner that he is, and hold their office by the same tenure. Except presiding when the President is on trial when impeached, neither the constitution nor statutes prescribe duties different from those required of the Chief-Justice, other than under the bankrupt law. On the bench, as well as on their circuits, they exercise the same powers and perform similar duties. In the absence of the Chief-Justice, the senior associate justice presides. The salary is six thousand dollars.

2. ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.

The following persons have been appointed associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States:

John Rutledge, of South-Carolina, appointed 26th September, 1789, by President Washington. Resigned in 1791, and Thomas Johnson appointed.

William Cushing, of Massachusetts, appointed 27th September, 1789, by President Washington. Died in 1810, and Levi Lincoln appointed.

James Wilson, of Pennsylvania, appointed 29th September, 1789, by President Washington. Died in 1798, and Bushrod Washington appointed.

John Blair, of Virginia, appointed 26th September, 1789, by President Washington. Resigned in 1796, and Samuel Chase appointed.

Robert H. Harrison, of Maryland, appointed 26th September, 1789, by President Washington. Resigned in 1790, and James Iredell appointed.

James Iredell, of North-Carolina, appointed 10th February, 1790, by President Washington. Died in 1799, and Alfred Moore appointed.

Thomas Johnson, of Maryland, appointed 5th August, 1791, by President Washington.

William Patterson, of New-Jersey, appointed 4th March, 1793, by President Washington. Died in 1806, and Brockholst Livingston appointed.

Samuel Chase, of Maryland, appointed 27th January, 1796, by President Washington. Died in 1811, and Gabriel Duval appointed.

Bushrod Washington, of Virginia, appointed 29th September, 1798, by President John Adams. Died in 1829, and Henry Baldwin appointed.

Alfred Moore, of North-Carolina, appointed 10th

December, 1799, by President Adams. Resigned in 1804, and William Johnson appointed.

William Johnson, of South Carolina, appointed 26th March, 1804, by President Jefferson. Died in 1834, and James M. Wayne appointed.

Thomas Todd, of Kentucky, appointed 3d March, 1807, by President Jefferson. Died in 1825, and Robert Trimble appointed.

Brockholst Livingston, of New-York, appointed 10th November, 1806, by President Jefferson. Died in 1823, and Smith Thompson appointed.

Levi Lincoln, of Massachusetts, appointed 3d January, 1811, by President Madison. Declined, and John Quincy Adams appointed.

John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, appointed 22d February, 1811, by President Madison. Declined, and Joseph Story appointed.

Gabriel Duval, of Maryland, appointed 18th November, 1811, by President Madison. Resigned in 1836, and Philip P. Barbour appointed.

Joseph Story, of Massachusetts, appointed 18th November, 1811, by President Madison. Died in 1845, and Levi Woodbury appointed.

Smith Thompson, of New-York, appointed Ist September, 1823, by President Monroe. Died in 1843, and Samuel Nelson appointed.

Robert Trimble, of Kentucky, appointed 9th May, 1826, by President J. Q. Adams. Died in 1828, and John McLean appointed.

John McLean, of Ohio, appointed 7th March,

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