m EE DUPT. 619 �"which had been made the vehicles of false information by the acts of dishonest offiicials? That is my judgment. The proof of claim, as made, must be rejected; but the receiver of the bank will be allowed to make proof for the amount of the Eowand notes which was held by the institution at the sur- render of the Eowand mortgage, and which had been dis- counted for the carpet company, and also for the principal of the mortgage exeCuted by the company to the bank in pursu- ance of the resolution of the second of September, 1873. ���In re Dufp, Bankrupt. {District Court, 8. B. Nm York. October 14, 1880.) �1. Baskbupt Aot — "Principal Dbbtor" — Collateral Bond — SrmB- �TT. — A bankrupt is not liable as" principal debtor," within tliemean- ing of the bankrupt act, upon a collateral bond, where it is apparent upon the face of the instrumeiit that the obligation was incurred hy the bankrupt as a surety. In re LoAw, 4 N. B. R. 190. �2. Bame — " Mbechant or Tbadesman" — Theathioal Manager. — A the- �atrical manager who buys costumes, machinery, etc., for use in his business, and who on a few occasions has sold some such property, is not a merchant or tradesman within the meaning of the bankrupt act. Jn re Odell, 17 N. B. R. 73, distinguished. �S. Bame— Rev. St. { 6110, Subd. 9— Praudulbnt Tbansper.— A trans- fer by an insolvent debtor, for the purpose of concealing his property from his creditors, is an act dona "in contemplation of becoming bankrupt," within the meaning of the ninth subdivision of section 6110 of the Revised Statutes, although the debtor did not then intend or expect to go into bankruptcy. �A transfer of certain personal property hddfraudvient, under the ctrcumstances of this case. ^ �In Bankruptcy. �F. Bien and A. Taylor, for creditors. J. R. Cuming, for bankrupt. �Choate, D. J. This is an application for the discharge of �the bankrupt. The discharge is opposed on several grounds : �1. It is objected, first, that the bankrupt has not obtained ����
