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Show The Supreme Court. Washington, 22. The Eupreme court, in an Illinois case, decided substantially that the creditors ot a bankrupt company are entitled to the whole capital of the bankrupt, as a fund for payment of debts due them, and this they could not if the transferee trans-feree of shares is not responsible for whatever remains unpaid upon his Bhares, for by the transfer on the books of the corporation the former owner is discharged. There having been an associate justice of this court appointed since Ihe commencement of this term, it is ordered that the following allotment be made of the chief justice and associate justices: First ctrcuit,Nathan Clifford, associate justieo; second circuit, Ward Hunt, associate justice; third circuit, William Strong, asso-: ciate justice; fourth circuit, Moroeson R. Waite, chief justice; filth circuit, Joseph P. Bradley, associate justice; Bixth circuit, Noah H. Swayne, associate justice; seventh circuit, John M, Harlan, associate justice, eighth circuit, Sam. F. Miller, associate asso-ciate justice; niuth circuit, Stephen J. Field, associate justice. |